Final Four Tickets

[ebilmes]

Anyone planning to make the trip to Foxboro/Foxborough next weekend? I did some looking for tickets.

http://www.athletics.cornell.edu/tickets/

Cornell is offering a lottery for all-session passes, but you won't find out until Thursday at 5pm if you are selected. Cost is $98 per person, so I assume the seats will be close to the field.

http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/010040C5C72950D9?artistid=1324743&majorcatid=10004&minorcatid=35

Tomorrow at 10am, single-day tickets go on sale at Ticketmaster. Listed price is $38 (plus TM fees), so I think these will be in the upper deck.

Ticketmaster is also selling all-session tickets for $70, $80, or $90. I just tried searching for a single ticket at any price/location, and nothing came up, so maybe these are sold out? Who knows.

http://lax2009.kraftsportsgroup.com/buytickets.html

There are order forms on the official site, but I don't know how much luck you'll have with that route.

[Tom Pasniewski 98]

Those of you in need of public transportation, there appears to be a train all three days from the South Station Amtrak station directly to the stadium.

http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/010042907481459A?artistid=1325514&majorcatid=10005&minorcatid=0

[Al DeFlorio]

[quote Tom Pasniewski 98]Those of you in need of public transportation, there appears to be a train all three days from the South Station Amtrak station directly to the stadium.

http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/010042907481459A?artistid=1325514&majorcatid=10005&minorcatid=0[/quote]
Last year that train was sold out and there was much screaming about running multiple trains in 2009.  I thought Phil Buttafuoco had said there would be additional trains, but that might easily be a hallucination on my part.

[Tom Pasniewski 98]

Bob Kraft's site lists just one train and it says it leaves from Back Bay station.  Why it would not also leave from South Station I don't know.  Just something to verify for those interested.

So the 'official' tickets offered through Cornell are for all three days.  Hmmm...that's interesting but I'm sure the NCAA's rule, not Cornell's idea.  Well, I'll probably go in for all three days.  Better stock up on the tailgating supplies now.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Two years ago, I bought what I thought was a ticket for Saturday and Monday only (as was available in the past).  When I showed up at the window, turns out I'd bought a 3-day ticket, and there was no 2-day ticket offered.

[billhoward]

I believe it's either one day at a time or the whole weekend. They're hoping bored D1 fans will go see the other games Sunday.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

[quote billhoward]I believe it's either one day at a time or the whole weekend. They're hoping bored D1 fans will go see the other games Sunday.[/quote]

Yeah, well.  I'll be in New Hampshire.

[Al DeFlorio]

[quote billhoward]I believe it's either one day at a time or the whole weekend. They're hoping bored D1 fans will go see the other games Sunday.[/quote]Few did last year.

[Al DeFlorio]

Very strange behavior at Ticketmaster.  The only price choice it gives is $38, but the tickets that are offered under "best available" are $63 plus $17 service charge.  When I ask for upper deck, it says none available.

[Al DeFlorio]

Now even stranger.  Gave me two lower level tickets in section 125 (a corner) in row 7 for $38 each plus the outrageous service charges.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

I just got my tix to just the D1 games.  Total was about $100 with Ticketshafter charges.

Seats were in the lower bowl, near mid-field.  I tried to buy upper deck but it wouldn't let me.  I also tried the full session pass and it also wouldn't let me.

[Al DeFlorio]

[quote Jeff Hopkins '82]I just got my tix to just the D1 games.  Total was about $100 with Ticketshafter charges.

Seats were in the lower bowl, near mid-field.  I tried to buy upper deck but it wouldn't let me.  I also tried the full session pass and it also wouldn't let me.[/quote]
Did you get single tickets, Jeff?  I tried a number of times for two on Saturday and it always offered corners, first at $63, then later at $38.

Another strange experience:  When I bought the tickets it said total charge would be $103.09 including an order processing fee of $5.69.  On the page from which I printed the tickets it said the order processing charge is $3.35.  I'm betting it turns out to be the bigger of the two.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Yeah, I bought singles.

Day 1 - Sec 111, Row 2, seat 15.

Day 2 - Sec 130, Row 16, seat 17.

They hit me for $15 in fees for each day.  Bastards!

[Al DeFlorio]

[quote Jeff Hopkins '82]Yeah, I bought singles.

Day 1 - Sec 111, Row 2, seat 15.

Day 2 - Sec 130, Row 16, seat 17.

They hit me for $15 in fees for each day.  Bastards![/quote]
Nice seats.  Congrats.  They're bigger crooks than the credit card banks.

[billhoward]

[quote Jeff Hopkins '82]Yeah, I bought singles.

Day 1 - Sec 111, Row 2, seat 15.

Day 2 - Sec 130, Row 16, seat 17.

They hit me for $15 in fees for each day.  Bastards![/quote]
Unzip Eliot. Where's avenging angel Eliot Spitzer (the AG not governor) when you need him? Free enterprise means they should be free to charge what they want, but if you get hit with a fee even when you buy in person at the box office ... a fee scaled to ticket price not per order ... and in some cases a convenience fee when you print the tickets yourself rather than have them mailed to you, something's amiss. The Ticketmaster flap over instantly unavailable Springsteen tickets should have been a wake-up call to clean their houses.

My experience in Maryland was calling stadium directly for tickets two years ago in Baltimore and one day before the game getting front row (end zone) seats with the perfect view of Zack Greer's backbreaker goal. Wasn't I lucky!