Hockey vs. Cash vs. D&D Books

[Quasqueton]

First off, it is extremely annoying to spend several minutes typing up a message, hit send, then have the message board throw away the whole text to tell you you aren't logged in anymore. I have to type all this up again!

Before the Christmas holidays I won a pair of hockey tickets for the Carolina Hurricanes vs. Saint Louis Blues (at Carolina). I didn't actually get the tickets right then, just a "coupon" kind of thing.

I'm not really into hockey. I have only a passing knowledge of the sport and the local team. I just figured the wife and I would have a night out (toddler with a sitter) together. I figured the tickets were worth maybe $30. No big deal.

Today I got the actual tickets. They are valued at $85 each! I'm told the seats are great -- "club section" where the "waitresses come right up to you and everything".

Then someone mentioned selling them. From the discussion, I figure I could get at least $50 for each of them. That $100 total! That's about enough for all 3 revised core rule books in a few months. That's a ton of minis. Etc.

Unfortunately, selling the tickets doesn't seem all that easy. Fortunately the arena has an area where I can go stand and sell them "on the street". But I'm really not one to stand out and shout and pitch my sell. I'll have to research this method -- maybe go one day and watch what others do.

What would you do? Just go and think of it as a new experience for free? Or try to sell the tickets for cash to spend on D&D stuff?

Quasqueton

 

[hammymchamham]

I'm a Blues fan, so I know what I would do....

but if it were a team or even I sport I don't care that much about (say Basketball for the discussion), I'd sell them.

 

[DanMcS]

I'm a hockey fan, I'd go. You should try it, you might like it, and they sound like good locations.

If you don't want to hawk them yourself, make a sign saying '2 club seats (or whatever they are), $100', and they'll get snapped up right quick I imagine. Or there are usually guys standing around who do that for a living, you could sell to one of them and then they'll turn around and sell it to someone who wants in, might make less but it's quick and easy for you. Don't tell them how much you want, let them make you an offer, you might be undervaluing them.

 

[Crothian]

Hockey games are actualy enjoyible for people not into the sport, probably more then any other sport. Deepending on how long till the game you might be able to ask around through friend and friends of friends to sell them. Good seats like that are always easy to get rid of, especially at a reduced price.

 

[MThibault]

If it were anywhere else but Carolina (or Phoenix, or LA) you could sell them in a few minutes at game time. I think that ugly baby contests draw bigger crowds than the 'Canes, though.

Heck, in Toronto you could open your kitchen window and yell out an announcement and you would have a few serious takers knock on your door.

I love the game, but even if I didn't I would advise you to go. New horizons, breaking out of the routine, doing something different, and all that stuff. You know the drill.

Cheers.

M. Thibault
(AKA Pocket Rocket)

 

[Drew]

I'm not a big sports fan, but I love hockey. I've been to a handful of Minnesota Wild games in the past two years, two of which were on the club level. The Excel Energy Center is a very nice place, so that might have something to do with it, but the seats were very nice.

The thing is, the first game I went to was my first hockey game since I was 9. I didn't expect much, but I had so much fun that I have become a hockey fan. I don't know, something about the sport makes it a lot of fun to watch live. Maybe its the fans?

I'd suggest that you go, but $100 would be really nice as well.

So, I guess I'm offering you no help whatsoever.

 

[Nightfall]

Too bad they are closer to me. I'd love to see to see that game. The Blues are one of the better teams this year and Carolina isn't a slouch either.

If it were me, I'd go.

 

[GreyOne]

No contest man! Hockey game! Club seats would be nice to. It's hard NOT to be into a hockey game when you're at the arena. Both good teams too, though they aren't the Canucks (actually Carolina has had many ex-Canuck players on their roster).

 

[Sixchan]

I'd take the money. You don't like hockey. If you take the money, you won't really regret not going, right? But if you hate the thing you'll regret not getting $100. I don't like football that much, and no matter what ANYONE said, if I had tickets to...say...the Champion's League Final, I'd sell them in a heartbeat.

 

[Zaruthustran]

Just go and have fun. If your wife isn't into hockey, consider taking a male buddy. Hockey is best enjoyed beer in hand, yelling at the players.

And the 'canes, having several former Red Wings, give an entertaining show.

So go. You'll have fun. After all, the $100 you'd get from selling the tix isn't an awful lot of money in the long run.

-z