scalped tickets

[Pushfrog98]

So I live near St. Louis and I hear a lot of stories of people just going down to Busch and waiting till the 2nd inning or so and getting pretty good seats for really good prices. The scalpers basically bail after then, so they want to cut their losses ASAP. Not really thinking, I went to wrigley with this same mentality this weekend.

 

BAD IDEA!

 

My first encounter with a scalper there was a real douche nozzle. I walk up and he says "How many tickets you need?" I reply with "2... together. What's the cheapest you got?"

 

He counters with "how much you willing to spend?" I say "40 bucks." "Each?" "No, total."

 

He then went all ape crap on me saying that i'm a freakin idiot, blah blah blah, etc etc... So I ask him what the cheapest tickets he had were and he said, "I can get you 2 standing room tickets for $130 total"

 

You have got to be kidding me. Standing room only for $65 a pop?!

 

I have only been to wrigley twice before in my entire life (i'm 28 now), so I was not familiar with how things worked up there... but my goodness, I was NOT expecting that!

 

Finally during middle of the 4th inning, I was able to "find" "good" tickets for $40/each in section 204.

 

Sad to say that I'll probably not be going to Wrigley again anytime soon because it's so stinking hard to get tickets in the first place :(

[pitchcs]

So I live near St. Louis and I hear a lot of stories of people just going down to Busch and waiting till the 2nd inning or so and getting pretty good seats for really good prices. The scalpers basically bail after then, so they want to cut their losses ASAP. Not really thinking, I went to wrigley with this same mentality this weekend.

 

BAD IDEA!

 

My first encounter with a scalper there was a real douche nozzle. I walk up and he says "How many tickets you need?" I reply with "2... together. What's the cheapest you got?"

 

He counters with "how much you willing to spend?" I say "40 bucks." "Each?" "No, total."

 

He then went all ape crap on me saying that i'm a freakin idiot, blah blah blah, etc etc... So I ask him what the cheapest tickets he had were and he said, "I can get you 2 standing room tickets for $130 total"

 

You have got to be kidding me. Standing room only for $65 a pop?!

 

I have only been to wrigley twice before in my entire life (i'm 28 now), so I was not familiar with how things worked up there... but my goodness, I was NOT expecting that!

 

Finally during middle of the 4th inning, I was able to "find" "good" tickets for $40/each in section 204.

 

Sad to say that I'll probably not be going to Wrigley again anytime soon because it's so stinking hard to get tickets in the first place :(

 

It's expensive to scalp. I will just say that you probably should have realized you couldn't get 2 tickets for $40. I traded my 2 season tickets on Saturday (Section 404) for one bleacher ticket.

[Jon]

$40 for section 204 in the 4th inning? What game was this?

 

Either way that seems, pretty ridiculous and goes against everything I've heard about waiting until after the game started. You probably just had terrible luck and ran into the wrong brokers/scalpers.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

First of all, it was a weekend. The demand is always higher then. Secondly, the Cubs are winning.

 

Third, try Ebay first. I can usually find tickets there...not always in my preferred seating locations however.

[E.J.]

Anyone tried the Cubs' replay tickets system yet? I was looking for some tickets to the Dodgers' series, and the prices don't seem ridiculous for some of the seats.

[Pushfrog98]

First of all, it was a weekend. The demand is always higher then. Secondly, the Cubs are winning.

 

Third, try Ebay first. I can usually find tickets there...not always in my preferred seating locations however.

Yeah, I knew we were probably going to not get "GREAT" prices, but at the same time, I didn't think we were going to get raped that badly. We were in Chicago for a wedding and realized that day that we'd have time to see a game too... so it was kind of spur of the moment. We usually get our tickets online ahead of time (and usually for somewhere other than wrigley... it's cheaper to drive to Cincy and see the cubs play there).

 

Also, I know this might be me being nieve(sp?) or whatever, but isn't it illegal to overcharge by that much?

[BeerHere]

I got scammed a few years ago, and I know others that have been scammed by scalpers. I refuse to buy anything from a scalper and usually go to stubhub or ticketsnow for difficult tickets.

 

My buddy left work early to do standing room, bought the ticket from a scalper and was refused at the gate because the ticket was for the previous day. Same guy got back to work the following day only to get screamed at by his boss for skipping out the previous day.

 

NEVER use scalpers

[UMFan83]

I always thought this was the case too (showing up late and gettnig cheap seats), but I've heard 3 accounts of people tryin that this weekend and failing.

[Butterscup1679666578]

I got scammed a few years ago, and I know others that have been scammed by scalpers. I refuse to buy anything from a scalper and usually go to stubhub or ticketsnow for difficult tickets.

 

My buddy left work early to do standing room, bought the ticket from a scalper and was refused at the gate because the ticket was for the previous day. Same guy got back to work the following day only to get screamed at by his boss for skipping out the previous day.

NEVER use scalpers

 

Your friend should've looked at the tickets first.

 

I've used scalpers a lot, and never had any problems. I've also never purchased tickets in the middle of game, that seems like a waste of money to me.

[pitchcs]

I always thought this was the case too (showing up late and gettnig cheap seats), but I've heard 3 accounts of people tryin that this weekend and failing.

 

 

Once the scalpers realize what people are willing to pay I think it will get easier. Let's remember that it's been 3 years since any meaningful games at Wrigley.

[Pushfrog98]

I got scammed a few years ago, and I know others that have been scammed by scalpers. I refuse to buy anything from a scalper and usually go to stubhub or ticketsnow for difficult tickets.

 

My buddy left work early to do standing room, bought the ticket from a scalper and was refused at the gate because the ticket was for the previous day. Same guy got back to work the following day only to get screamed at by his boss for skipping out the previous day.

NEVER use scalpers

 

Your friend should've looked at the tickets first.

 

I've used scalpers a lot, and never had any problems. I've also never purchased tickets in the middle of game, that seems like a waste of money to me.

Those same tickets I paid $40 for were going for $100+ each earlier...

[Jon]

I always thought this was the case too (showing up late and gettnig cheap seats), but I've heard 3 accounts of people tryin that this weekend and failing.

Have ticket sales been that good this year?

 

That's pretty surprising. I know the secondary market was nothing special (although better than you'd expect given their record) earlier this season, but they were still just a few games over .500.

 

I headed to Wrigley today at lunchtime to pick up cheap seats for the Wednesday night Brewers game in late August and cheap seats for Labor Day. The Labor Day game only had UD reserved seats way down the line and the Brewers game only had Terrace reserved outfield all the way in the corner or decent UD reserved. I wasn't planning on paying more than that, though. It would be my first game since early last May.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

I have four bleacher seats for labor day if anyone is interested....

[radarluv1]

i've heard that since the tix arent torn, just scanned, you can get burned on "recycled" tickets that have already gotten someone into the game. so be careful buying a ticket after or near gametime.

[UK1679666180]

The market is geared towards paying over face value, if scalpers are charging over face value, you're better off looking on the web with more security.

[sethuel1]

Scalpers around the stadium have been burned holding way too many seats in the last couple of years, so they don't tend to hang onto as many.

 

Also, there are way too many stories on here of people just not being smart about buying tickets. Always look the tickets over carefully before you buy them.