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General Category => Ask the Experts => Topic started by: P-Dub on August 07, 2011, 03:05:47 PM
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My cousin is back in NY visiting family. 6 of them will be attending the races tomorrow, Monday 8/8.
They don\'t have seats yet, any suggestions on where they can get seats, or a good spot to hang out for the afternoon. Thanks for the advice.
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On a Monday? Walk up to the reserved seats booth and order away! Or scalp, but pay less than face value....
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Thanks for the advice, I\'ll let him know.
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Mondays are SOFT especially if the weather is anything less than ideal. First day of the main sale may make it tougher, but if so, only marginally . . . you should have no trouble.
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Others may be luckier than me but personally I think it is just best to plan on paying face value. Scalper is really a misnomer for the ticket exchange that occurs just outside the grandstand gate on Union Avenue. I\'ve never paid less than face value but, then again, I\'ve never paid over either.
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P-Dub,
Tell them to try craigslist albany, tickets by owner, might find something below face value on a Monday, weather\'s iffy up here today. I\'ve had good luck w/craigslist, actually bought 2 clubhouse for Travers at face there over the weekend (my only \"score\" either day...had one of those couldn\'ta hit water if I fell out of a boat weekends).
If they\'re right in town, unused clubhouse seats go on sale starting at 9:00 am at the Union Avenue box office.
I\'ve walked up and gotten clubhouse from the box office as late as 2:00 on slow weekedays.
Long story longer...they shouldn\'t have too hard of a time on a Monday.