October 23, 2009

Yanks sued for seat bait-and-switch

Looks like the Yankees' new stadium isn't the only one with overpriced seats: A fan who purchased two seats from the old Yankee Stadium is suing the team and its memorabilia partner, Steiner Sports, saying he shelled out $2000 for specific seats and instead got a repainted, reassembled mess:

When Lefkus' seats arrived, nearly three months after he placed the order, he was dismayed to discover that his seats were refurbished. According to the complaint, "their original paint was stripped and the seats were repainted in a different hue from original." He alleges that, during the dismantling, seats "were not properly cataloged or organized and as a result seats sold as specific seat pairs could not in fact have been provided because [Steiner] did not adequately record which seat parts came from which locations and because the seats themselves were dismantled and later reassembled without regard to which seat part went with which seats."

Maybe turning over the sale of Yankee Stadium memorabilia to the experts wasn't such a great idea after all.