Patriots draw a line

The New England Patriots have filed suit against StubHub, saying the company encourages people to break the state anti-scalping law and the team's rule against reselling tickets for a profit. They have also filed suit against over 50 season ticket holders who they claim sold their tickets on StubHub.

The Patriots are drawing a line in the sand against resellers and the websites that support it. This is contrarian to the onslaught of states that have softened the ticket reselling laws over the last few years.

StubHub in initially released a statement saying

"StubHub is a champion for the rights of fans to be able to gain access to tickets for events they want to see and a platform to sell the tickets they cannot use.Every individual is subject to our user agreement which obligates them to abide by their local and state regulations with respect to ticket resale,"

Since then, it has filed a countersuit saying the Patriots have violated the Massachusetts antiscalping law and is trying to create a monopoly.

As part of the legal wrangling, The Patriots won a case to have Stubhub turn over a list of 13,000 names of buyers, sellers and bidders of Patriots tickets. What the Patriots are planning on doing with this data is yet to be known.

While the Patriots and Stubhub are fighting each other in court, the politicians are trying to rewrite the laws in Massachusetts.

This essentially comes down to Patriots vs. eBay, since eBay bought StubHub last year. While ticket reselling still has a shadowy appeal to most, when presented in terms of a free market, most people are sold on it quickly.

Developing…

http://www.boston.com/sports/football/patriots/articles/2006/11/23/patriots_sue_ticket_reseller_in_effort_to_fight_scalping/

http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2006/12/21/stubhub_hits_back_at_pats_in_battle_over_ticket_resales/

http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/10/19/patriots-may-cancel-tickets-for-using-stubhub

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Pitchers and Catchers Report

Last week was the first week for pitcher and catchers reporting for spring training. Depending on the team, everyone else is joining them this week.

For us, this means ticket sales are starting to heat up. February and March are really the best month for MLB ticket sales. Fans are willing to pay a premium this early in the season and whenever the team announces the start of single game ticket sales, you can expect to sell 10% of you inventory that day to fans who were unable to get tickets though regular means.

One team that has a favorable schedule this year is the Houston Astros. They are one of the rare NL teams that will host the Red Sox and the Yankees this year. A scheduling oddity indeed. There are still full season packages available as of this writing.

Also the Oaklands A’s are once again offering their big game package to all the games with high demand. You might want to check this out also.

So if you have not posted your MLB seats, do so soon.

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Return to Normalcy

Not too long ago, parents in North Carolina were suing everyone to get their Hannah Montana tickets. The fervor seems to have died down a bit

Representative Drew Saunders (D) has introduced HB1418 regarding “Resale of Tickets via Internet”. The bill states the following:

nothing shall prohibit the resale or offering for resale via the Internet of an admission ticket, at any price, to an athletic contest, dance, theater, concert, circus, or other amusement, if the organizer of the event or the operator of the location where the event is occurring authorize admission tickets to the event to be resold for more than the price printed on the face of the ticket. If such resale is authorized, any admission ticket to the event may be resold or offered for resale through any Web site if the Web site's operator guarantees a full refund of the amount paid for the ticket

While it is taking North Carolina a while, probably due to Hannah Montana, they are joining the ever growing list of states that are relaxed there ticket reselling laws.

http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=H1418

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