First playoff game effectively sold out

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I had signed up to be notified when tickets go on sale. Fortunately, @socalrams90 gave me his code to login as a season ticket holder because there are only single seats left at face value.

Tickets were available up until the day against Atlanta this year so hopefully the place will be rockin'

No doubt if it's the Cowboys or Bears a lot will get flipped by season ticket holders looking to make a killing, but hopefully not as many as in the past. The KC game showed us how much home support can make a difference.
 
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RamUK said:
I had signed up to be notified when tickets go on sale. Fortunately, @socalrams90 gave me his code to login as a season ticket holder because there are only single seats left at face value.

Tickets were available up until the day against Atlanta this year so hopefully the place will be rockin'

No doubt if it's the Cowboys or Bears a lot will get flipped by season ticket holders looking to make a killing, but hopefully not as many as in the past. The KC game showed us how much home support can make a difference.
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Only season ticket holders can buy and it's already sold out?

If so that's bad news because that would mean somehow brokers are getting in to get tickets.
 
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LesBaker said:
Only season ticket holders can buy and it's already sold out?

If so that's bad news because that would mean somehow brokers are getting in to get tickets.
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It wouldn't be shocked if a big driver of the speculation is a potential matchup vs the Cowboys. The brokers would make a fortune off of that game.
 
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MadGoat said:
It wouldn't be shocked if a big driver of the speculation is a potential matchup vs the Cowboys. The brokers would make a fortune off of that game.
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For sure they would. And I expect some Rams fans to sell their playoff tickets if they can make a large chunk of cheddar. The temptation is hard to resist if you are being offered 500-600 bucks per ticket for seats that cost you 125.

If season ticket holders are allowed to buy any amount of tickets those extras are going to brokers.

If brokers have somehow been able to get in to buy tickets, possible if they have some season tickets of their own, a lot of opposing fans are going to be in the venue that day.

I wish the NFL would fix this somehow.

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Imagine if the Bears and Rams end up playing, that could be a bad scene.
 
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LesBaker said:
For sure they would. And I expect some Rams fans to sell their playoff tickets if they can make a large chunk of cheddar. The temptation is hard to resist if you are being offered 500-600 bucks per ticket for seats that cost you 125.

If season ticket holders are allowed to buy any amount of tickets those extras are going to brokers.

If brokers have somehow been able to get in to buy tickets, possible if they have some season tickets of their own, a lot of opposing fans are going to be in the venue that day.

I wish the NFL would fix this somehow.

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Imagine if the Bears and Rams end up playing, that could be a bad scene.
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Season ticket holders could buy a maximum of 4.

It's actually illegal to sell tickets in the UK for more than face value, it's called touting. It still happens obviously, but you don't get sites like Ticketmaster selling the fucking things and tacitly encouraging it.

@LesBaker I have no idea how many season ticket holders we have. I do know a fair few people who are season ticket holders who have bought extra tickets and all were for Rams fans. But obviously, that's a tiny proportion.

It would be nice to see the Panthers stagger into the playoffs and we get them.

Dreading the Cowboys and Bears because of their support and Seattle, just because it's so hard to beat a team three times in one year.

Go Panthers!
 
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That's good it's sold out, means that we'll have an electric atmosphere of Rams fans

Or season ticket holders making bank January

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RamUK said:
I had signed up to be notified when tickets go on sale. Fortunately, @socalrams90 gave me his code to login as a season ticket holder because there are only single seats left at face value.

Tickets were available up until the day against Atlanta this year so hopefully the place will be rockin'

No doubt if it's the Cowboys or Bears a lot will get flipped by season ticket holders looking to make a killing, but hopefully not as many as in the past. The KC game showed us how much home support can make a difference.
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Come on man you don't have to rub it in to us scrubs who can't go! lol
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Honestly though I hope you and your wife have a hell of a great time and the flights, game, and post game is amazing and the best of times for you both! Hopefully some dumb shits don't ruin it but from the 4 times I've been there people are pretty cool inside and outside the stadium.

p.s. looked up Derby and you guys are in the smack middle of merry ol' England! You root for Manchester? Liverpool?
 
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RamUK said:
It's actually illegal to sell tickets in the UK for more than face value, it's called touting. It still happens obviously, but you don't get sites like Ticketmaster selling the freaking things and tacitly encouraging it.
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It's a big issue here.

Brokers in many cases have made tickets to big events like concerts into their personal cash cows. If a broker uses his/her system to get say 1000 tickets to a big time concert in a particular city, or gets tens of thousands for the tour, when each date sells out ticket prices jump to 10X and more. And I am sure they all keep in touch to make sure they have similar pricing to keep the prices high. It's an problem in large stadiums, in smaller venues like NBA arena it can be awful.

They have bots that buy up as many tickets as possible, often clogging up phone lines so normal real people can't get through. But usually hitting a website in huge numbers and buying tickets.

