I am selling tickets to the Diamond Level
by bcoo2002 on Mar 19, 2010 4:53 PM PDT
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PrintI'm a university student that has loved the A's forever, and today I took the plunge and bought tickets to the Oakland A's Diamond Level - two seats, row 3 (15 and 16) for 20 games this season. Thing is - I'm in university in Canada until May, and then I leave for India in June.
I read AN religiously and I figured that I would happily give you all first crack at the tickets. Now, since I won't be able to attend all the games I would like to sell some of them, as pairs.
Specifically:
- Opening Night (April 5th) vs Seattle
- April 15th vs Baltimore
- April 25th vs Cleveland
I have more but these are the games that I am positively unable to attend. The tickets are will be with my family in the East-Bay (Albany to be specific).
Shoot me an email at nbrendanpickering@gmail.com!
Let's go Oak-land.
EDIT:
Depending on the games, I'm looking to sell the tickets for $225 apiece. There are a couple game that I would sell for more (Yankees and Bosox).
Here's the info on the diamond level that I got from the A's sales manager:
Diamond Level Seats
* Located behind home plate, on the field of play
* All you can eat food, with in-seat service
* Two complimentary alcoholic beverages
* Private parking in the Diamond Level lot
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agrd.
I so want to sit in the diamond seats someday.
(sigh)
sock puppets have never successfully defended castles. -nm
by Leopold Bloom on Mar 19, 2010 8:31 PM PDT up reply actions
I will sooner or later but probably just by getting a single ticket
On the other hand, I don’t need to go to an A’s game and spend a couple hundred dollars to know what sitting in an area such as that is like. ;-)
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well, I do.
I wish Slusser loved me more. Or KK.
sock puppets have never successfully defended castles. -nm
by Leopold Bloom on Mar 19, 2010 9:14 PM PDT up reply actions
Im all about 114 row 6 personally
Drinking so much that you forget your name is like trying to cure cancer, it might not be possible, but you should never stop trying.
by Trojanbrand on Mar 20, 2010 12:09 AM PDT up reply actions
I do, Leopold Bloom
you’re the second funniest after Nico.
(and sometimes the funniest)
just don’t tell Nico I said that.
I love you.
sock puppets have never successfully defended castles. -nm
by Leopold Bloom on Mar 20, 2010 2:11 PM PDT up reply actions
WHAT??????????????????????????????????????????????
No seriously, a car went by — I didn’t hear you.
I like Cindi. A. She never pretends to know more than she does. B. She has unbridled enthusiasm for her "Hotties," and isn't afraid to show it. -IM4Oakgal
Definitely Nico's is funnier
but Bloomie’s is nicer. So….it’s a tie!
Wait, our what?
Oh no, not that. Funny is not what we guys are going for there.
I like Cindi. A. She never pretends to know more than she does. B. She has unbridled enthusiasm for her "Hotties," and isn't afraid to show it. -IM4Oakgal
I think I'm going to enjoy this competition
even more than Pennington vs. Rosales. Nico is in the funny lead for sure, but LB has options left, too.
I'm not worried
Apparently, Ed Crosby thinks highly of LB.
I like Cindi. A. She never pretends to know more than she does. B. She has unbridled enthusiasm for her "Hotties," and isn't afraid to show it. -IM4Oakgal
you're going to win
by a mile. LB isn’t showing the same dedication, he’s not doing the reps, getting in the work….also, you’ve show a lot more versatility.
(blinks)
you know he wrote the captions for those cartoons he’s been running on Sundays, right?
sock puppets have never successfully defended castles. -nm
by Leopold Bloom on Mar 20, 2010 9:15 PM PDT up reply actions
Cindi had input.
I like Cindi. A. She never pretends to know more than she does. B. She has unbridled enthusiasm for her "Hotties," and isn't afraid to show it. -IM4Oakgal
hmmmm
If you’re getting help, then Leo B is looking better and better.
in fact
I’ll take Leopold Bloom. Nico always has Ken Korach, anyway.
You know what --
I’ll take Korach; you and this Bloom character can have each other.
And no takesies-backsies.
I like Cindi. A. She never pretends to know more than she does. B. She has unbridled enthusiasm for her "Hotties," and isn't afraid to show it. -IM4Oakgal
I win!
