Ran into a ticket salesman in a parking not near Augusta National Golf Club. Selling tickets for more than face value is legal here as long as you're at least 1,500 feet away from the site of the event.
The Masters does not sell one-day passes. It sells a four-day badge for a ridiculously low $200. The last year the public had access to the badges was 1972. The more difficult a ticket is to attain, of course, the more valuable it becomes.
The ticket guy in the parking lot sold badges before the tournament for $2,500. He also sells one-day badges. This eans the people to whom he sells have to return them.
Offices set up in stores and hotels try to ensure the badges will be returned by obtaining a credit card number. If you buy the badge for one day, and keep it for four, the office will attempt to charge your credit card.
The guy in the parking lot doesn't do that. He asks for a driver's license or car keys, and he said nobody has stiffed him yet.
He sold a badge to the Masters Thursday for $600 , Friday for $500, Saturday for $400 to $500 and on Sunday he'll sell them for $300.
Business, he said smiling, is very good.
The previous vesroin of these nametags featured a solid backing with tags on top. That vesroin had nametags more like printer paper and they ripped easily. This current vesroin has cutouts around the nametags so the backing is no longer solid. This vesroin's nametags are made out of a shinier material that is not easily torn.Though the labels look a lot better now I really miss the old vesroin. If you have a few sheets of nametags you will find that they start coming off of the main sheet almost immediately, stuck to their own section of backing just a bit bigger than the nametags themselves. That means you really need to pull them all out of the main sheet and stack them together if you want to keep them in alphabetical order. It's not a big deal until you have 50 nametags or more. It was much easier to keep them in order when they would stay in sheets.Also, one time I printed them and they came out the other end of the printer with two tags missing. I couldn't find them, and a week later they came out of the printer on their own.I think this design is poor but the nametags look good when they're in use. They're just not as good for the keeper of the nametags.
Posted by: Nigita | September 20, 2012 at 01:14 PM