so last night i was curious to see what the world series tickets were going for for the games in denver. i checked ebay and it said the bidding was up to $3600 for 2 tickets!!! are people nuts!?! thats 1800 a ticket! i mean lets get real, i know its the world series...but its just a 2 and a half hour game. and i'm pretty sure there arent that many rich people. are people going to sink themselves financially for 1 game?
2007-10-24 18:46:14 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Baseball
There was a report in the Boston Globe of someone paying $21k for two dugout-box seats. Yes, over ten thousand per ticket.
Now, even for a World Series game in Fenway, that's a bit extreme. For that one could build an entire home entertainment center with waitstaff.
It's not the secondary market that amazes me the most -- people get silly-stupid for championship games and money comes and goes, there's always more of it around. What amazes me is how much MLB and the involved teams are leaving on the table, because clearly the market will bear higher original prices. (But since this isn't an interesting story angle, no mediot will ever mention it.)
2007-10-25 00:58:48 · answer #1 · answered by Chipmaker Authentic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sad but true. It's called the law of supply and demand. The supply is limited and the demand is high, so some rich playboy gets his daddy to give him the $$$ for the tickets while lifelong fans watch on TV's at a bar. But that's not the only unfair deal in the world. Some are homeless. Some can't pay for needed lifesaving medical care. Not getting into the World Series is light compared to what those people face.
2007-10-25 02:40:53 · answer #2 · answered by viciousvince2001 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it is extreme but like someone said, it all comes down to supply and demand. Even if the teams came up with a great ticket distribution plan - which the Indians did - there was still the ability to resell at an exorbitant price. Through the Indians, I had two tickets to the World Series (which they obviously did not make so the cost applies to my 2008 ticket plan) - I could have bought up to 4 tickets. Rock bottom cost for upper deck at Jacobs Field was $100 so I could have, through the Indians, purchased 4 tickets for $400 and then resold them on ebay for a ridiculous price. So - who is to blame? The teams? or simple human greed?
2007-10-25 09:35:52 · answer #3 · answered by alomew_rocks 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually playoff games usually last around 3 or 4 hours. Some people would kill to be able to pay that much. Wonder how much tickets will go when the Lovable Loser Cubbies go to the W.S.?? I think $1800 right now would be a discount compared to what those tickets will go for... if the possibility will ever arise.
2007-10-25 01:50:42 · answer #4 · answered by djk_danimal 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
this happened in detroit last year as well... this kind of bs keeps the real fans out of the stadium during these events...by real fans i mean the rank and file fans who shows up to cheer on their team when they play crappy teams as well as the good ones. the games become the place to be, be seen, or gives them something to brag about to the neighbors, and co workers about where they were, what they did last night... these are not real fans, and it shows when tv pans over the stands...alot of the time, these rich, not real fans make the stands look like a cemetary...
2007-10-25 02:20:15 · answer #5 · answered by the bison 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Paying $3,600 for two tickets to ANYTHING is Gods way of telling the world that some people have to much money, too much time on their hands and are wasting their lives .....
2007-10-25 01:49:51 · answer #6 · answered by gotttalovittt 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
ALOTTA Americans do have more money than common sense(brains)--no->no big surprise-some people have no true value of money until they're starving in the unemployment line.p.s...Beantown does have some millionaires willing to dole out anything to get their bigheads at the media circus.
2007-10-25 08:51:30 · answer #7 · answered by Johnny Z. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Proves that the Rocky Mountains aren't the only things that are high in Denver!
2007-10-25 01:53:24 · answer #8 · answered by pricehillsaint 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
For some people who make six figure incomes $1800 is pocket change
2007-10-25 01:50:22 · answer #9 · answered by ReelTru 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm sure Superbowl tickets go for a lot more than that.
2007-10-25 02:12:41 · answer #10 · answered by sunny-d alright! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