The Twins have rightly been lauded for making probably the most disability-friendly stadium in the country. They have nearly 800 seats that can accommodate people in wheelchairs or those who have trouble using stairs.
But a lot of those seats are ending up online, on Craigslist or StubHub, Major League Baseball's official resale outlet. For one game, I quickly found more than a dozen. While some used the symbol, "WC," for wheelchair, most didn't. Those tickets get resold at inflated prices to fans who do not need special seats, which may prevent at least some disabled fans from attending games.
via startribune.com
3 comments:
This seems to be a variant on the common problem of seats being sold out to ticket touts almost immediately, and then re-sold on the internet at inflated prices. It seems to happen at almost every major concert and sports event in the UK: that they go on sale one minute and are all sold-out the next, often in the middle of a working day. Needless to say, they can't all have gone to people who actually went to the gig. These scams should be stopped, and could be if online selling sites banned people from selling more than a given number of tickets to any given event.
Matt-
Yes, that's also true.
Generally here in the US you have to call for special seating for events. Anyway I checked the Twins' site and they do have an online form you can fill out to get special seating, but you need to indicate your needs, so it looks like people are misrepresenting themselves when they buy these tickets.
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