F... Selling Tickets to the Visiting Team

[bigmarley4]

Originally Posted by BleedBurgundy

i don't really get the whole complaint here. If they are too expensive and you can't afford them, don't buy them. No one is forced to do so. And if you're going to buy them and then turn around and sell them to non-Skins fans, why not just buy the few games you actually plan on attending through Stub Hub or Craigslist?

I want to attend every home game. I can afford my ticket -- what I can't afford is taking a LOSS on the tickets. Therefore I sell them to whoever wants to buy at fair value (Skins fans or opponent's fans). Thus why there were 30,000 steelers fans there. What's hard to get about it?

[BleedBurgundy]

Originally Posted by bigmarley4

I want to attend every home game. I can afford my ticket -- what I can't afford is taking a LOSS on the tickets. Therefore I sell them to whoever wants to buy at fair value (Skins fans or opponent's fans). Thus why there were 30,000 steelers fans there. What's hard to get about it?

If you wanted to attend every home game, then you wouldn't be selling the tickets. What is this whole "taking a loss" thing anyway? If you buy the tickets for x amount of dollars, then you are getting that commodity in return, you're not "taking a loss." I hate the whole "tickets as an investment" thing. What you really mean is that you want the OPTION of attending any or all of the home games for only face value but then you want to be able to sell any tickets you don't use to any one, skins fan or not. Personally I disagree with that because it lends itself to situations like that crap we all had to sit through last night. Obviously that's not an issue for you, it's a free country, do what you want. I just think it sucks.

[irish]

Originally Posted by BleedBurgundy

If you wanted to attend every home game, then you wouldn't be selling the tickets. What is this whole "taking a loss" thing anyway? If you buy the tickets for x amount of dollars, then you are getting that commodity in return, you're not "taking a loss." I hate the whole "tickets as an investment" thing. What you really mean is that you want the OPTION of attending any or all of the home games for only face value but then you want to be able to sell any tickets you don't use to any one, skins fan or not. Personally I disagree with that because it lends itself to situations like that crap we all had to sit through last night. Obviously that's not an issue for you, it's a free country, do what you want. I just think it sucks.

I think what he is saying is that stories of thousands of Skins fans dying to buy tickets is in fact a myth.

[BleedBurgundy]

Originally Posted by irish

I think what he is saying is that stories of thousands of Skins fans dying to buy tickets is in fact a myth.

I think that's pretty obviously the case.