Saturday, July 31st, 2010 at 5:24 pm  |  53 responses

Heat Sell-Out Season; Fire Sales Staff

As sad unemployment is, there wasn’t a way to go around this. From the Miami Herald: “With the arrival of LeBron James, the Miami Heat rapidly sold out all their season tickets. That turned out to be bad news for the ticket-sales staff, which was fired Friday. In a statement, the Heat confirmed the dismissals Friday afternoon, saying that with an ‘exhausted’ inventory of season-tickets ‘we no longer require a season ticket sales team to sell tickets.’ Stephen Weber, vice president of sales, delivered the news to about 30 ticket sales people Friday morning, according to one of the staffers who asked not to be named because he is seeking another job in sports.”

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  • http://www.slamonline.com Eboy

    Morons Galore.

  • EconomicMan

    Should’ve re-assigned those 30 staff members, if they wanted to stay w/ the org. They have homes in the area. It’s inconvenient to move–especially in a shitty RE market like Miami.

  • http://Vanmarketingrocks.com Sanchez

    They got shafted . Same guys selling tix making crap money when they couldn’t give em away while winning less than 15 games a season . Redirect them to sell something else. Surely they r a huge brand now with lebron. Use your marketing brains and get creative and sell the heat product using the guys u fired ! I know Mcculloch . He sux. I know weber. He sux too . U will both find your fate..

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