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Opening day tickets are typically some of the most expensive baseball tickets of the season for most MLB baseball teams and after a World Series appearance the prices can get really jacked up. The winner of the 2010 World Series San Francisco Giants home opener is on April 8th at AT&T Park and San Francisco Giants ticket prices for the cheapest seats are currently running $136 and up per seat.

And with only a limited number of seats between the bases available the prices have jumped to over $500 per ticket for the best seats at AT&T Park. Just like in the World Series the Texas Rangers ticket prices for opening day this Friday at Rangers Ballpark are cheaper than the SF Giants opener, currently running about $75 and up for a seat, and $50 to stand.

And the best seats at Rangers Ballpark will only set you back $475 per seat. But at least it’s the Boston Red Sox. Find baseball ticket prices, the complete 2011 baseball schedule and some of the best seats for any baseball game at PreferredSeat.com.

If you’re looking to buy a last minute ticket for baseball’s Championship Series this weekend you have to be very careful where you buy that ticket and the seller has to be careful as well that he doesn’t get scammed. And these are just the kind of sporting events that scams pop up at because of the high price of the ticket and the fans desire to get a deal. And it will get worse for the World Series where prices may start at over $1000 per ticket this year.

Most of the scams involving tickets will come from free listing sites such as Craigslist because there is no way to verify the identity of the ticket seller. Other scams can be found on the internet with websites that have no address and in some cases no phone number either. In most cases the fan won’t find out until they get to the event and find the tickets are no good.

Then you get the low price scams where you don’t see the true price of the ticket until you start entering your personal information and then the hidden fees pop up. Our company even gets customers calling and telling us they can buy our tickets cheaper on another website, until we point out the hidden fees.

For ticket brokers selling baseball playoff tickets the risk is even greater. In most cases if the buyer pays for their tickets by credit card and if they are scammed the credit card company takes the hit or passes it onto the ticket seller.

But the ticket broker must make sure of two things: That all of the tickets he buys and sells are legitimate, and the customer is really a customer and not someone with a stolen credit card. And to do this for last minute sale they may require a faxed copy of a sales agreement, credit card and driver’s license. Or they may just need to call you back at the phone number associated with the credit card to make sure you are who you say you are.

For the customers they say if the deal sounds too good to be true, it probably is. For ticket brokers if the customer cares little about the price, where the seats are, and they want the tickets sent to a different address than the billing address for the credit card, the red flags come up.

Mothers Day is coming up this weekend and there are plenty of great shows you can take mom to rather than just sitting at home. Wicked is currently on tour at the Kentucky Center and Durham Performing Arts Center along with the New York and San Francisco shows this weekend.

Wicked tickets are the perfect gift idea that gets you and your mom out of the house for an evening, and there are still plenty of great seats available for Wicked at the Gershwin Theatre in New York, Wicked at the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco and a limited number of seats in Kentucky and North Carolina.

If you have a sports mom, especially a hockey mom or basketball mom, you have NHL hockey playoff tickets and NBA basketball playoff tickets available around the country for all the playoff  teams. There are still plenty of tickets and prices for the playoffs have been fairly cheap for the NBA games, and a bit more expensive for the NHL playoff games. Baseball is in full swing and MLB baseball tickets are  a cheap way to spend a Sunday afternoon with mom.