https://www.wral.com/consumer/5onyourside/canes-tickets-stanley-cup-june-2026/
Over a grand per ticket. Ouchie.
Geez. I was able to go to a game back in the day when the Ducks played because my mom found resale tickets. The issue? A majority of tickets were exclusive presale. The stadium box office ran out within 20 minutes.
Holy shit. Just priced out anybody with a median wage that isn’t super irresponsible with their money.
Lucky fans and some season-ticket holders got final tickets at face value or a discount. They told WRAL that their tickets were between $170 and $500, but they’re reselling at much, much more.
So it seems like this is due to scalpers - who are ruining absolutely everything unfortunately. Fucking dickheads…
Too many people decided during lockdowns that scalping was big money, and it’s been atrocious ever since.
It has been pretty damn shit way before covid. I remember back in 2010 ish where i wanted to go to a concert and the tickets sold out 0.2 nanoseconds after being available. I went then for like 20 bucks, because no one showed up and they sold tickets at a massive loss
Ticketmaster was teaching people at conferences how to set up buyer bots to suck up all the tickets for scalping, because Ticketmaster gets a cut every time a resale happens as well as the initial sale. That’s why it got so bad.
Or companies buy them and don’t use them.
OK, so what’s in it for them, if this is true? How do they profit from an empty seat?
The seat tickets are used to bribe external parties for favor. If there’s nobody to bribe, then either way it’s a business expense and a tax write-off.
Like who? In return for what? And how is this better than just selling the seat to a spectator, or the company giving them to one of their staff?
Yes, a high price resulting in low sales is capitalism working exactly as expected.
Capitalism is when stadium empty /s
has the last few decades been capitalism, or just what the people rigging the system call capitalism, free market my ass
