Surfing the Internet for World Series Tickets
BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Lots of pointing and clicking going on today among baseball fans. Apparently, one word sums it all up: tickets.</s>ANDRIA HALL, CNN ANCHOR: Tickets.</s>HEMMER: Of course, you could throw Subway Series into that too.</s>HALL: That is CNN Interactive Allison Tom can help the fans wanting to secure some of those tickets, some decent seats at the World Series. But by decent, we automatically mean expensive, Allison?</s>ALLISON TOM, CNN INTERACTIVE CORRESPONDENT: That is pretty much what we are talking about right now, Bill and Andria. In fact, what we found is that some box seats that have been available officially for $160 a piece are now selling on some Internet sites for about $1,000. We are going to take you to a couple of sites so you can find out where you can get your tickets. The first one is ebay.com. This is the on-line marketplace Web site. Here we found hundreds of different tickets that were available that you could see. We are going to scroll down and show you the range of prices that we found. Most of them were pretty high, I have to say, some of them in the thousands, some as high as $4,000. The thing that you have to be very careful about is check and see how many tickets we are talking about because if I can, I will circle right here that there are four tickets here for the price of about $4,000. So be very particular and careful about what you see on the Web site. Another site we are going to show you is openseats.com. This is another similar exchange, where you can sell person-to-person tickets. The thing that is unique about this is it is going to be a little bit cheaper. We are going to show you here what we found, a number of tickets, again, came up. Some good prices that we saw that were definitely a little bit cheaper than what we found on eBay. Again, keep in mind that you have to look very closely at how many tickets you are talking about. So check out the column that shows you how many tickets you are actually getting. But some of the prices that we saw were definitely lower, they were more in the hundreds and so. And here is what the actual ticket looks like, if you are interested in purchasing it. It will show you the specific game that they are selling the tickets for, of course the Yankee Stadium, and it will give you a nice little bird's-eye view to show you where the seating chart -- I am pulling it up right now -- but it will give you an idea of where you will get these particular tickets, and where you will be located in the stadium.</s>HEMMER: Hey, Allison, could we just interject one thing here. For those of us who have not purchased a ticket on-line. How do we know the ticket is legitimate? how do we know it is for that particular game? And I would imagine probably forgery is widespread, yes or no? or am I just paranoid?</s>TOM: Absolutely, and Bill, that is a very good thing you have to be careful about, because on-line, again, you do not see the actual face behind the Web site. The thing that you can do is that a lot of these sites are backed by Trustee (ph). This is a company that will say that these are verified and valid tickets that you are getting, and you can also ask the person who is selling it, just like you would over the phone. Ask them questions: Who are you? How much are you selling it? Where did you get the ticket, for instance? And you can also meet them in a physical place so that you can see for yourself the authenticity of the tickets.</s>HALL: All right, Allison, we thank you for that. I don't think we will be buying one any time soon though.</s>HEMMER: Allison Tom, live at CNN.com, thank you.