Anyone Else Nervous? Tix?

[BDP]

I thought we weren't supposed to sell them?

According to who?

[Karried]

According the contract that we signed when buying tickets:

5) Authorized Resale of Tickets / Prohibition on "Scalping"

In order to protect the ticket buying process and the policies described herein, Account Holders are not permitted to resell their season tickets ( or any portion thereof) to the general public, except pursuant to the Team's authorized ticket reseller. Fort the 2008/2009 NBA Season, the Team's authorized ticket reseller is the TeamExchange program through the Team's website and, by the use of such system, will be deemed to have agreed to abide by all policies established by the Ticketmaster or the Team with respect to the TeamExchange system.


The team strongly supports applicable laws that prohibit 'scalping' of tickets, and any suspected violations of applicable laws will be reported to the appropriate authorities.

In addition, any violation on this policy will result of immediate revocation of the ticket sold in violation hereof and may result in other sanctions by the team,

Including, without limitation, revocation of Season Tickets and termination of the Account Holder's season ticket account.

[Karried]

BPD, what time is your appt? Are you still going?

[Doug Loudenback]

According the contract that we signed when buying tickets:

5) Authorized Resale of Tickets / Prohibition on "Scalping"

In order to protect the ticket buying process and the policies described herein, Account Holders are not permitted to resell their season tickets ( or any portion thereof) to the general public, except pursuant to the Team's authorized ticket reseller. Fort the 2008/2009 NBA Season, the Team's authorized ticket reseller is the TeamExchange program through the Team's website and, by the use of such system, will be deemed to have agreed to abide by all policies established by the Ticketmaster or the Team with respect to the TeamExchange system.


The team strongly supports applicable laws that prohibit 'scalping' of tickets, and any suspected violations of applicable laws will be reported to the appropriate authorities.

In addition, any violation on this policy will result of immediate revocation of the ticket sold in violation hereof and may result in other sanctions by the team,

Including, without limitation, revocation of Season Tickets and termination of the Account Holder's season ticket account.

FWIW, the provision prohibits sales to the "general public" except per the other language. I personally don't interpret me selling a ticket to a friend as the "general public."

[Luke]

So, would eBay or craigslist be "general public"?

[ultimatesooner]

so are all of the people that have tickets on ebay already going to get their tickets revoked before they even get them

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[Luke]

Interesting...

[BoulderSooner]

well i had my appt today at 11am .. and was able to get tickets ..

there were around 500-600 seats left at 1030 today .. and only about a 3rd of the people showed up to our appt time ..

not the tickets i wanted .. but i am happy to be a season ticket holder ..


sec 330 .. i am in the building ..

[Karried]

yay! You'll have to join us for a Pre game Dinner ...

[BDP]

BPD, what time is your appt? Are you still going?

I went at 11:30, bought some tickets in 319, and went to Walgreens for my season's supply of Dramamine.

They're no where near what I wanted, but you know what, they're no where near as expensive either. At $860 for the season, I figured it was worth it for nothing else other than to get in line for upgrades, instead of being on some waiting list just to get tickets. Plus, judging from the sales, I don't think even these kind of seats are going to be easy to get on the open market.

I may still see if I can get a mini-pack of better seats, but judging from what they had roped off, I'm not even sure that's going to be easy. Hopefully, though, having cheapo season tickets will mean more in terms of upgrading in the future than someone who buys better mini-pack tickets.

But, when all is said and done, I bet i still manage to have a lot of fun in theses seats.

FWIW, the provision prohibits sales to the "general public" except per the other language. I personally don't interpret me selling a ticket to a friend as the "general public."

I agree. And, honestly, this kind of language is there so they can go after the real abusers and probably in order to satisfy their agreement with ticketmaster. I can't see them going after your average fan who can't go to a few games because 1) suing your fans is never a good thing, 2) they don't want to make buying season tickets prohibitive to people and forcing them to "eat" the tickets to games they can't go to would really turn a lot of buyers off (no matter how big of a fan you are committing to anything for 42 nights a year is hard to do) and 3) They want people in the seats and in the building, because these people buy food, drinks, merchandise, and will be frequenting all these new restaurants and bars they're putting in. Butts in seats will matter more to them than going after your average fan who needs to unload some tickets because they had to work late, were out of town, or had some family issues.

[BoulderSooner]

yay! You'll have to join us for a Pre game Dinner ...

thx .. ..that would be fun

[Karried]

I went at 11:30, bought some tickets in 319,

Sweet! Good call... you'll have to join us all too for dinner or drinks before some games

I think we will all have great fun in our Loud City seats.

I think you're right about them going after peeps who sell a few here and there.

I'm taking it to mean, full on season tix packages at a highly inflated price ( Ebay)

[Doug Loudenback]

So, would eBay or craigslist be "general public"?

What else? General audience, no individuals identified, sales only limited by high bid.

