Having decided to buy tickets for Phils and Yankees, I've done pretty much all I can to find a way to get some tickets at face value (Generally $175-$350 per ticket in most parks for WS). No luck.
So the choices are Stubhub, Craigslist, Kijiji and scalpers.
Well I'm not going to trust this whole deal to someone I don't know. Fake tickets can get made and sold and people burned. Screw that.
I'm willing to pay the premium for guaranteed tickets (this is once in a lifetime right?) and Stubhub gives you that. Not to sound like an ad for them, but it's a great system in the age of digital tickets. Season tiocket holders and lucky people have tickets, and some want to sell some. They post them for sale on Stubhub, set their price, and then anyone can buy them. I buy them, the money I pay goes to Stubhub (they get a 10% cut), and the seller doesn;t get the money until the tickets are confirmed legit and uploaded to my account. Brilliant. Guaranteed. Not cheap. But at least I can get them.
If you buy tickets for a game that doesn't happen (team doesn't make it, or game not necessary) you get refunded all of your money. In theory I could hold tickets for an Oct. 20 for 4 different NL teams and get reimbursed for the ones to teams that don't make it! But I'm hoping that's not necessary. :)
Yankees tickets are not bad to get. There are over 5000 for sale for games 3,4 and 5 of the WS. I bought 2 tickets for game 3 on October 22, good seats, 300 level, just inside first base, for what I thought was an almost reasonable price. You can get nosebleed tickets for $300.
Phillies tickets are MUCH worse. Not entirely sure why. Probably mostly due to the fact that season tickets completely sold out for the year, leaving very few tickets left over. There are fewer than 2000 available for games 1 and 2 of the WS, and people want $500 for standing room tickets and $650+ for nosebleeds and bleacher seats. Ouch. Bought two on the second level in near right field that were priced less than many in worse sections. Some people just ask silly prices at first to see of they can get lucky. Many prices will have tro drop to sell I'm sure.
So as it stands today, I have two tickets for game 2 if in Philadelphia on Oct. 20, and two for game 3 if in New York for October 22.
If the Phillies make it to the World Series, Dad and I will get to Philadelphia early in the afternoon of Oct. 19, the night of game 1. My plan is to go by the park an hour before game time and check prices from scalpers. Many online posters tell stories of getting tickets for WS game for really, REALLY cheap as game time nears and the first pitch happens. If I can get a great deal on two tickets in any seats in there we'll go. If not, we'll hit a sports bar downtown to watch in on TV. That'd be fun anyway...