Yay!
sock puppets have never successfully defended castles. -nm
by Leopold Bloom on Mar 20, 2010 10:48 PM PDT up reply actions
wait....
does this mean I’m going steady with Susan now?
Because I don’t have a date for the AN prom yet.
sock puppets have never successfully defended castles. -nm
by Leopold Bloom on Mar 20, 2010 11:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Sorry Bloomie
Forgot to send you the memo. They cancelled AN prom. An ANer who’s name I won’t say wanted to bring a Sock Puppet as a date and The Powers That Be decided instead of simply forbidding it, that they’d cancel the prom altogether. But personally, I think Nico was too embarrassed that Poochie decided to go with Cindi instead of him and he didn’t want to go stag.
Leopold Bloom on why he loves Mr. Peter Gammons, his best buddy:
"Peter Gammons systematically ignored and/or ran down the A’s in the pages of Sports Illustrated and The Sporting News for a good ten year stretch in the late seventies and early to mid-eighties. Trust me, the c**ksucker hates our team."
by DMOAS on Mar 21, 2010 9:58 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Actually, Poochini asked Rich Harden
He likes Canadian Mounties.
I like Cindi. A. She never pretends to know more than she does. B. She has unbridled enthusiasm for her "Hotties," and isn't afraid to show it. -IM4Oakgal
my corsage just wilted.
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by Leopold Bloom on Mar 21, 2010 10:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Wait a minute
You bought two DIAMOND level seats and you are a student!! AND…you are not even going to be here most of the games? What are they teaching you over in that school? Bush Economics? :)
that being said, please put me down for the opening night seats (2), I emailed you :)
"Tonto think Billy Beane need to make team full of squirrels and bears."
I have advanced degrees and a fulltime job
and I can’t afford Diamond Level seats…am I doing something wrong?…or is someone else?
Have you tried robbing a bank?
I like Cindi. A. She never pretends to know more than she does. B. She has unbridled enthusiasm for her "Hotties," and isn't afraid to show it. -IM4Oakgal
Or they're doing someone right.
Or something like that.
"You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat."--The Boys of Summer
The only time I ever got to sit at the Diamond Level...
was when like ten higher-ups at Seagate didn’t want the tickets and they eventually got filtered down to one of my student’s mom (I teach middle school) who called me at four p.m. and practically shouted, “Cancel your plans for tonight… You’re about to get the best seats of your life for free!” Four of ‘em! Me, my wife, my sister and brother-in-law all went. I didn’t even have to pay for gas because my brother-in-law drove. One of the best things about the night? None of them drink. That was alot of free Gordon Biersch I had… Chavy hit a dinger to win it and that was pretty cool, too.
"The only way I'm going to get a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint." - Reggie Jackson
lucky
in my best Napolean Dynomite voice
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
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Nice Investment....
hmmmm? Why don’t you be a true fan and sell them for what they are worth instead of jacking up the price to make some money back. I know they are semi-rare tickets but it just seems ifffy that you bought these for personal use. It’s a shame to take advantage of people. If you didn’t say you would charge more for NY or Bos I would have left it alone but I am sure it would not hurt to do something nice for a change and face value the tickets. It could make someone’s season special.
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by LAS VEGAS A'S on Mar 22, 2010 10:00 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs
BoSox and Yankees
The sad thing about this is that were I to sell these tickets online, to try and “make someone’s season special” I would most likely end up facilitating a more serious scalp. i.e. I sell them for 225, a scalper who browses stubhub daily sees them, buys them immediately and re-lists them for double. That would be a special day for him indeed!
Or I could sell them for less than the going price on stubhub, to a member of AN, ideally without being told I am “taking advantage of people,” be rewarded for taking the risk and still go a ways to making someone’s season special.
I have diamond level tickets - email me if you'd like some!
aren't you pissed off that the A's told you they would only sell them in at least groups of 20?
unless of course you knew they would sell them as single games tickets and you just posted that as a ploy for people to buy them.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
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In his defense, I don't know if the A's would make it obvious you don't actually have to buy a plan for Diamond Level
It’d be counter-productive to their goals.
