For sure, I regret my advanced purchase and was hesitant to do so, but was pushed by some others... Anyways, yea not the greatest seats, but unless you've ever been to AT&T, its hard to actually explain what that screen is like. I think its pretty apparent you will need binoculars to see the court (from a majority of Jerryworld), but the screen is a spectacle in itself.
Pumping my own air here, but I know it's a buyers market right now and looking to unload mine. Split if need be. I know I am going to take a loss on them.
I hear you; I think you are being totally straight-up and doing the right thing. I learned my lesson in '98, when I was so sure that we were headed to the Final Four in '99 that I entered the NCAA ticket lottery and "won" the purchase of two tickets for Tampa. They were not good seats, but Tampa was not
that huge, and they were not the worst. Still, I decided that I would never make an advance purchase of crappy seats again because I go through too much to get there, and being closer makes a huge difference to me.
San Antonio in '04 was a ridiculously tight ticket for the semis, and that market swung like crazy, with Ga Tech giving back some of its tickets and causing a momentary glut, and then OSU arriving in hoards to swipe them up and drive the prices through the roof, in a smaller venue. I had to settle on a discounted mid-level single that was okay, but my buddy found an older couple
inside the game that had two sweet extras in the lower level, and they only wanted face value, so we paid them for that game and agreed to take them for Monday if we won. That was a great deal.
In '11 I got the tickets through the school, and they were very decent lowers; my buddy then got us hooked with even better seats, for free, through his wife's work connection, so I sold the UConn tickets for face.
If I was able to go this year I would consider taking a ticket like yours at a discount and using it to get in the door, in hopes of landing a better empty seat once inside. I moved around quite a bit in San Antonio during the first game, even ending up in the press box for a while. Found my way into the press box in Tampa for a bit, too. Remember the lesson of that kid with the orange tie and blue suit who ended up on the UVa bench. Where there's a will...
