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 Adam
Messages: 6963
Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
6 Cups
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I do feel that we aren't hearing the full story from the original poster. Expanding from 2 tickets to 6 because you're starting to have a family sounds revisionist, and I think there's an attempt to gain sympathy by skewing some of the facts.
My expectation is that over the past several years, the poster was probably selling 4 tickets to subsidize the two he had. During the less lean years, he would have done pretty well, and in the playoffs, he may have very well made a killing. I am guessing there weren't toddlers in the seats for the post-season games.
I do think the timing is funny from the Oilers. The Ticket Manager has been in place for a few years now, so they have a better ability to see who's transferring tickets to who. If you're selling to all manner of strangers, with little duplication, I expect that they can figure that out pretty quickly so they likely knew it was happening with playoff tickets and prior seasons.
But this year the primary market isn't even great. There's empty seats every game. It's interesting that they're cracking down now. Maybe simply because it's below face value, which makes it competition for the box office. They don't mind the scalping because they'll still sell the walk-up tickets ahead of people paying more for scalped tickets, but now they're losing out to resellers just trying to recoup costs.
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