nucci Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 38 minutes ago, Doc Brown said: The J. Lo bump. Not surprised. I saw Michael Jackson! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billsfanmiami(oh) Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 9 hours ago, chongli said: Do you regret that now, given that this was probably the Bills worst loss in the SB? Didn’t catch the third one? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
machine gun kelly Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 1 hour ago, nucci said: I know it was long ago but I went to the 1st 3 Bills SBs and never paid more than $150 for a ticket That’s funny as I moved to Tampa 6 days before the Bills / Giants SB. Of course being 21 ( just graduated from my Bachelors) I had no $ for a ticket. I couldn’t believe the number of Bills fans there. It was kind of cool as before One Buc Place, there was a Tampa mall. We showed up at 8:30 am with four cases of beer and had from row seats to wall of Macy’s where they placed a monster movie screen and one of the rock stations had these monster speakers so you could hear everything. By game time, there had to be 15,000 people in that parking lot. It was great until Wide right. i would never spend that kind of money on a ticket. I can afford it, but I’d rather watch on TV with no one, as I want to watch the game and not be distracted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuvian Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 I paid $115 to attend the AFC title game in Pittsburgh in 2011. That satisfies me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plenzmd1 Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 14 hours ago, RochesterRob said: Not surprised. Older Chief fans have been waiting 50 years and can appreciate that through a couple of bad bounces they may not see the Chiefs in the SB during their lifetime again. My first thought was so much money in the Bay Area, it would drive the prices up. Second thought was so many tech bro’s don’t watch football anyway, so now I am lost. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Hindsight Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 3 hours ago, IslandBillsFan said: The ticketing sites are such a bunch of crap with their fees. What is BS is how they charge their fees based on a percentage of the ticket sale price. Their service/work is the same whether it is a $20 or $20,000 ticket. Look at this breakdown from a couple of lower level end zone seats for the superbowl. $3,670.50 in fees! ORDER TOTAL $15,016.50USD Ticket price 2 x $5,673.00 Service Fee 2 x $1,830.00 Delivery Fee 2 x $5.25 That delivery fee is where they get ya 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Hindsight Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 3 hours ago, Gugny said: I think $500 would be the most I'd ever pay for any ticket to any event. I don't judge anyone for spending thousands on one ticket. There's just nothing on earth I'd want to see in person that much. To each his/her own! I would love to go a championship game for each major sport, but if the ticket price was 6k, I don't think i could ever justify it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liberal Bob Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Current Get In ticket price is down 1700 from this time yesterday. The big rush for tickets is over and with more tickets hitting the market everyday prices will level out unless big brokers control the market like what happened in Phoenix when a scarcity of tickets drove the get in price to 10k, On a side not buyers will aways complain about stub hub fees however with these huge events the ticket guarantee that it is valid. s worth it If someone is buying a 10 dollar Sabre ticket off Craigslist and it is bad no big deal. However when someone is spending 4500 per ticket that ticket has to be valid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TroutDog Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 18 hours ago, Scott7975 said: That was a bad game for us but I am still jealous of you. I was a teenager when we played the Giants. My parents were debating about going to the super bowl or buying their first big screen TV. I wanted to go to the game. I begged and begged. They got the TV. I so wish I could of had that experience even in a loss. I was at that game and the tickets were $100 each. Wouldn’t trade the experience for the world! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stanley Lombardi Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Splurged for a new antenna -- $25 on Amazon, with excellent reviews -- and a Genny six-pack from Consumer Beverages. It doesn't get any better than that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albany,n.y. Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 (edited) I've been to 6 Super Bowls. Here's data from my spreadsheet updated to 2019 costs. For Super Bowl 50, I bought too soon after the prices went crazy for XLIX and if I had timed the market I could have saved $1,000-$1,500 per ticket-I bought 2 that year. All amounts are costs for 1 person/1 ticket. Year Transportation Car Rental Ticket Lodging Misc Parking Total Inflation Adj to early 2016 $ ADJ to 2019 Notes 1991 $158.00 $83.73 $1,165.00 $60.00 $50.00 $0.00 $1,516.73 1.75 $2,654.28 $2,783.81 Lodging is for 2 motel nights in Orlando, ticket is Disney Package 1992 $919.00 $0.00 $150.00 $0.00 $50.00 $0.00 $1,119.00 1.7 $1,902.30 $1,995.13 Transportation and lodging grouped, includes $779 for flight/motel 1993 $344.50 $52.08 $175.00 $64.42 $100.00 $10.00 $736.00 1.65 $1,214.40 $1,273.66 Lodging & Car Rental represents half total cost. 1994 $60.00 $0.00 $1,248.00 $0.00 $150.00 $0.00 $1,458.00 1.61 $2,347.38 $2,461.93 Ticket includes lodging & flight, transportation includes est. railroad cost to Buffalo 2014 $60.00 $0.00 $1,857.50 $114.99 $125.00 $105.00 $2,157.49 1.02 $2,200.64 $2,308.03 Transportation is for gas & tolls to drive to game 2016 $395.00 $0.00 $4,726.20 $0.00 $125.00 $20.00 $5,246.20 1 $5,246.20 $5,502.21 Parking is shuttle to & from Fremont $15,565.20 $16,324.78 Average cost $3,113.04 $3,264.96 Edited January 21, 2020 by Albany,n.y. