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Bro throughout all of my HS years (01-05) we went what seemed like every week to at least one game since it was so cheap, it literally was cheaper than a movie ticket. I used to have just about every ticket stub back then, if it wasn't the $6 LF seats, we may have done it up and spent double that for some infield reserve. What you used to pay $12 now you're spending maybe $40 after all the fees. OH YEAH, this was back when all dodger ticketing was done in-house, ticketmaster came in for the 05 season and #%%$+! up a once beautiful thing with all of these feesOriginally Posted by Uter Zorker
Originally Posted by CincoSeisDos
bro we used to go to SO MANY games back then. $6 Giant series in LF on the regular with about 8-10 every time it never failed/
Before anyone would drive we'd take the metro to union station and catch the $2 Dodger shuttle up to the stadium, and my parents would pick us up at the 110 stadium way offramp. We used to get so many cheap $$% eBay tickets from some seller in loge section 162 row D. Once my brother misspelled the name and searched "dogers" , found some tickets and we ended up only spending 96 cents on them damn tickets in the reserve..
As the article and comments state, you can't do stuff like that anymore, resellers and so on have bought them all up and eBay which once was the spot for tickets on the low now is just another stubhub trap i.e. Ticketmaster and TicketsNow
Damn...this would be the life, was never able to do that stuff growing up with Fenway being so expensive at the time (esp the World Series years...$100 to sit in the bleachers minimum)
It is crazy about StubHub and eBay and all those sites though...the internet has caused all event prices to skyrocket, cause it's so much easier for the people with larger incomes to WANT to scoop up some seats with sports being one of the biggest venues of entertainment now
There's a catch-22 to all of these highballer resellers in that, they usually won't budge until the last minute to drop their prices, and when they do it's almost always lower than box-office price. The bad being that they're usually out in some other random city not close to the stadium that by the time you would meet up with them with our traffic, it'd all be for nothing. You're better off staying home and avoiding that mess altogether.
[h2]7/24/2010[/h2] http://[h3]Trading Russell Martin, Ridiculous Asking Prices, And Dealing Prospects Like Candy[/h3]
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