SnB Posted July 1, 2010 Share Posted July 1, 2010 Did anyone else see this? You can plunk down $10 (or $20) to reserve the right to buy playoff tickets for face value. Apparently screwing over season ticket holders. Gone away are the days of frantically clicking on ticketmaster? http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_leagu...?urn=mlb,252857 http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/tickets/ticket_rese...=mm_mlb_tickets Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dyuen Posted July 1, 2010 Share Posted July 1, 2010 QUOTE (SnB @ Jul 1, 2010 -> 03:59 PM) Did anyone else see this? You can plunk down $10 (or $20) to reserve the right to buy playoff tickets for face value. Apparently screwing over season ticket holders. Gone away are the days of frantically clicking on ticketmaster? http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_leagu...?urn=mlb,252857 http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/tickets/ticket_rese...=mm_mlb_tickets So who is going to take the risk with our sox? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigSqwert Posted July 1, 2010 Share Posted July 1, 2010 QUOTE (docsox24 @ Jul 1, 2010 -> 04:12 PM) So who is going to take the risk with our sox? Is this only open for a specific time frame? I didn't catch a deadline. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleHurt05 Posted July 1, 2010 Share Posted July 1, 2010 QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jul 1, 2010 -> 04:12 PM) Is this only open for a specific time frame? I didn't catch a deadline. You can basically wait until the team is guaranteed to be playing in the series??? The latest possible closing times for each 2010 Postseason Ticket Reservation marketplaces are: •2010 Division Series: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 at 11:59 pm ET. •2010 League Championship Series: Wednesday, October 6, 2010 at 11:59pm ET. •2010 World Series: Wednesday, October 21, 2010 at 11:59pm ET. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigSqwert Posted July 1, 2010 Share Posted July 1, 2010 If that's the case I would assume the available tickets in this program would run out rather easily if it's obvious a team is going to the post season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maki Posted July 1, 2010 Share Posted July 1, 2010 QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jul 1, 2010 -> 04:17 PM) If that's the case I would assume the available tickets in this program would run out rather easily if it's obvious a team is going to the post season. It looks like this already. If you look at the available dates for the BoSox, just the ALDS says recent market activity on games 1 and 3, but only 3 is available now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleHurt05 Posted July 1, 2010 Share Posted July 1, 2010 QUOTE (maki @ Jul 1, 2010 -> 04:21 PM) It looks like this already. If you look at the available dates for the BoSox, just the ALDS says recent market activity on games 1 and 3, but only 3 is available now. Yeah, for ALCS only 3 & 4 are there, World Series Game 4 only. There is no link for the Yankees at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockRaines Posted July 1, 2010 Share Posted July 1, 2010 This will never work, there just arent enough tickets to go around since season ticket holders still get priority. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bighurt574 Posted July 1, 2010 Share Posted July 1, 2010 There's obviously a limited # of "reservations" available for each game. I imagine these just come out of the tickets that would go towards the public sale. Smart move by MLB. They make extra money not only for "reservations" on playoff teams, but also on all the teams that don't even make the playoffs. I'm tempted to fork over $35 for a ALCS and WS reservation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthsideDon48 Posted July 2, 2010 Share Posted July 2, 2010 Hopefully this will cut down on the amount of people who were able to go to playoffs games because they were connected to some corporation that got a bunch of tickets. Stuff like that always annoyed me, especially when it's people who are not even really fans of the team and there's bigger fans out there that would've given anything to attend a playoff game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maki Posted July 2, 2010 Share Posted July 2, 2010 QUOTE (SouthsideDon48 @ Jul 2, 2010 -> 08:54 AM) Hopefully this will cut down on the amount of people who were able to go to playoffs games because they were connected to some corporation that got a bunch of tickets. Stuff like that always annoyed me, especially when it's people who are not even really fans of the team and there's bigger fans out there that would've given anything to attend a playoff game. It's not going to affect that in the slightest. The only thing this is doing is making the tiny subset of tickets typically available via TM to the regular public even more limited, or most likely non-existent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthsideDon48 Posted July 2, 2010 Share Posted July 2, 2010 QUOTE (maki @ Jul 2, 2010 -> 09:38 AM) It's not going to affect that in the slightest. The only thing this is doing is making the tiny subset of tickets typically available via TM to the regular public even more limited, or most likely non-existent. That sucks, then. I was hoping this would make more tickets available to the general public. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleHurt05 Posted July 2, 2010 Share Posted July 2, 2010 This also doesn't guarantee where your seats will be located. You could be looking just for the cheapest upper deck seats, and they could say only lower level behind home plate for $150 are available. If you can't afford that or won't spend that much, then you are s*** out of luck and lose your deposit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maki Posted July 2, 2010 Share Posted July 2, 2010 QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jul 2, 2010 -> 12:53 PM) This also doesn't guarantee where your seats will be located. You could be looking just for the cheapest upper deck seats, and they could say only lower level behind home plate for $150 are available. If you can't afford that or won't spend that much, then you are s*** out of luck and lose your deposit. The only thing generally available to the public are seats in the upper corners and occasionally a random section upstairs that's not all the way in the corner. Pricing is set by MLB for most teams, if not all, teams and nobody seems to balk at the prices. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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