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You guys are hilarious. That isn't me. If it makes you warm and fuzzy to think that it is me, then have at it.

Who cares what I think I am providing? The secondary market makes tickets available to people who otherwise wouldn't have access to them. You have provided nothing to contradict this. The above poster stated the issue correctly: In a world where demand exceeds supply, there are two systems: (1) The first to purchase them may not re-sell them; (2) The first to purchase them may re-sell them. Your approach is Option (1). That would cut out hundreds of thousands of fans from bidding on tickets in the secondary market. My approach is Option (2). Hundreds of thousands of fans have access to them as a result and I get paid the difference between what the Cubs charged and what these fans decide is an appropriate amount to pay. Convince me using rational argument that your approach is the fairer.

I'm talking about the fact that there were probably over a million fans desiring to have one of those 41,000 seats. And brokers made tickets available to the 950,000+ who otherwise would have been locked out. And if there were no brokers, those people would be shut out.

There are about 41,300 seats at Wrigley Field. People were willing to pay $3,500 for crappy upper level seats to Game 1. The scarcity of tickets relative to the demand for them is what dictated those prices. I don't know what the actual number of fans who wanted to attend one of the games was. I'm guessing it was easily over a million, though. Regardless, it turns out that the evil scalpers may have provided a way for some of these fans to attend the first WS in 71 years who would otherwise be locked out. The suggestion that brokers don't make otherwise-unavailable tickets available to fans doesn't pass the laugh test. That's precisely what they do, and why people are willing to pay the high prices. Unless you think there's some sort of scalper monopoly cartel out there. Hmm....

Didn't watch.

Uhhh....are you serious? You think that if brokers were not involved, everyone who wanted to go to a Cubs game would have no problems finding a ticket at the Wrigley box office? If so, that explains all your responses.

I have a question: Have you ever purchased a ticket off the secondary market before? Did you think it was a bad thing that there were tickets available for you to buy that you didn't have access to before?

I posted way back in the day when Ctcubsfan was always in the game chats along with Treebeard and some others. I don't even know if they are still around or if they go by those names. That was way back in the mid-2000s. If the insinuation is I am someone who has posted in this thread then that's way off base, but you can believe what you like. The point wasn't whether their transactions, especially those with credit cards, were hidden. If you paid with a credit card or had season tickets MLB/teams have your information and they would get notified of the sale of those barcodes and could link that to the purchaser. That's not the surprise. The surprise is that even IF you buy tickets with cash, meaning the MLB/team had no idea who actually bought those tickets, Stubhub shares the user data so that MLB has a list of sales affiliated with their database. THAT is what's shocking/alarming. Dude, we both know that you're really me. Stop it. Note to self: Learn how to spell "cite" correctly and also don't use "it's" when "its" is proper.

Does that help?

Did you have the right to go to those games? The Cubs would disagree.

Yes you do. You think the Cubs want the "true" fans to be the ones holding season tickets as opposed to scalpers. Stop lying.

The Ricketts are not losing money by kicking me off the season ticket list and giving my seats to another guy. That makes this stunt even more hilarious -- they knew that I and other season ticket holders were doing this for years and didn't cancel. Why not? Because nobody was going to those games then. It's hilarious but sad that you guys think they care about you. They returned 108 years of loyalty and years of overpriced baseball the only way they know how: By raising ticket prices by 20% on you season ticket holders.

LOL. You think the Cubs give a sh*t about anything other than your money and their public image (which also increases money for them)? You DO know that this is the billionaire Ameritrade family that supported Donald Trump, right? (http://www.si.com/mlb/2016/09/21/ricketts-family-endorses-donald-trump-campaign-chicago-cubs) I'm sure it had nothing to do with favorable tax treatment.