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Macklemore is the one who actually raised face values during the Ed Sheeran saga, then dynamically lowered them as the hype faded.
The show still isn't sold out, and he's now charging more than the secondary market.
Ben Meisel retweeted
Season tickets have gone from coveted things you passed down to future generations to the biggest scam in sports. All because teams got greedy and kept pushing up the price. The market has spoken and said it isn’t worth the “face value” anymore.
In years of having #njdevils season tickets, I have never seen the secondary market so bad
2 years ago I got $200 each for my Rangers game
Past game? $130 TOTAL
Prices for a beer are more expensive than to buy a ticket for Tuesday against Colorado
Annual attendance counts repeat visits, not unique individuals. Dividing it by metro population creates a precise number that doesn’t measure what you’re claiming.
The LeBron Premium has climbed to 3.7x.
Tickets to see LeBron play on the road now cost an average of 3.7x what fans typically pay for the home team's other games.
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Ben Meisel retweeted
Interesting that almost every form of social activity has dropped over the last 30 years except going to concerts. That has increased and probably at a very high record level. Their value rose probably because the alternatives have weakened.