This is a significant part of the reason why you hear "the show sold out 4 hours after it was announced".

This is a quote from a Canadian site about a law they were working on up in the Great White North. And yes that says billions with a B. 5 billion bots blocked in North America, in one year, and that's just the ones that Ticketmaster blocked. Who knows how many Eventbrite and others blocked, if any. Obviously plenty enough are getting through to get tickets.

The ticket sales and events industry largely welcomed the ban, with Ticketmaster, a major ticket seller, saying it is in an "arms race" to develop new tools to combat the bots. In North America the company blocked five billion bots last year, an executive told the legislative committee considering the bill last month.

"There are only two types of buyers: There are fans and there are cheaters," Patti-Anne Tarlton from Ticketmaster Canada told the committee. "It's no secret that there's a vast network of cheaters, both domestic and globally, who are seeking to manipulate and game our system. The goal is for them to beat fans at on-sale and to cheat fans at resale."

Here is another quote from another article.

Take singer Ed Sheeran's recently posted concert scheduled for May at the Barclay's Center in Brooklyn, for example. Minutes after pre-sale tickets were made available for purchase to fan club and American Express members, more than 4,000 tickets were posted for resale on StubHub. Nearly a fifth of the tickets for AC/DC's show in Foxborough, Massachusetts, wound up on StubHub the day after they were posted.

I'd bet that 20-30% of NFL tickets are sold to brokers.

I hate it, and it's something that needs to be capped like they were talking about doing in Canada.
 
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No matter the opponent, their fans are only going to have a weeks notice to plan for the game while the Ramily will have over a month to plan and buy tickets. Place will be 90 % Rams fans or more!

Glad i was able to help UK. I did check today hoping to score better seats than my season seats and thought about how good it was for you not to have to have that mess to deal with today.
 
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LesBaker said:
For sure they would. And I expect some Rams fans to sell their playoff tickets if they can make a large chunk of cheddar. The temptation is hard to resist if you are being offered 500-600 bucks per ticket for seats that cost you 125.

If season ticket holders are allowed to buy any amount of tickets those extras are going to brokers.

If brokers have somehow been able to get in to buy tickets, possible if they have some season tickets of their own, a lot of opposing fans are going to be in the venue that day.

I wish the NFL would fix this somehow.

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Imagine if the Bears and Rams end up playing, that could be a bad scene.
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They can fix it. If you post a video on here of a game they the (NFL) takes it down very quickly.

So why can't they do the same thing to online sites selling tickets above face value?

If brokers can't make money or season ticket holders can't make money on the resale then problem solved
 
It’s easy. Force the names to be on the ticket AT THE TIME OF PURCHASE.

If you cannot attend, prior to the event, you can surrender the to let’s for face value.

They check ID anyway.

We already do this with travel. Can you imagine airline travel having this trouble?
 
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LesBaker said:
I hope you are right, but it depends on the team and how many of those tickets the freaking brokers got their filthy meatbeaters on.
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I liken it to the Chiefs game, we were all concerned based off how their fans overran the Chargers game earlier this season, by the time the opponent is locked in, opposing fans have one week, by then it's going to be too late for take over.

Just my seat of my pants reasoning (y)
 
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OC--LeftCoast said:
I liken it to the Chiefs game, we were all concerned based off how their fans overran the Chargers game earlier this season, by the time the opponent is locked in, opposing fans have one week, by then it's going to be too late for take over.

Just my seat of my pants reasoning (y)
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You could be correct. I'm right next to you with seat of the pants reasoning, usually it's more accurate than when I give something deep thought hahaha.

But the Chargers are playing in an over priced band box that average fans cannot afford. So if 10,000 affluent Chiefs fans decide to go to that game it looks different by a mile that that number at a Rams game.

One thing though, it's a playoff game and it'll be January. I'm from CLE, so the Great Lakes area like Chicago and a city on one of the lakes. It's so cold that a short notice trip to a warm weather area is going to be tempting as hell.

I swear it feels like the snot in your nose is frozen sometimes. I don't miss that shit at all.

And as a side note my girlfriends kids have never seen snow except on TV and movies. Never been in it. So this winter she are planning a trip to go to a resort in Vermont, she said she is picking up the tab and STILL it's snow and I want nothing to do with that shit. I lived in it for 40 years.

Sledding and all that doesn't even sound like a good time haha, and I like her 2 kids who are 14 and 8 right now. But the idea of being in freezing cold and snow all around isn't my thing. I lobbied for a trip to a local resort on the beach but no go. She is determined to have them play in snow as children. And even worse for me she wants them to see a day of falling snow.
 
More seats will be coming. I know I have at least a week to purchase my season ticket seats. If I chose not to, they will be released. I would keep your eyes open, checking back regularly. Probably some peeps who won't want to pay the heavier price for their seats.
 
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