Author Topic: Ticket Scalpers and Auctions (Read 4131 times)

Arky Vaughan · « **on:** October 21, 2005, 03:00:03 pm »

For those of us not lucky enough to be selected in the first- or second-chance drawings, how are you getting tickets?

I think waiting until Monday or even Tuesday is the best bet, as scalpers and eBay are still listing ridiculous stuff like SRO for $800 each. Maybe I'm a fool and that's how much they'll turn out to be, or even more, but I'm willing to gamble that some tickets can be had for less than that on game day.

Has anybody found any scalpers with relatively decent prices?

Andyzipp · « **Reply #1 on:** October 21, 2005, 03:03:57 pm »

Some of us are resigned to not attending the games.

I can't justify the amount of change it's going to cost to go to any of the games with my current family situation.

Such is life.

Waldo · « **Reply #2 on:** October 21, 2005, 03:14:02 pm »

Quote:

I can't justify the amount of change it's going to cost to go to any of the games with my current family situation.

If I wasn't saving up for wedded bliss........

Froback · « **Reply #4 on:** October 21, 2005, 03:26:00 pm »

Just to give you an idea of ticket prices, I went to Stubhub.com and here are some of the offers:

Section 111, Row 6, up to 4 together for $6500 EACH
Section 116, Row 13, up to 4 together for $5883 EACH
Section 112, Row 9, 2 together for $5715 EACH

Now these are the most expensive ones, so I will give you the cheapest too, so you can compare:

SRO, 1 Ticket, $695
Section 410, Row 9, Up to 4 together, $1334 EACH
Section 433, Row 13, 2 Together, $1375 EACH
Section 414, Row 5, 4 Together, $1400 EACH

That is insane! I will take a plasma TV instead. Or like you said, wait until Monday or Tuesday to buy them.

ukstro · « **Reply #5 on:** October 21, 2005, 03:34:23 pm »

I live in NYC and am determined to see Game 3.

I've been scouring craigslist, ebay, stubhub and razorgator. It seems like there are some "reasonable" (e.g., $600 for section 400) options that pop up on craigslist, but it pretty much requires you to monitor at all times because the offers get snapped up.

I'm second in line for a pair (if person number one does not pick them up). Having said that, the seller might object to the fact that I cannot pick up Game 3 tickets before Tuesday.

If that is the case, I would be happy to try and pass along my "spot" in line to an interested party. Just PM me.

Arky Vaughan · « **Reply #6 on:** October 21, 2005, 04:01:36 pm »

Last night there were seven auctions for SRO tickets in pairs ending on eBay. The tickets sold on average for $564 each. And there are SRO tickets on several scalper sites for just over $600.

I guess the people asking $750 or more for SRO just figure that someone who doesn't have time to look around will buy them. But already there are eBay auctions with sellers asking ludicrous amounts for SRO tickets that are going bidless. So maybe that means they'll come down as reality sets in.

Alkie · « **Reply #7 on:** October 21, 2005, 04:09:10 pm »

Tell you what. 2 stories.

1) Last night, I get home and check RazorGator just as I hit REFRESH, 6 tickets in the 400s open up for $733 per. I start yelling, my wife starts yelling, and I decide..."prices are going down...we can wait!"

Tickets were gone 3 minutes later and I haven't seen anything NEAR those prices since.

2) True fucking story. I get on 1-800-BESTSEATS.com this morning and I see, I shit you not...4 seats in Sec 111 for $325 a piece. Shaking violently, I pull out my CC and checkout. A popup appears "WE'RE SORRY -- we can only mail tickets to the billing address on the credit card!!!" So I call the company and explain that my billing address is 800 miles from where my shipping address will be on Tuesday AM. "Sorry, rules is rules." So I call a friend in Houston and tell him to get his goddamn CC out NOW. He goes to get his wallet and before he returns to the phone....the tickets are gone.

I still have a headache.

Bill McLuggage · « **Reply #8 on:** October 21, 2005, 04:09:57 pm »

Lump ticket scalpers in the same group as car salesmen, lawyers, apartment property managers, ex-girlfriends, ex-wives, dental hygenists, Bud Adams and Walt Weiss.

Fuck 'em all in the ear.

Alkie · « **Reply #10 on:** October 21, 2005, 04:14:00 pm »

Yes, and no link for HOUSTON ASTROS.

I thought that was awesome, as well.

JimR · « **Reply #12 on:** October 21, 2005, 04:24:47 pm »

i think you should take a fist full of cash, have a bottom line price you will not go above and buy one walking in just before gametime. those guys do not want to eat those tickets. buying one now is folly, imo.

Alkie · « **Reply #13 on:** October 21, 2005, 04:28:01 pm »

You may be right. I've been on both sides of it. I saw the Fiesta Bowl one year for $3 and I went to the BigXII Game (Texas/CU in Irving) and spent 3 times what I would have if I had just bought them a week ahead of time.

We bought our Game 4 tix at this outrageous price, but decided to do what you're saying for Game 3 (not because you said it). Figure if we can get good seats that day, great. If not, we'll watch from a bar and have just as good a time.

NeilT · « **Reply #16 on:** October 21, 2005, 04:36:53 pm »

Throws left.

matadorph · « **Reply #17 on:** October 21, 2005, 04:42:44 pm »

I agree with jim, but I can't help but worry that demand will outstrip supply a hundredfold outside Minute Maid. I went to every home playoff game and although there were tickets available on the street for the first four home games, nothing came close to the ticket-scalping scene outside MMPUS Monday night for Game 5. I didn't see many people selling tickets but there were hundreds of people practically begging to suck dick for a chance to see the Astros clinch at home. Supply will be much, much tighter for the World Series.

These prices are fucking insane, so I've resigned myself to watching it in a bar in Houston. I love the Astros and I wept when Lane squeezed that final out, but I've gotta eat and pay my rent first.

Arky Vaughan · « **Reply #18 on:** October 21, 2005, 04:46:13 pm »

Here's a question: who the hell is paying $250 for freaking parking passes? While the prices for tickets are much higher because many more people are chasing after the same number of seats as a regular game, won't the number of people parking cars at a sold-out ballpark be the same as in any other sold-out game? Or are all the people who can't get tickets going to be driving around outside the ballpark taking up the parking spaces and driving those prices up as well?

Frobie · « **Reply #21 on:** October 21, 2005, 04:58:12 pm »

I don't think my car is worth $250.

Frobie · « **Reply #22 on:** October 21, 2005, 05:03:02 pm »

Oh, and as far as ticket scalpers go...

Provide a valuable service, free market, America, apple pie, blah blah blah, etc. etc. etc.

Fuck 'em.

Not that I am bitter or anything.

Author Topic: Ticket Scalpers and Auctions (Read 4131 times)

Andyzipp