SECONDARY PACKER TICKET PRICES

[deake]

I went to the game Sunday and paid $225 a ticket at the stadium for $87 tickets. I remember reading somewhere that a large % of the tickets are bought by scalpers, as high as 45%. Based on my experience it would seem that the market price is about $100 over what the Packers are charging. Why would the Packers leave (70,000 x $100) or $7,000,000 on the table for every home game? Why leave that money there for scalpers to take? What’s the logic?

[CaliforniaCheez]

You were buying a season ticketholder's tickets. Anybody that bought season tickets years ago also purchased the priviledge of passing them on to their offspring. The next generation is reaping the benefit.

The demand is so high that if the Packers raised season ticket prices, the ticketholders would merely raise their prices. Somebody would pay it.

I will not just give away information publicly, but my brother went to the Broncos game and paid face value for his tickets.

Interestingly enough, two weeks ago the viklings secondary market was selling tickets for $4 in the metrodome; that's below face value.

The first thing you learn in economics is supply and demand. Great example here.

[mraynrand]

I think linebackers should have to pay more than the secondary for tickets

[mraynrand]

Why leave that money there for scalpers to take? What’s the logic?

That's a great question. I wonder just how high they could raise prices before some of those multi-generational fans give up their season tickets.

[GrnBay007]

I'm looking for 3 tickets for the Packer/Bear game on X-mas and having a heck of a time. ....well, with not wanting to pay $300 + for each ticket. Also, hard to find people selling 3 tickets together, most sell 2 or 4.

[MadtownPacker]

$225 doesn't seem bad at all. Usually pay more for seeing them in SF.

[mraynrand]

I'm looking for 3 tickets for the Packer/Bear game on X-mas and having a heck of a time. ....well, with not wanting to pay $300 + for each ticket. Also, hard to find people selling 3 tickets together, most sell 2 or 4.

If you really want to go, and can't pay a lot, buy the tickets in the first quarter from a desperate scalper. Many times they will sell for less than face value, the further the game goes along. 3 together is tough, though.

[MadtownPacker]

I'm looking for 3 tickets for the Packer/Bear game on X-mas and having a heck of a time. ....well, with not wanting to pay $300 + for each ticket. Also, hard to find people selling 3 tickets together, most sell 2 or 4.

Easy fix, buy the 4 pack and sell one overpriced to Deake!

[deake]

How can I contact Mark Murphy? Need to ask him how they can leave 56 mil on the table each year. Isn't it his job to keep the Pack solvent?

[red]

i absolutely agree

the scalpers are making more then the team is right now

jack those prices up

if season ticket holders have a problem with it, then tough shit. there's 80,000 other people waiting for those tickets some many of them will pay the higher price

[ThunderDan]

I went to the game Sunday and paid $225 a ticket at the stadium for $87 tickets. I remember reading somewhere that a large % of the tickets are bought by scalpers, as high as 45%. Based on my experience it would seem that the market price is about $100 over what the Packers are charging. Why would the Packers leave (70,000 x $100) or $7,000,000 on the table for every home game? Why leave that money there for scalpers to take? What’s the logic?

I pay $76 a ticket per game for our seats. The hell I'm selling them to anyone. I had a choice between the Brewer game at Miller Park and the Packer game against the Broncos. I went to the Packer game.

[smuggler]

GrnBay007: You will have to take mraynrand's advice and buy a 4 pack and then resell one ticket. Buy them ASAP and then sell the lone ticket a few weeks before the game for best results.

[pbmax]

That's a great question. I wonder just how high they could raise prices before some of those multi-generational fans give up their season tickets.

You have to be careful as teams rarely want to lower prices, but if you raise them when you are hot, then selling them in a downcycle gets harder. I would bet the face value secondary market was more common in 2005, 2006 and 2009.

[red]

You have to be careful as teams rarely want to lower prices, but if you raise them when you are hot, then selling them in a downcycle gets harder. I would bet the face value secondary market was more common in 2005, 2006 and 2009.

if the team were to raise prices to say $125 from 78 or whatever it is now, they would still have sellouts every single game. the only people i could see it hurting is the people that refuse to reup their season tickets at that price (who will then easily be replaced by someone who is willing) and the scalpers that are currently making more money then the team. i would say half if not more of the people at every game are already paying at least twice of face value now

supply and demand. there is a massive demand. jack up the price

there's no reason why the team couldn't be the most profitable team in the nfl, and pump a large amount of those new profits into the community

the team won the superbowl and the team raised face value, what like 3 bucks from last year? i don't have the exact numbers, but i would say by looking online that secondary prices are up around 50 bucks more then they were last year. and still selling out

they can raise prices waaaay up

[Upnorth]

As a community owned team there are more owners who attend the game than sell tickets. There are no dividends for share holders, no stock gainsto pay.
Why increase price except for capital expansion? Get rid of salary cap and that changes.