I’m guessing they’re not selling out the Diamond Level (or those two rows on the field just past the dugouts) so they decided to offer them for individual games as available. I noticed this before the end of the 2009 season and it’s the same for some games in 2010. No, you’re not going to see them available for the Yankees or Red Sox but you can find them for other teams.
What actually amuses me is teams like the Yankees and Red Sox are priced as premium games for the basic seats while the Angels, an actual division rival for most of the decade, are not.
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if you go to the section about the premium seating they do not say anything about single game tickets
just half and full season plans. only by going to single game tickets do they show it as an option. Opening night is $225 bu the next day is $200. I’m so tempted to buy a ticket but I already told my wife i didn’t want to spend $200 on tickets to see Michael Buble so I can’t buy A’s tickets for the same price without buying the Buble tix and that would be almost $1000 out of our bank account.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
Dude, go see Buble.
Don’t you wish you could have seen Sinatra in his prime?
by LoneStranger on Mar 26, 2010 4:33 PM PDT up reply actions
not really
except so i could say, i saw him in his prime. I’m only 26 so he is a little before my time.
I found some tix on stubhub that might be a good deal.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
Well, I wish I could have seen Sinatra in his prime.
by LoneStranger on Mar 26, 2010 4:38 PM PDT up reply actions
don't get me wrong
it would have been cool, but on the lists of things I wish I could have done it’s low. I might bite the bullet for the wifey.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
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When I need Diamond Level seats
I call my Attorney. Kind of seems ironic to me.
by asfaninpismobeach on Mar 22, 2010 10:45 AM PDT reply actions
Stub Hub...
…wasn’t good enough, huh? Seriously, where does a student get that kind of scratch? Dad’s gonna notice a thirty-grand charge on his credit card. Even with a job, I couldn’t afford the price.
"With Chance on first, and Evers on third,
Great things from the Cubs will soon be heard."
If you're going to sell tickets here, don't go over face value
It seems like the right thing to do. This isn’t a scalping site.
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My Diamond Level Tickets
I purchased the Diamond Level tickets knowing I would not be able to attend all of the games. I have always loved and supported the A’s and, being able to afford all 20 tickets, I purchased them.
I am effectively paying a lump sum and assuming the risk (that I will lose money on the games I cannot attend).
Now lets consider a house – if you cannot afford the down payment (the lump sum) you cannot buy a house, you can however rent from someone, for an inflated price. The fact that many of you seem to be upset that I am “scalping” these tickets is naive and ultimately hypocritical, unless you demand everything else in your life priced at “facevalue”.
These tickets are available elsewhere, if you disagree with my prices then vote with your dollar and don’t purchase my tickets. Do not tell me that I am “rolling the community” or a “troll” or a “scammer.” The A’s personally suggested to me that I sell them on StubHub for the going prices on there. On stubhub, the going prices, for the record are anywhere from 199 against the royals to over 500 against the BoSox.
To sum up, yes, I was leveraging my community, and supporting the A’s at the same time. If you see a problem with me bring tickets directly to the community, fine. Just know that by buying from me at least you know you’re buying from a university student that loves the A’s, not some lawyer who’s actually a fan of the Giants and just happened to get handed some tickets.
I have diamond level tickets - email me if you'd like some!
You're free to sell the tickets anywhere you want for whatever price you want
Even here, where you had to create this account to make this your first post. I’m not sure how that really makes AN “your” community when it doesn’t appear you’ve ever participated in it before, unless you did it through a different account.
I don’t know about anyone else but seeing you talking about leveraging the community to make a profit for yourself, it just rubs me the wrong way. You go into it KNOWING you aren’t going to attend all the games so you figure out a price point at which you’ll recoup your losses for games you can’t be at just so you might go to one or two yourself along the way.
Sure, it’s sensible business for you, but I don’t have to like the mentality behind it. I don’t believe in one A’s fan overcharging another for a ticket to see a game. That’s it.
This really has nothing at all to do with renting or buying a house, which is much more expensive and much more of a necessity than a premium seat at a baseball game you could still easily get for a couple games if you really wanted to, directly from the A’s site itself (as noted, they have started to sell Diamond Level tickets to individual games as available).
You’re the one who spent $8,000 for tickets when you knew you wouldn’t be going to most of the games in the first place.
