Redskins Found Inventive Way to Screw Fans, Charged $50 For Will-Call
It's hard to think that a team in a league that shamelessly hocks personal seat licenses, charges full price for preseason games, makes you pay extra for a channel that's on the air six hours at a time for 17 Sundays a year, and forced a monopoly for their licensed video games can further bone their fans, but the Washington Redskins appear to have found a way. Their evil (but also brilliant) scheme is/was? asking all their non-season ticket holders to part with a fifty if they opted to pick up their tickets at the will-call window. It's a policy that had apparently been active for years but didn't come to light until today when Twitter user @kararowland spoke up about it:
It costs $50 to leave a ticket @ will call 4 someone if you aren't a season ticket holder. This is the last Redskins game I'll be attending.
— Kara Rowland (@kararowland) September 3, 2015
The official charge is for an envelope:
— Kara Rowland (@kararowland) September 3, 2015
When asked about the fee, Redskins PR man Tony Wyllie (who's certainly been busy) told reporter Lindsey Adler that will-call is now a privilege exclusively for those opting to plop down thousands on a team that'll likely go 4-12:
Redskins PR (Tony Wyllie) just told me will call is now a privilege for season ticket holders only.
— Lindsey Adler (@Lahlahlindsey) September 3, 2015
It also appears that Washington will simply ax will call for non-season ticket holders, instead of waiving said fee:
Here's what I've been told about Redskins will call policy. pic.twitter.com/8UNHHjartl
— Lindsey Adler (@Lahlahlindsey) September 4, 2015
Anyway, one word (or does it count as two?): StubHub.
[via Next Impulse Sports, Twitter]
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