Re: Scalpers And How
stop? It just started here in Connecticut with a new law just passed last October! insane!
It's the only way my son have been able to get tix to Red Sox games and last one's I had were 'obstructed view'!
I remember in 2003 when I decided the day before Easter Sunday...that we'd try to go to the Jays vs. Sox game. No problem! Great day too since it was a meet and greet w/the Sox team. Turned out that we didn't care for our seats. They weren't bad - but I fugure it wouldn't hurt to ask. So I went over to the box office and for a few bucks more...got better seats!
Went to the Sox vs Devil Rays that Fall 2003...no problem getting box seats. Now those same seats are going for $3-500+ I think I had paid $140 for the pair.
I did get tix from ebay for a Lightfoot show and I found a seller on ebay who was 'reasonable'. These were great front row seats and double the original cost. But the seller shipped for free. Another seller -same show was asking $80 more and $15 for shipping.
this was a show I had decided to go to just 3 weeks before and I thought it was worth paying extra to travel so far and know I was going to have great seats to boot.
Prior to October - CT re-selllers weren't allowed to charge above $3 (I think it was) the cost of a ticket. But you know - they had ways of getting around that. Now I think they can charge up to $1300? above the retail!
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