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boco357 Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 I went to SB 27 and people behind me just bought tickets to see Michael Jackson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillnutinHouston Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Those prices are actually a lot lower than I expected. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WotAGuy Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 21 hours ago, Albany,n.y. said: That also happened in Atlanta for the Bills last Super Bowl (at much lower prices in 1994) where many Bills fans never got their tickets. That happened to us via Small World Travel. They told us before we went down the broker fell through and said we could go down anyway and they would try to get us tickets. The travel agents bailed on us once we got down there and only a few of us were able to scalp seats. We paid $2000 a piece. Got them off some car dealers who had gotten them free as a sales award. We filed a class action suit against the travel agency and they went bankrupt after refunding about $300 of our $1300 package. Got a CNN interview out of it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atlbillsfan1975 Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 I’m glad I have been luck enough to attend 3 Super Bowls, not sure I could justify those prices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PromoTheRobot Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 15 hours ago, BillnutinHouston said: Those prices are actually a lot lower than I expected. I have a hunch prices will crash a day or two before the game. My old boss has a saying that I think fits here: "pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eball Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 I went to the Bills' last SB in Atlanta, and have repeatedly said ever since that the only way I'll go to another one is if (a) the Bills are not in it, and (b) I'm not paying for it. When the Bills get back in the big game I'll buy myself a plane ticket to Buffalo and watch it there. Can't think of any place I'd rather be when they finally win it all. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BringBackFlutie Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 17 hours ago, WotAGuy said: That happened to us via Small World Travel. They told us before we went down the broker fell through and said we could go down anyway and they would try to get us tickets. The travel agents bailed on us once we got down there and only a few of us were able to scalp seats. We paid $2000 a piece. Got them off some car dealers who had gotten them free as a sales award. We filed a class action suit against the travel agency and they went bankrupt after refunding about $300 of our $1300 package. Got a CNN interview out of it! So...buy via a travel agent, or..? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plenzmd1 Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 (edited) 17 hours ago, WotAGuy said: That happened to us via Small World Travel. They told us before we went down the broker fell through and said we could go down anyway and they would try to get us tickets. The travel agents bailed on us once we got down there and only a few of us were able to scalp seats. We paid $2000 a piece. Got them off some car dealers who had gotten them free as a sales award. We filed a class action suit against the travel agency and they went bankrupt after refunding about $300 of our $1300 package. Got a CNN interview out of it! Long story, but here goes.. 1) Wisconsin makes Rose Bowl Janiary 94, first time in 30 years. Murray's Tickets in LA sells all kinds of packages to Wisconsin fans, figuring they will be able to easily fulfill the ticket piece as they always have. Hotel was the Pasadena Holiday Inn,which was a very nice hotel at the time, where my sister was controller and another ex Buffalonian was GM( how we received free tickets to game in Super Bowl in Rose Bowl). Murray's did not anticipate the crush of Wisconsin fans, and could not fulfill the bulk of the ticket obligations. The Wisconsin folks partied pretty hard at the Holiday INN bar for 3 days all charged to rooms..all walked on their bill. Huge loss for the hotel. Fast forward a month and Murray's exec told my sister to head to Atlanta, as a way of a partial apology they would get us tickets to the game. Sunday at 2PM, we still aint got no tickets! Same thing was happening there and tickets were running like $2500/per, and looked like we made the trip for nothing as they said tickets were way more expensive than anticipated. The GM then pulled the strongest move i have ever seen...he called the CEO at Murray's, said sorry the 300 rooms you got booked for the World Cup Final are going away unless my folks in ATL have tickets in the next 30 minutes. Got a call in 5 minutes with tickets in hand at 2:15, and awesome seats at that! Ticket scalping was a different world back then! BTW, was in the hall way smoking half a pack of Marlboros with my brother for halftime..same feeling as halftime at Texans game...this is OUR Time!!!!when will i ever learn!!!! Edited January 22, 2020 by plenzmd1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WotAGuy Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 (edited) 53 minutes ago, BringBackFlutie said: So...buy via a travel agent, or..? I would probably use an agent again if I went but I think that was my one and only Super Bowl. Just not into it that much any more. We went to Switzerland this past year and I would much rather invest in those kinds of trips. Absolutely beautiful experience. Edited January 22, 2020 by WotAGuy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken Boo Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 No chance in hell I'd ever spend that amount on a football game. That's ridiculous! