Season Tickets arrived

Nunchucks said:

I have a feeling that this change is going to make ticket prices soar. I just listed 2 of my tickets for the Dolphins game. The suggested price was $365 each. That is simply ridiculous. I almost always give tickets away at face value, but how am I supposed to walk away from easily making 200% profit?

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king_ejd said:

Okay, please take my response with a grain of salt. On April 16th or so, I called the Patriots to find out what he deal was with the new exchange, and it allowing me to set my own price. The gentlemen I spoke with said they no longer penalizing people for reselling their season tickets, and I could set my own price. I was initially a bit skeptical, and, pondered whether I should risk one of my prized assets. Anyways, I discussed it with my friend (who I split with) and we both agreed to give it a try. We've ALWAYS only resold tickets on the exchange, figuring breaking even with zero risk beat selling them to "friends" of ours.. only to find out they sold them to someone else! Anyways, we listed all the games we knew we couldn't go to (travel, work, family obligations, etc,) at the going rate. I sold most of our tickets within 3-4 days. So, I did some quick googling, and, I think the deal is that companies like ticketmaster and stubhub will be reporting this as income. So, I think the patriots no longer care about the whole secondary market because they'll simply get a slice of it. My understanding (and I'm not a tax professional) is that it's normally just state taxes, as it only gets reported, federally, if you hit 200 total sales, or, 20k. So, I do expect getting a form around tax time.

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XLIX said:

I don't care about the tax consequences, I just don't want to lose my seats over the fact that I sold a couple extras.

StubHub is doing something different this year. What I used to do was sell my extras on StubHub then mail the tickets to whoever bought them. The team wouldn't have any idea that it wasn't actually me attending the game. However, you can no longer sell hard copies on StubHub. They have now partnered with the League. When you list NFL tickets, you have to enter the bar code and, when the sale is made, a new bar code is issued by the team. So now the team will know when I make a sale on StubHub.

Quite honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if this was the last season we actually get hard tickets in the mail. Several teams have completely moved away from that and gone 100% electronic.

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Actual Pats Fan said:

These are prettier

And remember Billy Sullivan's contribution to the dynasty, hiring Dante Scarnecchia

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fgssand said:

That is an unbelievable note about Scar.........think about it, amazing run for an amazing coach who has certainly given his all for our New England Patriots!!

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XLIX said:

Quite honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if this was the last season we actually get hard tickets in the mail. Several teams have completely moved away from that and gone 100% electronic.

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