{"id":852,"date":"2008-11-03T17:56:25","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T22:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.ticketcenter.com\/?p=852"},"modified":"2008-11-03T17:56:25","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T22:56:25","slug":"500-scammed-by-fake-texas-tech-tickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/sports\/500-scammed-by-fake-texas-tech-tickets\/","title":{"rendered":"500 Scammed by Fake Texas Tech Tickets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 500 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/texas_tech_red_raiders_football_tickets.html\" target=\"_self\">Texas Tech<\/a> supporters missed the thrilling <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/texas_longhorns_football_tickets.html\" target=\"_self\">Texas<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/texas_tech_red_raiders_football_tickets.html\" target=\"_self\">Texas Tech<\/a> game because they had bought fake tickets (Tech defeated Texas 39-33 with one second to play), according to the <em>Lubbock Avalanche-Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The tickets reportedly looked very much like regular season-ticket stock, but the bar codes didn&#8217;t match and showed seats that had already been sold.<\/p>\n<p>The assistant athletic director for ticket operations at Tech was quoted by KCBD News Channel 11 as saying that he had heard that &#8220;the counterfeit tickets went for about $200 a piece.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Why risk getting ripped off? Get your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/sports\/football\/nfl_football\/\" target=\"_self\">Football Tickets<\/a> at Ticketcenter.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 500 Texas Tech supporters missed the thrilling Texas&#8211;Texas Tech game because they had bought fake tickets (Tech defeated Texas 39-33 with one second to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[412,912,922],"class_list":["post-852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-football","tag-texas","tag-texas-tech"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":862,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions\/862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}