Scalping at TWC Arena

[cls77]

I don't know about you guys, but I love getting a good deal.

I scan the aisles of Harris Teeter looking for the best BOGOs. I book my hotels on Priceline, utilizing www.biddingfortravel.com (http://www.biddingfortravel.com) and www.betterbidding.com (http://www.betterbidding.com). I frequent www.slickdeals.net (http://www.slickdeals.net) religiously.

I'd like to think I put the same effort in getting my tickets. My season ticket deal is already hard to top ($215 for the year for upper level corners in 205)

But of course every now and again I like to move down a bit or have friends that want to, and thats when I go to the ticket scalper.

Now scalping tickets is a bit of a different ballgame for the bargain shopper. Theres no database that shows how much people are paying for their tickets. The "profession" has always amazed me. Would you not want to watch a documentary on how the economics (buying/selling/countering) of scalping works? How is it profitable? How profitable can it be? Hopefully I'm not the only one who thinks about this :cool:

(Side note: Last year I witnessed a guy scalping tickets for a very small show at the McGlohon theater (small venue inside the Blumenthal) Tell me that scalping isn't a 24/7 job!)

I might not get my documentary, but how about we share some of our success or the "market value" of scalping tickets at the arena? (could expand to Panthers tix as well later but that would be OT).

In my experience, so long as you're not scalping tickets for the Celtics, Cavaliers or Lakers, theres no reason why you should pay more than face value for tickets. I'll take that a bit further and say that you shouldn't pay more than season ticket value of the tickets, since most of the scalpers tickets come from season ticket holders trying to pawn off excess inventory anyway.

You can find that chart here: http://www.nba.com/bobcats/seating_chart_0910.html

In my experience its not too hard to get upper level tickets for $5 a game, maybe even a dollar less if you buy a bunch in bulk off them.

For lower level, if you're content with the corners (102 or 116), I've never had much problem getting tickets at least for $25/game. Again, if a scalper gives you crap on an offer, just tell them you can walk into the box office and get the season ticket price cheaper. I've never tried scalping Club or Inner Club Level seats.

So a bit of a preamble there, but who else has some scalping wisdom to share?

EDIT: Dontell Jefferson??? At least give me Stevie Graham or even Acie Law! If I have to take former Bobcats has-beens gimme Kevin Burleson!

[SirBobcat]

Basically, it's real easy to get tickets to your budget. My dad and I went to the game vs. the 76ers in December and after walking around listening to offers...some guy came up to us and gave us free upper deck tickets in the first row.

[cls77]

Basically, it's real easy to get tickets to your budget. My dad and I went to the game vs. the 76ers in December and after walking around listening to offers...some guy came up to us and gave us free upper deck tickets in the first row.

You can't beat free!

[amour217]

I don't know about you guys, but I love getting a good deal.

I scan the aisles of Harris Teeter looking for the best BOGOs. I book my hotels on Priceline, utilizing www.biddingfortravel.com (http://www.biddingfortravel.com) and www.betterbidding.com (http://www.betterbidding.com). I frequent www.slickdeals.net (http://www.slickdeals.net) religiously.

I'd like to think I put the same effort in getting my tickets. My season ticket deal is already hard to top ($215 for the year for upper level corners in 205)

But of course every now and again I like to move down a bit or have friends that want to, and thats when I go to the ticket scalper.

Now scalping tickets is a bit of a different ballgame for the bargain shopper. Theres no database that shows how much people are paying for their tickets. The "profession" has always amazed me. Would you not want to watch a documentary on how the economics (buying/selling/countering) of scalping works? How is it profitable? How profitable can it be? Hopefully I'm not the only one who thinks about this :cool:

(Side note: Last year I witnessed a guy scalping tickets for a very small show at the McGlohon theater (small venue inside the Blumenthal) Tell me that scalping isn't a 24/7 job!)

I might not get my documentary, but how about we share some of success or "market value" of scalping tickets at the arena? (could expand to Panthers tix as well later but that would be OT).

In my experience, so long as you're not scalping tickets for the Celtics, Cavaliers or Lakers, theres no reason why you should pay more than face value for tickets. I'll take that a bit further and say that you shouldn't pay more than season ticket value of the tickets, since most of the scalpers tickets come from season ticket holders trying to pawn off excess inventory anyway.

You can find that chart here: http://www.nba.com/bobcats/seating_chart_0910.html

In my experience its not too hard to get upper level tickets for $5 a game, maybe even a dollar less if you buy a bunch in bulk off them.

For lower level, if you're content with the corners (102 or 116), I've never had much problem getting tickets at least for $25/game. Again, if a scalper gives you crap on an offer, just tell them you can walk into the box office and get the season ticket price cheaper. I've never tried scalping Club or Inner Club Level seats.

So a bit of a preamble there, but who else has some scalping wisdom to share?

EDIT: Dontell Jefferson??? At least give me Stevie Graham or even Acie Law! If I have to take former Bobcats has-beens gimme Kevin Burleson!

Ah, a fellow BiddingForTravel user...you, sir, are a genius! +1!

[LiquidWayno]

I have never paid more than five or seven bucks for upper level at TWC - I like to wait till right at game time, that's my biggest tip. I got 7th row courtside tickets to the Wizards Bobcats game last year at Washington for 25 bucks. I make scalpers battle each other for my cash - pit them against one another.

My question is this - where do these guys get all their tickets? They usually have DOZENS and never sell them all. Where they getting them from?

[Robertpel9]

I am a season ticket holder in sec 116 $30 / seat STH price

I travela lot for work and i regularly sell mine to the scalpers for an average of $22.50 each.

That is NOT where most of the scalpers tickets come from though - believe me the bobcats hand out tons of them to them to paper the arena. Sometimes I "trade" my tickets into scalpers with a little cash to move into near courtside seats int he club section and whos name is on them as issued to?? Rod Higgins

The cats know they need seats filled in the arena and paper the upper deck.

[cls77]

I am a season ticket holder in sec 116 $30 / seat STH price

I travela lot for work and i regularly sell mine to the scalpers for an average of $22.50 each.

That is NOT where most of the scalpers tickets come from though - believe me the bobcats hand out tons of them to them to paper the arena. Sometimes I "trade" my tickets into scalpers with a little cash to move into near courtside seats int he club section and whos name is on them as issued to?? Rod Higgins

The cats know they need seats filled in the arena and paper the upper deck.

That doesn't surprise me at all...

Although maybe I just need to seek out Rod before the game and cut out the middleman :)

[LiquidWayno]

Funny how that works. Every game I have been to, I have seen way more people in the upper deck, lots of space down below - they need to step their game up.