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Is this...? (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.ca
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[–] 32 points 5 months ago (2 children)

https://www.wral.com/consumer/5onyourside/canes-tickets-stanley-cup-june-2026/

Over a grand per ticket. Ouchie.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    Geez. I was able to go to a game back in the day when the Ducks played because my mom found resale tickets. The issue? A majority of tickets were exclusive presale. The stadium box office ran out within 20 minutes.

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    • [–] 20 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Lucky fans and some season-ticket holders got final tickets at face value or a discount. They told WRAL that their tickets were between $170 and $500, but they’re reselling at much, much more.

    So it seems like this is due to scalpers - who are ruining absolutely everything unfortunately. Fucking dickheads...

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Too many people decided during lockdowns that scalping was big money, and it's been atrocious ever since.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    It has been pretty damn shit way before covid. I remember back in 2010 ish where i wanted to go to a concert and the tickets sold out 0.2 nanoseconds after being available. I went then for like 20 bucks, because no one showed up and they sold tickets at a massive loss

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Ticketmaster was teaching people at conferences how to set up buyer bots to suck up all the tickets for scalping, because Ticketmaster gets a cut every time a resale happens as well as the initial sale. That's why it got so bad.

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    • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Or companies buy them and don't use them.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    OK, so what's in it for them, if this is true? How do they profit from an empty seat?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    The seat tickets are used to bribe external parties for favor. If there's nobody to bribe, then either way it's a business expense and a tax write-off.

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    • [–] 1 point 5 months ago*

    has the last few decades been capitalism, or just what the people rigging the system call capitalism, free market my ass

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    [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Yes, a high price resulting in low sales is capitalism working exactly as expected.

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    [–] 1 point 5 months ago*

    Capitalism is when stadium empty /s

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