Patriots get StubHub users' names

News Type: Event — Seeded on Fri Oct 19, 2007 1:29 PM EDT

Article Source: The Boston Globe

technology, online, privacy, sales, ebay, new-england-patriots, ticket, scalping, stubhub, resales

Seeking to enforce their policy prohibiting ticket resales, the New England Patriots have obtained the names of 13,000 people who sold or bought the team's tickets using the online site StubHub Inc.

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Michael Sautter

Here we go, do you think other teams
will try and do the same as the Patriots?

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#1 - Fri Oct 19, 2007 2:21 PM EDT

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finalcut

I don't like this at all really. I don't get to go to games very often (for any sport) but when I do I like to be able to buy a good ticket (since it is such a rare treat). If someone happens to be selling a really good seat at a price I can afford then I like being able to buy it.

Sure, I may be buying it from a scalper - but at least this way there is a ticket available for me to buy without having to buy a season ticket package. If the only people who bought the tickets were normal folks who wouldn't/couldn't resell the tickets thousands of fans each year would get stuck without an opportunity to go to a game.

Heck, even the crappy seats (like I had at the Bengals-Pats MNF game this year) were someone's season tickets because even the Bengals sell out every game. Now, maybe they wouldn't sell out of resellers weren't buying the seats but then the only seats that would ever be available to me would be the absolute nose-bleeds and a bunch of great seats would be empty because for one reason or another.

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#2 - Fri Oct 19, 2007 10:07 PM EDT

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