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by Flashfire on Mar 25, 2010 3:49 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
You know, I don't think I'm done with this either
It’s the part where he says we are ‘naive and ultimately hypocritical, unless you demand everything else in your life priced at "facevalue"’ not to mention the silly housing example.
Renting vs. buying a home is as routine a decision as a person will have to make based on their income and what they want to do. People who can afford to buy often don’t WANT to simply because it’s more convenient in many ways for them TO rent.
Also, in many cases the rent is very competitively priced compared to what someone might pay for a mortgage, especially when you consider how much of a down payment someone may be putting in. Someone who only puts 5% down may very well pay more on his mortgage compared to what he’d pay renting, instead of someone who puts down 20% or so who could end up paying less a month than he would renting.
But aside from that, this perceived “face value” point makes little sense to me. A ticket to a sporting event has a clearly defined face value. There is no question to that. If someone wants to pay more for the ticket because they really want to be there and sit in a certain spot, that’s their choice. Or, they could pay face value and sit somewhere else.
Houses don’t really have a clear face value. They have appraised values that are fairly arbitrary based on someone’s opinion and a comparison to other similar properties, but values fluctuate wildly depending on the state of the market.
What about a car? Brand new, it’s got a pretty defined value based on the retail price. Used? Bit of a different story, though you can still find the Blue Book value pretty easily.
How about groceries? They’ve got a pretty clear face value. Ever hear of someone paying more for that loaf of bread than the price it’s marked at? Probably not, at least in a typical scenario. There isn’t much resale value for that can of soup, either.
What I’m basically saying is there aren’t a lot of things outside of the sports/entertainment fields where something that has a defined face value is going to go for much more or less than what that price is. Even items like baseball cards, coins, currency and other collectibles have standard accepted values based on their condition that people can base their purchases on.
Ultimately what it comes down to is the guy wouldn’t have bought the tickets in the first place if he didn’t have the plan to sell most of them for more than their face value here. It’s clear he had the plan worked up from the start, knew he wouldn’t be able to use most of them anyway, and just had to convince himself he could make it work. Good for him if it does, but I won’t be buying from him.
And now, I think I’m done. ;-)
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by Flashfire on Mar 25, 2010 4:23 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Your argument undermines your credibility
You chose to attack the analogy rather than any of my premises, how typical.
It is clear now that you are not in this due to an inquisitive nature or confusion as to my motives – for some reason or another my writing has angered you enough to take this personally. That’s all right by me, but just by moving the discussion to that realm you have effectively turned this into a witch-hunt – I’m just wondering what happens to you when my broomstick cannot be found…?
Your appalling lack of common sense in this situation is blinding you to what should be a simple solution, one I offered long ago – If you cannot afford my tickets, do go elsewhere. I suppose you’re upset that you have to pay $2 for a coke at 7-11 rather than the $1.50 it would cost you at a supermarket, or the .25 cents it would cost you to buy direct from the wholesaler. To summarize, your argument attempting to refute my housing analogy was a waste of time, simply because here in the real world “face value,” “perceived value” and “real value” rarely ever meet.
You said > “Sure, it’s sensible business for you, but I don’t have to like the mentality behind it. I don’t believe in one A’s fan overcharging another for a ticket to see a game. That’s it.” <
I almost want to laugh. Call me cynical, but if the team, that is the OAKLAND A’S, wanted to fill all their seats, they should just price them incredibly cheaply, i.e. stop overcharging everybody. Only thing is, the market would still create itself – the value of a diamond level or MVP level ticket would still be intrinsically greater, and thus command a higher price on the second-hand market, regardless of starting price. This is simply not going to happen, and by thinking this way you are only deluding yourself. It’s especially ironic assuming the premise that the A’s are their biggest fans.
Your conclusion is entirely unsubstantiated and based on nothing but your regrettably sour opinion. I have defended myself and believe that people of clearer thinking will understand where I am coming from.
"Be Who You Are and Say What You Feel Because Those Who Mind Don’t Matter and Those Who Matter Don’t Mind." – Dr. Seuss
I have diamond level tickets - email me if you'd like some!
You are a very silly person, I'm sorry to say
Angry enough to take this personally? Witch-hunt? Can’t afford your tickets (I could, but I don’t want them)? Upset about paying more for a Coke at a convenience store than a supermarket? The A’s should price Diamond Level cheaply so they can fill the seats instead of charging $200 or pushing ticket plans for them?
