Your Trustworthy Family Friend, Higs the Ticket Sclaper
Bloggers beware! If you write anything negative about ticket scalpers, they will write you scathing emails! Watch out for Higs, he’s a family friendly bad ass!
As a result of a certain article published on this site (The Wisdom Tooth of Red Sox Nation: Ticket Scalping), I got a nasty email from Higs Cityside Tickets themselves.
Here is the email verbatim (with expletives altered of course, who would have thought such a family friendly business would resort to so many curse words?)
Hello Greg,
I hope this email finds you, not well. I recently had your blog posting on RedSoxSuperFan.com forwarded to me and just got through reading your overly derogatory remarks regarding our operation here at Higs Tickets. I’m not sure why of all ticket scalpers you singled us out. Calling me brazzen? We facilitate dreams buddy. We sell to those who want and can afford. So f*** you, F*** your contributor Sean Caulfield, and f*** your blog, it sucks.Best,
JimPS - The poker references were quite childish and downright stupid.
Sounds like the guy I want to buy my tickets from! Really Jim, you facilitate dreams? I’d say that is a description better served for the Make-a-Wish Foundation or the Jimmy Fund. You facilitate your own dreams of expensive scotch, boats and gas guzzling SUVs.
Currently, Higs’ cheapest ticket is selling for $330 - an upper bleachers ticket that sells for $12 during the regular season. That’s only 2,650% more! Don’t play the moral card with me, your job is to rip people off. End of Story.
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October 9th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
Wow, this guy reads RedSoxSuperFan, sweet!
I wonder why he actually cares what I think, he’s a big baller apparently; nothing I can do about him overselling tickets, anyways!
I understand the vitriol with him, though. This guy must be hammered upon on a daily basis by the media, by folks like us, and even by other scalpers (I remember a story of my ex-roommate Dave trying to sell tickets at Fenway once and almost getting beaten up for it!) for the business he runs.
Site Map He should find that the poker analogy IS paramount to his business because of the fact like scalping, poker once used to be illegal. Like poker, which is considered the best chance to show a profit at a casino, odds wise (if played right), behind blackjack………… people can find other alternatives to gamble, albeit with worse odds, like with craps, roulette, etc……..as Sox fans can find other alternatives to try and hustle and get tickets from the box office/craigslist at a cheaper price, but their odds are best by overpaying for tickets at ticket agencies because…..they get a good portion of the tickets! The mere fact that he won’t admit this makes me lawl!
Plus, I DIDN’T single him out…..although him running an ad on TV doesn’t help because it was the basis of my article. It was towards scalping agencies EVERYWHERE. Him running an ad during Sox games puts his face at the center of scalpers everywhere and he should come to grips with this as a disadvantage to running ads on television.
“We facilitate dreams buddy.”
We should start calling you “Baghdad Jim” then, lmao