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Emu_steve
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Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 9:44 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I've been waiting almost 30 minutes in the 'virtual waiting room'.

This could be a long day.
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401don
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Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 10:02 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

At first I was okay with ticket re-sellers like stubhub but now I realize it's just legalized scalping. People are buying up thousands of season tickets and immediately re-selling them. At least real scalpers stand outside and work for their profit. No luck for me either.
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Whaler
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Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 10:04 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

No Luck also.... 40 mins
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Emu_steve
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Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 10:06 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I was think about getting a say 27 game package and using what I could and sell the rest.

As I'm 500 miles from DET I'd be using say 5 or 6 and selling 20+.

Yeah, seems to much like scalping to me.

I really wish that folks here could have teamed up to buy a few partials.

Don, do you have a 'roomid' on your virtual waiting room for tixs??? I'm roomid=5.

I have my airline tixs for May 8 - 11 but no Tig tixs yet.



(Message edited by emu steve on March 01, 2008)
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401don
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Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 10:13 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

No roomid. I went out and in again about 10:20 though. I thought I'd try a less in-demand game but I realize now you're just lining up for getting in the site. The problem is I want at least 9-10 games over 4 series so it doesn't look good.
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401don
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Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 10:16 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I just got in. Selected my tickets and it says can't process due to high volume. Try again later. What's up with that?
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Yupislyr
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Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 10:18 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Just keep hitting the continue button over and over, it'll work eventually.
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Pgn421
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Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 10:39 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

whaler- got 7 tickets.
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Emu_steve
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Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 10:49 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Has anyone been buying BoSox or NYY tixs?

If so, what kind of locations are being sold?
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Sciencefair
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Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 10:55 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Still no luck, been on here since 10.

I checked out the line at the ballpark and it was around the block, still might have been better than this though.
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Emu_steve
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Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 11:01 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I got in but unable to process my request.

Same as 401don.
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401don
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Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 11:07 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Got all my tickets! Go Tigs!
Now, who needs 2 for May 10? - $250 a piece:-)
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Emu_steve
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Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 11:12 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

what sections did you get Don?
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401don
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Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 11:14 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Steve - I only got obstructed view Kaline's corner and upper left field for NY May 9,10. Will probably try to trade one game to a scalper and get a standing room spot for the other but I got terrific lower deck infield July 10 weekend (Minn) and for Labour Day weekend (KC). I'm surprised all lower infield isn't season tickets.
Better seats often come on-line weeks later but I didn't want to take chances this year.
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Renf
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Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 11:49 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I got to the Meijers in Pittsfield Township about 9:15 this morning and was second in line for Tigers'
tickets. By 10:45, I had purchased infield box
seats for 12 home games. The processing charge of
$5.25 per ticket seems steep. When I purchased my
tickets, the computer showed a good number of
available tickets unless you were looking for
three or four together.
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Emu_steve
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Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 12:19 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I bought a total of 5 tixs.

I'm behind home plate (65 bucks) for the Thurs. BoSox game, and infield boxes for NYY Friday and Sat.

Two seats for NYY on Sunday - not good seats - section 144 (obstructed).
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Spiritofdetroit
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Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 1:57 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I bought for five games - including Yanks and Bosox -all either Skyline or Upper Reserved. No wait either around 2pm
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Bob
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Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 2:36 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Just got mine online, no wait whatsoever.
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Emu_steve
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Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 4:39 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I just was online.

2 tixs for NYY Sat. May 10 are SRO.

I checked another date (K.C. Labor Day weekend - good tixs are available).

I suspected that the good games are pretty well picked through while the others are still pretty good.
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Bob
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Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 4:43 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I got 2 tix for the Sun. 6/29 Rockies game and 2 tix for the Sun. 7/27 White Sox game and had no problem.
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Emu_steve
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Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 7:07 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

? :

Do the row numbers behind the dugouts start numbering at 1 or do they start at a higher number (e.g., 6, 7 or 8)?

Some parks start 1 at field level so the first row behind the dugout might be say 6 or 7, not 1.

BTW, the Tigs' website says 176K tixs sold by 6:00 p.m. today. Last year it was 76K. 29K in '06 (9K of which were Opening Day).