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanC883 Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 On 1/20/2020 at 5:54 PM, BuffaloBaumer said: Just sold 12 yesterday for just under 6k each. That was BEFORE the games were determined. The Chiefs are the team that drove the pricing up bigtime how'd you get them to start with?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloBaumer Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 1 hour ago, RyanC883 said: how'd you get them to start with?? I started a sports marketing company about 6 years ago and have been in the industry many years....just built up a lot of connections over those years 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albany,n.y. Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 (edited) I've been tracking the get in cost of SB tickets this week on StubHub!. Before the championship games the price with fees (which are around 24% higher than the list price) was around $6,000. It dropped to $5,000 shortly after the games were played. I looked today and on 2 browsers I got 2 different answers. On Edge StubHub!'s get in tickets were going around $4,500 to $4,600. On Chrome they were $5,000. So one thing I learned is not only to time the market (Past history predicts tomorrow evening will have the lowest prices), but check on multiple browsers when looking to buy. Since I'm not in the market for tickets this year, all my monitoring is for future reference when the Bills make it. Edited January 25, 2020 by Albany,n.y. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punching Bag Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 On 1/21/2020 at 6:18 AM, IslandBillsFan said: The ticketing sites are such a bunch of crap with their fees. What is BS is how they charge their fees based on a percentage of the ticket sale price. Their service/work is the same whether it is a $20 or $20,000 ticket. Look at this breakdown from a couple of lower level end zone seats for the superbowl. $3,670.50 in fees! ORDER TOTAL $15,016.50USD Ticket price 2 x $5,673.00 Service Fee 2 x $1,830.00 Delivery Fee 2 x $5.25 Considering cost of ticket they should be raising delivery fee so they can have it delivered with a Brinks truck. Coworker got tickets to NFC championship game and tickets never showed up by the time he needed to get to plane. It got resolved but he needed to spend several hours in hotel on phone/internet getting it corrected, No explanation was given on why it was not delivered and they still charged delivery fee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbb Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 38 minutes ago, Albany,n.y. said: I've been tracking the get in cost of SB tickets this week on StubHub!. Before the championship games the price with fees (which are around 24% higher than the list price) was around $6,000. It dropped to $5,000 shortly after the games were played. I looked today and on 2 browsers I got 2 different answers. On Edge StubHub!'s get in tickets were going around $4,500 to $4,600. On Chrome they were $5,000. So one thing I learned is not only to time the market (Past history predicts tomorrow evening will have the lowest prices), but check on multiple browsers when looking to buy. Since I'm not in the market for tickets this year, all my monitoring is for future reference when the Bills make it. I've heard about the different browser thing. Why would they possibly do that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albany,n.y. Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 On 1/25/2020 at 12:17 PM, bbb said: I've heard about the different browser thing. Why would they possibly do that? I don't know, but today (Tuesday afternoon) there's a $700 difference. Edge has the lowest priced tickets at around $5,500, Chrome at around $6,200 for the same tickets. It looks like Saturday, 8 days before the game, was the best day to buy this year Prices have gone up by $1,000 and more since Saturday. So if the Bills make it next year, I'm buying on Saturday afternoon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boca BIlls Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 On 1/20/2020 at 5:20 PM, Scott7975 said: A lot more in the article but here is an excerpt... https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/super-bowl-tickets-for-chiefs-vs-49ers-are-selling-for-record-amount/ar-BBZ8QWY?ocid=spartandhp Not to mention you will spend like $1500 in Miami in 2 days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldTimeAFLGuy Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 On 1/21/2020 at 5:11 PM, BillnutinHouston said: Those prices are actually a lot lower than I expected. depends where you sit...club seats on the 50 @$26,125..........50 yard line at $10 grand......club level at $9 grand....OR...get a suite and take your friends for $327 grand..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albany,n.y. Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 (edited) 26 minutes ago, Boca BIlls said: Not to mention you will spend like $1500 in Miami in 2 days. There are ways around that, like staying 2 hours away (or less) & driving in the day of the game, then driving back to your pregame location. That's similar to what I did the year I went to the Kentucky Derby. I found a Rally Bus to the Derby out of Indianapolis, a little more than 100 miles from Louisville, flew into to Indy Friday night, took a cab to a motel a block away from the bus pickup point, got up Saturday morning, took the bus to the Derby, got back to Indy around 11 PM, took a cab to the airport Sunday morning & flew back to NYS Sunday. I flew out of Newburgh rather than Albany since my friend who joined me at the Derby lives in Beacon and flights were cheaper out of Newburgh so he won the airport based on price. After I got back to Beacon, I drove home. I also did something similar when the Super Bowl was 2.5 hours from my house when they played the game at MetLife stadium. I got up in the morning, drove to NJ, parked at Stubhub's parking, took a Stubhub chartered bus 5 miles to the game, got a motel in northern NJ near the NYS line (Holiday Inn, not a cheapie) for $115 and drove home after I got up. Unfortunately, I should have just driven home after the game since after I checked in I watched the news weather forecast & NY/NJ was getting a snowstorm and to beat the snow I got up in the middle of the night & left before 4 AM to beat the snowstorm. Also flying into an airport a couple of hours from the event site will save you hundreds in airfare & car rental $. When I went to SBXXV, I flew into Orlando and rented a car in Orlando then stayed in Orlando motels my 1st & last nights and drove down to the motel in Treasure Island that was included in the Disney package . Edited January 28, 2020 by Albany,n.y. