Want to go to a game here? Not a chance
It may be a simple case of my own naivete, but I did not realize the level and magnitude of the ticket scams currently being perpetrated on EBay and Craigslist. This is particularly true for anyone currently searching for Notre Dame tickets. The most current version of the scam on Ebay is the theft of a valid Ebay ID (generally with perfect or near-perfect feedback) and then an offer of tickets at "buy-it-now" prices considerably below market value.
For example, PSU-ND tix are currently going for between $600 and $1000 per ticket. The fraudulent offers are generally for four tickets for around $850. What makes the scam particularly enticing is that $850 for four tix is still significantly above face value (and thus the offer cannot be totally discounted as ridiculous).
Without fail, however, the scams all have a few things in common. First, the person selling the tix always has some sob story about how they are stuck in Europe, or Canada, or Timbuktu, and cannot make it back to the game. Or they are selling them for their boss. Or they won the tickets in some lottery (obviously not an ND person; no one wins anything in that lottery).
Another similarity is the use of an e-mail address other than the one listed for the seller. ilovetixx@yahoo.com was one of the most recent additions. Also noteworthy is the use of the same section and row in many of these offers (i.e. Section 105, row 22). Finally, they never want to meet in person to hand over the tickets nor will they take a credit card.
Craigslist is a simpler scam due to the lack of feedback contained in any offer. There the scam artists are involved in a basic cash grab involving a wire transfer. Good times.
Anyway, hope this helps any of you out in the market for tickets to big games this year.
8 comments:
Probably worth you sending something to the ND ticket office. They've been monintoring ticket scams and scalpers on-line.
On the other hand, ND does offer tickets at above face value too: it's called the Sorin Society. If you pay them $1,500, they'll give you a better chance at winning a $60 ticket.
Tailgating stuff for ND game: $300
ND ticket to a game: $1,560
Whipping the shit out of Penn State on Sept 9th: PRICELESS!
I thought Sorin was "only" $1,000? Not that it will make a difference to me. A little above the ol' pay grade, as they say.
I read in an online survey somewhere that 89% of Sorin Society members who applied for Penn State tix got them.
Yeah, ND's taking their new pound of flesh by raising the annual minimums across the board.
From what I saw, the biggest winners of all were the monogram winners.
Deez (P.S. Switching to my EDSBS handle of Geaux Irish)
The annual minimums are essentially quadrupling for '99 graduates since we were in the "transition year" to the higher giving requirements.
As for the monogram winners, my brother fared well but was shut out for Penn State tickets. Word is that next year football monograms will have priority over all other monograms for their portion of the lottery.
Who in the hell did get PSU tickets? I have not heard of anyone scoring those.
Mike, you're asking if someone "scored" at ND? C'mon....you know better that that.
Caveat: I'm ignoring your frosh year roommate and his "extracurriculars".
That dude was amazing. Too bad he ended up being far more successful in the "Dirty Thirty" of Morrissey Manor than he ever was on the field.
Granted it was only a small sample, but I think the results below speak for themselves. Blue Gray Sky took a poll on lottery results and this is what they found: Only 8% of the "regular" alums who requested tickets got them, while 89% and 80% of Sorin Society and Mongogram winners, respectively, won tickets.
Hopefully you are able to find tickets soon, Mike
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