Redskins in bed with ticket scalpers?

Hey, it is ALWAYS All about the money.

Hey, it is ALWAYS All about the money.

For sure.

They're not worried about the small time stuff, just the big time stuff where they stand to lose the biggest piece of the pie.

From what a gather this is a way for the team to give permision for individuals to sell their tickets to games that they are not going to use. We see a form of that going on here when someone has an extra ticket or two. If your a scalper, corporation, individual ( selling large number of tickets) they are still going after you for scalping. The individual ticket sales is going on all the time but now the team can make a profitt from the sale. I don't realy see how anything has changed. Now if they let individuals sell there season tickets season after season and they allow this to go on then I have a problem with this because they are in it only for profitt, thus their a scalper.

its going to happen anyways, why not make as much money as you can?

The redskins will squeeze every last cent they can out of whoever they think has cash. If the redskins were half as successful on the filed as they have been at making money there would be a whole lot more Lombardi trophies at redskin park.

From what a gather this is a way for the team to give permision for individuals to sell their tickets to games that they are not going to use. We see a form of that going on here when someone has an extra ticket or two. If your a scalper, corporation, individual ( selling large number of tickets) they are still going after you for scalping. The individual ticket sales is going on all the time but now the team can make a profitt from the sale. I don't realy see how anything has changed. Now if they let individuals sell there season tickets season after season and they allow this to go on then I have a problem with this because they are in it only for profitt, thus their a scalper.

I don't have a problem with any of this. Tickets cost so damn much because there are tons of fans willing to pay that much. Simple supply and demand. If a season ticket holder wants to resell his tickets every year at a higher price, I say let him. As long as someone is willing to pay the price, it's a fair deal in my eyes.

If you want to attend games at face value, you can always:

1) Buy season tickets and go to the games.
2) Buy season tickets and sell the ones you don't want.
3) Try to rely on scrounging for the few tickets remaining and buy them at face value.

But if #3 doesn't work out for you, I have no sympathy. As far as I'm concerned, if you want seats, get your ass on the waiting list and get season tickets. Otherwise, pay the scalping premium and stop whining or watch the Skins on TV like I do.

I HATE ticket price complaints.

I understand the simplicity of supply and demand.

Maybe it's just the hippie in me, but just because the Skins and sports teams in general can charge such high prices, does it make it right?

The common man has been left behind in all of this. There's no way a family of four can afford to go to a ball game on consistent basis anymore.

I guess that's just the corporatization of America at work. We can debate something like this into the ground if we want to. Sorry to get off topic it just ticks me off to see the rich getting even more rich.

Yeah, I was going to post something about the haves and have-nots. I mean there are people who are just as deserving to go as the rich.

There's no way a family of four can afford to go to a ball game on consistent basis anymore.

You said it. Now to take a family to a professional sporting event cost nearly as much as going on a vacation. Family of four from out of town: at least $500 if you go cheap. Closer to $1,000 if you're trying to be comfortable.

I understand the simplicity of supply and demand.

Maybe it's just the hippie in me, but just because the Skins and sports teams in general can charge such high prices, does it make it right?

The common man has been left behind in all of this. There's no way a family of four can afford to go to a ball game on consistent basis anymore.

I guess that's just the corporatization of America at work. We can debate something like this into the ground if we want to. Sorry to get off topic it just ticks me off to see the rich getting even more rich.

Yeah I can see us going down a political road on this one, because there is no hippie side of the Schneed, and while I'm pretty politically moderate, I tend to lean very right wing when it comes to free markets. And that argument would just perpetuate itself and get dumb.

I will say that a part of me laments the fact that tickets are getting so expensive. The end result is that the fans who can afford to go are more often the corporate types who attend under their best behavior. If you want a good 12th man, you have to be willing to AT LEAST be loud and obnoxious, and AT BEST be downright venomous and evil. And with corporate types taking up all the seats, I think that's a pretty significant cause of the recent decline in the Skins' homefield advantage. At RFK, the average fan could afford to go, and the average fan was passionate. And the average fan made that place downright scary - it was the average fan that was shaking the bleachers. FedEx will have a hard time regaining that as long as ticket prices keep going up. Winning helps the homefield advantage, but some more average joes like us would help too.

But my concern over the situation is completely limited to the negative impact on the team's homefield advantage. I could care less if people are whining because they can't afford it or whatever. That's just life in my eyes. But I'll leave the political leanings out of it.