Single game tickets - holy crap!

[JÂy RÛßeÒ]

A) looks like they've done away with the STM single-game presale.  They went out to everybody right after schedule release announcement

2) Apparently they're trying to ease the sticker shock for tix in the new stadium by jacking up prices this season.  WOW!  For the opener, a single seat from the team in my section is priced at $557 + tax.  Middle of upper deck is over $300.  This isn't even resale.

iii) Ridiculous 

[Slippery Rubber Mats]

Prices will reflect what the market will bear. If they don't sell the prices will go down

[JÂy RÛßeÒ]

1 minute ago, Slippery Rubber Mats said:

Prices will reflect what the market will bear. If they don't sell the prices will go down

I have never seen a team reduce ticket prices once they go on sale.

 

[Royale with Cheese]

27 minutes ago, JÂy RÛßeÒ said:

I have never seen a team reduce ticket prices once they go on sale.

 

 

Probably speaking about the secondary markets like Ticketmaster.

 

Tickets will significantly drop closer to game time.  I've gone to 10 Bills games in the last few years and each time I've bought the tickets a day or two before the game.

I watch them daily a month prior to the game. 

Edited 8 hours ago by Royale with Cheese

[Bleeding Bills Blue]

7 minutes ago, JÂy RÛßeÒ said:

I have never seen a team reduce ticket prices once they go on sale.

 

 

What they don't sell - they sell to ticket brokers at a rate.  If the bills can move 1000 tickets that were originally listed at $300, and sell them for $200 - you get to declare a sell-out well in advance, you get your cash, and the broker assumes the risk.  This doesn't happen on the website though, the ticket office will just negotiate a side deal with the brokers.  The brokers then can set the market and probably will sell those tickets for well over $300.  

 

Then ticketmaster gets a fee, stub hub gets a fee, broker makes money on the ticket.  Everyone wins - except fans basically.  

Edited 9 hours ago by Bleeding Bills Blue

[K D]

You don't need 2 kidneys...

[Slippery Rubber Mats]

14 minutes ago, JÂy RÛßeÒ said:

I have never seen a team reduce ticket prices once they go on sale.

 

 

I certainly have. They either get resold by fans on the secondary markey, or are sole wholesale to resellers and end up on the secondary market. Point being, if they don't sell at face they will eventually sell for whatever the market will bear.

 

I'm not saying they WILL go down, just to be clear. If they can move them at this price, they will.

[ALLinALLEN]

Last year at the Ralph, and an amazing team. Kinda the exact recipe for what you see. Gotta imagine there's alot of people trying to get to one last game there. Not surprised at all.

 

[JÂy RÛßeÒ]

1 minute ago, Slippery Rubber Mats said:

 

I certainly have. They either get resold by fans on the secondary markey, or are sole wholesale to resellers and end up on the secondary market. Point being, if they don't sell at face they will eventually sell for whatever the market will bear.

 

I'm not saying they WILL go down, just to be clear. If they can move them at this price, they will.

We haven't even entered resale territory yet.  This is what the team is charging for tickets.

[Southern Bills Fan]

Any guesses for single game tickets next year? I'm thinking $500 or more for the cheap seats. 

[Royale with Cheese]

11 minutes ago, JÂy RÛßeÒ said:

We haven't even entered resale territory yet.  This is what the team is charging for tickets.

 

But does this not happen every year?  I fly into Buffalo once a year for a game.  I always check the prices when they are released, all the way to when I purchase them the day before the game.  Or sometimes a few weeks before if I see a pair I'm eyeing drop significantly.  It always drops.

 

[JÂy RÛßeÒ]

3 minutes ago, Royale with Cheese said:

 

But does this not happen every year?  I fly into Buffalo once a year for a game.  I always check the prices when they are released, all the way to when I purchase them the day before the game.  Or sometimes a few weeks before if I see a pair I'm eyeing drop significantly.  It always drops.

 

Oh I know how dealing with ticket prices works.  It's the starting point that I was commenting on...

[MiltonWaddams]

I guess that ends my years of game attendance. When considering the exchange rate, that’s over 500 loonies for a basic seat. Not a chance

[davefan66]

Next season resale will fetch far greater prices most likely. Especially opener and early games.

Edited 8 hours ago by davefan66

[Bleeding Bills Blue]

18 minutes ago, JÂy RÛßeÒ said:

We haven't even entered resale territory yet.  This is what the team is charging for tickets.

 

Correct - based off of market research and data likely provided by ticketmaster and stubhub - this a closer interpretation of what tickets sold for during the season last year.  

 

If they priced them low, resellers would scoop them all up anyway.  

[Slippery Rubber Mats]

29 minutes ago, JÂy RÛßeÒ said:

We haven't even entered resale territory yet.  This is what the team is charging for tickets.

 

Understood. I am talking about the future, not the present. Thus, we will find out what the market will bear.

[dorquemada]

When faced with a decision last year about getting 5 tickets to a game at $300 each plus an easy additional $500 to get to the game, tailgate, food/beer/parking, instead I bought a 77" TV and a Sonos soundbar.  I missed the game experience but use the TV every day lol

[Royale with Cheese]

24 minutes ago, Southern Bills Fan said:

Any guesses for single game tickets next year? I'm thinking $500 or more for the cheap seats. 

 

The cheap seats in Dallas are $147.00.  So of course, Bills fans should expect to pay 3.5x as much. 

Edited 8 hours ago by Royale with Cheese

[BADOLBILZ]

58 minutes ago, JÂy RÛßeÒ said:

A) looks like they've done away with the STM single-game presale.  They went out to everybody right after schedule release announcement

2) Apparently they're trying to ease the sticker shock for tix in the new stadium by jacking up prices this season.  WOW!  For the opener, a single seat from the team in my section is priced at $557 + tax.  Middle of upper deck is over $300.  This isn't even resale.

iii) Ridiculous 

 

 

Easing the sticker shock is one way to frame it.   Re-setting the floor at the most opportune time is how I would put it.   Those who bought PSL's were promised modest increases in price from year to year in the new stadium (I believe 2%).   That was part of the pitch.   Whether they honor that or not remains to be seen,  but since the promise was so recent, they kinda' gotta' get that price-hike up NOW.   Also thins out the riff-raff so many on TSW complain about😉.......

 

 

[shane nelson]

While i dont like li, I cant blame them.  Its their product and they are charging market value, like other teams, the Bills are now scalpers too.