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Originally Posted by Sec218
Have you guys had any success selling playoff tickets here over face value?
I listed game one here and on NHL Ticket Exchange, and the tickets ended up selling on NHL Ticket Exchange, even though the buyer paid $140 in TM fees!
I realize that TM reaches a lot more potential buyers, but I find most buyers here on CP still want a discount and are not willing to pay over face value, even though they are saving a lot of TM fees.
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The market for tickets is soft overall IMO, based on a few factors. It’s only the first round and the team is expected to go deep. Very few people want to spend $300 a ticket to sit in greens (usually the sections with the most “value”) that they can buy for $100 a ticket in the regular season. Just imagine blues, whites and reds.
There’s no such thing as a discount. It’s supply and demand. The tickets were priced extremely high to begin with and that makes it harder to sell for above “face”.
Also worth mentioning that only STH have face value. It appears there’s such thing on ticketmaster anymore. When you go to buy tickets a notification pops up saying prices will fluctuate with demand and it was not just for resale tickets. At least it did for game 1. I was looking at G2 tickets this morning and I’m no longer getting the notification. But their pricing algorithm doesn’t appear to be designed to achieve 100% tickets sold, its to maximize revenue. And even then, the FV prices are so insanely high it’s really hard to price above that and find interest.
Edit: the ticketmaster mobile site and app is totally broken on mobile so now I’m not so sure. I was going to ask about this on Thursday and forgot, now I can’t get it to work. I’m 100% certain it said prices were set based on demand. I don’t know, maybe I was having a pregame fever dream. Either way, my other points still stand.
Edit 2: it’s a dynamic pricing notification but doesn’t actually say dynamic pricing is in effect. Weird.
I’m used to getting gouged to attend anything nowadays and even I just laughed when I saw the prices. $200 a ticket for PL up to $700 a ticket for lower bowl. These are not resale prices. I’m talking direct from ticketmaster (but not CP).
I sat in Red 1 seats (row 4 2nd bowl) for game 3 of the SCF in 04 and the FV was less than what 90% of the tickets are selling for in the entire building this year. Yeah, yeah 15 years ago and all that. But still, outpacing inflation by just a wee bit. That’s crazy.