Buck Compton said:
Proposition Joe said:
Buck Compton said:
Proposition Joe said:
The Astros and the brokerage they partner with are selling directly on the secondary market which has manipulated supply (and in this case tanked demand price).
Something like 3,000+ tickets were added to Stubhub after 11PM last night, many of them sets of 10-20 tickets in a row. That's the Astros and the brokerage they work with.
Most of the articles about tickets these days are just cookie-cutter articles that don't really understand that fan interest is nowadays just a small % of what makes up a ticket market price.
For the last ****ing time this postseason... the MLB controls most of the ticket process during the playoffs.
No, that's not how any of this works. The Astros and their brokerage partner controlled 90% of the tickets for the playoffs.
MLB has their hold backs for commissioner, broadcast partners, guests, etc... but that's a small percentage of the stadium.
MLB sets/suggests face value pricing, but teams get around that by funneling through the secondary market.
Okay then, say that's true (even though the MLB has a heavy hand in it)... Why else would all ticket sales go through their website and their lottery system?
Why is that a bad thing. Stopping ticket brokers and scalpers from running up the prices on the secondary market and allowing more fans to see the games at a lower price? What a travesty.
I didn't say it was a good or a bad thing, was simply stating how it works. The MLB doesn't have a "heavy hand" in it. They have suggested face value prices, past that and a few thousand holdbacks, the teams can do what they please with the tickets.
Astros are pushing their own tickets to Stubhub at over "face value", and they are pushing their own tickets over to their brokerage partner to list on other secondary outlets at over "face value".
Good/bad/neutral, it all depends on what the market is. In this case it drove prices down, in other cases it has driven prices up. It's just significant when you read articles like these to realize that "face value" doesn't mean a thing -- most teams are pushing their own tickets to the secondary market at market price.