[Doug Loudenback]

so are all of the people that have tickets on ebay already going to get their tickets revoked before they even get them

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What PBC does to "violators" remains to be seen. But, as those posted on E-Bay so far, we don't know where they came from ... MAY NOT BE a season ticket holder, but MAY BE owned by someone who received tickets (actually, a promise of tickets) before the season ticket sales began and perhaps covered by fewer restrictions, I don't know.

[Karried]

From Craigs List:

OKC THUNDER SEASON BASKETBALL TICKETS - $12000 (LOWER/CLUB LEVEL)

Reply to: sale-836915690@craigslist.org [?]
Date: 2008-09-11, 2:59PM CDT



I HAVE 10 SEASON TICKETS FOR SALE. 4 LOWER LEVEL-SECTION 118. AND 6 CLUB LEVEL-SECTION 201. WILL BE WILLING TO SPLIT TICKETS IN PAIRS OF 2. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED PLEASE CALL ME AT 405-208-3667, OR E-MAIL ME TO DISCUSS THE PRICE OF THE TICKETS, THE PRICE LISTED IN THE ADD IS WRONG. DON'T MISS THE ACTION OF THE HISTORIC 1ST SEASON OF THE OKC THUNDER. IF YOU WANT I HAVE PICTURES FROM THE SEATS TO SEE WHAT THE VIEWS WILL BE LIKE. ALL 10 SEATS ARE AMAZING VIEWS OF THE COURT AND REAL CLOSE TO THE ACTION.

[Doug Loudenback]

Wow, that's pretty blatant ... even gave a phone number at which PBC's lawyers could call or possibly track down a physical address from. Idiotic.

[Karried]

Exactly - all anyone would need to do was call and ask for specific seats which could be instantly traced to the Account Holder.

[Laramie]

Luck of the draw!

My appointment is 11:30 a.m. Saturday. I probably won't get an opportunity to experience my beloved OKC's first experience in Major professional sports.

I hope they at least send me an e-mail and put me on a waiting list for 8-game mini-packages or tickets for next year.

What a blow!

[Doug Loudenback]

Luck of the draw!

My appointment is 11:30 a.m. Saturday. I probably won't get an opportunity to experience my beloved OKC's first experience in Major professional sports.

I hope they at least send me an e-mail and put me on a waiting list for 8-game mini-packages or tickets for next year.

What a blow!

I wouldn't assume that to be the case just yet, Laramie. There may be some left after close of business tonight a 8 pm. Keep your fingers crossed ... there may be just a few left. If there ARE, be sure to get to your appointment not less than 30 minutes, maybe an hour, before, to get in line. I'm surely wishing you good good luck. Assuming that the same pattern is followed this evening has has been done on a daily basis since last Monday, the press release should be posted here shortly after 8:00 p.m. ... THE OFFICIAL SITE OF THE OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER . Hopefully you will not get an e-mail sooner than that, since that probably wouldn't be good. And, if you haven't gotten an e-mail yet, assuming that PBC is prompt in notifications, that means that until you do some tickets are still available. In this case, no news is good news. Fingers crossed!

[Laramie]

Thanks Doug for the encouragement!

[Karried]

oh Laramie.. I'm so sorry ... but don't give up yet! Go tomorrow anyway if they don't email tonight.

If you don't get tix.. and I have extras, I'll call you first.

[OrangeGirl17]

From Craigs List:

OKC THUNDER SEASON BASKETBALL TICKETS - $12000 (LOWER/CLUB LEVEL)

Reply to: sale-836915690@craigslist.org [?]
Date: 2008-09-11, 2:59PM CDT



I HAVE 10 SEASON TICKETS FOR SALE. 4 LOWER LEVEL-SECTION 118. AND 6 CLUB LEVEL-SECTION 201. WILL BE WILLING TO SPLIT TICKETS IN PAIRS OF 2. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED PLEASE CALL ME AT 405-208-3667, OR E-MAIL ME TO DISCUSS THE PRICE OF THE TICKETS, THE PRICE LISTED IN THE ADD IS WRONG. DON'T MISS THE ACTION OF THE HISTORIC 1ST SEASON OF THE OKC THUNDER. IF YOU WANT I HAVE PICTURES FROM THE SEATS TO SEE WHAT THE VIEWS WILL BE LIKE. ALL 10 SEATS ARE AMAZING VIEWS OF THE COURT AND REAL CLOSE TO THE ACTION.

Yeah, I think this is the eBay one...

[Intrepid]

thx .. ..that would be fun

Did you get my reply to your PM on Wednesday. I never heard back from you.

[CCOKC]

Just now got the call that the season tickets are sold out and our Monday appointment is cancelled.

[Karried]

oh no. I'm so sorry!

Maybe you can still get packages though and also single tickets though.

Keep checking here and if anyone has available tix, I'm sure we will all try to help out and offer them to those who truly want tickets.