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Originally Posted by TomfooleryU
I got lucky and won the Reds NLDS ticket lottery. I have the right to buy up to 6 seats now for each of the home games in that series. Right now my plan is to go with 2-3 friends (who I'll give them to at face value) and sell the extras for as much as possible. What kind of seats should I be looking to purchase to get the highest premium over face value? I'm probably not going to get the best available just because I don't want to price my friends out, but any info you could give me re: profit margins on different quality of seats for MLB games (especially playoffs) would be great. I'm anticipating really high demand considering we haven't been in the playoffs in so many years. Based on the little homework I've done it looks like tons of people got shut out in the lottery.
Mazel Tov on the win. I entered about 30 emails and only won 2 entries.
Here is what you need to know to maximize your EV:
Sale starts at 9am est. The link is in your "congrats" email.
Click that at like 8:25-8:30 and you will be at the Reds page which will contain a link to get to the purchase page. The link will probably be clickable by 8:40. This will take you to a blank which refreshed at exactly 9:00:01, will be where you should PASTE your password (CTRL C the pw at 8:30).
Here is what you need to do:
Paste pw, hit enter
Immediately click the "t" link next to NLDS HG 1
Enter "6" in quantity. Here is your first choice. I am going to hit the $70 Infield Boxes for game 1, and the $35 Kroger Bleachers for HG 2 and 3.
Enter captcha, when you pull your tix, immediately hit "continue" and then "add another game", and go to HG2 then HG3.
HG2 won't have very good resale values at all, HG1 should be decent, and HG3 should be very good. If you have limited funds, go for the $35 seats for all 3 games.