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These are special fans. That was a great 14,000 fans - they were terrific. The NIT is a chance for some of our fans who don't have season tickets to help our team, which they did tremendously. I think our guys responded like there was a lot at stake, because there is a lot at stake.

To sell 150,000 tickets so far is kind of unprecedented for us.

Two defeats is enough. In the short term the losses have no direct impact. But you can't under-perform indefinitely and expect loyal supporters to keep buying their shirts and keep paying for tickets at Twickenham. We have to get back to winning ways.

We've had tickets sold all over the state, so I don't know where the winner might come from,

We listen to music from the station through the internet at home. We are here on vacation for two weeks and saw the concert advertised in a shop in Naples, so we bought the tickets there.

We'd have people coming in who otherwise were required to have a city sticker making the very technical argument about why the tickets weren't properly written. The change is basically to clarify it for the purpose of enforcement.

RAW Tickets - $50, Gas Money - $30, Going to RAW with my wife who's expecting our first child any minute - Priceless.

People get upset because they didn't get tickets and then someone else does get them (later), but that's the way tickets get released, for whatever reason.

Off the field I thought we had a phenomenal year. With the rainy weather we had early and the struggles we had late, the fans really stuck with us. From season tickets to picnics to renting the Bat Cave to sponsorships, it was a great year.

Of the total audience increase of 650,000 over 2004, according to the League's data, it's important to realize that ticket sales for plays alone were up by 530,000. That means that four out of every five additional tickets sold this year were for a play. Clearly there is still a place for plays on Broadway, and hopefully this success will result in even more in coming seasons.

No question, it can bring in money for us. But the most important thing about it is it eases the transfers of tickets between the fans, and it gets people into the stadiums quickly.

Fair ticket sales are our main concern, seeing how tickets have been selling this year. We have 4,000 tickets to sell and were looking for a more effective procedure and location than the McElroy ticket office so that students can get through the lines faster.

Under this system, they can put (unused) tickets back in the system for resale or designate them to their friends.

Families are safer traveling in the sky than on the road. If requiring extra airline tickets forces some families to drive, then we're inadvertently putting too many families at risk.

We had some opportunities but even in the losses, you learn something. It's a huge meet that you want your seniors to do well in. But it's a tough battle to survive. That's why so many people buy tickets and pack this place.

Sometimes Peggy herself would sell tickets to her museum, and if tourists asked her if Mrs. Guggenheim was still alive, she'd assure them she wasn't.

During the game you will be able to see into the ballpark from the sidewalk, but there is a corridor where fans with tickets may be standing in, so we can't guarantee what the view will be.

That's just $30 for two tickets. Racing is a family sport and we strive to make our tickets affordable for any families that want to come watch a race.

As a result of people buying tickets so often, there's not much room for people cashing in their miles.

A service like www.concerttickets.com is greatly needed. It can be challenging for the average person to know if a ticket is real or fake. By using this service and a credit card with a licensed ticket broker you are significantly more safe and secure in purchasing tickets in the secondary marketplace.

A lot of the counterfeiters out there are very sophisticated. I'd like to see some of the setups they have. To the fan on the street, a lot of the counterfeit tickets are very passable. The general fan is not going to realize it.

A lot of them weren't even baseball fans. We passed out tickets to the game, to occupy their time right now.

A lot of people who are buying tickets are the ones who have to spend less on groceries to afford it.

They're trying to take your order and get the tickets at a later time at a lower price to make a profit. It's really a speculation. It's like playing the stock market.

Put this on national television somewhere or something -- let's nip the ticket requests in the butt. I have no tickets, no tickets at all; so I just finished that part of it off.

Sometimes teams have printed tickets in advance or have other concerns. We're very sensitive to the great partnerships we have.

Teams would respond, probably by increasing the perks that go with corporate season ticket holders, or there might be moderate reduction in price of those prime tickets to try to fill the corporate seats. Even if they kept the kept the corporate seats at same price, they might have less of them, and have more seats at a lower price.

Fans really need to be on high alert if they're going to be purchasing tickets off the street or online anywhere.

England fans are very clever and have special ways of getting tickets and I'm sure we'll be well supported in Australia.

During the month of January, we issued a lot of tickets for meter violations. I think it is because we let people park for free during the month of December.

There's a fair amount of status in being one of the few companies to own a team. And the parent company can give their free tickets and best seats to the companies they're trying to do business with.

Except for those reserved for the Olympic family, most of the tickets will be sold on the market. Foreign spectators in 202 countries and regions worldwide can buy the tickets via their own Olympic committees.

Everything is going fine. Last week we had sold 700,000 tickets and now we have a total of 789,000, so it is going very well. In the last two weeks, we have seen an explosion of passion.

There's no question that the strike will create immediate problems for city residents who live in the outer reaches of, or outside of, Manhattan and are holding tickets for imminent performances.

With all these girls coming in there, we got all the ballplayers, too. I got players giving me tickets the first couple of years.

