Tickets Go On Sale June 14

[Beermonkey]

so either money is more important to the fans than the eagles are

or

the people who own many of the seats at the linc arent fans at all (they are ticket brokers)

either way dave is full of caca

Both. [obvious]It's the combo of season ticket holders selling off certain games for a profit, brokers & fans buying individual seats for proft  & large blocks owned by ticket/travel agencies. [/obvious]

The agency I usually get my tickets through owns about 100 seats and had to pay the SBL's for all, though a lot of their tickets now come from fans selling their seats off, especially last year. While the agencies are a problem, it's also on the greedy members of the fanbase who buy unneccesary tickets for profit. I can almost guarantee you that they're are some posting on this board right now who are doing such a thing.

Everyone is quick to demonize brokers, when it's actually the fans trying to turn a buck by using services such as Razorgator to move their seats.

[ice grillin you]

which is why the owners of the seats whether it be a broker or a fan should have their shteins taken away from them if the seats are found being scalped

why should there be a different standard for them than for me...if i get caught in the parking lot scalping i would have my tickets taken away by the eagles...why isnt it the same for these people

[Seabiscuit36]

I used Stubhub last year to sell 2 of four tickets for the Washington game.  Sold 2 to a coworker at face value and the other 2 on stubhub for 120.00 a piece.  I was forced into getting the tickets but sold them at a fair price.  What irks me about this is i waited a while to sell them not the day they went on sale. 

[harrahs80]

what ever happened to the good old days of goin to the stadium to buy tickets so the morons from outta the area cant buy the tickets online to make profits?

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

what ever happened to the good old days of goin to the stadium to buy tickets so the morons from outta the area cant buy the tickets online to make profits?

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You're super.

[Beermonkey]

which is why the owners of the seats whether it be a broker or a fan should have their shteins taken away from them if the seats are found being scalped

why should there be a different standard for them than for me...if i get caught in the parking lot scalping i would have my tickets taken away by the eagles...why isnt it the same for these people

I've got no problem with what you're saying.

I'm curious how other NFL teams handle this though. I've seen people referencing how the Skins & Pats "crack down on piracy" by stating that their seating rights can be taken away if they are caught selling tickets above a certain markup, yet when you check out razorgator there's as many pages of ticket options, as there are for the Eagles.

[ice grillin you]

to be honest im not really concerned with what other teams do...tho id like to see another team step up and set a precedent

[MURP]

Im curious....did anyone who wrote the Daily News/Inquirer writers here back anything from them?

[ice grillin you]

i fired off to all six of the writers and have yet to hear a peep

i dont expect or want them to write me back...a response for me would be to see a piece in the paper addressing the issue

[Rome]

Yeah, right.  Like anyone at the Philly papers is going to raise a stink about this.

Without the Eagles, the sports pages are nothing in Philly.  Phillies?  Ha!  Sixers?  Double Ha!  Flyers?  Who??

Besides, investigative journalism is almost an oxymoron anymore.  They're much happier coming up with witty puns for the morning's headlines than they are actually exposing a company who breads their butter on a daily basis.

[rjs246]

witty puns

Oxymoron.

[phillywin2k5]

hmmm lets see where this link under Gameday on the PhiladelphiaEagles.com site goes?

http://philadelphiaeagles.razorgator.com/

would those logo uses on the site be copyright infringment if the Eagles werent in co-hoots with Razor Gator?

lets face it as long as the great Govenor Rendell gets his box every week he doesnt give a rats arse either.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Saw this on the EMB:

Press release PDF announcing Eagles and RazorGator partnership

"Eagles fans are renowned for their passionate support, not only at our home games, but at our away games as well," said Eagles senior vice president of business operations Mark Donovan. He continued, "We've partnered with RazorGator and PrimeSport to provide a service to our fans that creates access to tickets to home games and a "onestop shop" for away game trips."

Horseshtein!

How about this, Mark Donovan. How about you take those unwanted seats from season ticket holders and place them back into circulation?

Here's my suggestion:

Let's say I own season tickets and cannot make it to the Dallas game. I want to get rid of my seats but I don't want to mess around with eBay or anything like that. I call the Eagles ticket office and tell them that I cannot make it. They take my (however many seats I own) and place them in a pool. They then credit my account with the amount. That goes towards my seats next season. If I do not renew then they refund that money.

The tickets in that pool are then sold to fans at face just like the tickets were the other day.

Well what if some dickbag who buys my tickets acts like a moron and is ejected or arrested? Wouldn't I then face the possibility of losing my seats?

Yes, I would. If I sold them on eBay or somewhere else. But by returning them to the Eagles they KNOW I am not in those seats and therefore I am not held liable for some clown getting liquored up and acting like a fool.

The Eagles would also, like IGY suggested, require that the person purchasing tickets have a photo ID to pick them up via will call or make sure the billing address on my credit card matches the address they are sent to.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Eagles-Cowboys tix are available, if you have lots of dough
By PAUL VIGNA
vignap@phillynews.com

As of late yesterday afternoon, there were around 1,500 tickets available on RazorGator.com for the Oct. 8 Eagles-Cowboys game at Lincoln Financial Field. They weren't cheap, averaging around $400 apiece.

It's politely called the secondary market, although it would have a different name - scalping - if folks made this sale in the shadow of Lincoln Financial Field rather than online.

Finding that reservoir of available tickets for all of the Birds' home games particularly rankled fans yesterday, a day after the team sold out its individual-game tickets in a matter of minutes.

Mark Donovan, the Eagles' senior vice president of business operations, heard the outcry. Wednesday's blink-of-an-eyelash sale had nothing to do, he said, with the volume of tickets available at that site and others.

"We did do a single-game sale," he said yesterday. "They went in minutes. They always do. It's the same number of tickets that we sell every year."

Now, RazorGator.com and the Birds are in the second year of what Donovan said was a "multiyear" contract. This isn't unique: RazorGator.com also has been tied in with the Patriots, 49ers and Seahawks, among others. Donovan said he knows of at least nine NFL teams that have a smiliar deal with StubHub.com, another ticket supplier.

RazorGator.com advertises on the Eagles' Web site, places ads in the team's programs and magazine, and composes a mailer that's sent to season-ticketholders. "They are an advertising partner only," Donovan said, "We have absolutely no involvement in a ticket transaction. We don't share in that."

It is accorded, he said, privileges consistent with Lincoln Financial and the team's many other partners, including tickets. He would not say how many, only that it's "a minuscule amount compared to the number they sell." RazorGator spokeswoman Kel Kelly yesterday described her company, which started in 2000, as a marketplace that "legitimizes what used to be back-alley scalping." Most of the sellers on the site, she added, are season-ticketholders.

Sellers are paid through PayPal, an online payment system, within 3 days after buyers have received their tickets. Prices can fluctuate during the posting. There's no ceiling, obvious by the seven seats in Section 120 that were going yesterday for more than $800 apiece. That Eagles-Cowboys game is still 16 weeks away.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

What a fat load of B.S.

Who's this Paul Vigna fruit?  Is he trying to be the next Spadaro?