Super Bowl Ticket Problems Leave Patriots Fans Deflated In Arizona
PHOENIX (CBS) -- Super Bowl seats are the hottest ticket in town, but many Patriots fans who made the trip to Arizona are unhappy because the tickets they thought they had are gone.
Talk about "DeflateGate," these faithful fans are more than deflated -- they are angry and desperate.
"Very frustrating. I'm ready to roll heads," Mark Kopple told WBZ-TV at a fan party in Phoenix.
Kopple is facing a "Super" problem – the tickets he thought he bought from a broker are nowhere to be found.
"I bought my tickets from Vivid. I paid $1,800 for nosebleed seats," Kopple said. "I've called them four times since I've been here."
Anthony Cardillo is in limbo too. Tickets he booked are apparently a bust.
"We had them booked, they got canceled because the ticket places didn't have them," Cardillo said.
The only ones available now are about $8,000 to $10,000 a pop, too much for most Pats fans in Arizona. So many have no choice but to wait it out and hope for a last minute ticket Hail Mary.
"We are having a good time but we want to go to the game," fan Andy Maglione said.
Some of those resale brokers never had the tickets in the first place – it's a practice called short-selling.
The ticket sites have been refunding customers.