BUCCANEERS SIGN STUBHUB AS OFFICIAL SECONDARY TICKET PARTNER

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers today announced in their press release the signing of a multi-year Pewter Partnership with StubHub for the company to serve as the Official Secondary Ticket Marketplace of the team.

Does this put the scalpers out of business? The Fla Assembly had effectively DE-criminalized ticket scalping..now I know why. Like everything else, it has become an obsolete form of commerce. People now turn to the Internet.

Stubhub allows people to both buy and sell tickets where it is safe and the company has a form of guarantee, so people are not Al likely to buy counterfeit  tickets and generally get ripped off. They are an Ebay company and actually trade on the NASDAQ!  Not to many guys on the corner on the New York Stock Exchange.

Basically what you can do with Stubhub from the comfort of your own home is to find better seats and or buy sell tickets. Simple. The guy in the photo above will still be there, there are always last minute people who want tickets, and if the Bucs continue their losing ways...there will be a lot of tickets for sale. Not even Stub Hub will guarantee that someone will buy your ticket.

Comments

[Jim Johnson]

I think part of the partnership is so the Bucs can recoup some money from tickets that are re-sold.

It is still illegal to scalp tickets in Florida unless you go through a website like StubHub, eBay, or Ticketmaster (which has a reseller service).

The problem is, these tickets would be like airline seats... tickets in the same row would be priced differently.

[tim]

This is so stupid. Organizations that sell tickets should never be affiliated with for-profit ticket resellers. The fact that scalping exists is proof that the team is not selling their tickets at the proper price -- I would rather have the Bucs make that money than a commercial scalper. At least then it could presumably go toward making the team better.