MrBigglesWorth
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Re: Pats Fans barred from buying tickets in SD
i thought i saw the chicago bears were doing the same thing:
BEARS NOT ALONE IN RESTRICTING TICKETS
We received a flurry of e-mails overnight regarding our item on the Bears limiting playoff ticket sales to credit cards with a billing address in Illinois or northern Indiana. (We also received a few more e-mails regarding a specific form of, um, enhancement.)
As it turns out, the Bears aren't alone. The Chargers made tickets to their game against the Patriots available earlier this week, and announced that the sales would be limited to Southern California zip codes.
We've also been told of other NFL teams and NHL and MLB teams that are doing the same thing.
But what's really the purpose? Some think that the goal is to prevent companies like StubHub from snatching the tickets. But if these high-tech brokers are able to set up local locations for retrieving tickets to events at venues across the country, they surely are able to create Visa accounts with billing addresses in every state and major city.
So the real goal might simply be to ensure that more homers will be at the home games, and fewer folks rooting for the foe.
We still think there's something wrong with all of this. Items made available to the public should be made available to the entire public, without drawing geographic lines. At a time when a pro-consumer Congress is poised to flap its wings in the direction of the NFL's in-house network, it might be time for the 32 teams to reconsider any other practices that could catch the attention of the federal legislators.
http://www.profootballtalk.com/rumormill.htm
i thought i saw the chicago bears were doing the same thing:
BEARS NOT ALONE IN RESTRICTING TICKETS
We received a flurry of e-mails overnight regarding our item on the Bears limiting playoff ticket sales to credit cards with a billing address in Illinois or northern Indiana. (We also received a few more e-mails regarding a specific form of, um, enhancement.)
As it turns out, the Bears aren't alone. The Chargers made tickets to their game against the Patriots available earlier this week, and announced that the sales would be limited to Southern California zip codes.
We've also been told of other NFL teams and NHL and MLB teams that are doing the same thing.
But what's really the purpose? Some think that the goal is to prevent companies like StubHub from snatching the tickets. But if these high-tech brokers are able to set up local locations for retrieving tickets to events at venues across the country, they surely are able to create Visa accounts with billing addresses in every state and major city.
So the real goal might simply be to ensure that more homers will be at the home games, and fewer folks rooting for the foe.
We still think there's something wrong with all of this. Items made available to the public should be made available to the entire public, without drawing geographic lines. At a time when a pro-consumer Congress is poised to flap its wings in the direction of the NFL's in-house network, it might be time for the 32 teams to reconsider any other practices that could catch the attention of the federal legislators.
http://www.profootballtalk.com/rumormill.htm