F... Selling Tickets to the Visiting Team

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by irish

I started giving my tix away when I got a big screen HD tv. I'd invite my buddies over and we had a great time eating and drinking. Less hassle, less cost, better beer, better food. I though about keeping the tix and going to a game or 2 but realized it just wasnt worth the expense (as mentioned in a previous post, these tix are expensive) of buying a whole season and giving away all but a couple games. I gave my tix to whoever would take them and let me tell you, a lot of times it wasnt easy giving away tix to Skins fans or any other fans.

People forget that when you have tickets the preseasons games are just a loss unless you go to the game. I don't. I had four season tic's and thats a loss of $520 just for the preseason games. I tried to add that loss to my ticket price but that only worked twice. I'm not complaining but people need to understand that we are talking real dollars and for me to just eat the price was $260 and that does not include tax's and other charges. I just decide it was cheaper to buy them on stubhub when I wanted to attend a game.

[bigmarley4]

Originally Posted by firstdown

People forget that when you have tickets the preseasons games are just a loss unless you go to the game. I don't. I had four season tic's and thats a loss of $520 just for the preseason games. I tried to add that loss to my ticket price but that only worked twice. I'm not complaining but people need to understand that we are talking real dollars and for me to just eat the price was $260 and that does not include tax's and other charges. I just decide it was cheaper to buy them on stubhub when I wanted to attend a game.

Great point. Face value is spread out over 10 games, including preseason, so in my example my tickets have a face value of $80 (before pg country taxes and absurd fees). Anyone here ponying up $80 for the Jacksonville preason game? Didn't think so... so season ticket holders have to amortize that over the rest of the season by selling for greater then the "redskins face". And the fact is a lot of Skins fans don't want to pay to go, but our opponents do.

[Gmanc711]

Originally Posted by firstdown

People forget that when you have tickets the preseasons games are just a loss unless you go to the game. I don't. I had four season tic's and thats a loss of $520 just for the preseason games. I tried to add that loss to my ticket price but that only worked twice. I'm not complaining but people need to understand that we are talking real dollars and for me to just eat the price was $260 and that does not include tax's and other charges. I just decide it was cheaper to buy them on stubhub when I wanted to attend a game.

I agree. I sold my tickets to last nights game and I'm not at all ashamed to admit it. People want to talk like its a big deal, but you know what, when you drop 1500.00 a year on season tickets,another 500 on parking, FREAKING PARKING, when you only make 28-29,000 a year, than its your right. I offered my tickets up to a few people I knew who were Redskins fans, they didnt want to go, so I put them on tickets now. I sold them to people in Virginia, I have no idea if they were Skins' fans or not, and I really dont care. I was as embarassed as anyone last night watching them take over that stadium, but like he said, these are real dollars. I already took a loss on the preseason tickets, and I "sold" them to a Redskins fan, on this site, who has still yet to pay me for them. So unless its someone I know, forget about it.

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by Gmanc711

I agree. I sold my tickets to last nights game and I'm not at all ashamed to admit it. People want to talk like its a big deal, but you know what, when you drop 1500.00 a year on season tickets,another 500 on parking, FREAKING PARKING, when you only make 28-29,000 a year, than its your right. I offered my tickets up to a few people I knew who were Redskins fans, they didnt want to go, so I put them on tickets now. I sold them to people in Virginia, I have no idea if they were Skins' fans or not, and I really dont care. I was as embarassed as anyone last night watching them take over that stadium, but like he said, these are real dollars. I already took a loss on the preseason tickets, and I "sold" them to a Redskins fan, on this site, who has still yet to pay me for them. So unless its someone I know, forget about it.

They haven't paid you yet? That ain't right. That might call for a banning until you're paid...with interest.

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by Gmanc711

I agree. I sold my tickets to last nights game and I'm not at all ashamed to admit it. People want to talk like its a big deal, but you know what, when you drop 1500.00 a year on season tickets,another 500 on parking, FREAKING PARKING, when you only make 28-29,000 a year, than its your right. I offered my tickets up to a few people I knew who were Redskins fans, they didnt want to go, so I put them on tickets now. I sold them to people in Virginia, I have no idea if they were Skins' fans or not, and I really dont care. I was as embarassed as anyone last night watching them take over that stadium, but like he said, these are real dollars. I already took a loss on the preseason tickets, and I "sold" them to a Redskins fan, on this site, who has still yet to pay me for them. So unless its someone I know, forget about it.

I had several games last year on StubHub but as the game got closer they had still not sold at my cost of around $80 each. So I had to put them on craigslist on the friday before the game for like $50.00 each. Then the Skins fans came out and would offer me like $35 to $45 for my tickets.

[FRPLG]

Originally Posted by firstdown

I had several games last year on StubHub but as the game got closer they had still not sold at my cost of around $80 each. So I had to put them on craigslist on the friday before the game for like $50.00 each. Then the Skins fans came out and would offer me like $35 to $45 for my tickets.

This is my experience. Everyone likes to spout some bullsh*t about "So many hardcore fans would have bought these things" That si crap. I have put tickets everywhere. Here, Ebay, Craigslist, everywhere. There are not that many people lookign to buy tickets. When it comes down to it there are just enough people out there willing to buy tickets and when Pitt fans are willing to buy them at 200 and no Skins fan wants pay more than face then what the hell does everyone think is going to happen? This notion that there are so many suffering fans just unable to find a way to get tickets is crap. There are a million ways to get tickets so when 30,000 Pitt fans show up it isn't because sellout ticket holders sold them tickets it is because sellout fans were too cheap to buy them instead.

[irish]

Originally Posted by firstdown

People forget that when you have tickets the preseasons games are just a loss unless you go to the game. I don't. I had four season tic's and thats a loss of $520 just for the preseason games. I tried to add that loss to my ticket price but that only worked twice. I'm not complaining but people need to understand that we are talking real dollars and for me to just eat the price was $260 and that does not include tax's and other charges. I just decide it was cheaper to buy them on stubhub when I wanted to attend a game.

Paying full price for a preseason game used to really tick me off. It easy to tell people what to do with their tix and $ when you arent spending any $. I dont even go anymore as its just an incredible pain getting to Fed Ex. I can see great on my HD and like I said the food & booze are better.