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jayswin · 05-05-2015, 06:38 PM

Thought I'd make a separate thread for this, as I haven't seen all playoff ticket prices, but the prices in Calgary are insane this year.

I'm not the typical "Prices should be cheap, what are they doing!!!" fan that doesn't understand they're a business and just trying to maximize playoff revenue. But this is just embarrassing by the Flames organization, imo.

Don't set yourself up for hundreds of unsold seats in a Canadian hockey market with Stanley Cup Final pricing. We can say it's because of the 0-2 start and the Ducks domination all we want, but at the end of the day, there's likely 40-50k fans willing to pay good money to be in the Dome for game 3, and you guys priced most of your fans out of a friggin playoff game in round 2.

I get it, the scalpers buy all the tickets, so they analyzed the secondary market and decided to basically price-match the scalpers, but how annoying is this? A playoff game in round two in a Canadian city, and we'll be looking at about 18600 fans in a 19289 seat stadium.

Perhaps that was a tad overdramatic, I understand and support what they were doing here, so again, I don't want to be labelled as guy who doesn't get what they're doing, I guess I'm just pissed at their execution and the embarrassment of now seeing what looks like it will be entire rows of empty seats throughout the Dome in what is supposed to be the best playoff atmosphere in the league.

05-05-2015, 06:38 PM	#1
jayswin Celebrated Square Root Day Join Date: Mar 2006 Exp:	Flames organization pushes too far for playoff revenue; Fan support is there Thought I'd make a separate thread for this, as I haven't seen all playoff ticket prices, but the prices in Calgary are insane this year. I'm not the typical "Prices should be cheap, what are they doing!!!" fan that doesn't understand they're a business and just trying to maximize playoff revenue. But this is just embarrassing by the Flames organization, imo. Don't set yourself up for hundreds of unsold seats in a Canadian hockey market with Stanley Cup Final pricing. We can say it's because of the 0-2 start and the Ducks domination all we want, but at the end of the day, there's likely 40-50k fans willing to pay good money to be in the Dome for game 3, and you guys priced most of your fans out of a friggin playoff game in round 2. I get it, the scalpers buy all the tickets, so they analyzed the secondary market and decided to basically price-match the scalpers, but how annoying is this? A playoff game in round two in a Canadian city, and we'll be looking at about 18600 fans in a 19289 seat stadium. Perhaps that was a tad overdramatic, I understand and support what they were doing here, so again, I don't want to be labelled as guy who doesn't get what they're doing, I guess I'm just pissed at their execution and the embarrassment of now seeing what looks like it will be entire rows of empty seats throughout the Dome in what is supposed to be the best playoff atmosphere in the league.