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Post by wpgmikos on Jul 29, 2011 13:29:26 GMT -5
As long as there have been sold out events, there has been a secondary ticket market to provide those hard to get tickets. With the explosion of the internet, getting a ticket is now a bit easier than asking a shady guy on a street corner. Stubhub is changing the marketplace, providing useful data on the true market price of a ticket to any event. With all Winnipeg Jets games sold out this season, this will easily be the hottest ticket in town for 42 nights a year (playoffs pending). How much would you pay to sit up here? For the many of us, who were shut out of season tickets during the Drive to 13,000, how much is going to a Winnipeg Jets game worth? This is a question we’ll have to ask ourselves when purchasing tickets to games on the secondary market. Read more about the current state of the Winnipeg Jets Secondary Ticket Market after the jump. illegalcurve.com/2011/07/29/tickets-sold-in-the-winnipeg-jets-secondary-ticket-market/ |
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Post by DEATHBYPOPCORN1990 on Jul 30, 2011 7:28:06 GMT -5
Screw stubhub
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Post by Jordy Ramone on Jul 30, 2011 11:03:53 GMT -5
Nice read mikos. Do you know if it's legal to sell at these high prices in Wpg? Will they make stubhub put a limit on?
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Post by Jordy Ramone on Jul 30, 2011 11:21:09 GMT -5
Oh ya and if it is I will sell on that site. I know some may think it's wrong but why not make money if it's legal. (I will only sell prob 2 games)
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Post by jetsfan88 on Jul 30, 2011 12:00:16 GMT -5
Oh ya and if it is I will sell on that site. I know some may think it's wrong but why not make money if it's legal. (I will only sell prob 2 games) It's illegal in Manitoba to sell a ticket higher than it's face value. Personally I think it makes you a piece of dog poop. If you can't make a game why not give other fans a chance to see games at a fair value? Gonna be lots of fathers and there kids trying for games and your going to fleece them? I hope karma deals you a horrible hand. |
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Post by Jordy Ramone on Jul 30, 2011 12:15:10 GMT -5
Oh ya and if it is I will sell on that site. I know some may think it's wrong but why not make money if it's legal. (I will only sell prob 2 games) It's illegal in Manitoba to sell a ticket higher than it's face value. Personally I think it makes you a piece of dog poop. If you can't make a game why not give other fans a chance to see games at a fair value? Gonna be lots of fathers and there kids trying for games and your going to fleece them? I hope karma deals you a horrible hand. First off hoping karma deals me a bad hand is actually bad karma for you. Secondly, I am not going to be putting my p6 for 150 dollars each or anything. Probably like 80 ish. I would have probably sold them on this site for face value to long time users but this site is closing. And if it is super illegal stub hub wouldn't be allowing people to put tickets on their site. Stub hub is a real site and its advertising can be found on official sites like MLB.com. Which makes me think that NHL/true north are actually gets money off of you selling their tickets, which they already sold. So I guess true north is "dog poop" in your books? |
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Post by selanne on Jul 30, 2011 12:37:04 GMT -5
I'll never understand people's hatred of scalping (except those who didn't get tickets and now want them for cheap). Is it the fact that it's illegal that bothers you so much? If so, than are you equally as opposed to jay-walking, speeding, downloading movies/music online?
When you buy a house, do you say: "I think I will resell it at the price I paid - it's only fair! There are lots of people out there who need an affordable house, so it's only fair that I don't sell it for more than I paid"... Give me a breaaaaaaak!
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Post by Hobble on Jul 30, 2011 12:59:07 GMT -5
I'll never understand people's hatred of scalping (except those who didn't get tickets and now want them for cheap). Is it the fact that it's illegal that bothers you so much? If so, than are you equally as opposed to jay-walking, speeding, downloading movies/music online? When you buy a house, do you say: "I think I will resell it at the price I paid - it's only fair! There are lots of people out there who need an affordable house, so it's only fair that I don't sell it for more than I paid"... Give me a breaaaaaaak! Good points! |
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Post by yukonjoe on Jul 30, 2011 13:03:03 GMT -5
I for one prefer that there is a reasonable "secondary market". I'm already planning a trip to Winnipeg to see a game - but in order to do so I need to be able to reliably get a ticket off of someone.
Without scalpers I would not be able to see a Jets game next year.
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Post by Jordy Ramone on Jul 30, 2011 13:14:52 GMT -5
Great points guys. Ya I love stub hub. Used it to get some awesome seats at a angels game. If you go to MLB.com and click on tickets one option that pops up is stub hub so how is it shady.
