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The San Francisco 49ers are cleaning house for the move to Santa Clara. But it’s the long time season ticket holders, many back to the Kezar Stadium days who are being kicked to the side. 49er season ticket holders were recently sent renewal forms with the dramatic price increases for the new Platinum, Gold and the leather backed seats in the new “Club” section.

It was just a few years ago when all the tickets at Candlestick Park had the same price, $60 each. But now the 49ers want to “modernize its season-ticket structure to get it more with the rest of the NFL”. That’s the new corporate name given to the dramatic raising of prices, “modernize”.

To the fans, they’ve been jacked up.

Last years $99 seats are now $149 each, a 50% increase. But when the season ticket holders dump their seats as the 49ers are hoping, then the general public gets a shot at that seat, for $179 each, and that’s before Ticketmaster’s service charges.  The 49er season ticket prices were jacked up, not modernized!

And those may be some of the lucky ones.

For a few lucky 49er season ticket holders in the box seats, their season ticket invoice went from $5475 to $19,000! Because the 49ers are converting them to “Club Seats”,  leather backed seats with food, drink and a pregame field pass. And the fans are pissed off according to the MercuryNews.com and many will give up their 49er season ticket this year.

Why are they doing this the fans are asking, especially in this economy and when the 49ers haven’t had a winning season since 2002? Well they’re cleaning house. First they need to clear out some premium seats to the developers, banks, politicians, etc that they owe for helping put up a stadium in Santa Clara and currently all of the best seats are taken. By jacking up the fans now, they will have seats for the high rollers, and much more revenue from the new fans.  Not only that but this willl better prepare the 49er season ticket holders that remain for the dreaded PSL’s.

And that’s when the fans will really feel jacked up.

So if you’re looking for San Francisco 49er tickets this year, check with a 49er ticket broker, because the resell market for those 49er tickets may be much less than the face value, unless they can pull out a miracle winning season. This may be the last season for many of the 49er faithful, who never would have dreamed it would turn out this way back in the Kezar days.

The U2 tour is adding a second show for the Angel Stadium on Monday June 7 and tickets go on sale today. Adding a second U2 tour date to Angel Stadium may also help keep U2 ticket prices down in the LA area with all the added seats.

The reviews for the U2 concerts have been great and it’s sure to be a concert any U2 fan would want to experience. The current U2 Tour dates are listed below and the tickets for the new U2 tour date for Los Angeles go on sale at 10am, though because of advanced sales, tickets for U2 are already available through ticket brokers.

Find U2 tickets for Angel Stadium on Monday June 7th

June 2010
6, 7 – Anaheim, CA – Angel Stadium
12 – Denver, CO – Invesco Field at Mile High
16 – Oakland, CA – Oakland Coliseum
20 – Seattle, WA – Qwest Field
23 – Edmonton, Alberta – Commonwealth Stadium
27 – Minneapolis, MN – TCF Bank Stadium
30 – East Lansing, MI – Spartan Stadium

July 2010
3 – Toronto, Ontario – Rogers Centre
6 – Chicago, IL – Soldier Field
9 – Miami, FL – Land Shark Stadium
12 – Philadelphia, PA – Lincoln Financial Field
16 – Montreal, Quebec – Hippodrome
19 – East Rutherford, NJ – New Meadowlands Stadium

It was passed on to me today that Taylor Swift’s tour page on her website, Taylorswift.com, is sending her fans to a ticket broker site when they click to buy tickets to the Philadelphia Taylor Swift concerts at the Wachovia Center. The link should be going to Comcast Tix, the original seller of Wachovia Center events, but instead is taking Taylor Swift fans to a website that has an address that matches a large ticket brokerage.

Taylor better be sitting down for this!

I cannot imagine that Taylor Swift would have allowed this to happen and I would assume that the webmaster for Taylorswift.com made a critical mistake and set the link for the Wachovia Center tickets to the ticket broker, rather than to the Comcast tix link for the Wachovia Center.

And it happens to fans quite often as well. They will go online looking for the official site to buy tickets from, and end up choosing one of the first ads that appear, rather than searching for the one they’re looking for.

So, someone is in a bunch of trouble because right now a lot of Taylor Swift fans are going to her website and being redirected to the ticket broker site, and thinking that Taylor is scalping her own tickets. I’m not sure how long this has been going on, but it won’t much longer I imagine.