Two weeks ago, the Ultimate Sports Wife and I planned to fly to San Francisco to attend the 49ers game with my grandparents, parents and brother. There were two requirements that made buying tickets in advance a requirement.

1) We needed seven tickets. It is next to impossible to find seven tickets together from scalpers outside the stadium.
2) We needed to buy tickets in a low row of the upper deck. My grandfather is 86 years old and not able to walk up very many steps.

I logged onto ticketmaster.com to look for tickets. The 49ers had seven tickets together but they were in a high row in the upper deck and cost $58 each (plus ticketmaster fees). Instead, I logged onto stubhub.com and found 4 seats in row 5 for $40 each and 3 tickets in row 22 in the same section for $34 each. After all the fees, it cost us $46 per ticket and we had satisfied both requirements and we sat relatively close together.