Let's be honest...
...you should own things that you love. And I LOVE the Utah Jazz! Now obviously it would be ridiculous to suggest that I should own the Jazz, so let's just settle for season tickets. I have always said that I will one day own season tickets. I always thought I would just have to wait until I was older and had something more of an expendable income. But things have changed recently, let me explain why:
I bought a pair of tickets on KSL the other day because I am taking a girl to the game against the Blazers next week for her birthday. They are on the front row of the upper bowl, which are pretty good seats. Individually, tickets of that range go for about $50 a piece. I paid the guy the $30 a piece for them. But if you by season tickets in that area, they go for $25. So the guy actually made a profit on those seats. And of course, that got me to thinking. Why couldn't I buy season tickets at a discounted price, and simply resell most of them at a profit. That way, I could still go to at least 10 games or so and try and make enough off of the other tickets to cover the cost of those. I don't think I would even try to make money off of this deal, but I would be happy if even just came out even from the whole thing. The benefit comes from having great season tickets to watch my favorite team. When they play big name teams like Lebron and the Cavs or Kobe and the Lakers, I could easily sell them for more. Not to mention the bonus I could make from playoff games.
No one goes to a sporting events by themselves though. Which means I would go in on this whole deal with at least one other person, maybe 3. I wouldn't get to go to as many games that way, but at least the financial risk wouldn't be as great if I did. I have the tendency of wanting to jump the gun on crazy financial decisions like this, so I really think I should sleep on it before I decide for sure one way or the other. Luckily, I have half of the current NBA season to think about it too, so that should give me more than enough nights of sleeping on it to decide.
We could get into the whole "wants and needs" argument and what is really essential for me, but let's be honest...I really do NEED this.
