Announcements & advice for those heading to AZ (Mergedx4)

Re: Announcements & advice for those heading to AZ (Mergedx2)

Hi everyone! New to registering and posting but not new to reading.

I'm a long time female Pat's fan - 35 years. GO PATS! Born and raised in N.E and moved to AZ 4 years ago. I wish I could go to the game but tickets are so expensive for me Instead my boyfriend is holding a super bowl party that I will be attending and he's originally from CT so he's another big time Pat's fan.

Anyway, I know the prices are ridiculous right now for accommodations so I wanted to offer my 3 bedroom house in Queen Creek AZ. It's about 60 mins from the stadium but I'd be willing to do $100.00 a night per person plus security deposit returned upon departure. My Uncle is staying as well until Saturday afternoon to attend the different Pat's parties and events in the area before he flies back home to watch the game. My house is big enough to hold about 6-8 people between couches, spare bedrooms etc... If you are interested, please let me know. If not, no big deal, I just thought I'd make a cheaper offer to fellow Pat's fans out there

If anyone has any spare tickets out there please let me know too. We really want to go to game.

Re: Advice for buying SB XLII tickets

makewayhomer said:

people still looking for tix: do you have flight/hotel booked already? or are you in AZ now?

I may have tix coming to me, but I won't know for a couple days, and I have no travel planned. kind of a pickle.

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I have the trip booked, but i dont want to spend $2600.00 on a seat. If I cant get a ticket cheaper before friday, I will cancel (I bought the option to cancel for any reason).

Re: Who is going to the big game???

Patjew said:

I know it's already late in the game, but does anyone have any hotel recommendations?

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Some convent was on the news tonight ... the nuns were looking for $250 a night ... ah capitalism.

Re: Advice for buying SB XLII tickets

I got very lucky this year. I have a connection with a club season ticket holder and he was able to get tickets for club section 216 row 3. Gigitty, gigitti, goo. And I only had to pay $1500.

Re: Advice for buying SB XLII tickets

Crowpointer said:

Just spoke to another Broker friend. He said there is 3000 seats that are for sale right now (through brokers) which he said is lot. Apparently there is a wholesale ticket site for brokers. However I have talked to a ton of guys who are flying out without tickets in hopes of landing one out there. At some point the supply will start to dwindle and the price will reverse. I will post as I hear prices move . Please do the same if you hear any change. Wednesday / Thursday seem like the best bet. Other than that you risk a short squeeze in the market.

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lol... the "wholesale" site is eventinventory... they all subscribe to it... then just add their individual markups... that's why every scalper site has 95% the same tickets, but with dif prices... they dont actually hold those tickets... the tickets are dropshipped... find the site that actually holds the tix you want, and you will save a lot.
on friday/saturday, all the event inventory tix will be shifted to ebay... happens every time, watch the seats. once on ebay, they are dumped for the buyers price... better to dump than to eat.

Re: Advice for buying SB XLII tickets

makewayhomer said:

people still looking for tix: do you have flight/hotel booked already? or are you in AZ now?

I may have tix coming to me, but I won't know for a couple days, and I have no travel planned. kind of a pickle.

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Lastminutetravel.Com may have more reasonable flights. You can fly into Vegas (5 hr drive) or Tuscon (2.5 hr drive) so check those airports.

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Triumph said:

Lastminutetravel.Com may have more reasonable flights. You can fly into Vegas (5 hr drive) or Tuscon (2.5 hr drive) so check those airports.

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We got flights into San Diego, five-hour drive to Phoenix from there. Check out Southwest from Manchester N.H., might still be a web deal. (Ours were only $233 roundtrip.)

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Daily update. Price has dropped a hair. Now $2545 gets you in the door. Not much activity and the inventory has creeped up a little. He (my broker friend) said there is lot of people looking to pull the trigger at the $2000 level so you should keep that in mind as you wait it out.

Re: Advice for buying SB XLII tickets

Crowpointer said:

Daily update. Price has dropped a hair. Now $2545 gets you in the door. Not much activity and the inventory has creeped up a little. He (my broker friend) said there is lot of people looking to pull the trigger at the $2000 level so you should keep that in mind as you wait it out.

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Ah, the free market at work. Good stuff, Crowp!

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I just received the following message. Anyone know how this scam works? or how it can be set up so I truly am protected?

"I still have available the 4 tix in Section 113 Row 41 and i will let them go for 3600$(900$ each).
For the moment i'm in Washington to an important meeting.
If you are interested to buy the tix i want to make this a safe transaction.We can make the transaction through eBay .eBay is the biggest and safest auction web site in the world and I'm a power seller.
We can use eBay Buyer Protection Program(you can access www.ebay.com and read about it).
All you have to do is provide me your full name and shipping address and i will setup a transaction with eBay and they will send an invoice with all necessary details.
You will receive the tix before giving me the money."

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SoCal Bong said:

I just received the following message. Anyone know how this scam works? or how it can be set up so I truly am protected?

