Thought this might be helpful….
jmp has left a new comment on your post “Quickie Mail“:
That the tickets purchased on StubHub were e-mailed from the Mets box office is not an indication that the Mets themselves were the sellers dumping the tickets on StubHub. They’ve been doing that all season.
The Mets partnered with StubHub this year, encouraging season ticket holders to use StubHub to sell their excess tickets — fully endorsing the process. The Mets allow ticket holders to simply give StubHub the barcode number, rather than the actual physical ticket. StubHub then works with the Mets box office, which cancels the old barcode and issues a new code for the same seats. This guarantees that the old tickets aren’t in circulation, since neither StubHub nor the Mets benefits from having void tickets in circulation.
In exchange, the Mets get data from StubHub about who is buying the tickets. So, if you only ever buy Mets tickets through StubHub, but never through the Mets box office, the Mets will still get your e-mail address and name. The tickets come from the Mets box office because the box office is actually re-issuing the tickets.
In the end, it adds legitimacy to the value of StubHub as a secondary market. The market has value because you can have confidence that the tickets you buy through the service (even for ridiculously low prices) are legitimate tickets.
We’ll know next year if the Mets are dumping tickets on StubHub, since there will be a whole lot fewer plan holders to dump tickets. This year, the Mets started with high expectations and fizzled, flooding the secondary market with tickets. Next year, we know that the expectations will be much lower from the outset. If they start to play beyond those expectations, StubHub won’t have nearly the inventory…
Thanks dude! By the way here’s some listings for tonight. I kid you not. I still haven’t been able to give mine away.
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