Fan paid for game tickets in nov, ticket company tried to reneg when prices soared.

[Liberal_in_LA]

Auburn fan who sued ticket company to get his tickets after all

MOBILE, Alabama -- An Auburn fan who sued a ticket company for allegedly reneging on a deal to sell him tickets to the national championship game could be getting them after all.

The fan, E. Abel Arcia, said he got a call from the owner of Southeastern Tickets Inc. this morning, a day after Arcia filed suit against the Birmingham company in Mobile County District Court.

Arcia said the company’s owner offered to sell him 2 tickets at the price Arcia originally paid, and to ship them to his hotel in Phoenix in time for Arcia and his 17-year-old son to attend the game.

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Arcia, a lawyer, said he bought 2 tickets, paying $713 each, from Southeastern Tickets on Nov. 30, before Auburn had even won the conference championship that secured its spot in the national title game.

"I gambled, but I just had so much faith in Auburn," he said.

He was supposed to receive the tickets toward the end of December, but they never arrived. Arcia said he finally contacted the ticket company earlier this week and was told that his sale had been canceled and the money refunded because a larger broker had failed to come through on a pledge to supply them to Southeast.

By that time, tickets to the game had soared in price. Southeastern Tickets’ website had prices anywhere from $2,000 to $12,000 today.

Arcia would either have to pay more than he agreed to for tickets or waste the money he had already spent money on flights, a hotel room and a rental car, he said. That prompted the lawsuit.

http://blog.al.com/live/2011/01/auburn_fan_gets_his_tickets_af.html#incart_mce

[virgogal]

1. I always find it astonishing that people are willing to pay those prices.

[rfranklin]

2. that's just a couple of hours of billing for a lawyer...

pad a few bills for the clients and you've made it up.