Pacquiao- Cotto Tickets Still Available - TONS of 'em

[Al Haymon]

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

You encourage the disrespect and childishness?

[oc9979]

the funnything is that some of the tickets are sold there and it says face value 500 but they are selling it for 800

[Al Haymon]

I am not debating anything your saying.
The purpose of my posts were to show that the fight can still be sold out and the thread starters "proof" by showing stub hub and ticket center has tickets available is NO PROOF the fight is not sold out.

Would you please quote the post where I said that the fight was not sold out, where i said anything about "proof"...or where I stated anything inaccurate.

Thanks in advance, Dondi.

[Al Haymon]

the funnything is that some of the tickets are sold there and it says face value 500 but they are selling it for 800

Nowadays, the ticket brokers have become an important part of the process. They buy up gobs of seats on Day 1.

You are effectively paying a cost for your flexibility.

[oc9979]

you are not directly saying that the tickets are not sold out but at the same time you are saying that there are tickets available. You are implying that the fight is not sold out. Go ahead and post the preice of a ringside ticket. you going to find it from 9000 to almost 50000

[xzworks]

what not sold out!!

it's cotto's turn to sing a song in some late night shows...

[Dondi33O]

Would you please quote the post where I said that the fight was not sold out, where i said anything about "proof"...or where I stated anything inaccurate.

Thanks in advance, Dondi.

AL HAYMANS Responses to Pacquiao vs. Cotto Sold out!!!

"PLENTY of tickets still available....LMAO



I won't be coming back to this fake thread. Respond to yourself.-"AL Hayman


So your stating these things for what? We all know what a play on words is, so stop it.



"Dans,

In this day and age, the words "sold out" are largely meaningless. If the brokers perceive an event to be remotely commercial, they scoop up the tickets. And the promoters WANT them to.

But, it isn't mostly SH. I think the industry was more affected by Empire tickets, ticketcenter, etc. Those guys have teams of buyers in Mumbai who manually buy tickets to by-pass the captcha."Al Hayman

and the title of your thread where you capitalize "TONS" of tickets available is for what?
also everyone that has come in here believing the fight is not sold out; You have not tried to clear your "wording" up which shows your playing on words.

Stop underestimating our intelligence ....and your WELCOME in advance.


Nov
2009
Pacquiao-Cotto closed circuit

Due to the official sell out of the MGM Grand Garden Arena for the November 14 Manny Pacquiao vs Miguel Cotto “FIRE POWER” mega-fight, tickets for closed circuit seating are not far behind and moving briskly as fans head to Las Vegas in droves to be part of boxing’s super fight finale of 2009. Limited seating is still available at all locations including MGM Grand Premier Ballroom, Mandalay Bay, Luxor, The Mirage, Excalibur, Monte Carlo and Circus Circus. Tickets for the closed circuit telecast are priced at $50, not including handling fees. All seats are general admission and are on sale now at MGM Grand box office, by phone with a major credit card at (800) 929-1111 or by calling Ticketmaster at (800) 745-3000.
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[abelito]

answer

You do know those are secondary ticket resellers right?

my friend. I am new in this forum, all I need to know from you if is possible is the ease way to watch the fight live free on my pc. thanks

[Eaner0919]

Nowadays, the ticket brokers have become an important part of the process. They buy up gobs of seats on Day 1.

You are effectively paying a cost for your flexibility.

actually from what I know the promoters themselves use sites like Stub Hub to make bigger profits

for example say you have a block of 500 tickets. Again from what I have heard (I know a guy who used to broker) the promoter, the fighters and their teams get an allotment of tickets to either sell of give out. After the parties involved give out their portion of the tickets to the people they want coming the rest they can sell to drive up their profits more. However, with the amount of tickets these people get (for example I think the Hatton Mayweather fight only had ~2500 tickets available for public consumption) it's hard to sell that quantity before the fight. Realizing this they turn to brokers to do their selling often giving them tickets in droves (why do you think brokers have large blocks of good tickets). The brokers often times do not actually buy these tickets because that would need a high amount of liquid funds as there are 1000s of events going on at all times so what they do is act like...a broker taking in tickets to sell on behalf of interested parties

Once this happens the interested parties now start collecting a profit either at face, sometimes above face if the event is selling fast, or at a reduced rate if its selling poorly. For JMM Mayweather the broker took a bath and a lot of the tickets came in way below face. Two friends and big fans of JMM got $1000 seats for $600 a pop the day before the fight

in the event that the fight looks like its going to tank the brokers will then give back the tickets to the promoters/fighters with no loss to either party because the brokers didn't buy the tickets in the first place and the fighters/promoters can simply sell the tickets at a largely reduced rate to other interested parties like casinos, car dealerships etc

now in terms of the gate #s they use what they "sell" from the original box office (ticketmaster and the box office sales) to tally their numbers so if say a promoter reports that they sold all 16,000 seats they dont have to report who they "sold" them to thus the appearance that a live gate of 9 million when in fact the live gate is still pending right up until tickets stop selling.

[dans]

Nowadays, the ticket brokers have become an important part of the process. They buy up gobs of seats on Day 1.

You are effectively paying a cost for your flexibility.

They've become an important part of screwing up the process. Fans should be able to buy tickets from the direct source.

Put it this way, let me put you in a scenario:

You want tickets to see a boxing match. You try to get them on the first day tickets become available and log on to ticketmaster and notice that all the good seats are gone, what's left is the bad seats and overpriced seats.

You can either pay the real cost from ticketmaster and get a not so good seat, or completely get screwed and buy the seat you want from a broker for 3X the cost.

Those are your options, not so good, eh?

If these brokers weren't around, you'd still have scalpers but the problem would not be nearly as bad.