sooner KB
9/24/2006, 06:53 PM
So I was standing outside of the stadium right before kickoff yesterday, still looking for a ticket. I see a guy with a ticket. It's section 2, row 10, seat 4. He's asking $20. I tell him I don't like to sit that low, and walked off. He stopped me and gave me the ticket for free, since he just wanted to go in.
I decided to go ahead and go in so I don't miss the kickoff. When I get to the gates, the screen reads "Stop! Already Attending" instead of showing the green light to go in. The security guard asked me if I had already gone in. I went to another guard, and the same thing happened, but this one went ahead and let me in anyways.
I figured the guy went into the stadium and then decided he wanted to sell the ticket and came back out. But when I got into the stadium, there was already a woman sitting in the seat. She had the exact ticket I had. The system didn't let me in because that ticket had already been scanned.
As the game went on I realized what probably happened. That ticket is someone's season ticket. He/she sold it to someone, probably online, and transfered the ticket so that the person could pick it up at will call. Meanwhile, he sold the actual ticket he was physically holding to someone else (probably the guy that sold it to me).
This way, the guy makes twice the money. The person that tries to enter the stadium second gets screwed.
Actually, it ended up fine because there were like 5 empty seats on the row above, so I just sat there. I just wanted to ask if this was against some rule, so I could turn this person in. I'm lucky I got let in but the next person might not be.
I decided to go ahead and go in so I don't miss the kickoff. When I get to the gates, the screen reads "Stop! Already Attending" instead of showing the green light to go in. The security guard asked me if I had already gone in. I went to another guard, and the same thing happened, but this one went ahead and let me in anyways.
I figured the guy went into the stadium and then decided he wanted to sell the ticket and came back out. But when I got into the stadium, there was already a woman sitting in the seat. She had the exact ticket I had. The system didn't let me in because that ticket had already been scanned.
As the game went on I realized what probably happened. That ticket is someone's season ticket. He/she sold it to someone, probably online, and transfered the ticket so that the person could pick it up at will call. Meanwhile, he sold the actual ticket he was physically holding to someone else (probably the guy that sold it to me).
This way, the guy makes twice the money. The person that tries to enter the stadium second gets screwed.
Actually, it ended up fine because there were like 5 empty seats on the row above, so I just sat there. I just wanted to ask if this was against some rule, so I could turn this person in. I'm lucky I got let in but the next person might not be.