"I still have available the 4 tix in Section 113 Row 41 and i will let them go for 3600$(900$ each).
For the moment i'm in Washington to an important meeting.
If you are interested to buy the tix i want to make this a safe transaction.We can make the transaction through eBay .eBay is the biggest and safest auction web site in the world and I'm a power seller.
We can use eBay Buyer Protection Program(you can access www.ebay.com and read about it).
All you have to do is provide me your full name and shipping address and i will setup a transaction with eBay and they will send an invoice with all necessary details.
You will receive the tix before giving me the money."

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Don't waste your time. If they speak poor English, it's not even worth looking into. Too risky.

Also, it looks like Sec. 113 only has 40 rows.

Re: Advice for buying SB XLII tickets

SoCal Bong said:

I just received the following message. Anyone know how this scam works? or how it can be set up so I truly am protected?

"I still have available the 4 tix in Section 113 Row 41 and i will let them go for 3600$(900$ each).
For the moment i'm in Washington to an important meeting.
If you are interested to buy the tix i want to make this a safe transaction.We can make the transaction through eBay .eBay is the biggest and safest auction web site in the world and I'm a power seller.
We can use eBay Buyer Protection Program(you can access www.ebay.com and read about it).
All you have to do is provide me your full name and shipping address and i will setup a transaction with eBay and they will send an invoice with all necessary details.
You will receive the tix before giving me the money."

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No, no & no...if it's too good to be true, you know it is exactly that - too good to be true. Be careful people. You will get exactly what you pay for.

Get the tickets in hand before you go (unless you don't mind watching in a noisy bar 2,400 miles away from home).

Make sure they are legit.

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Yeah, I'm not going to do it and know its a scam as I said from the beginning.

Maybe the question I should have asked is how you could flush them out to be a fraud? In this case the main reason for suspicion is the below market price, but what if someone was selling at market prices (and good English); how might you go about protecting yourself or setting up a transaction where you don't get burned?

Re: Advice for buying SB XLII tickets

SoCal Bong said:

I just received the following message. Anyone know how this scam works? or how it can be set up so I truly am protected?

"I still have available the 4 tix in Section 113 Row 41 and i will let them go for 3600$(900$ each).
For the moment i'm in Washington to an important meeting.
If you are interested to buy the tix i want to make this a safe transaction.We can make the transaction through eBay .eBay is the biggest and safest auction web site in the world and I'm a power seller.
We can use eBay Buyer Protection Program(you can access www.ebay.com and read about it).
All you have to do is provide me your full name and shipping address and i will setup a transaction with eBay and they will send an invoice with all necessary details.
You will receive the tix before giving me the money."

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run away! seriously, dont even think about it.
i had a friend think she won tix for a playoff game on ebay... when she told me the price, i said she'd be lucky to get one for that price, not 4... i asked if she had them yet, and she said she had to send a western union the next day... i asked where she was sending it... london!
someone had highjacked a seller's account, so it looked as if the auction was legit (100% perfect feedback)... of course, the real owner of the account lives in the US. NEVER USE WESTERN UNION! credit card only. US sellers only. also beware of short (1-day type) auctions.

Re: Advice for buying SB XLII tickets

SoCal Bong said:

Yeah, I'm not going to do it and know its a scam as I said from the beginning.

Maybe the question I should have asked is how you could flush them out to be a fraud? In this case the main reason for suspicion is the below market price, but what if someone was selling at market prices (and good English); how might you go about protecting yourself or setting up a transaction where you don't get burned?

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ask to call them... then verify the phone they give matches the one on the account... ebay will assist you... contact their "trust & safety" dept

pay with a credit card... ask for a photo of the tix, but ask for something weird in the pic, like have them add a piece of paper with the word "brady" to the photo.

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PatsWorldChamps said:

ask to call them... then verify the phone they give matches the one on the account... ebay will assist you... contact their "trust & safety" dept.

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Exactly.

FWIW SoCal... I got almost that EXACT same email from that guy using a different account, saying that he was away doing "important business" in Las Vegas.

Same broken English... same too good to be true deal... same spiel about getting the tickets before I send the $$.

Re: Advice for buying SB XLII tickets

Changing the sub-topic for a moment, I don't know where player tickets are or if they are even allowed to sell them (i.e. Mike Tice) but I do know that this year they are going for $4k each (in at least two instances).

Superbowl accommodations - stay where Patriots are staying

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EDIT BY PATSNUTme: I'm going to leave this spam up and merge it to with the SB information thread, just in case some Patriots fan want to check this out.

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nice spam...
or even funnier, call this dude, and just tool with him... tell him you want the rooms, but will call back in a bit with the payment.

he isnt paying ian anything for his ad.

Re: Super Bowl parking situation?

FYI...

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs07/news/story?id=3219516

Fans will be allowed to tailgate near their vehicles with their own food and drinks, but they won't be allowed to have grills. They're also not allowed to park in more than one parking spot or pitch tents in the parking lot.