Milwaukee Brewers renege on golden tickets sold in 2016

Posted by lando2319 14 hours ago

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Comment by x______________ 5 hours ago

The story has been updated: ticket holders, in a wordcraft statement, will be able to attend the world series match and keep their timeless ticket for another match in the future.

Comment by pfdietz 11 hours ago

There is no "I" in "Team".

There is also no "Team" in "Milwaukee Brewers".

Comment by ButlerianJihad 12 hours ago

So here is the narrative, as I understand it: two brothers, their son, and 997 other Brewers fans plunked down $1,000 ten years ago, for "timeless tickets". Now, I believed these were like perpetual season tickets, but they are not. They are engraved brass plaques that can be redeemed for one big ticket of their choosing, which most of the fans took as a chance at good seats for the next World Series.

Now, despite being a very lousy investment, the fans turned out to redeem the Timeless Tickets for the World Series now, and they discovered, among the prices rising to over $4,000 for a single seat, that they were being offered some really lousy seats, Bob Uecker-style.

So now they are pissed that their $1,000 bad investment didn't go as far as they expected. But it seems that the legal Terms of Service had every loophole imaginable to let the team just offer these shitty seats as "best available" to these very hopeful and optimistic, and formerly rich, fans.

Comment by tortasaur 12 hours ago

Should it be acceptable to scam stupid people? That's sort of the impression I'm getting from your framing.

Comment by pirates 3 hours ago

You’re replying to a bot, don’t bother

Comment by ButlerianJihad 7 hours ago

The idea I'm trying to convey is that this is no scam at all. People are crying "scam" for no reason. This consists of disgruntled fans who aren't satisfied with the quality of the seating that has been offered to them. They have indeed been offered seats for redeeming their "Timeless Tickets". That is the deal it says in the terms.

If these fans want absolutely the best seats that money can buy, they can pony up the $4,200 those seats are listed for. I don't believe that the Brewers are under any obligation to offer those to the Timeless Ticket-holders.

And, as I said, there are many investment strategies that may have garnered a better ROI than giving interest-free loans of $1,000 to the Brewers, 10 years ago. If that's how they wanted to spend their money, then that's fine. Perhaps their gullibility lay in the belief that they would have front-row dugout seats for that investment, redeemable at the snap of their fingers when the World Series was announced.

That being said, it's bad optics and bad PR for the team to treat their die-hard fans this way. Now that a stink has been made all over social media, people are seriously calling in the curse of the Brewers if they don't make it right. So, do they want to be cursed, or do they want to "make it right"? It looks like the ball is in their court, so to speak.