I used to go to sporting events before I had real bills. In my area, it is very expensive. On top of outragously priced tickets, it's expensive to even park your car.
Yes! Love going to FC Dallas games, Texas Rangers baseball and more! I have been fortunate to find great deals on FC Dallas games on Groupon. Other tickets, I search the internet for discount codes.
Baseball is our spectator sport of choice. It's the most affordable of the professional sports. The SF Giants are our team. We used to go to minor league games (San Jose Giants) three or four times a season and we'd sometimes get to see a major league player doing rehab. Then we would go to two major league games as a splurge. To save money we would bring in food and plastic bottles of water. (I don't know if that's still allowed.) The kids would have a set amount that they could spend on a snack treat. Now that the kids are grown, we enjoy settling in with beer and popcorn in front of the TV.
I don't go to sporting events often but when I do I definitely use Ticketmaster. In my opinion, its much easier to get my money back than say from Craigslist and eBay :)
I just typed in my location to find a local Aldi and they are all in really bad neighborhoods (I live in Baltimore). I'm not sure it's worth risking my life!
I go to a lot of sporting events: Local junior high and high school football, basketball, wrestling and track meets. That's it! But I live in a very rural area - 50 miles to the closest university, 140 miles to the closest amateur events and a long 5 hr drive one way to the nearest pro sporting team headquarters. We've driven that 5 hrs once with the kids to attend a pro baseball game with free tickets from my dh's work.
absolutely, In Milwaukee the Brewers offer great deals to go to games... I can usually get an alight ticket for $20, and if I really need a ticket cheap they offer $10 and $1 obstructed view tickets the day of the game... plus the brewers are always having some sort of promotion to get cheap tickets! I will usually stop down at the ticket window a few days before the game to get the tickets and save money on service fees and other bs, so the face value of the ticket is the cost (ticket master and stub hub are known for adding bs fees, but sometimes you can find a good deal on stub hub) If I'm going to the game only 1 friend, We will go to one of the bars near the field, drink and eat there, and get bussed to the game from the bar for free... (total cost of parking is sometimes only the cost of a beer) If its a group, we go for the general parking area rather then preferred (a $5- $10 difference), and tailgate before the game
Yes, I go to sporting events! I try to get tickets from work at a discount. When I can't do that I use seat geek to find the best tickets at the cheapest prices!!!
Uh, your math is wrong on your credit card example. Assuming your credit card balance stays fairly constant at $15,596 (you make minimum payments but charge a little bit), at 18 percent it comes to $2,807.28 per year. A MUCH bigger reason to not do this. That's $233.94 per month, every month, for the rest of your life, if you hold the balance steady. You've reduced your available spend by $234 a month forever, until you start paying it off.
I am a season ticket member for the Oklahoma City Thunder. I am only allowed to spend my "blow" money on them, and I have the cheapest tickets available. For under $1,000 a year, I get 40+ games (in most years) and first option on playoff tickets. I save my money all year to pay for next years tickets, and it is always paid with cash. Well worth it. I would never be able to go if I had to rely on the secondary market for tickets.
Thanks for the catch, Kenneth. Tara was assuming a 4% minimum payment with no new charges -- I updated the example accordingly.
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I love minor league baseball and our local team runs plenty of ticket/event specials that I take advantage of!
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Very rarely do I go to sporting events. When I do, it's either for college basketball or the local minor league baseball team.
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I used to go to sporting events before I had real bills. In my area, it is very expensive. On top of outragously priced tickets, it's expensive to even park your car.
I do NOT go to sporting events - never have. Just no interested in especially football which s so prevalent in the Southeast!
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Yes! Love going to FC Dallas games, Texas Rangers baseball and more! I have been fortunate to find great deals on FC Dallas games on Groupon. Other tickets, I search the internet for discount codes.
Yes, I love going to watch the Memphis Grizzlies play!
Sometimes if we can find a great promotional deal or a military discount. Not something that we can afford to do on a constant basisEB
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Baseball is our spectator sport of choice. It's the most affordable of the professional sports. The SF Giants are our team. We used to go to minor league games (San Jose Giants) three or four times a season and we'd sometimes get to see a major league player doing rehab. Then we would go to two major league games as a splurge. To save money we would bring in food and plastic bottles of water. (I don't know if that's still allowed.) The kids would have a set amount that they could spend on a snack treat. Now that the kids are grown, we enjoy settling in with beer and popcorn in front of the TV.
I don't go to sporting events often but when I do I definitely use Ticketmaster. In my opinion, its much easier to get my money back than say from Craigslist and eBay :)
I just typed in my location to find a local Aldi and they are all in really bad neighborhoods (I live in Baltimore). I'm not sure it's worth risking my life!
I go to a lot of sporting events: Local junior high and high school football, basketball, wrestling and track meets. That's it! But I live in a very rural area - 50 miles to the closest university, 140 miles to the closest amateur events and a long 5 hr drive one way to the nearest pro sporting team headquarters. We've driven that 5 hrs once with the kids to attend a pro baseball game with free tickets from my dh's work.
absolutely, In Milwaukee the Brewers offer great deals to go to games... I can usually get an alight ticket for $20, and if I really need a ticket cheap they offer $10 and $1 obstructed view tickets the day of the game... plus the brewers are always having some sort of promotion to get cheap tickets! I will usually stop down at the ticket window a few days before the game to get the tickets and save money on service fees and other bs, so the face value of the ticket is the cost (ticket master and stub hub are known for adding bs fees, but sometimes you can find a good deal on stub hub) If I'm going to the game only 1 friend, We will go to one of the bars near the field, drink and eat there, and get bussed to the game from the bar for free... (total cost of parking is sometimes only the cost of a beer) If its a group, we go for the general parking area rather then preferred (a $5- $10 difference), and tailgate before the game
Yes, I go to sporting events! I try to get tickets from work at a discount. When I can't do that I use seat geek to find the best tickets at the cheapest prices!!!
Uh, your math is wrong on your credit card example. Assuming your credit card balance stays fairly constant at $15,596 (you make minimum payments but charge a little bit), at 18 percent it comes to $2,807.28 per year. A MUCH bigger reason to not do this. That's $233.94 per month, every month, for the rest of your life, if you hold the balance steady. You've reduced your available spend by $234 a month forever, until you start paying it off.
I am a season ticket member for the Oklahoma City Thunder. I am only allowed to spend my "blow" money on them, and I have the cheapest tickets available. For under $1,000 a year, I get 40+ games (in most years) and first option on playoff tickets. I save my money all year to pay for next years tickets, and it is always paid with cash. Well worth it. I would never be able to go if I had to rely on the secondary market for tickets.