Did anyone else end up with fraudulent tickets for the game at the Islanders on Saturday night? Let me share my tale of woe:
Bought my ticket on StubHub, for section 227. I go into the arena at about 6:35-6:40, ticket does not scan. They send me to the box office window. Now on the paper ticket I had, it said "Issued to Adams Jerry" which is not my name. The woman at the box office said, "Unless you are Jerry Adams or have an ID that says you are Jerry Adams, I cant help you." The last part cracked me up, as if to insinuate that I would have a fake ID with Jerry Adams on it.
So I call StubHub, and because they are an excellent company, they did right and replaced the ticket. Telling me they'll email the ticket, they instruct me to ask someone at the arena if they can scan tickets off the phone. Because Nassau Coliseum is something out of 1973, of course they can't scan tickets on the phone. Instead, I am instructed to walk over to the Marriott and print it out in the business center.
So as I waited for StubHub to wrap things up with this, I walked over to the Marriott. My God, that place is a zoo....beer bottles everywhere outside. Wrap up the call, and I move on into the CPUs in the business center. I swipe my card to activate the computer and looked over at the Bruins fan next to me. I look at her ticket and it said "Issued to Adams Jerry". So I said, "Wow, that dude gets around!" Ticket was in other part of the arena.
So clearly a lot of people had issues, hope none of you were impacted who went down there. I did make it back in time for the opening faceoff.
p.s. Good atmosphere in that building. Pleased no one tried to light me on fire like what happened in Montreal last year.