F... Selling Tickets to the Visiting Team

I am sure when they sell the tickets on E bay that the person buying says, "oh yeah, I am a steelers fan...can I still buy them?" come on, get a grip. Steeler fans travel better than any team in the NFL and do that in almost every stadium they play in. The Panthers stadium was dominated by steeler fans. these people dont know who they are selling the tickets to for crying out loud, they are just selling them. IF that bothers you, then you should probably just stay home, so you aren't embarrassed.

i don't really get the whole complaint here. If they are too expensive and you can't afford them, don't buy them. No one is forced to do so. And if you're going to buy them and then turn around and sell them to non-Skins fans, why not just buy the few games you actually plan on attending through Stub Hub or Craigslist?

I want to attend every home game. I can afford my ticket -- what I can't afford is taking a LOSS on the tickets. Therefore I sell them to whoever wants to buy at fair value (Skins fans or opponent's fans). Thus why there were 30,000 steelers fans there. What's hard to get about it?

i don't really get the whole complaint here. If they are too expensive and you can't afford them, don't buy them. No one is forced to do so. And if you're going to buy them and then turn around and sell them to non-Skins fans, why not just buy the few games you actually plan on attending through Stub Hub or Craigslist?

Exactly!

I want to attend every home game. I can afford my ticket -- what I can't afford is taking a LOSS on the tickets. Therefore I sell them to whoever wants to buy at fair value (Skins fans or opponent's fans). Thus why there were 30,000 steelers fans there. What's hard to get about it?

If you wanted to attend every home game, then you wouldn't be selling the tickets. What is this whole "taking a loss" thing anyway? If you buy the tickets for x amount of dollars, then you are getting that commodity in return, you're not "taking a loss." I hate the whole "tickets as an investment" thing. What you really mean is that you want the OPTION of attending any or all of the home games for only face value but then you want to be able to sell any tickets you don't use to any one, skins fan or not. Personally I disagree with that because it lends itself to situations like that crap we all had to sit through last night. Obviously that's not an issue for you, it's a free country, do what you want. I just think it sucks.

I am sure when they sell the tickets on E bay that the person buying says, "oh yeah, I am a steelers fan...can I still buy them?" come on, get a grip. Steeler fans travel better than any team in the NFL and do that in almost every stadium they play in. The Panthers stadium was dominated by steeler fans. these people dont know who they are selling the tickets to for crying out loud, they are just selling them. IF that bothers you, then you should probably just stay home, so you aren't embarrassed.

Its not that the Steelers fans travel, they already live in these places because they left Pgh in the 80s & 90s.

There were way too many terrible towels, it sickens me that it was a home game, where we seemed like the road team.

If you wanted to attend every home game, then you wouldn't be selling the tickets. What is this whole "taking a loss" thing anyway? If you buy the tickets for x amount of dollars, then you are getting that commodity in return, you're not "taking a loss." I hate the whole "tickets as an investment" thing. What you really mean is that you want the OPTION of attending any or all of the home games for only face value but then you want to be able to sell any tickets you don't use to any one, skins fan or not. Personally I disagree with that because it lends itself to situations like that crap we all had to sit through last night. Obviously that's not an issue for you, it's a free country, do what you want. I just think it sucks.

I think what he is saying is that stories of thousands of Skins fans dying to buy tickets is in fact a myth.

I think what he is saying is that stories of thousands of Skins fans dying to buy tickets is in fact a myth.

I think that's pretty obviously the case.

i don't really get the whole complaint here. If they are too expensive and you can't afford them, don't buy them. No one is forced to do so. And if you're going to buy them and then turn around and sell them to non-Skins fans, why not just buy the few games you actually plan on attending through Stub Hub or Craigslist?

Because, as a die hard Skins fan, the opportunity for season tix was too good to pass up. The first season I had them I was in the LAST ROW of the upper bowl. The seats were less expensive then, I didn't have kids and my disposable income was greater. Each year our seats have crept forward (and become more expensive) as better seats became available. After several years, the seats are now in the 15th Row of the lower bowl. I am trying to hold onto them through these lean years until I can, again, actually afford to go to the games. If I skip a year, not only do I lose the lower bowl seats, I go to the back of the waiting list.

I don't buy them them to sell them - I buy them them now and so that I can enjoy them in the future when I can take my kids to games. When I could afford them, I went to every home game - usually I would invite a friend for whom I would eat the cost of their ticket. Hopefully, in the future, I again will be ablle to do that.

So - can I put you down for the $2,200 due next year? How about you 411? You guys gonna pony up the dough so that I can hold onto these seats I have invested time and money into? No? Shocking. Guess I'll have to find some other way to do that.

i don't really get the whole complaint here. If they are too expensive and you can't afford them, don't buy them. No one is forced to do so. And if you're going to buy them and then turn around and sell them to non-Skins fans, why not just buy the few games you actually plan on attending through Stub Hub or Craigslist?

So your telling people to give up their season tickets so they can buy them from someone else who has season tickets? There will always be tickets to buy no matter who has the season tickets so that does not solve anything. You think all season ticket holders are going to go to all home games and eat any game they don't attend? If that was the case then places like Stubhud and these travle companies would be ot of business.
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Try clicking any games tones of tickets for sale at Hine's field.
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Maybe it just that Stealer fans are not so cheap and actually buy the tickets.