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CONCERT
TICKETS
Or Sell
Your Extras
Using Legalball
Baseball Tickets
NFL Tickets
NBA Tickets
College Football
By: Keith Dobkowski, Senior Sports News Writer
*all sites listed in article have links at bottom of page
As sports fans well know, and as Legalball.com hopes to shed
light upon, getting tickets to our favorite games is quite a
hassle. Depending on your area of the country and your fan
preference, seeing certain shows, concerts and games can
become a matter of luck unless you have a Trump like budget.
In San Francisco, the recent Boston Red Sox visit created ticket
frenzy unlike anything in the Bay in recent years. Not since the
Dallas Cowboys and San Francisco 49ers met up in four straight
NFC Championship games has San Francisco had such a tough
and expensive ticket to get.
Your town may be Boston when the Yankees visit, Augusta when
the Green Jackets are unveiled, and Denver when the hated Red
Wings come to town or Chicago when the Packers arrive.
Regardless of home, you know the ticket you want and the
dollars that must be shelled to get it. And while Baseball may be
the National Pastime and serves roughly 3,000,000 fans a week,
Football owns the American heart yet can only accommodate
400,000 fans a week.
Common sense shows that the market for football tickets would
obviously be higher and tighter than those for the baseball
tickets.
So then, how do you, or me, the fan find the best priced tickets
in the seats we want to the games we want. A few years back
the answer would have been easy. Simply visit Craigslist.org for
your city and click on their ticket link.
For those unfamiliar with Craigslist.org, it is a community based
bulletin board website that was founded for the purpose of
escaping the commercial world. Need an apartment, go to
Craigslist and you will find one. Need a job and there’s a good
chance that Craigslist has it. And if you need a ticket to a
sporting event for face value, Craigslist had it. Not there to
make a profit, Craigslist operates free for all users other than job
posters and even that is reduced if you are a non-profit
corporation.
The problem with Craigslist is that its policing is non-existent.
The system relies on readers flagging commercial offers on the
commercial free site. After so many flags by readers, a post is
removed.
A New York based site, Gothamist.com has criticized this very
system. Gothamist complains that Craigslist refuses to follow
state laws and has no written policy directly limiting ticket sales.
For instance, a broker or scalper can easily post on Craigslist and
unless the readers flag the posts, that broker or scalper can
post tickets for double and triple face value.
Even EBAY.com, a welcome spot for brokers and scalpers has
written rules limiting tickets sales to within 20% of the actual
face value of the tickets, the very rule Craigslist does not have.
To read more on EBAY and Craigslist, please visit Gothamist.com.
So where does that leave the fan when the community bulletin
board website is really a farce overtaken by brokers and
scalpers. Furthermore, how can the average fan post their extra
tickets for sale when a few flags by brokers and scalpers can kick
the post off Craigslist? So, how do you the fan find tickets to
sold out shows and events and how do you not pay through the
nose in order to attend these events?
Well, there are still a few good people on Craigslist that may be
able to help. However that may still involve incredible haggling,
phone calls and meeting an unknown in a shady area. To avoid
that hassle, Legalaball.com turned to the web for our search.
Ebay.com seemed the easy choice but their policing stops upon
the agreement and the transaction of money and tickets remains
to the parties. Meaning that even if you guess right on the
auction price there still exists an inherent risk in getting taken.
The New York Times recently published a story of napkins and
not tickets arriving in the mail after an Ebay transaction.
There are many other online sites such as Razorgator,
Ticketweb, Infieldadvantage, Tickets, Ticketmaster and an
individual teams double play window to choose from. Legalball’s
comparisons done based off convenience fees, delivery options,
ease and costs led us to find Stubhub to have the best prices on
average, the nicest customer service agents and the strongest
guarantee.
In fact, as Legalball was formed discussions, agreements and
research was conducted by our staff when choosing a ticketing
company to place on our site. Hands down we came to the
conclusion that Stubhub.com would best serve our readers.
Finally, as you search for tickets to sold out shows consider
using a new simulator about to be released by our partner,
Sports Business Simulations, Inc., that will search other sites and
let you know the going rate. For more information on any of the
above-mentioned sites, here are their respective web sites:
Craigslist
Ebay
Gothamist
Razorgator
Tickets
Ticketmaster
Infieldadvantage
The New York Times (Link Located on top of Stubhub page)
Stubhub
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