NEW YORK — For $1,700, you can put yourself in Bernard Madoff’s place — his Citi Field seats, that is. The trustee overseeing the liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities put a pair of tickets for Monday’s Citi Field opener for sale on eBay on Wednesday. As of 10 p.m., the current bid was $1,700 for the tickets, seats 5-6 in the eighth row in Section 11, just to the home plate side of the New York Mets’ dugout.
There was a deadline of 6:21 p.m. MDT Friday to bid for the Delta Club Gold seats, which retail for $525 apiece. Thirteen bids for the pair have been made. The next bid would have to be at least $10 more.
Lawyer Irving H. Picard worked out a deal with the Mets, returning to the team two $695 Delta Club Platinum seats in the second row in exchange for the pair being sold on eBay. The Delta Club Platinum season tickets had a face value of $80,190 for the season.
Because season-ticket-holder rights to purchase playoff seats and tickets for subsequent years wouldn’t transfer if those tickets were sold, Picard reached an agreement with the Mets to swap them for Delta Club Gold tickets valued at $60,750.
Picard will sell tickets for April games individually. The remaining games on the season-ticket plan will be auctioned starting in mid-April, Picard said. He asked that a hearing be held April 14 to approve the auction. Denver Post news services
