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  1. evanstonian
    :-)
  2. evanstonian
    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.
  3. evanstonian
    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.
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    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.
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    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....
  7. evanstonian
    Didn't watch.
  8. evanstonian
    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.
  9. evanstonian
    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?
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    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.
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    Does that help?
  12. evanstonian
    Did you have the right to go to those games? The Cubs would disagree.
  13. evanstonian
    Yes you do. You think the Cubs want the "true" fans to be the ones holding season tickets as opposed to scalpers. Stop lying.
  14. evanstonian
    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.
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    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.
  16. evanstonian
    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.
  17. evanstonian
    It's obvious that you're not a season ticket holder. Most season ticket holders sell or exchange a large portion of their tickets, and when they do so, they hope to at least recoup the money they spent on the tickets or (gasp!) profit on their investment. From 2009-2014, there were a lot of games that you couldn't give away, let alone recoup your money on. So yeah, it's lost money.
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    I told you that I sold my World Series tickets. That should tell you enough. And you're probably right - the Cubs were probably pissed that I did that. The dirty little secret here is that in recent years, you could get Cubs season tickets without being on the waiting list. See: http://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/2012/12/15/3770336/cubs-season-ticket-wait-list-line-jumping These people being "hosed" and coerced into spending $3,000 on a World Series ticket had their chance to buy season tickets not too long ago. Don't feel bad for me, but don't feel bad for the folks who didn't buy in earlier, either, when they had the chance.
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    You seem to be implying this would be bad. There were multiple people earlier in this thread who posted that they sell almost all of their season tickets and only go to postseason games or whatever. And in my experience, it's pretty common for season ticket holders to sell many games on Stubhub. No one really thought much of it since there really wasn't a way for the Cubs to track it. Whether it would be good or bad for the Cubs to cancel these people's accounts, it's something the Cubs could do and my point is that for those people, in light of my experience, they should be concerned. You said earlier that you passed up your chance to become a season ticket holder. That's fine. But for those who didn't and lost thousands of dollars each year from 2009-2014 and are still trying to recoup their losses, this would suck.
  20. evanstonian
    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?
  21. evanstonian
    My point in posting was not to ask for sympathy (believe me, I'll be fine) but rather to alert you to this issue. This is the first "era of good feelings" in which the Cubs now have the means to track every one of your sales. For the season ticket holders on here, I invite you to log in to your season ticket portal and take a look where all of your Stubhub sales are tracked to the exact dollar amount. Yes, I was probably selling more than most season ticket holders so that made me an easy target. But simply because they didn't cancel your season tickets this year doesn't mean they won't in the future. You all seem so willing to accept their assurances that your accounts are safe. It's all interesting to me.
  22. evanstonian
    If you don't mind me asking, where were your seats? Too much info would out myself to Cubs personnel lurking on this forum, but I will tell you they were not prime seats by any stretch.
  23. evanstonian
    You have no idea what you're talking about. Season ticket holders guarantee the Cubs 25,000+ sold tickets before Opening Day to every game of the regular season. Sure, maybe this year it's a luxury for the Cubs to have season ticket holders. But that's not the norm. Go back to 2014 when the Cubs' attendance was like 26,000 some games. Those were all season ticket holders, bud.
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    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"?
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    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.
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