Not Renewing My Season Tic's

[Giantone]

The game experience is worth it now I admit the tickets are getting high and the Giants are no different but we had our seats with the Giants since 1949 in the Polo grounds of Brooklyn.No TV can match a real game and as for money we don't buy a thing at the game.Now we share I have a big family and we work things out but we all agree we must try to keep them as long as we can.

[coggs]

Originally Posted by firstdown

Well I only got my season tickets last year and I have decided not renew them unless someone can talk me into keeping them. My thinking is that I only go to a few games each year and it would be cheaper and much easier than haviing to sell my other tickets to just buy ones for a few games. I have four and have to buy 8 preseason tickets at $65.00 which is $520 which is a wasted because I don't go to those and could not sell them. If I add that to the games I attend at a cost of about the same $520 that gives me around a thousand dollars to spend for tickets without any hassel of selling tickets. You also have other cost and taxes which would bring that figure to around $1,200. So if I wanted to go to two games a year and its just me an the wife I would have $300 per ticket to spend and could get much better seating than section 428. So what do youu guys think?

Email me, I'll buy them from you. Then I will scalp them, make a nice profit and tell you how much money I made!!!!

[coggs]

Originally Posted by Giantone

The game experience is worth it now I admit the tickets are getting high and the Giants are no different but we had our seats with the Giants since 1949 in the Polo grounds of Brooklyn.No TV can match a real game and as for money we don't buy a thing at the game.Now we share I have a big family and we work things out but we all agree we must try to keep them as long as we can.

Polo Grounds of Brooklyn? Polo grounds were in Manhattan, up past what is now Spanish Harlem.

[coggs]

Originally Posted by JoeRedskin

My friend and I stub hubbed our season tix last year. He spoke to the Skins office and they gave him the go ahead. The Skins sanction resale through stub hub and, in fact, advertise it at the games.

I don't think they sanction other ways of resale. It may be one of those where DS says - "If you do it this way it's okay (since I get a cut). If you do it any other way, I'll revoke your tix since I get nothing out of it".

As for those who oppose reselling as it may give opps the ability to take our seats, I say then buy my tix. I buy them and resell them, not for a profit but so that I can hold onto them year to year and get better seats. The Preseason is a bitch but I look forward to being able to take my son to games in our seats. That includes those games that may be prohibitive (Dallas, Philly) in years where there is something at stake.

For the Dallas game this year, tix for seats comprable to mine went for 3x there face value on stub hub. Sorry, it's worth it to me to hold onto them and stub hub them until my financial situation improves.

The Rangers do the same thing with the Rangers Ticket exchange. I sold a game against the Bruins for 70/each and a game against the Flyers for 80/each and my tickets face value is 30 each. They take a 5% commission. In the literature they send with my tickets, they make it clear that the ticketexchange is the only permissible re-sale method. Do they monitor Ebay and StubHub? No idea, but no point in risking it, imo.

[celts32]

Originally Posted by jsarno

I didn't realize it was so hard to sell them for the Skins.

My knowledge is of Red Sox games, and you can sell bleacher seats for $75 for goodness sake. People will pay it too. It's extremely easy to sell your sox tickets for 2 and possibly 3 times thier face value.

The Redsox stadium is smaller and they have been very good for the past several years which is probably raising demand even higher. And they are also not the best comparison since the historic venue they play in makes it a tourist attraction for everyone visiting Boston, not just Redsox fans.

There is a very high demand for Redskins tickets but a 92,000 seat stadium does a lot to curtail that demand. The problem in selling Redskins tickets is that you are always selling up against 5000 or more people, and non season ticket holders do not understand the price structure of the stadium. Row 15 and down in the upper deck is $80 but above row 15 is like $60. So what happens is that people with the real cheap tickets can mark those up much more and still make it look like they are selling them at a discount, whereas like I said in my first post I need to sell at $94 a ticket on stubhub to break even. Unless it's a big game in order to get sells I need to drop my price closer to what the top upper deck seats cost and I end up taking a loss.

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by coggs

Email me, I'll buy them from you. Then I will scalp them, make a nice profit and tell you how much money I made!!!!

Well if you can find people to pay you over $100 for the tickets when they can buy them on stubhub for less then I will be glade to sell them to you for $3,100 for all four in the upper level. That price includes preaseason cost so if you can get face value for them $65.00 then it will be much easier to turn a profit. One note: I could not give them away last year. They are to high up when people can find free tickets on lower levels. I need to have that done through pay pal by the 31st so let me know. My cost is 2,878 which I have the bill but need to make a little money if I'm going to keep them in my name.

[celts32]

The biggest problem for me in selling extra skins tickets is that Stubhub is a ripoff! They take 15% off the top of all sells which is way to much. Other then Dallas it is impossible to sell skins tickets for 15% above cost...at least in my section it is. I used to sell on Ebay and do much better but now that the skins have this deal with Stubhub I am afraid to sell them anywhere else for fear that I will lose my tickets.

[Giantone]

Originally Posted by coggs

Polo Grounds of Brooklyn? Polo grounds were in Manhattan, up past what is now Spanish Harlem.

Sorry,I keep thinking Brooklyn.There were more than one Polo grounds.
Brooklyn was Ebbits field




Polo Grounds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Campbell17]

I might not be renewing mine. Living in philly i get to maybe 2 or 3 games a year, and with stubhub and eBay, it is so much easier to get your hands on good seats without the hassle of having to sell off 5 or 6 games.

[dmek25]

campbell, where are your seats?

[BAFGA]

Originally Posted by Giantone

Sorry,I keep thinking Brooklyn.There were more than one Polo grounds.

Talk about deep dimensions. Not many hit homers to straight away center unless they were inside the park jobs...

[Campbell17]

Originally Posted by dmek25

campbell, where are your seats?

section like 129 row 9

[irish]

I think the demand for Redskins tickets is very much overblown. Its hard to get people to buy them mostly due to the hassle of getting to FedEx.

[celts32]

Originally Posted by irish

I think the demand for Redskins tickets is very much overblown. Its hard to get people to buy them mostly due to the hassle of getting to FedEx.

I agree and disagree. They do sell out a 92,000 seat stadium which indicates a pretty big demand. Most NFL teams could not even come close to selling out fedex. However, the resale market for these tickets is not as brisk as some would think though.

[irish]

Originally Posted by celts32

I agree and disagree. They do sell out a 92,000 seat stadium which indicates a pretty big demand. Most NFL teams could not even come close to selling out fedex. However, the resale market for these tickets is not as brisk as some would think though.

They sell all the tickets but from what I have seen all 92k dont show up. If it wasnt for my neighbor I'd have a hard time getting rid of my tix. The few times he couldnt make it I couldnt get anyone to take them.