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Originally Posted by squiggs96
Selling tickets above face value has been legal in Alberta since November 2009 when the Alberta Amusement Act was repealed.
I'd be happy to say no one is allowed to buy/sell above face value if no one was allowed to buy/sell below face value. If you don't want to pay a premium during the playoffs you have to pay above market value during the year, and you have to do the transaction. You don't want to go to a Sunday Nashville game? Well, you pay a premium for selecting the one playoff game you do want to go to. If people are able to buy heavily discounted during the lower interest games during bad years, they have to be willing to pay higher prices for premium games during great years. That's simple supply and demand.
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Totally agree. Was a STH for many years, then moved (mostly) to BC - I ended up giving up my tickets as I couldn't sell enough to justify them. The "off-games" people just never wanted to pay for. Easy to sell for a Toronto, Vancouver etc game - never mind the day - but Minny on a Wednesday night? No takers - or only at a super-cheap price.
Now I'm paying a premium to go to a playoff game because I don't have 'em anymore. But it is STILL cheaper than owning seasons at the number of games I can go to. (2013: 1)
I appreciated one of the scalpers at the C-train; he gave me as good value as he could most of the time, and when I wanted better ones he discounted them for me. Not a bad tradeoff.