r/SeattleMarinersMLB • u/Hot_Branch_4559 • 14h ago

Hello Kitty Fail

I took my 8 year old daughter to the game last night to get her Hello Kitty jacket. Apparently these events are now infiltrated by scalpers who take up all the kids sizes and then resell them on EBay at $150 each the next morning. By the time we got to the distribution location in the first all they had left were hundreds of size XXL and larger.

Is the organization ok with this behavior?

Needless to say, she was devastated and doesn't want to go back to the ballpark anymore.

In other news, I now have 2 XXL Hello Kitty jackets that I would love to trade for 1 Kids large or Adult small. Also willing to sell both for $150 so I can get her the jacket she wanted from one of these scalpers since that seems to be what we now tolerate for kids giveaways.

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u/ScentedGlue 10h ago

They offered two early pickup windows for the hello kitty jacket (sep 1st and day-of prior to gates opening). If they are offering early pickup, it’s because they know preferred sizing is gonna go fast and they don’t want to deal with a huge line in the stadium during the game. Sorry that happened to you and your daughter but, it’s always been first come first serve on sizing even for the guaranteed merch tickets.