(Message edited by emu_steve on March 01, 2008)
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Eastsidechris
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Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 7:52 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Emu_steve, I want to say from sneaking down there in the late innings games two years ago that the seats directly behind the dugout start either at row 4 or 7. But don't quote me on that.

Also, based on the fact that the Tigers have said the combination of season ticket packages that have been sold is over 26,000 and that 176K individual game tickets were sold today, that makes over 2.2M tickets sold already! If my math is correct, only about 33% of the seats for the entire season are still unsold. And I imagine that % of unsold tickets is much, much lower for the June-August games.
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Bob
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Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 8:02 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

This is going to be one hopping summer downtown with this many people down there for all these games.
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Detroitrise
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Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 8:09 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

"This is going to be one hopping summer downtown with this many people down there for all these games."

I hope so. I'd love to see a downtown filled with plenty of hustling and bustling.

Midtown seems like the only area that has it.
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Drankin21
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Posted on Sunday, March 02, 2008 - 12:15 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I am so pumped for this season. I will be spending a LOT of time in the city this summer.
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Emu_steve
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Posted on Sunday, March 02, 2008 - 4:26 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Chris, agree.

The statement:

"two good seats' for a June-August game is an oxymoron.

Good single tixs can be had, but not two.

based on the analysis above, one can assume that the key series (BOS, NYY, etc.) are already SRO. Other June - August games say Fri, Sat. and Sun might be say 90%+ sold. April and Sept. games maybe 80% sold.

Quite frankly, I wouldn't be surprised to see SRO for all games except the cold weather games in April.
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Docmo
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Posted on Sunday, March 02, 2008 - 8:26 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I was fairly successful on the mlb.com site. I did get the tickets I wanted eventually.

I am kicking myself in the ass for being so lazy as to not walk across the street and get in line Friday night for the wristband and then come back Sat morning.

I was home with my fiancee`, it was warm inside the loft and I figured the internet would work just as well. I completely forgot about the ticket processing fees. When all was said and done, I had paid $68 in ticket processing fees that I could have saved by walking over to Comerica.

Oh well, at least my warm fiancee` was snuggled under the blankets for the 90 minutes we hung out in the virtual waiting room.
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Emu_steve
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Posted on Sunday, March 02, 2008 - 8:55 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I think there are problems today.

I got an error msg this morning (I need to buy tixs for late season) about the website having problems.

Now I'm back in the 'virtual waiting room'.
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Bob
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Posted on Sunday, March 02, 2008 - 1:52 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

People probably read the paper this morning about the huge sales in tix and are trying to get them before they are gone.
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Emu_steve
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Posted on Sunday, March 02, 2008 - 8:02 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

What's the 'over/under' line for the total number of tixs sold Saturday and Sunday?

I wouldn't be surprised if it isn't in the area of say 250,000.

I bought 4 games Saturday and 2 more this afternoon.

This doesn't count road games. A co-worker in D.C. is letting me buy tixs to two games vs. Balto. (these are part of season tix packages).

That's 8 Tig games for me.

I'll catch a few Nationals games as well.

I'm trying to get a tix to some Marlins games.

Does that count as kind of a Tiger game? :-)



(Message edited by emu_steve on March 02, 2008)
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Emu_steve
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Posted on Monday, March 03, 2008 - 3:47 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

202K per today's Freep.

Yesterday's total was 26K.

I expected more 'hording' yesterday as folks realize tixs will start getting scare as the weeks go by.
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Kenp
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Posted on Monday, March 03, 2008 - 7:55 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Saturday night I finally got in and was able to get 4 lower deck friday tickets for the LAA. Its an early game, cold cold cold
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Rax
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Posted on Monday, March 03, 2008 - 2:13 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

quote:

I expected more 'hording' yesterday as folks realize tixs will start getting scare as the weeks go by.



That hording started 2 months ago when full and partial season ticket holders bought all the good seats.
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401don
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Posted on Monday, March 03, 2008 - 2:54 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Actually 250K is only 2,500 per game. There are still loads of seats for weekdays and tons of tickets on stubhub. If you want tickets for a specific game just watch the prices drop on stubhub as the event gets closer i.e. 7-10 days before the game.

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