Yes... good for you SeguinsDragons for NOT scalping. Must have been tempting NOT to do the right thing. Selling them for face value is a Win-Win.
Hi SeguinsDragons,
I may just give mine away as Christmas gifts. I think a lot of young people might jump at a chance to go to a World Juniors game - even if it is an American blowout.
On Day 1 I will be there for ALL 3 games with my GF. By the time we leave we will be sick of each other - if we aren't already.
May take a friend to Slovakia/Germany - Day 2.
On Day 3 I will try and trade my US/Slovakia tickets for Sweden/Russia - I will be curious to see if I have any success. I will throw in Switzerland-Finland to make the deal!
Day 5 may give the tickets as gifts and spend the day with my GF - snuggling.
The New Years Eve games will be a must go.
After that it is all playoff games.
Yes, I am doing the same with some of the tickets, I am giving them as gifts to friends and such for ones I won't be able to sell.
I always like hearing stories like yours. Scalping makes me sick, especially when it's above percentages dictated by the tickets. I'm sure you made his day.
I hate scalpers so much... defiently have ruined many concerts\sporting events for me by buying all the tickets and jacking up the prices on people.
The way I looked at it was, I already made my initial investment for the event.. it was pricey, but I was cool paying what I did for the chance to see all the team Canada games... because its so close to me, if I was to do it another time, I would have to pay for travel\housing\book time off work... but because its so close to me, I just have to pay for the event itself really... so the money I put out was worth the oppertunity to attend all the games (watched every World JR for as long as I can remember, but never attended a game before)....
I saw this as a golden chance, and only way to truley secure tickets for all of Canada's games was buy a package...and so I did..
Some of my buddies have started buying some of the games I won't go to either. I have already roughly sold off 8 games out of the 20 I have (all at same price of 25$, even a semi final game...lol)
I just want to see Canada, I mean... sure it would be cool to attend the USA, Sweden and such games, but it makes more sense for myself to re-coup any money I can for games. Like I said, not looking to profit, just selling them for what I paid
I mean, right now if I was to buy 2 tickets for all of Canada games + semi finals + gold medal it works out to 1130$ plus taxes and such... I paid 1022$ including taxes and such for 2 tickets for all the games at HSBC (20 games in total)...
I have sold 8 games (16 tickets) at 25$ each, works out to 400$... if I can sell 2 more games, I am more than happy, cut my costs in half by selling tickets I wasn't even going to attened... so if Canada makes it to the semi finals, that would be 6 games they played and about 45$ a ticket for myself to see them all (gold\bronze medal included)... not bad.
It really is a win-win scenario here... and it was great to see the young guy who bought the tickets for USA eyes light up when I gave it to him... it was like utter disbelief he was getting a pair of tickets for all 4 USA round robin games for 200$... He seemed really happy about it all.
I will admit, I was worried at first with the burden of selling the extra tickets, or if I could sell them or not...but it has really worked out well for myself, and those who took me up on it as well.
