In the U.S. event, the baseball team has signed a contract with an intermediary ticket company and an official resale has been established.
Just because it's official isn't just a list price or less.
Some popular tickets are premiered, and they are official resale tickets, including those.
STUBHUB (U.S.)
About American Resale Tickets (Resale Tickets) The
MLB, NBA, NFL, and NHL teams called The Four Major Sports put the most effort into selling "season seats (getting people to buy seats in the year".
For example, if you have MLB, you have 81 home games, but if you buy all of this, you can add various benefits, cheaper tickets per game, and buy good seats.
As a result, popular teams usually sell a lot of seats this season, so you often can't buy a good seat with a single game ticket sold by the club.
Popular cards such as the opening game may sell out list price tickets sold by the baseball team. Then, for example, if you are traveling to visit the city, you will not have a chance to watch the game.
But the fans who can come every day in 81 games are not everyone who bought the season seats. So you're reselling your ticket again.
This way, even if the popular cards sold by the baseball team are sold out, you will be able to watch the game by buying resale tickets.
In the case of the United States, the baseball team is also authorized to resell this resale.
Therefore, resale will be carried out by the official recognition of the official site.
For the Angels, as of the 2020 season, this official website will be officially recognized as STUBHUB.
*The official resale changes the company handled by the contract.
In the future, there is a possibility that a different company is official, so it will be until 2020.
The appeal of resale tickets
For MLB fans who go from Japan, resale tickets are just a welcome presence that gives us more options, but what is more appreciated is that you do not have to worry about selling out.
The main pillars of a spectator trip are those roughly divided into "air tickets", "hotels", and "tickets".
If you think of traveling, you will have to proceed with these three pillars at the same time, so you will face a very difficult situation to judge.
When you build a trip around watching, you're worried about whether tickets are sold out. Because of this, there are many people who suffer from not being able to arrange these three pillars in a well-balanced manner.
For example, if you do not buy it early, it will be sold out, so you will buy a ticket first. After that, when you arrange a trip, the surrounding hotels are full, so there are only a few places away, and you may be worried about how to access the stadium, and as a result, the preparation period of the trip will not be fun.
If you buy a ticket after this, you should calmly examine the situation of the surrounding hotel, examine the airplane, grasp all the circumstances, and do not cause unnecessary anxiety.
Originally, to take a spectator trip,
I can go to the U.S. to see MLB, so I can do my best every day.
It's hard to work now, but I can see MLB in a month, so let's do our best today.
While thinking, we will welcome the day and experience MLB. So I
think that the trip can make special memories more.
From that point of view, resale tickets are a great option for planning a solid trip.
Benefits of resale tickets
(1) Some matches where you can buy seats such as the front row
(2) You can choose a seat
(3) There is basically no sell-out ticket
Disadvantages of resale tickets
(1) Price fluctuations are intense, prices vary depending on the seller, so it is difficult to understand
(2) Depending on the seller's morals, the ticket may not arrive and canceled after purchase (in that case, it will be a full refund or replacement for a nearby seat)
Cancellations and changes after purchase
Hotels and other cancellations can be made, and some tickets can be cancelled if you pay a cancellation fee. I think that there are some
packages sold by major travel agencies that can be canceled, but spectator tickets cannot be canceled or exchanged for any reason.
Even if you can't travel, you can't cancel, and you can't cancel if the desired player is injured and you're not expected to play.
Summary about STUBHUB Ticket
Safety
When it comes to MLB, it will basically be 100% safe.
This is because STUBHUB only issues new barcodes to buyers, but other similar sites are not guaranteed to be secure.
Therefore, it is meaningless to compare the price. Ticket and hotel price comparison sites are fine because the buyer's information eventually goes to the hotel or airline, but the ticket does not go to the club except for the official STUBHUB. So, if you purchase an MLB ticket on another similar site, you may not be able to enter at worst. We take a long time from Japan. Please purchase it with safety
in mind.
The safety of the ticket received and the trouble before the ticket arrives are different things.
Resale tickets are sold by an individual named Season Seatholder through STUBHUB, and if the individual (seller) forgets to deliver the ticket even if it is not intentional, it may not arrive until just before, or in some cases, it may be canceled (in the case of STUBHUB, a full refund or It will show you the place closest to the seat you purchased.) This is a
point that you need to understand when it comes to buying resale tickets, so especially for those who buy tickets before the start of the season, it is likely that it will not reach until after the start of the season, but if it does not arrive even five days before the event, please check with customer service for the time being.
Ticket price
The ticket price displayed on STUBHUB is not a total price.
In the case of STUBHUB, the ticket fee is displayed on the site, but the final total amount is included in the service charge.
U.S. ticket companies are not limited to STUBHUB, but also in service charges that are unthinkable in Japan.
In the case of STUBHUB, the percentage of service charge varies depending on the event and ticket you buy, but expensive tickets cost about 25% to 30% separately, so if you buy a ticket of about $100, the final screen will be between $125 and $130.
For a ticket as low as $10, it can double to about $20.
For STUBHUB, there is a button that allows you to check the approximate total amount.
(This is also a guide, so it will eventually go somewhat back and forth)
Until the ticket arrives
STUBHUB is an intermediary ticket company that connects fans who have tickets but don't use them with us looking for tickets.
Only the official site, after purchase, a new barcode will be issued, and the original holder will lose the validity of the ticket. Therefore, it is close to 100% safe, but STUBHUB itself does not sell with inventory. As a buyer, tickets will not be issued unless the seller takes action when purchasing, because the
original holder will receive a new ticket by the original holder entering the barcode number into the account.
It takes the most time from purchase to delivery before the opening, and people who buy it around January usually wait before and after the opening.
Ticketing Method
In the case of angels, in the case of the official STUBHUB, it is a QR code only ticketing method. Qr codes cannot be printed on paper.
Basically, there is a date for tickets ordered in my Tickets on your STUBHUB account, from which you can display them.
About mutual interaction with the Ballpark app
Basically, tickets purchased on STUBHUB are automatically displayed in the Ballpark app.
However, if the email address of the Ballpark app and the email address of the STUBHUB account are different, it will not be displayed.
It may also not be visible due to system defects.
Cancellations, changes,
and changes cannot be made after ticket purchase.
In addition, the time of sporting events often changes.
You may not be able to cancel when changing the time, or you may not be able to watch the game because the game time is early by watching on the day of arrival.
We have to build an itinerary that includes such possibilities.
The difference between cancellation and postponement
In Japanese media, if MLB is raining and there is no game, it is often called cancellation, but in MLB, it is postponed, not canceled.
Tickets purchased on STUBHUB will be refunded if cancelled, but no refunds will be given if postponed. There are
almost no examples of cancellations in MLB, but in some cases, a less popular team's match may be postponed due to rain, but the doubleheader format can be viewed for two matches with a single ticket ( single admission double header). In these cases, a refund will be given.
However, if a doubleheader also requires a ticket for each match, the basic rule is that you can only watch matches that are not refundable and postponed.
(Some teams can change to other similar games in their home games of the same year, but english skills at the counter are required.)
Even if you bought a ticket for round 7 in a playoff, but it ends in the sixth round, it will be canceled and refunded.
In addition, if it is postponed due to rain, it is not canceled (cancellation), so please purchase after thinking that there is no refund.