This tour will be not unlike the last production in that the lowest priced tickets will be on the floor. The best seats are the cheapest, and we want people to get excited.

We just have to make it as easy as possible for people to order the right number of tickets and, if they've ordered more than they need, for a way to get them back and redistribute them to people who will use them.

This will be the best all-around boxing card ever here in Los Angeles, ... The prices of the card are affordable. They appeal to the ordinary boxing fan here in Los Angeles. You will not see tickets for $1000. Fans who love boxing can purchase tickets as low as $25. Over half the tickets are $50 and less.

I've always had great expectations for defense. Your mind-set as a coach, you know you win with defense, you sell tickets with offense. They understand where I'm coming from. You grow up on one side of the ball you always feel that way.

The way we recycle unwanted tickets needs improving. A whole chunk are given to FIFA to redistribute and suddenly you can get a four-week sales process to recycle them.

You need to go ahead and get a card at the store, tell the person that you're going to give them a free trip. Then that person has to contact you and tell you when and where they want to go. You make the reservations and get the tickets for them.

This is a win-win situation for the town and ticket holders. We get to reduce our cost of collection on the violations, and ticket holders get the opportunity to pay off their tickets at a tremendous savings.

You order your tickets and can print them from home or have them held at our box office. We also will have updates on shows and other happenings on our front page.

This is an opportunity for fans to secure their tickets to great games in prime locations before individual tickets go on sale. By dropping the marquee pricing for the Cubs and Cardinals games, we are offering another incentive to Wisconsin residents to pack the park with Brewers fans on those days.

I learned my lesson. I probably got one of the fastest tickets in Virginia. I was doing 161 in a 55.

I'm surprised at this decision because in no other country you will find such a precedent. Even in countries like Australia, England or South Africa they reduce the ticket prices on the last two days or just the final day but never have they distributed totally free tickets for a Test match.

I know we've been able to do things that have given them tickets to become very successful in life.

I'll be giving away my Dave Mason tickets and I've never been so happy to give anything away.

I'll be real surprised if we have any Notre Dame tickets left Tuesday night.

I'm teaching a couple of these guys how to punch. What I'm noticing is how many tickets they sold. I don't want to be too much of a diehard boxing purist.

I'm tired of watching. I've watched enough. If that's the case, I might as well buy season tickets to this team. I feel like I've been watching that long anyway.

I'm trying to get them all tickets so they can see me. I like playing at home. I get to see people I don't see much and they get to see me. But it's still a business trip.

I'm accustomed to the ticket sales picking up in the week before the festival. But I am delighted the opera gala on Sunday night is sold out a week before the concert and we've sold more than 7,000 tickets for two other concerts.

I made a couple of phone calls and spread the word -- the first 15 family members that call me for tickets get to go. The tickets weren't around too long.

I guess he's going to have to pay for airplane tickets

If moving one of our dates to another market could sell tickets and give fans a chance to see racing in other parts of the country, it's hard for me to say that's not good for the sport. That's just the way we have to look at it,

I like free tickets for kids, but that's not what moves me. There's been some progress made, but there are some unanswered questions.

I'm looking forward to the event-it's a great venue, tickets are selling fast and we'll have a lot of fun. I think it will be a welcome departure from the usual awards format, especially for those who don't really like chicken.

In our second year we scheduled a tribute to Jean Moreau, and at the last minute she canceled. Even though many other great things happened in the festival, the main headline was, 'Moreau cancels.' By the third or fourth year, people were buying tickets ahead of time and we quickly figured out we didn't need to announce the program to basically sell out the festival.

Instant tickets are impulse purchase items. They don't go on a shopping list.

In some ways, convincing these guys to come to Kendall - when there were days when I wondered myself what I was doing there was one of my hardest sales. It was a little like selling people tickets to the last trip on the Titanic. But they came.

I had a man call whose wife is having a big birthday on August 10, and they just had a new baby, and he wants to take her on a nice trip. I told him, 'give her the tickets August 10. Go on September 10. In the summer, families and children are everywhere.

If your backup ticket is a full-fare ticket, then it's totally refundable, ... If it's an advance-purchase ticket, you'll only be able to apply it toward future tickets on that particular airline (if the strike doesn't materialize, or if a walkout quickly ends).

If your backup ticket is a full-fare ticket, then it's totally refundable. If it's an advance-purchase ticket, you'll only be able to apply it toward future tickets on that particular airline (if the strike doesn't materialize, or if a walkout quickly ends).

I've known Isiah since he was a little poor boy on the West Side trying to sneak into the Stadium to watch me play, and I'd leave him tickets and sometimes give him some free gym shoes. He was always a good kid who grew into a great player and a great person. So these charges don't reflect the Isiah I've grown to know over the years.

I'm disappointed by it. It certainly has been our understanding that in years past, timed tickets had been given out on a first-come, first-served basis.

The base village concept promotes the idea of warm pillows and the greater the number of warm pillows, the greater number of lift tickets sold.

