The Safeco Field bargaining market

Posted by Otis Kimzey on Jun 30, 2007 in Random | 1 comment

Last night I went to the Mariners game with some friends and had a great time.  We had originally decided on this game as it was Alumni night and if you reserved tickets through the UW Alumni association (which my friends belong too) you would recieve a purple and gold t-shirt.  Since these tickets were sold out we decided to go anyways, even though we wouldn’t get a free shirt.  Even without the free shirt we still got there early enough to receive a free Kenji bobble head statue, neat, but nothing that exciting for myself since I didn’t have the other two bobble heads they’ve released this year. 

When we were at the game we saw two kids that were not UW Alumni, they were probably 12, and decided to try to buy their shirts off them.  We ended up getting the shirts at a reasonable price and were happy with our purchase.  But to make it even better, we ended up being approached by different people wanting to buy our bobble heads.  One sold for $10, the next sold for $5, and the third sold for the steep price of $20.  So all in all, we went to the game and got our UW Mariners shirts paid for by selling the bobble heads that we weren’t overly excited about.

I never knew there was such a secondary market taking place above the Mariners bullpen along the rail.