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Article: Chargers, city postpone 'phantom' seat payment talks: city has been invoiced this season for over $5m in ticket buys. (Sports).
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- San Diego Business Journal
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- December 2, 2002
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Reacting to the latest twist in the ticket guarantee saga, the Chargers have offered to stop billing San Diego for so-called "phantom seats" and other "impacted seats" as part of the guarantee clause.
The offer, made in a letter to the City Attorney's Office dated Nov. 21, states the team will not include 1,840 impacted general admission seats for purposes of calculating the ticket guarantee. The team proposes to wait until the end of the season to work out a mutual agreement between the parties on how much the city should pay.
"What we're saying is let's get this resolved at the end of the season," said Ken Derrett, vice president and chief marketing ...