Post-Season Ticket Prices (Split from "They Can Do This - Again and Again - Game Two Post Season IGT 10/06/24 NYM at PHL")

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

=Gwreck post_id=174539 time=1728269622 user_id=56]




Expecting a very good crowd at Citi on Tuesday.

[Fman99]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: =Gwreck post_id=174539 time=1728269622 user_id=56] Expecting a very good crowd at Citi on Tuesday.

SRO tickets start at $248

[Gwreck]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: =Gwreck post_id=174539 time=1728269622 user_id=56]Expecting a very good crowd at Citi on Tuesday. SRO tickets start at $248

I looked into this too -- the same upper deck behind the plate seats that I scored five of for $70 on TickPick, for a July matinee, are going for $500 apiece for tomorrow. Pass.

[Edgy MD]

End the MLB monopoly.

[batmagadanleadoff]

I have no idea what the fuss or sour grapes are all about with the ticket prices. If I owned a pizzeria, and customers were willing to pay me $50.00 for one slice of pizza, I'd be charging $50.00 for a slice of pizza in a heartbeat. Isn't that how everything works? Or is everybody supposed to be able to own a Rolls Royce?





What the hell are youse whining about? When people stop paying those prices, those prices will come down.



Newsflash! It also costs a heck of lot more money to sit two rows behind home plate at field level than it does to sit in left field, 475 feet away and 60 feet higher than home plate. Duh.

Edited October 7, 2024 by Guest

[Edgy MD]

An industry run as a cartel is not how everything works.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: An industry run as a cartel is not how everything works.

Even if you're right, it wouldn't matter. I have no idea what point you're trying to make here. But you're bringing up tangential and irrelevant issues. You think that if we had relegation and the freedom for teams to move and locate wherever and whenever they wanted to, ticket prices would be cheaper?

[Edgy MD]

It sure otherwise reads like you have an idea of my point.



Yes, there certainly would be market effects lowering prices if MLB didn't have a tight control on the number of teams, and territorial exclusivity.



If your restaurant was one of only two permitted to sell pizza in New York City, you might well be able to charge $50 a slice.

[MFS62]

Sounds like this is a start for a new thread about the factors impacting ticket prices.



Later

[Centerfield]

Aren't all the tickets already sold? The prices that you're seeing for tickets are resale prices no?

[ashie62]

Pricing on secondary will be nuts



In all entertainment and sports

[Frayed Knot]

Maybe Kamala will weigh in on this.

She sure seems to know what the price of things should be.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: It sure otherwise reads like you have an idea of my point. Yes, there certainly would be market effects lowering prices if MLB didn't have a tight control on the number of teams, and territorial exclusivity. If your restaurant was one of only two permitted to sell pizza in New York City, you might well be able to charge $50 a slice.

First of all, it's the playoffs. So the product is limited. Lower supply means higher demand means higher prices. Secondly, if teams could glut a market to the point that profits are reduced, teams wouldn't glut the market in the first place. Thirdly, this is a ridiculous delusional fantasy that you're entertaining. Call your congressman.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: If your restaurant was one of only two permitted to sell pizza in New York City, you might well be able to charge $50 a slice.

That's right. I already said that. If my customers were willing to pay fifty bucks a slice, I'd charge them fifty bucks in a heartbeat. And if the queen had balls, the bear would shit in the woods.

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[Edgy MD]

I'm not entertaining a delusional fantasy.



I don't know why you would write this when you're proposing $50 pizza slices.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: I'm not entertaining a delusional fantasy. I don't know why you would write this when you're proposing $50 pizza slices.

??????????

[Edgy MD]

But thank you for acknowledging that you have some idea of what I'm referring to.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: I'm not entertaining a delusional fantasy. I don't know why you would write this when you're proposing $50 pizza slices.

Fifty bucks? I'd charge a thousand bucks a slice if the public would pay. That's how things work.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: But thank you for acknowledging that you have some idea of what I'm referring to.

I know exactly what you're referring to.

[metsmarathon]

man, i'm glad i blew up my knee, or i would almost wish i could talk myself into paying for a postseason ticket and then explaining to the kids why i didn't bring them. except, fuuuuuuuuuuck, that's too much. i don't need a busted up knee to talk some sense into me.

[Bob Alpacadaca]

Hope your knee gets better!



Do the Mets set this prices, or is MLB in charge for postseason games?

[rchurch314]

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=174588 time=1728319594 user_id=68]
I have no idea what the fuss or sour grapes are all about with the ticket prices. If I owned a pizzeria, and customers were willing to pay me $50.00 for one slice of pizza, I'd be charging $50.00 for a slice of pizza in a heartbeat. Isn't that how everything works? Or is everybody supposed to be able to own a Rolls Royce?





What the hell are youse whining about? When people stop paying those prices, those prices will come down.



Newsflash! It also costs a heck of lot more money to sit two rows behind home plate at field level than it does to sit in left field, 475 feet away and 60 feet higher than home plate. Duh.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I was only saying the ticket price is too expensive for me, not for everyone obviously.



But I do wonder if a crowd of $500-a-seat fans can bring the same energy as the $30-a-seat Tuesday Night fans

[Gwreck]

=rchurch314 post_id=174609 time=1728330715 user_id=195]I don't think the plan holders get that significant of a discount either.

[metirish]

My friend Chris is going to MFY stadium , section 528 for $193

[MFS62]

=metirish post_id=174623 time=1728335716 user_id=72]
My EX-friend Chris is going to MFY stadium , section 528 for $193

[Gwreck]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: But I do wonder if a crowd of $500-a-seat fans can bring the same energy as the $30-a-seat Tuesday Night fans

This is the most interesting point in this thread. Crowds were mostly good in 2015 but the prices hadn't been escalated quite as much back then.

[ashie62]

I've thought that ticket revenue for sports teams is a small percentage of a teams top line total revenue



10% maybe?



Do you what racetracks have done for a long time, you're all in for free, spend some money

[batmagadanleadoff]

=rchurch314 post_id=174609 time=1728330715 user_id=195]
=batmagadanleadoff post_id=174588 time=1728319594 user_id=68]
I have no idea what the fuss or sour grapes are all about with the ticket prices. If I owned a pizzeria, and customers were willing to pay me $50.00 for one slice of pizza, I'd be charging $50.00 for a slice of pizza in a heartbeat. Isn't that how everything works? Or is everybody supposed to be able to own a Rolls Royce?





What the hell are youse whining about? When people stop paying those prices, those prices will come down.



Newsflash! It also costs a heck of lot more money to sit two rows behind home plate at field level than it does to sit in left field, 475 feet away and 60 feet higher than home plate. Duh.

[Edgy MD]

New York, not so long ago, had laws prohibiting charging more than 10% above face value for resold tickets.



I imagine the laws became largely unenforceable in the Internet age, but I'm not sure where the notion of scalping being an unseemly and exploitative practice went. I guess I can put it beside commercials for hard alcohol, advertising on uniforms, and gambling in the box of things MLB would seemingly never allow themselves to be associated with, that they now embrace wholeheartedly.