single game tickets link

[J.R.]

The price only went to $140 after inventory was pared down.

 

Presale buyers and those who had first crack this morning were not presented with that price.

[Guest]

The price only went to $140 after inventory was pared down.

 

Presale buyers and those who had first crack this morning were not presented with that price.

 

Ah, gotcha.

 

 

Well, buy early if you want to go to a game that is in really high demand.

 

If you want to go to any old game, buy late as [expletive].

[bhogg]

The Good: surprising my son on his 9th birthday with tickets to two games at Wrigley -- June 29 and 30. Really nice seats on the 29th -- section 7, row 10, seats 101 and 102. Bleachers the 30th (never to early to introduce the boy to drunken idiots not named "Dad.")

 

The Bad: paying $100 a seat to watch the two worst teams in the majors play baseball. . . . . thank you, Platinum date!

[davearm2]

Buy early, or ELSE.

 

Attendance was going to take a hit anyway, so it appears the experiment is underway. Scalping is going to be a thing of the past if it isn't already, and I can't blame the Cubs for taking action. The shame is that the fans get screwed along with the brokers.

I don't see how the fans get screwed, unless a large number of tickets are going unsold due to the higher prices.

 

Short of that, it's just dollars flowing from the brokers to the Cubs. The fans are basically unaffected. And everyone should be happy to see those dollars stay with the Cubs.

[hawkcub]

Buy early, or ELSE.

 

Attendance was going to take a hit anyway, so it appears the experiment is underway. Scalping is going to be a thing of the past if it isn't already, and I can't blame the Cubs for taking action. The shame is that the fans get screwed along with the brokers.

I don't see how the fans get screwed, unless a large number of tickets are going unsold due to the higher prices.

 

Short of that, it's just dollars flowing from the brokers to the Cubs. The fans are basically unaffected. And everyone should be happy to see those dollars stay with the Cubs.

 

You are kidding right? The only way fans are not being screwed is if EVERYONE who would of gotten in to buy the ticket at the Marquee level would have been a scalper. Dynamic pricing by the Cubs and the 16 other MLB clubs are one thing and one thing only, greed.

 

Honestly scalpers,stubhub and ticket brokers provide a service for those who really want to go to the game,that didn't get a ticket for a variety of reasons. The Cubs and MLB seem to have this crazy war against them that no other sports league does. Can they scalpers get out of control? Absolutely. That is why teams should put some safeguards to help the fan attending the game with a better shot of getting tickets. Like putting a limit on how many tix you can buy. All dynamic pricing does is screws over the fan.

 

Also hate to inform some of you of this but scalping will always be around. Those tickets bought before it hit the dynamic pricing level will be scalped still. There just won't be every Joe Blow doing it. Once again scalping is not the evil many try and make it to be. For everyone's information I have bought a total of 1 Cubs ticket through a Scalper and have bought 5 total sports tickets through Scalpers/Brokers/Stub Hub. Have never sold a ticket period. So my POV is not from some ulterior motive.

[Soul]

The Good: surprising my son on his 9th birthday with tickets to two games at Wrigley -- June 29 and 30. Really nice seats on the 29th -- section 7, row 10, seats 101 and 102. Bleachers the 30th (never to early to introduce the boy to drunken idiots not named "Dad.")

 

The Bad: paying $100 a seat to watch the two worst teams in the majors play baseball. . . . . thank you, Platinum date!

 

Yeah, I bought the 30th too. Because it's a convenient weekend for me to be in Chicago.

 

I'm in sec 122, so not too bad. Here's hoping they're still hanging around at the end of June.

[davearm2]

I don't see how the fans get screwed, unless a large number of tickets are going unsold due to the higher prices.

 

Short of that, it's just dollars flowing from the brokers to the Cubs. The fans are basically unaffected. And everyone should be happy to see those dollars stay with the Cubs.

 

You are kidding right? The only way fans are not being screwed is if EVERYONE who would of gotten in to buy the ticket at the Marquee level would have been a scalper. Dynamic pricing by the Cubs and the 16 other MLB clubs are one thing and one thing only, greed.

 

Honestly scalpers,stubhub and ticket brokers provide a service for those who really want to go to the game,that didn't get a ticket for a variety of reasons. The Cubs and MLB seem to have this crazy war against them that no other sports league does. Can they scalpers get out of control? Absolutely. That is why teams should put some safeguards to help the fan attending the game with a better shot of getting tickets. Like putting a limit on how many tix you can buy. All dynamic pricing does is screws over the fan.