The best advice is to keep good records. If you don't have them, don't scramble to pick up loose tickets with the footprints on them.

Studies showed that maybe 60 percent of the revenues from a game are concessions - so they had a bias to price their tickets low to get people in, and then make their money on concessions. But along come the brokers, and they know these people who only want to go to one or two games a year, and they want to have great seats - and so they could turn around and sell these tickets for very high prices to these individuals.

The biggest reason people cancel season tickets is tickets in the drawer that aren't used, ... With 81 baseball games that's going to happen. This eliminates that; it reduces no-shows for the game and creates more circulation for tickets, more Giants fans.

The big tickets come from a much younger audience and a different audience base. The midnight moviegoers were, like, movie fans: people who were either into films or into particular films, and into them in either a sophisticated or a kind of quirky way.

The bill will allow approximately 20 percent of student tickets to be set aside for seniors to attend the Senior Game.

It's really crazy. The fans, the people are crazy about it. A lot of people, they have no money over there. Some people work months for those tickets to come see us play a game.

The new plan includes a cap on construction costs, a youth academy to get more young people involved in baseball, additional free tickets to Nationals games so more disadvantaged youth can attend and a vital agreement to use private development to pay for costs around the ballpark.

Not only were we top of the Scottish Premier League, our season tickets had doubled and we were planning ground expansion, ... Vladimir Romanov is behaving like a dictator and if he continues to do that there will be a revolution against him.

It used to be just open the gates, with locals hired as temps to sell tickets and concessions. Now many more club staffers are involved, including many with MBAs. There are lots of sharp people running things now.

I try not to think about how many tickets we're going to sell. We do what we do and hope people are going to like it, because it's a good piece of theater.

Service recovery doesn't end when you solve the customer's problem. Give her something of value that excites her. Every company has products or services that have value in the eyes of the customer that don't cost the company a lot of money. Identify five or ten products or services your organization has that you could give away when your organization makes a mistake. Vail Resorts has a system in place that provides free drinks when the ski lift shuts down for a few minutes and free lift tickets when it's down for more than 15 minutes.

I want to thank all of our sponsors, volunteers, staff and board members as well as the service agencies because they were responsible for selling the tickets to the event.

It's totally in the hands of the artists. These are all very popular shows, so no matter what, the good tickets are hard to come by.

It's not a great idea to rent a car, ... They drive a lot differently. Taxies are cheap and the trains are really comfortable. If you take a train in the peak season, you may want to think about getting tickets in advance. There is assigned seating.

It's not a great idea to rent a car. They drive a lot differently. Taxies are cheap and the trains are really comfortable. If you take a train in the peak season, you may want to think about getting tickets in advance. There is assigned seating.

The NFL would like to congratulate both the New Orleans Saints and the greater San Antonio community for a job well done under very difficult circumstances, ... To sell more than 140,000 tickets under such extraordinary adversity is a testament to everyone involved.

It's unbelievable!!! Tickets have been available for less than three weeks and in the laziest part of the dog days of summer. Who would have known that these tickets would be moving like this.

Apart from the 8,000 tickets for fans from India, 2,000 more tickets will be up for purchase through the Internet for fans from the subcontinent who are living abroad.

At the same time because of the problems with the animals and vegetation, appearance tickets were served on her to appear in city court.

The largest concern that we have is the impact that easy access to gambling the accessibility to buying lottery tickets is going to have on the public as several of the commissioners recognize.

The issuance of traffic tickets is about revenue generation rather than safety. As far as we can tell, there has never been a correlation between traffic tickets and any sort of increase in safety.

The fair has one of the most pre-sale ticket programs in the nation. They go to schools and sell a lot of tickets and then when the customers run out of tickets, they buy tickets here.

That's as many tickets that have been sold for the Winter Olympics.

It is the supporters who pay their hard-earned money for season tickets and who want a seat every week to see the team in action so we would obviously consult with them on this matter should it ever arise,

it's being talked about. We'll probably do whatever the fans want. It's the ultimate fan event. You don't charge for tickets and there's not a whole lot accomplished other than showing the fans a good time.

It's difficult for an artist to make a living in Los Angeles, especially when most venues make you pay or sell tickets to secure your performance slot.

I know exactly what she's talking about, I've written so many tickets there.

I know for a fact we were affected (by the economy) in our season ticket sales, ... When companies are laying people off, it's hard for them to justify buying season tickets again.

I suggest that you make sure your wills are in order because you don't want your kids fighting over your season tickets when you're gone,

Classic rock show tickets sell out in a matter of minutes. And they're willing to pay hundreds of dollars for seats.

I think our coaches would certainly say that, ... And I think that's why tickets are selling so well -- because the fans are curious.

I have the better part of 1,000 people to attempt to find new counsel for. They?re charged with everything from traffic tickets to attempted murder, and I?m scrambling to help them get other lawyers.

Before the auction starts, tickets will be available for $20. The winner of the drawing will be able to pick out his/her choice from the items to be auctioned.