Brandon Roy attempts to inbounds while being guarded by Dirk Nowitzki during the playoffs in 2011.
We are original season ticket holders with Trail Blazers seats for more than 40 years. We were there when Bill Walton led the Blazers to the championship in 1977, and we attended the heartbreaking Finals games against the Pistons and Bulls in the early 1990s.
We’ve had our third row seats since 1971 when the Blazers played in Memorial Coliseum. Because of our seniority, we picked up our second-row tickets several years ago and more recently our best pair in Row CC, Section 112.
We are not professional ticket brokers, but we sell our spare games in secondary markets such as eBay and StubHub. At the start of each season, we put just about every game up for sale. If nobody buys them, members of our immediate and extended family head to the Rose Garden (now called the Moda Center). We personally attend between 10-20 games per year. If the Blazers are having a great season, it’s a pretty good schtick. These tickets can end up paying for themselves. During lean years, not so much (see also: 2000-2006; 2011-2013).
We created this website intending it to be a “win-win” between us and fans seeking the best seats in the house. By selling directly, we pass on to you the savings we receive by avoiding commission to middlemen. Sites like eBay and StubHub take a percentage and charge you onerous fees as well. Almost 25% of the cost of the tickets is lost to the middleman when we sell to you through these secondary markets.
E-mail us at troyfoster187@gmail.com to inquire about a pair of tickets.
Frequently Asked Questions:
Q: Why do you sell most of your tickets?
A: We’ve been Trail Blazers fans since Year 1, and in the early days we attended about half the games ourselves and sold the rest to friends and business associates. These days, we are satisfied attending maybe 10 to 20 percent of the home games personally, and parting with the rest on the open market.
Q: Why did you create this website?
A: Stubhub and other secondary ticket markets take a commission on ticket sales, about 15% to us, and another 10% on dubious fees to you, the buyer. By selling directly we discount our prices by almost 25% percent and pass on those savings to you.
Q: Are you ticket brokers by trade?
A: No, this is not what we do for a living. Our family of Blazers fans now spans three generations, and having these three pairs of tickets is an incredible privilege. Selling most of the games allows us to keep these seats year after year, and get in a handful of games personally.
Q: How can I purchase tickets and how do I get them?
A: Inquire about tickets by sending an e-mail to troyfoster187@gmail.com. We prefer to transfer the tickets electronically through the Trail Blazers secure website, but we can meet you in person (so long as you’re willing to meet in the Portland area). Because of their “Green Initiative,” the Trail Blazers stopped providing us traditional hard tickets during the 2011-12 season. When we re-sell seats, your tickets come in the form of 8-by-11 PDFs with bar codes that we can e-mail you. Or you can download them from the Trail Blazers website. You print the tickets at home and take them to the game.
Q: Would you be willing to lower your prices if we purchased multiple games?
A: Yes! We would be more than happy to part with a swath of games at a considerable discount.
Q: Do you make a lot of money selling these tickets? Are you scalpers?
A: No. In fact, without getting into the details, we often lose money when we sell these tickets to you. We like having these seats available to us, but we don’t have any desire to attend all 42 home games anymore. By reselling most of our tickets, we’re able to keep these seats year after year. And if the Blazers are playing well and they make a playoff run, yes, we might make some money over the course of the season. But most of the time this is not, shall we say, a “lucrative” activity.