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbb Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 1 hour ago, Albany,n.y. said: I don't know, but today (Tuesday afternoon) there's a $700 difference. Edge has the lowest priced tickets at around $5,500, Chrome at around $6,200 for the same tickets. It looks like Saturday, 8 days before the game, was the best day to buy this year Prices have gone up by $1,000 and more since Saturday. So if the Bills make it next year, I'm buying on Saturday afternoon. Interesting. I thought they'd be lower now..............The browser thing makes no sense, though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liberal Bob Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 1 hour ago, Albany,n.y. said: There are ways around that, like staying 2 hours away (or less) & driving in the day of the game, then driving back to your pregame location. That's similar to what I did the year I went to the Kentucky Derby. I found a Rally Bus to the Derby out of Indianapolis, a little more than 100 miles from Louisville, flew into to Indy Friday night, took a cab to a motel a block away from the bus pickup point, got up Saturday morning, took the bus to the Derby, got back to Indy around 11 PM, took a cab to the airport Sunday morning & flew back to NYS Sunday. I flew out of Newburgh rather than Albany since my friend who joined me at the Derby lives in Beacon and flights were cheaper out of Newburgh so he won the airport based on price. After I got back to Beacon, I drove home. I do the same thing every time that I go to the Derby … countless times for anyone wondering. I always stay in Florence KY just over the Ohio Kentucky border for 100 a night instead of the 700 a night that they want in Louisville. Much like what I do when I head up to Saratoga for the races in August when I stay by the Albany Airport for 125 a night instead of the 600 plus that is common for a room in Saratoga. With a little bit of a drive one attending big events can save a boatload of cash with a drive of 30 minutes to an hour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punching Bag Posted January 29, 2020 Share Posted January 29, 2020 46 minutes ago, bbb said: Interesting. I thought they'd be lower now..............The browser thing makes no sense, though! It makes sense if query is polling multiple servers and some servers are Micro$haft. Some of them will not accept non-M$ requests. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BringBackFlutie Posted January 29, 2020 Share Posted January 29, 2020 5 minutes ago, Limeaid said: It makes sense if query is polling multiple servers and some servers are Micro$haft. Some of them will not accept non-M$ requests. This and cookies. If you searched a ton on one and are newly searching on another, you could run into different prices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OZBILLS Posted January 29, 2020 Share Posted January 29, 2020 I have a savings fund for Bills superbowl tickets. I'll need about 40k AUD minimum for this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. WEO Posted January 29, 2020 Share Posted January 29, 2020 I weeks ago unwittingly scheduled a colonoscopy the day after the SB. February seemed so far away back then. Wings for breakfast on Sunday. Then the pregame show starts with my bowel prep... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbb Posted January 29, 2020 Share Posted January 29, 2020 51 minutes ago, Limeaid said: It makes sense if query is polling multiple servers and some servers are Micro$haft. Some of them will not accept non-M$ requests. I don't really know what this means? 45 minutes ago, BringBackFlutie said: This and cookies. If you searched a ton on one and are newly searching on another, you could run into different prices. And, I don't get this either - why would they put different prices? Hoping you'll buy the first time - and then if you go back, you'll see a lower price? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BringBackFlutie Posted January 29, 2020 Share Posted January 29, 2020 14 hours ago, bbb said: I don't really know what this means? And, I don't get this either - why would they put different prices? Hoping you'll buy the first time - and then if you go back, you'll see a lower price? Airlines do this (or used to). I don't remember the exact reasoning. Something like, trying to get you to buy sooner at certain times. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T master Posted January 29, 2020 Share Posted January 29, 2020 I like it better from my couch !! Pretty soon it will be a pay per view event seeing how the NFL loves that M.O.N.E.Y. ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
formerlyofCtown Posted January 29, 2020 Share Posted January 29, 2020 On 1/20/2020 at 5:20 PM, Scott7975 said: A lot more in the article but here is an excerpt... https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/super-bowl-tickets-for-chiefs-vs-49ers-are-selling-for-record-amount/ar-BBZ8QWY?ocid=spartandhp Amazing what happens when the Patriots get sent home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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