BigRedJed
8/14/2006, 12:57 PM
So, I have yet to receive my football season tickets. The people who sit next to me also sold me their tickets this year, which made it to Houston, were repackaged, mailed to me, and have arrived, and I still don't have my own seats. Everyone else I know has also received theirs. Naturally, I'm getting a little bit anxious. This is the first time this has ever happened to me.
So I call the ticket office, and I'm told that my tickets were definitely mailed the first of the month. I'm next told to wait until August 21, when they will be doing reprints, and that I can order reprints. I thought that I also had the option of going to will-call before each game and getting individual reprints, which I really don't want to do, but would be willing to do if necessary. Apparently, I am wrong. The ticket office tells me a reprint is really my only option.
Here's the catch: to order reprints will cost me $50 per seat, plus $10 per game, per seat. So that's $240 it's going to cost me for reprints. I would understand charging someone who LOST their own tickets, and also understand that it would be hard to prove one way or the other, but considering the fact that they are lost due to no fault of my own, paying an extra $240 sort of rubs me the wrong way.
I do have the option of considering them stolen, filing a police report, and giving that to the ticket office, in which case the reprint would be free. But frankly, I believe they have just been lost in the mail. I hate the thought of tying up police resources, even if it is just to file the report, for something that's not an actual crime. It would be next to impossible for someone to have taken them out of my mailbox, as it locks. The only likely perpetrator(s) would be someone inside the USPS, and frankly, I would bet they would know that stolen tickets would be cancelled, and therefore useless, so why bother?
Anyway, I'm not looking for advice here. I'll probably file the police report on the supposition that they were stolen, even though they were probably just lost. I just wanted to get it off my chest to some people who could probably appreciate how irritating the whole mess was.
So I call the ticket office, and I'm told that my tickets were definitely mailed the first of the month. I'm next told to wait until August 21, when they will be doing reprints, and that I can order reprints. I thought that I also had the option of going to will-call before each game and getting individual reprints, which I really don't want to do, but would be willing to do if necessary. Apparently, I am wrong. The ticket office tells me a reprint is really my only option.
Here's the catch: to order reprints will cost me $50 per seat, plus $10 per game, per seat. So that's $240 it's going to cost me for reprints. I would understand charging someone who LOST their own tickets, and also understand that it would be hard to prove one way or the other, but considering the fact that they are lost due to no fault of my own, paying an extra $240 sort of rubs me the wrong way.
I do have the option of considering them stolen, filing a police report, and giving that to the ticket office, in which case the reprint would be free. But frankly, I believe they have just been lost in the mail. I hate the thought of tying up police resources, even if it is just to file the report, for something that's not an actual crime. It would be next to impossible for someone to have taken them out of my mailbox, as it locks. The only likely perpetrator(s) would be someone inside the USPS, and frankly, I would bet they would know that stolen tickets would be cancelled, and therefore useless, so why bother?
Anyway, I'm not looking for advice here. I'll probably file the police report on the supposition that they were stolen, even though they were probably just lost. I just wanted to get it off my chest to some people who could probably appreciate how irritating the whole mess was.