He added that they have been buying back tickets at face value and reselling them for $300 and up.
"We definitely do have action," Adams said, "but the big action just isn't there anymore. Most of my calls have been people selling. But we're not getting too deep back into it."
A representative for StubHub, the official reselling partner of Major League Baseball, said he was expecting to see about 100 tickets posted by the end of yesterday. Sean Pate said those ranged from $575 for standing room up to $3,500 for a spot behind home plate. "So prices are staying pretty firm," Pate said. Now whether sellers get what they're asking is another matter.
What was known is that the only way to sell tickets through StubHub was to drop them off at the company's office in the Holiday Inn Philadelphia Stadium, 900 Packer Ave.
Certainly, anyone picking up tickets that were used Monday night wants to make sure those tickets are intact. Phillies VP for Sales and Ticket Operations John Weber wrote in an e-mail that if fans think their tickets are unscannable ("perhaps crinkled or ripped somehow") then they should arrive at the park a little earlier than usual to alleviate any problems. The Phillies noted on their Web site that fans will need their Game 5 tickets to get into the ballpark whenever the game is resumed.
Average prices for Game 5 spiked over $1,000, Pate noted, with the potential clinching game hiking demand. The three games in Philly have cost StubHub buyers an average of $904 a ticket. *
- Paul Vigna
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