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Tickets were sold to brokers instead of fans
Posted: September 2, 2009 9:34 am
by bravedave
No, I'm not rehashing my Buffett ticket buying experience. This is serious!
Redskins sold tickets to brokers -- not fans
So what did the team do after the audit turned up the sales to brokers?
Redskins General Counsel David Donovan says employees involved in the sales were disciplined*.
Word of the sales to brokers apparently made owner Dan Snyder "livid," Donovan said.
*emphasis mine
Re: Tickets were sold to brokers instead of fans
Posted: September 2, 2009 9:37 am
by FunkHouse9
Ticketmaster and Van Halen are being accused of the same type of thing: cutting deals with scalpers in an attempt to get a cut of the secondary market.
http://www.spinner.com/2009/09/01/van-h ... ng-scheme/
Re: Tickets were sold to brokers instead of fans
Posted: September 2, 2009 1:15 pm
by FunkHouse9
***Cue the outrage***
Re: Tickets were sold to brokers instead of fans
Posted: September 2, 2009 1:32 pm
by pair8head
Re: Tickets were sold to brokers instead of fans
Posted: September 2, 2009 1:46 pm
by weirdo0521
The Cubs have been doing it for years. Set up their own ticket broker.
Re: Tickets were sold to brokers instead of fans
Posted: September 2, 2009 2:12 pm
by BostonFins
The Red Sox do it as well. They have the ticket broker (Ace Tickets) based right next to Fenway Park!! Can't get tickets to the game...go right next door to the broker.
Re: Tickets were sold to brokers instead of fans
Posted: September 2, 2009 2:44 pm
by oceanstate
Not to be cynical or anything, but is anyone particularly surprised by this?
Re: Tickets were sold to brokers instead of fans
Posted: September 2, 2009 3:41 pm
by blackjack
oceanstate wrote:Not to be cynical or anything, but is anyone particularly surprised by this?
sadly, no.
Re: Tickets were sold to brokers instead of fans
Posted: September 2, 2009 4:55 pm
by Skibo
Not surprised. Not outraged either.
Re: Tickets were sold to brokers instead of fans
Posted: September 2, 2009 6:27 pm
by moeron
Money Talks Bull$%#! walks. Most of us Phans have been walking.
Thats why I will never buy from "Wrigley Field tickets" They are a scalping company set up by the Cubs.
I guess they just are not making enough $$$ alone from ticket sales.
Re: Tickets were sold to brokers instead of fans
Posted: September 7, 2009 6:21 pm
by TheSecretsInTheCrust
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