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Originally Posted by flameswin
Wow, well if there's one thing these insane prices have done it's priced out the secondary market guys. Looks like tons of people are now trying to dump tickets at or below face value, except face value is like $6 - $1100 for most ticket pairs.
There's even a bunch on CP, where as two weeks ago everyone was talking about it's all people looking for tickets and you wouldn't see any selling threads.
It's almost like the Flames just said "you know what? Everyone tries to scalp our tickets anyways, let's just do it first so there's no profit to be made on the secondary market." Like one guy said, $1100 for a pair of tickets is the price of a decent vacation for two. I love the Flames and the atmosphere in the Dome is one of my favorite experiences out there during playoffs, but good lord they went all out.
I'm not even mad because they missed the playoffs so many years and simply need to get some revenue back from these playoff games, but they certainly priced me out as a fan.
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I am actually 100% OK with the team getting the money, and not the secondary market. If there is going to be a massive premium for these games, the team should be reaping the benefits, as it will add to their bottom line. Maybe some of that goes towards a new building, maybe some to the staff, and most importantly with this crap dollar, maybe it offsets some operating losses for them based on the return.
Anything to throw a wrench into Denver Broncos guy's plans, is good by me.