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  1. jersey cubs fan
    Right, because season ticket holders are not entitled to receive anything favorable for investing thousands of dollars for years, including during bad seasons. They should just give the tickets at face value to you -- the guy who was sitting on his couch eating pork rinds -- rather than putting them on a marketplace that millions of people have access to and can decide what the value of the ticket is worth to them. Seems fair. Entitled. Good word choice.
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    The section matters, and so does your aggressiveness in acquiring additional seats through the team at face and selling those (not mention selling all your world series tickets).
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    Yeah, we did some of that. Of course, that won't be an issue again for a long time. Greedy bastard.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    But that is the point. They aren't selling to friends for face. They aren't giving a couple to family here and there. They are selling every ticket they can for profit, probably every premier matchup, obviously every world series ticket, clearly all the special packages, and they are doing so for maximum return. If you put a Chicago address on the account, don't show up to games and sell virtually all your tickets plus the extra allotment for the highest dollar you can get, you are in it for the profit. If all you wanted to do was see a game or two a year why not just buy those on stub hub yourself? If it's to guarantee yourself a seat if they make the world series, then you should probably go to the world series. The guy was in this to profit, not cover his costs, and the team did not like it.
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    Shanahan Mike? Kyle
  6. jersey cubs fan
    It's not as simple as saying the market determines, if some people are just selling to get rid of them while others are putting more effort into pricing them properly, and dipping into other packages to keep making more. On any given day he may not get any more money than anybody else gets. But if you do it right and sell aggressively and for all the right games, you can make a lot more than a typical season ticket holder that just doesn't want to take a bath.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    I'm still rooting for McDaniels with Cutler staying.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    I very much doubt that. I very little doubt it. Not that it's a remotely realistic scenario. Nobody is pricing their tickets significantly below what the market allows. Some more aggressively to make sure they sell them, sure, but nobody is selling a high demand game for face on StubHub just out of the goodness of their heart or intentions. I just don't see why they'd even look at how much he got. Because those are the people that compete with the cubs for the highest margin returns. If you have season tickets and sell every one for face, you do not inflict on the Cubs ability to sell on high value games and such. If you sell your World Series tickets for $50 more than you paid, they don't give a horsefeathers, if you are the one selling the $5,000 ticket you are in their way. Absolutely it matters. A well run ticket scalping set-up can make a healthy return. Joe Blow will be lucky to cover his costs. The Cubs don't want people profiting off their product other than themselves and their official partners on the media side. No business wants other people profiting off their product.
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    I very much doubt that.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    You just answered your own question. There are about 25,000 seats sold through season tickets meaning there are, what, maybe 10,000 season ticket holders (though probably fewer because last I recall, season ticket holders could have up to 10 tickets per account)? So you do the math. The Cubs can easily afford to get rid of 500-1,000 accounts who they deem to be "scalping" when their list is 100,000 deep. Remember, you have your season tickets in their "absolute discretion." They can boot you at any time on their own terms. If their true goal is to maintain season tickets holders who they deem to be "loyal" then I don't think they will have a problem finding 1,000 more people who will not sell more than, say 20 games, on Stubhub. Do you? your paranoia and martyrdom amuses me
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    Really, your first post was asking for other examples of people that had this happen to them, thinking by chance that you weren't a specific case but just like all the rest. What makes you think they will just keep ripping through the list? It does them no good to cancel people in large numbers because, a) they will lose a fair amount of those people as potential future customers, and b) they have no assurances that the next guy on the list will pay up since there is no deposit necessary, lots of people move or don't live there in the first place, and/or have their financial situation, and c) it's terrific marketing to be able to refer to a 100,000 person wait list. You got your season tickets taken away because you treated your access to those tickets as a business opportunity. Congratulations on the money you made under this system, but the Cubs have every right not to play along. Nobody felt sympathy for rooftop owners who got pissed that they couldn't make money off the Cubs product, and few people are going to have sympathy for scalpers who aren't able to scalp as easily as they did before.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    it's truly amazing how every free agent that has ever signed a contract turned down higher offers to go to the team he wanted most
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    The Bears season ended before the Cubs season this year and the focus has been on the potential front office and coaching staff turnover this offseason, and of course the draft. http://www.espn.com/nfl/insider/story/_/id/18266694/todd-mcshay-2017-nfl-mock-draft-10 4. Chicago Bears Jabrill Peppers, S/OLB, Michigan* The Bears are another team likely to be in the market for a QB this offseason without a good option at the top of the draft. Peppers would make sense, given Chicago's lack of difference-makers in the secondary. He's a true hybrid player, with the speed and athleticism to thrive in space and the toughness to play bigger than his 205-pound frame.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    what am i missing? why are we assuming this guy is some terrible person? you guys were right. i was wrong. i will never again assume anything but the worst in people. Duly noted
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    Maybe not forever forever [tweet] [/tweet]
  18. jersey cubs fan
    If he ruins the draft positioning I will never forgive you!
  19. jersey cubs fan
    I am not tied to a ticket selling company in any way, shape, or form. Nor did I buy any group tickets. I did buy some flex pax which were offered to season ticket holders. Notice what that rep implicitly admitted to you: They are investigating season ticket holders. This is very different from someone coming to them independently to complain about a ticket broker. So they basically told you that they are vetting the purchasing history of even the people who spend thousands of dollars per year funding their organization before the first pitch is thrown -- even if it's you just buying flex pax that they offer to all season ticket holders and the general public. Talk about biting that hand that feeds them. Don't believe what the rep is telling you. They can cancel your season tickets if they want to. They're doing it now that the waiting list is back up to 100,000. the revenue from season ticket holders that sell through on secondary market is a drop in the bucket. You didn't sustain them.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    What's not to believe is the suggestion that you have nothing to worry about if you are selling most of your season tickets on Stubhub. The rep basically admitted that they comb through the purchasing history of season ticket holders. Do you feel comfortable knowing that the Cubs do that while also knowing that their STH terms say they can cancel in their "sole and absolute discretion"? Trumps friends in russia already comb through that history, what's the big deal if the Cubs do it?
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    [tweet]https://twitter.com/SBNationCFB/status/808801782503710720[/tweet]
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    Bill Polian has been rumored for a job with the Bears and then distanced himself from the role, which technically doesn't exist. I'm really getting curious about how this offseason is going to go, in terms of overhaul. There's been very little noise suggesting Pace or Fox are on the hot seat, which is surprising considering how bad this team is. People keep insisting these guys are "trying hard" and somehow magically coming up short, which I assume is how they are going to sell the "stay the course" story if that is how they go. If Pace doesn't replace Fox this offseason, then I think next year all of their jobs are on the line.
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  25. jersey cubs fan
    Paging We Got The Whole 9. Paging... It's your time to shine, bud. I'm not that type of guy. I probably shouldn't have posted about him in 3 different threads - especially don't want to annoy a forum that's new to me, that I love reading and think there are several great posters I enjoy - but I just like the idea of adding that power lefty. It's not a matter of LOOGYs and getting lefties out, there aren't many hitters, period, who don't struggle with 95-97 from the LH side. So I think a guy like him, or Diekman, or the like, would add another dimension to the pen. Plus he has 3 years of control and if he comes as cheap as you guys suggested, that's a no-brainer to me. That's a guy who improves the pen IMO. But I'm not gonna come here with 'told ya so' type of crap posts. Honestly our FO turns over every stone anyway so if there is a name I'd like them to target, the probability is extremely high that they already have kicked the tires. I trust they will patch any weakness that remains. I'm still skeptical that we could get him for Szczur+, but we'll just have to wait and see. Rub it in! Rub it in! Rub it in!
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