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zukes · 03-20-2008, 11:42 AM

From what was posted earlier, face value for the pair is around $80 and he paid under $60. He got $100. Someone's math isn't right, could be mine if I read incorrectly, but if I didn't he still made money on the transaction.

Soapbox time:

People who scalp tickets are ruining sports for the common person. The average person can't afford season tickets anymore. I live in London Ontario but I'll try to equate what I make to Calgary dollars to make things easy for you. I would make roughly $75,000 (about $45,000 here, my house there would go for $375,000 + there, here I paid $192,000), and my wife would make about $68,000 (roughly $40,000) here. We have a reasonable mortgage payment, some pretty high debt though there are worse than us, no car payment's (I have a company car with gas and insurance paid for and we have an '02 Malibu that is paid for, though is on our line of credit) and enough money to go away 2 or 3 times a year, nothing extravagent, but Chicago for the weekend, or a trip to the Carribbean every couple years, or a trip to Myrtle Beach. I can golf a few times a week, put money into RRSP's and education funds for son, drink my beer and smoke 3-4 packs a week....you get the idea.

I am on the season ticket waiting list for the London Knights, those tickets are about $15 face value, less for season's. It comes out to about $450 for the 34 home games, plus exhibitions and first playoff rights. That will be about the extent of what I can spend. I already could not afford season tickets in an NHL city without taking from another pile. Then you get people who are obviously better off than I am with seaosn tickets and decide that they are business people and need more money off the average schlub who just wants to go and see his team play. It pisses me off. Obviously it isn't high on the list of crimes, but it is unfair to people who love the sport, tickets are expensive enough without some asshat charging more and more for tickets.

*Steps off soapbox

03-20-2008, 11:42 AM	#84
zukes Nostradamus Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: London Ont. Exp:	From what was posted earlier, face value for the pair is around $80 and he paid under $60. He got $100. Someone's math isn't right, could be mine if I read incorrectly, but if I didn't he still made money on the transaction. Soapbox time: People who scalp tickets are ruining sports for the common person. The average person can't afford season tickets anymore. I live in London Ontario but I'll try to equate what I make to Calgary dollars to make things easy for you. I would make roughly $75,000 (about $45,000 here, my house there would go for $375,000 + there, here I paid $192,000), and my wife would make about $68,000 (roughly $40,000) here. We have a reasonable mortgage payment, some pretty high debt though there are worse than us, no car payment's (I have a company car with gas and insurance paid for and we have an '02 Malibu that is paid for, though is on our line of credit) and enough money to go away 2 or 3 times a year, nothing extravagent, but Chicago for the weekend, or a trip to the Carribbean every couple years, or a trip to Myrtle Beach. I can golf a few times a week, put money into RRSP's and education funds for son, drink my beer and smoke 3-4 packs a week....you get the idea. I am on the season ticket waiting list for the London Knights, those tickets are about $15 face value, less for season's. It comes out to about $450 for the 34 home games, plus exhibitions and first playoff rights. That will be about the extent of what I can spend. I already could not afford season tickets in an NHL city without taking from another pile. Then you get people who are obviously better off than I am with seaosn tickets and decide that they are business people and need more money off the average schlub who just wants to go and see his team play. It pisses me off. Obviously it isn't high on the list of crimes, but it is unfair to people who love the sport, tickets are expensive enough without some asshat charging more and more for tickets. *Steps off soapbox __________________ agggghhhhhh!!!