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Originally Posted by ST20
There's a lot of talk about voting yes in regards to:
1. Hurting the community... How? Most of us come on this site to read the fire and ice forum for news (thanks sure loss), game talks, post game talks, and the ATL (thanks Gaskal) or many of the other forums. How is that hurt by more tickets available for purchase? I get the feeling that scalpers aren't here to contribute to the threads on this site we all love discussing.
2. It raises prices... Again how? The tickets you buy on this site aren't lower than other places aside from fees and taxes. Guess what if you got a really good deal under "face" on this site you could've gotten the same on TM or StubHub. All this does is limit the number of tickets on the site. I wish you were stupid enough to buy my tickets at a higher price than you could've gotten on TM or StubHub.
3. This will turn CP into Kijiji 2.0... what does this even mean? Is anything other than ticket exchange impacted? If it's about ticket exchange are you worried about people ripping you off?!? If you are just look at their posting history and age of account. You can tell who the season ticket holders are.
This honestly baffles me. If anyone can explain why more tickets for a hockey community is a bad thing I'm all ears. Also please logically explain how ticket prices will rise because of this. Multiple posters have already explained why they will not and I haven't seen one person explain why it will.
This is honestly confusing to me and would love to hear someone explain their reasons rather than just say I don't like scalpers, I don't think people should earn a profit (but apparently they should subsidize you), and this will ruin the spirit of CP without replying with any justification.
Sorry for the Grammer typing this on my phone and am too lazy to go back to properly edit.
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I think the concern is that currently, tickets are sold and bought by individual Flames fans. If money can be made by selling tickets on CP, then corporate interests like StubHub that buy and sell tickets for profit will use the site to expand their sales network (if you don't think StubHub would do this, you haven't been following their tactics, they have been colluding with TicketMaster to monopolize the ticket market). Their only purpose is to buy tickets and sell them at a profit. They typically buy up all the reasonably-priced tickets and then re-list them at a higher price. This is why prices will go up.