Posted on 02/01/2014 8:33:09 AM PST by Theoria
Josh Finkelman’s quest for Super Bowl justice began on a Monday in December with the click of a computer mouse. The day before, a busy football Sunday, the Seattle Seahawks had demolished the St. Louis Rams and the sport’s postseason landscape was finally shaping up.
Mr. Finkelman, who is from New Jersey, was entertaining friends that night at his home in New Brunswick, a 40-minute drive from the site of the approaching championship game: MetLife Stadium in the Meadowlands Sports Complex. It was, as he remembered, your basic guys’ night in — beers and ESPN.
“We were talking about the Super Bowl,” he said the other day, “and how I really wanted a ticket. One of my buddies said, ‘Don’t waste your time — they’re too expensive.’ But at some point, you have to commit to the decision. You have to say, ‘I really want to go.’ ”
And so he switched on his computer and did what thousands of sports fans did in recent weeks: He went to the National Football League’s website and embarked upon a hunt. The site referred him to Ticketmaster, the league’s official broker, where he found to his chagrin that his friend was right: Even “cheap” seats for the game were already selling at astronomical prices. Logging on to StubHub.com, he discovered much the same.
Mr. Finkelman, 28 and the president of a warehouse business in Dayton, N.J., described himself as “a pretty good online shopper,” but it was not until he tried his third or fourth service, GotTheTicket.com, that he finally found a deal that he could live with: a pair of nosebleed seats, in a lonesome upper deck, for $2,000 apiece.
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what the hell is that thang?
A freeze frame of Beyonce at last year’s half time show. People say she’s sexy.
OMG!!!!!!!!
Anybody can look like an ogre in a freeze frame. Unfortunately, I have that certain ability to look like that all the time.
She also takes money from terrorists.
Say, what? Just a couple days ago there was a thread on FR that they couldn’t be given away.
theres another problem right there...
why are these ‘government owned venues’ in the first place...
NFL not make enough money to build stadiums?
“If the free market dictates that there are people willing to pay $2000 for a rare item then so be it.”
I’m not a CPA, so maybe someone can answer this. If a business buys one of these tickets or package deals and either gives them to a valued client, or as a reward to an employee for services rendered (eg. top salesman), can the company write the tickets off as a business expenditure? If so, it sounds like Joe Average whose priced out of the game also has to make up the difference with his own taxes. Is this correct?
yes! Ain’t government rules grand?
It's crony fascism/capitalism.
In Houston the city paid $300million to build a football stadium (also used for concerts, rodeo and other events). The football team owner then sold the naming rights to OUR stadium for $300million to the local power company (that funds it from local electric rates) and got to keep the money.
Rape my wallet, please.
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