Guy, you are ALL over the place, just because someone thinks you shouldn’t sell tickets here above face value and questions some of your own hyperbole.
Get over yourself, please. Thank you.
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Uh I think you guys just got "leveraged"
Or perhaps a better word is rolled.
From The Blog of Brendan Pickering
http://www.brendanpickering.com/2010/03/20/leverage-your-community/#more-167
Mar 20
Leverage your community.
A’s, Baseball, business 2.0, community, entrepreneurship, New Project, Summer 2010, Synergy
I just bought a twenty-game package for two "Diamond Level" Oakland A’s tickets. The cost? Roughly $8,000. These seats aren’t even available as single games from the A’s, you have to buy a minimum of 20. Thing is, I can’t make it to all of the games. Truth be told, I can make it to only a few. As in maybe 4 out of the 20. Have I lost my mind?
Have I lost my mind?
Absolutely not, I’m not even worried.
First I look at my goals -
* Attend a few A’s games and sit in the Diamond Level seating area.
* Pay nothing to do this
* Enjoy myself immensely.
Next I look at the economics of the situation -
* I will need to make $1600 worth of profit to cover my "free" games.
* In order to do this I will need to recoup an average of $250 per ticket.
* There are 5 "premium games I can sell for more than $250.
* If I average $225 per ticket for normal games and $350 for "premium games" I will net around $450 all-told (or an average of $264 a ticket).
Enter the community.
AthleticsNation.com is a community composed of – you guessed it – A’s fans. I read it daily in my RSS for all of the latest A’s news. It’s a really great, extraordinarily welcoming community.
What better place to sell A’s tickets?
I made one "fan-post" explaining my situation and suggesting that anyone interested contact me. Within an hour I had multiple games sold. I fully expect the rest to be sold by the end of March, five days before the season begins. This is a perfect example of synergy, which makes sense, since synergy is what creates the best communities.
Ideas are great, markets are even better.
Know your community! I will succeed because I combined solid entrepreneurial sense with something I love. Would I have purchased 20 tickets if I was unaware of AthleticsNation.com? Absolutely not.
My advice is so basic I hesitate to even write it down, but I think it needs to be reiterated:
* Find (or found!) a community of people that are as passionate about something as you are and make sure to develop a meaningful following.
* Figure out what it is that they want.
* Find out how to give it to them.
More importantly, know how to reward yourself and those who love you. I decided before I set out that no-matter what happened, I would save one game for myself and my girlfriend, as a reminder that the best things in life are always better together. Synergy.
How have you leveraged your community?
He's got a picture...
…of himself on his blog.
Hmm…
"With Chance on first, and Evers on third,
Great things from the Cubs will soon be heard."
your ideas intrigue me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
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by Leopold Bloom on Mar 23, 2010 1:32 AM PDT up reply actions
Well, that's fun
And quite deceptive overall.
(Aside from that, it is possible to buy single-game Diamond Level seats through the A’s site for some games)
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By the way
The Diamond Level seats on the A’s website are $200 each.
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So does anyone want to admit to buying a ticket?
how much did you pay for them? After seeing freddy’s post I doubt many other ANers will purchase more tickets from this guy. I thought about inquiring but decided it would be too expensive before even asking the price.
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I bought 2 Diamond Level seats for s 2005 game
I purchased them through Stub Hub, so at least there was no scam involved.
I couldn't afford it.
Even if I wanted to. I’ll stick with my bleacher seats.
"With Chance on first, and Evers on third,
Great things from the Cubs will soon be heard."
Micdog, I will take a crack at this...
So, I have to say, that once I committed at the top of this blog to buying the tix for opening night, I did not come back to this post. I was unaware of the ensuing battle, and only became suspicious when I was told in an email from Brendan that “see, I am not the horrible person AN made him out to be.” He told me this in response to his willingness to come down in price to the face value of the tickets.
I must say, I was pretty pissed after I read that blog entry. Knowing that we were targeted as a community to be leveraged makes me pretty fucking angry.
Yes, I bought two tix to opening night. No, I will not buy anymore.
"Tonto think Billy Beane need to make team full of squirrels and bears."
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