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February 24, 2006
Surprise surprise
Cub tickets go on sale today, and Christy and I have made it our objective to attend Opening Day at Wrigley Field. It'll be a Friday, we'll freeze our asses off, and it looks as though we'll be paying $100 each for a ticket to the festivities. I am slaving away at the so-called virtual waiting room, where all hopeful Cub fans go to try and snag their dream tickets. But once again, I have waited a half hour to get into the thing, and nothing has yet occured.
Nevertheless, it always seems like ticket brokers wind up with thousands of tickets. Why is that? Those guys have the life, and I secretly laugh with delight when a ticket turns out to be a clunker at they have to sell their tickets for less than face value. Now I know that these are the "prices that the market will bear," but what that really means is that enough people will pay triple the face value for tickets, that they can get away with such outlandish prices.
I had to do a legal memo on the legality of ticket scalping - it's only legal in Illinois if you are a licensed broker operating from a fixed location. So it's all perfectly legal, but it still chaps my ass. But if you are especially bored, here is the relevant Illinois statute! Yeah baby!
Posted by oz115 at February 24, 2006 10:27 AM
Comments
At least you didn't hang out at the field in order to get your lottery ticket to buy them at the window. Those people froze!
Posted by: Candi at February 26, 2006 11:35 AM