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Post by jetsfan88 on Jul 30, 2011 13:23:11 GMT -5
Great points guys. Ya I love stub hub. Used it to get some awesome seats at a angels game. If you go to MLB.com and click on tickets one option that pops up is stub hub so how is it shady. Jordy thats a fair price. Buys you a few beers at the next game. Agree. It's the aholes who got tickets selling them for 4 or 5 bills That I have a HUGE problem with. The karma comment was not for you directly. Read that back and that's how it reads. My apologies. |
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Post by Jordy Ramone on Jul 30, 2011 13:25:00 GMT -5
Great points guys. Ya I love stub hub. Used it to get some awesome seats at a angels game. If you go to MLB.com and click on tickets one option that pops up is stub hub so how is it shady. Jordy thats a fair price. Buys you a few beers at the next game. Agree. It's the aholes who got tickets selling them for 4 or 5 bills That I have a HUGE problem with. The karma comment was not for you directly. Read that back and that's how it reads. My apologies. Np cheers |
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Post by wpggrown on Jul 30, 2011 13:37:49 GMT -5
If the markup for walk up tickets is 40%... If a season ticket holder pays $100 per ticket, do you think it is reasonable for him to ask $140.00 if he were to sell it, basically asking for walk-up prices?
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Post by johnd on Jul 30, 2011 13:41:36 GMT -5
If the markup for walk up tickets is 40%... If a season ticket holder pays $100 per ticket, do you think it is reasonable for him to ask $140.00 if he were to sell it, basically asking for walk-up prices? I would think so. Especially since there will be no such thing as an "available walk-up ticket" for the first 5+ years. |
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Post by sab177 on Jul 30, 2011 13:54:46 GMT -5
If the markup for walk up tickets is 40%... If a season ticket holder pays $100 per ticket, do you think it is reasonable for him to ask $140.00 if he were to sell it, basically asking for walk-up prices? I would think so. Especially since there will be no such thing as an "available walk-up ticket" for the first 5+ years. why not? there will be 500-1000 tickets available every game. It just wont be easy to get them. |
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Post by inkymarx on Jul 30, 2011 13:56:26 GMT -5
Oh ya and if it is I will sell on that site. I know some may think it's wrong but why not make money if it's legal. (I will only sell prob 2 games) It's illegal in Manitoba to sell a ticket higher than it's face value. Personally I think it makes you a piece of dog poop. If you can't make a game why not give other fans a chance to see games at a fair value? Gonna be lots of fathers and there kids trying for games and your going to fleece them? I hope karma deals you a horrible hand. I agree.... If you're a real fan and you care about the team, sell your tickets the right way and for a fair price. Winnipeg IS a small city and getting charged ridiculous amounts of money for extra tickets is the perfect way to turn people off, and in the long run that hurts the team. If it's going to cost people crap loads of money to buy "unused tickets" eventually people are just going to stop looking. Actually selling tickets is one thing - having people actually show up at the game and spend money is a whole other thing.... If all the games are sold out and only half the people end up showing up for the game, I am not sure that would be a sustainable situation. |
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Post by sting on Jul 30, 2011 16:58:23 GMT -5
I would think so. Especially since there will be no such thing as an "available walk-up ticket" for the first 5+ years. why not? there will be 500-1000 tickets available every game. It just wont be easy to get them. It will be closer to 500 available per game. Players from both teams get a certain amount of tickets as well the club also uses a certain amount for various reasons as well. |
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Post by TheDeuce on Jul 30, 2011 17:29:11 GMT -5
I say it's OK if you sell the ticket for what TN has as a walk-up price. The buyer isn't being ripped off, he's paying the legal price. If you handed that ticket back to TN that's what they would do with it. If that's 40% more than the ticket owner paid, so be it.
That said, I reserve that belief for the legitimate fan who has to miss a game or two here and there. The guy who picked up four season tix for the sole purpose of reselling them for a profit doesn't get a pass from me.
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Post by johnd on Jul 30, 2011 22:38:04 GMT -5
This is all likely, for the most part, a moot point except for those who bought with the expressed purpose of re-selling.
Anyone who got tickets because they actually want to go to the games will invariably find the odd one they can't make.
Tickets will be in such short supply, that their friends/family/acquaintances will probably end up getting the majority of these tickets.
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Post by Douggy-D on Jul 31, 2011 1:14:10 GMT -5
Jordy, 40% of 54 is 22, so if I were you I would either sell the tickets for $76, or just wait until TNSE releases Individual Prices and then sell them.
That being said, even though TNSE doesn't allow scalping, you can still make a profit by selling for the Individual prices. If I lived in Winnipeg bought a P1 Season Ticket, and I really didn't want to go to the 3 preseason games, I could sell those tickets at the Individual Price, and 40% of 129 is 52, so if I sell those seats for $181 each, that gives me over $500 that I can use on beer, parking, merch, etc. More if I buy multiple season tickets.
Another useful tool that re-selling is that if someone cannot afford season tickets, they can buy them and re-sell them and save up the profit money so that they can eventually afford the season tickets.
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