http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/spor...h-Tickets.html
Keith Olbermann pays $81K a year for his season tix?!?!? Jeez... Skip 3 games and get a smokin' TV set instead! Skip a 4th and you can get a sweet sound system!
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/spor...h-Tickets.html
Keith Olbermann pays $81K a year for his season tix?!?!? Jeez... Skip 3 games and get a smokin' TV set instead! Skip a 4th and you can get a sweet sound system!
I read this article this morning, I'm glad it got posted. An Interesting read......Originally Posted by penfold
What I found most interesting was this: The Yankees have sold 3.75 million of about 4.4 million available tickets
and
As of Tuesday, 434,000 Yankees home tickets were available on the Web site, including more than 6,000 for some games.
Two very interesting points - 434,000 are there now, not counting what already sold, and what will be listed in the future. And the # of tickets the Yankees have sold, suggest that a part of the high demand is not just from buyers, but also from Sellers looking to make a profit off buyers who were too slow.
Yes - many games sell for less than face value, but the cost of the premium game seats obviously outweighs all that in the total scheme of things, which is how a seller would make money. So one of the groups that gets really f'n screwed by all this is a Season Ticket holder who is a true fan, and just wants to get his face value back or something near it for as many games as possible. Because of the massive amount of plans bought by resellers, so many games are flooded on StubHub with cheap tickets - blowing face value out of the water. So a Season ticket holder is either forced to compete with them at low prices and lose money, or join in the party of selling the premium games at high prices just to break even.
111 of the $250 tickets weren't renewed (out of 3000; 3000 x $250 x 81 = $60,750,000). Big shocker there. Interestingly they re-sold them in 24 hours. Wow! I'm happy with my $25 seats (10 times less the price, 10 times more the fun). Please dont raise those for a few years Trost.
I have to agree. I am against people just buying ticket plans to make a profit. Doesn't seem right to me and I wish there was a way to stop it.
Merry f'ing Christmas
You can thank wonderful Ex-Gov. Spitzer for playing a role in that by getting rid of the anti-scalping laws. If anything, they should have been strengthened, not eliminated. Same goes for NJ and the rest of the country.
Even when they were there they were not fully enforced. When Yankees took the tickets away of those who sold, the people thought it was outragous. That is the problem. There's arguments for and against. There is no solution to this, honestly, other than limiting the number of tickets people can buy, which is with the BoSox do, but theres even ways around that.
I agree. Supply and demand are difficult things to fight. In reality, face value is generally too low for these tickets because the demand is so high. The only way to have supply meet demand would be to raise prices to basically what the scalper's charge, especially for big games.
As much as it sucks, I can't really say scalping should be eliminated either really. Scalping is a basic form of what traders do on Wall Street, and that isn't illegal. All they are doing is buying low and selling high.
Although I dont 100% agree with this, I think the variable pricing teams (i.e. Mets) adopt is interesting in that you charge more for the big games to begin with. However, most Yankee games would fall in that category, so the point is moot.
How do the Yankees determine their Premium Games, and what does that mean exactly? I know the Red Sox and Mets are considered premium, and I think last year the Tigers were as well. The prices are the same, so what is the difference?
If they ask who was our star, give them twenty five names, and if you forget our names, just tell them we were Yankees.
I have 4 seats in Row A, behind the Yankees on deck circle. At one point I wasn't sure if I was going to renew. But I did. Hope it's a good season.
Does anyone know how much the season tickets will be in the new stadium?
I don't think anyone knows that yet.
Merry f'ing Christmas
Feel like selling me tickets to a game?
If I had 3 wishes... One of my wishes would be to make a select few of you Pirates Fans.
Fighting supply and demand is like fighting gravity. You'll lose every time.
The Yankees are on an all time roll. They have made the post season every year since 1995. The team is full of rock stars, and they command "Rock Star" prices to see them live.
Prior to 1995, the Yankees played post season baseball 5 times in 30 years. As a fan who was in the stadium a lot in those bad years, let me say that there were lots of great seats available at reasonable prices.
With no disrespect to NY fans, they did not show up in great numbers when the team was not good (unlike much maligned Dodger fans who show up late and leave early, but have purchased 3mil+ tickets per year through the last 19 years of mediocre baseball). The only way that tickets will be cheap/available again is if the team enters an extended period of failure.
I'll opt for the way things are now.
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Wow, you'd think a "progressive" guy like Olbermann would be sending that money to charities...oh wait: that's for OTHER people, right Keith?
Sorry...I used to work with Olbermann and you won't meet a more phony / full of sh*t person if you live to be 200.
You would think the price would have gone down once Knoblauch left. At least they didn't have to protect his mother with a force field anymore.
Waiting for Sterling to retire so I can start listening to games on the radio again...
Nah. The price should go up. The neighborhood got safer. Thrown baseballs don't go flying into the stands.
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