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Eagles-Cowboys tix are available, if you have lots of dough
By PAUL VIGNA
vignap@phillynews.com
As of late yesterday afternoon, there were around 1,500 tickets available on RazorGator.com for the Oct. 8 Eagles-Cowboys game at Lincoln Financial Field. They weren't cheap, averaging around $400 apiece.
It's politely called the secondary market, although it would have a different name - scalping - if folks made this sale in the shadow of Lincoln Financial Field rather than online.
Finding that reservoir of available tickets for all of the Birds' home games particularly rankled fans yesterday, a day after the team sold out its individual-game tickets in a matter of minutes.
Mark Donovan, the Eagles' senior vice president of business operations, heard the outcry. Wednesday's blink-of-an-eyelash sale had nothing to do, he said, with the volume of tickets available at that site and others.
"We did do a single-game sale," he said yesterday. "They went in minutes. They always do. It's the same number of tickets that we sell every year."
Now, RazorGator.com and the Birds are in the second year of what Donovan said was a "multiyear" contract. This isn't unique: RazorGator.com also has been tied in with the Patriots, 49ers and Seahawks, among others. Donovan said he knows of at least nine NFL teams that have a smiliar deal with StubHub.com, another ticket supplier.
RazorGator.com advertises on the Eagles' Web site, places ads in the team's programs and magazine, and composes a mailer that's sent to season-ticketholders. "They are an advertising partner only," Donovan said, "We have absolutely no involvement in a ticket transaction. We don't share in that."
It is accorded, he said, privileges consistent with Lincoln Financial and the team's many other partners, including tickets. He would not say how many, only that it's "a minuscule amount compared to the number they sell." RazorGator spokeswoman Kel Kelly yesterday described her company, which started in 2000, as a marketplace that "legitimizes what used to be back-alley scalping." Most of the sellers on the site, she added, are season-ticketholders.
Sellers are paid through PayPal, an online payment system, within 3 days after buyers have received their tickets. Prices can fluctuate during the posting. There's no ceiling, obvious by the seven seats in Section 120 that were going yesterday for more than $800 apiece.
That Eagles-Cowboys game is still 16 weeks away.
http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/sports/14831610.htm
By PAUL VIGNA
vignap@phillynews.com
As of late yesterday afternoon, there were around 1,500 tickets available on RazorGator.com for the Oct. 8 Eagles-Cowboys game at Lincoln Financial Field. They weren't cheap, averaging around $400 apiece.
It's politely called the secondary market, although it would have a different name - scalping - if folks made this sale in the shadow of Lincoln Financial Field rather than online.
Finding that reservoir of available tickets for all of the Birds' home games particularly rankled fans yesterday, a day after the team sold out its individual-game tickets in a matter of minutes.
Mark Donovan, the Eagles' senior vice president of business operations, heard the outcry. Wednesday's blink-of-an-eyelash sale had nothing to do, he said, with the volume of tickets available at that site and others.
"We did do a single-game sale," he said yesterday. "They went in minutes. They always do. It's the same number of tickets that we sell every year."
Now, RazorGator.com and the Birds are in the second year of what Donovan said was a "multiyear" contract. This isn't unique: RazorGator.com also has been tied in with the Patriots, 49ers and Seahawks, among others. Donovan said he knows of at least nine NFL teams that have a smiliar deal with StubHub.com, another ticket supplier.
RazorGator.com advertises on the Eagles' Web site, places ads in the team's programs and magazine, and composes a mailer that's sent to season-ticketholders. "They are an advertising partner only," Donovan said, "We have absolutely no involvement in a ticket transaction. We don't share in that."
It is accorded, he said, privileges consistent with Lincoln Financial and the team's many other partners, including tickets. He would not say how many, only that it's "a minuscule amount compared to the number they sell." RazorGator spokeswoman Kel Kelly yesterday described her company, which started in 2000, as a marketplace that "legitimizes what used to be back-alley scalping." Most of the sellers on the site, she added, are season-ticketholders.
Sellers are paid through PayPal, an online payment system, within 3 days after buyers have received their tickets. Prices can fluctuate during the posting. There's no ceiling, obvious by the seven seats in Section 120 that were going yesterday for more than $800 apiece.
That Eagles-Cowboys game is still 16 weeks away.
http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/sports/14831610.htm
