Single game tickets - holy crap!

[Chuck Schick]

3 hours ago, WotAGuy said:

Don’t you love how teams are weeding out season ticket holders who resell many games, only to sell their original inventory to ticket brokers?  Teams don’t care about people paying exorbitant prices for tickets, as long as they get a piece of the action. 
 

 

Gotta say I don’t love ANY of it, but if I’d rather the club make the profit, as opposed to some middle-man reseller.   They are also the ones that have invested the most and have the most at risk.  

[PromoTheRobot]

55 minutes ago, Bleeding Bills Blue said:

 

 

 

I have a very good friend who's a broker - it's a very complicated business.  Teams, artists, wwe, ticketmaster, etc. raise prices on certain events, and massively raised prices on certain seats at those events.

 

The Bills do this with the Chiefs game, crush the initial demand at the highest price possible.  You can then negotiate a reduced rate with sellers for the remaining inventory to "sell out" the game.  They can then charge what they want.  

 

They also are adding a ton of club seats at the new stadium, which is another racket aimed at avoiding the 38% away gate number since you can charge a "club rate" that is not a part of that revenue sharing model.  Essentially overcharge for food and drinks you may or may not serve.  

 

Depends on the venue, but if they use ticketmaster they have an absolute F-ton of data.  That data can be useful when gauging what to charge right out of the gate, what to charge to make profit, when to dump tickets to sellers, etc.  They also charge a ton for premium seats and premium "experiences" which i think are just to get a big influx of cash right out of the gate.  

 

Brokers and people who resell get a raft of crap when games are in demand, but no one sheds a tear or cares when you're eating $6 tickets. Resellers serve as insurance to team owners. They ensure venues are fully sold while absorbing the fluctuations in pricing.

2 minutes ago, Chuck Schick said:

Gotta say I don’t love ANY of it, but if I’d rather the club make the profit, as opposed to some middle-man reseller.   They are also the ones that have invested the most and have the most at risk.  

 

The teams make money on resales. Where do you think part of those massive add-on fees go?

Edited 8 hours ago by PromoTheRobot

[Chuck Schick]

6 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

 

Brokers and people who resell get a raft of crap when games are in demand, but no one sheds a tear or cares when you're eating $6 tickets. Resellers serve as insurance to team owners. They ensure venues are fully sold while absorbing the fluctuations in pricing.

 

The teams make money on resales. Where do you think part of those massive add-on fees go?

See I think that’s a big part of the problem…resellers like Stub Hub were at one time just a means for one person to sell their ticket to another.  Whether the people involved  made a profit, broke even or lost money didn’t matter to Stub Hub as it  just collected its service fee for making it happen. 
Now these companies buy up the tickets right when they come out, and turn a $150 face value ticket into a $300 ticket to anyone wanting to buy it.  

[Gunsgoodtime]

Will playoff tickets be sold at a reduced rate to compensate for pain and suffering?

[dwight in philly]

What a difference 52 years makes .. Had season tickets with some buddies  ,upper corner  , 80.00 each  for the season. 

Edited 7 hours ago by dwight in philly

[gordong]

whatever they wont get it from me... haven't been to a game since around 2000 zero desire to ever go back

[BillsPride12]

5 hours ago, ALLinALLEN said:

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.

 

That and I imagine there are alot of fans out there trying to make it to their first game at the stadium before it closes.  I have talked to fans from other teams/areas that have told me they would like to make it up here for a game this year before this stadium closes

[Giuseppe Tognarelli]

Yes, it's the law (which is actually a lie) of supply and demand.

[Mr. WEO]

5 hours ago, JÂy RÛßeÒ said:

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

 

that's when the price can drop.  

[BillsFan130]

11 minutes ago, Mr. WEO said:

 

that's when the price can drop.  

Ya especially closer to game time .

 

Originally resale will be higher.

 

But closer to the games, prices should drop as people will just be looking to make something off the tickets if they can't go to the games 

 

 

[FLFan]

6 hours 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 

Sounds like a bargain.

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/DJqC8-fztxS/

[DaVinci]

Financially divested from this team after this season. Seems like they are getting a bit shady. 

[BullBuchanan]

last time I wen to a game I think my seat was $60. No chance I'd ever pay more than $80 to a see a game that wasn't the Super Bowl, and even then I'd probably max out at $200.

[Wacka]

6 hours ago, K D said:

You don't need 2 kidneys...

You don't even need one whole kidney!😀  Had only one since I was 4  and I was scheduled to go on dialysis and got a transplant a month before dialysis was supposed to start.

[zow2]

Tickets were very expensive on the secondary market last year too.  They've steadily gone up as the Bills have become a perennial contender.  Fans from all over hear about the tailgates, the Mafia, etc.. and want to experience a game in Buffalo. It's a bucket list kind of thing for opposing fans too.

 

I thought my best chance to get a decent price was the New Orleans game.. but that's not the case.  It's really the only Sunday afternoon daylight game when the weather is still decent.  There's a big demand despite the opponent not being the greatest or a rival.  I feel like i got a good price paying nearly $500 total for two lower level corner tix. 

[JÂy RÛßeÒ]

8 hours ago, Just Jack said:

 

Was this intentional? What I bolded in your post? 

Of course

[oldmanfan]

My younger daughter has never been to a game at Rich, and we want to get to one this year.  Is the best bet to wait for now and let things settle out before buying?

[Sierra Foothills]

A lot of people in this topic are posting about their preference to watch the games from the comfort of their own homes, for relatively cheap.

 

Let me just say, enjoy it while you can.

 

[Bruffalo]

I'm pretty sure we got tickets to the last game of Allen's rookie season against the Dolphins for ~20 bucks a ticket the day of the game. 

 

That being said there's pretty much no amount of money that'll keep me from seeing at least one game in the stadium its final year.