 

Also hate to inform some of you of this but scalping will always be around. Those tickets bought before it hit the dynamic pricing level will be scalped still. There just won't be every Joe Blow doing it. Once again scalping is not the evil many try and make it to be. For everyone's information I have bought a total of 1 Cubs ticket through a Scalper and have bought 5 total sports tickets through Scalpers/Brokers/Stub Hub. Have never sold a ticket period. So my POV is not from some ulterior motive.

Scalpers exploit market inefficiencies. They are arbitrageurs, pure and simple.

 

That isn't bad or evil or anything. But neither is the Cubs' attempt to reduce those market inefficiencies that scalpers depend on. That's what dynamic pricing is designed to do: reveal the buyer with the highest willingness to pay, and sell to that person.

 

It's not any more greedy than if, say, you are selling your car and take the highest offer on it. Why should you sell your car to a guy for $10,000 if someone else would pay $12,000? Well the Cubs/dynamic pricing invoke essentially the same thought process.

[Guest]

hawkcub doesn't appear to understand supply and demand and also seems to prefer that the extra money that people are willing to pay for those tickets end up in the hands of scalpers and brokers instead of as additional revenue for the Cubs.

 

Nobody is getting screwed. The Cubs were previously getting screwed, if anything, by their flawed pricing system.

[J.R.]

The ones getting "screwed" are the fans trying to score tickets to big games at face value because they love this team. The guy who took off work to fight the VWR, or to stand in line at Wrigley, only to be greeted with the dynamic, demand-inflated price.

 

The Cubs have every right to do this, and I am pleased that the ballclub will have more revenue to work with that previously lined the brokers' pockets. But I am not blind to the fact that there are fans being hurt.

[Guest]

The ones getting "screwed" are the fans trying to score tickets to big games at face value because they love this team. The guy who took off work to fight the VWR, or to stand in line at Wrigley, only to be greeted with the dynamic, demand-inflated price.

 

The Cubs have every right to do this, and I am pleased that the ballclub will have more revenue to work with that previously lined the brokers' pockets. But I am not blind to the fact that there are fans being hurt.

 

The Cubs were screwing themselves by charging people less than the market would allow. I get what you're saying, but those fans aren't getting screwed in any way by having to pay what the market deems that those tickets are worth. If they can't afford to go or choose not to spend the money, that's on them. Somebody else will.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

I hope someday they find a scientific way to measure how much someone loves a team, and distribute tickets based on it. Then I hope all the people who moan about ticket prices find out they are too low on the loyalty scale to get tickets.

[Guest]

The ones getting "screwed" are the fans trying to score tickets to big games at face value because they love this team. The guy who took off work to fight the VWR, or to stand in line at Wrigley, only to be greeted with the dynamic, demand-inflated price.

 

The Cubs have every right to do this, and I am pleased that the ballclub will have more revenue to work with that previously lined the brokers' pockets. But I am not blind to the fact that there are fans being hurt.

 

The Cubs were screwing themselves by charging people less than the market would allow. I get what you're saying, but those fans aren't getting screwed in any way by having to pay what the market deems that those tickets are worth. If they can't afford to go or choose not to spend the money, that's on them. Somebody else will.

I would hate to live in your world. And I hate that my son will not be able to see as many MLB baseball games live with his father as I saw with mine.

[Guest]

The ones getting "screwed" are the fans trying to score tickets to big games at face value because they love this team. The guy who took off work to fight the VWR, or to stand in line at Wrigley, only to be greeted with the dynamic, demand-inflated price.

 

The Cubs have every right to do this, and I am pleased that the ballclub will have more revenue to work with that previously lined the brokers' pockets. But I am not blind to the fact that there are fans being hurt.

 

The Cubs were screwing themselves by charging people less than the market would allow. I get what you're saying, but those fans aren't getting screwed in any way by having to pay what the market deems that those tickets are worth. If they can't afford to go or choose not to spend the money, that's on them. Somebody else will.

I would hate to live in your world. And I hate that my son will not be able to see as many MLB baseball games live with his father as I saw with mine.

 

Oh FFS. Get the hell out with that [expletive].

[ChiCubsFan]

The ones getting "screwed" are the fans trying to score tickets to big games at face value because they love this team. The guy who took off work to fight the VWR, or to stand in line at Wrigley, only to be greeted with the dynamic, demand-inflated price.

 

The Cubs have every right to do this, and I am pleased that the ballclub will have more revenue to work with that previously lined the brokers' pockets. But I am not blind to the fact that there are fans being hurt.

 

The Cubs were screwing themselves by charging people less than the market would allow. I get what you're saying, but those fans aren't getting screwed in any way by having to pay what the market deems that those tickets are worth. If they can't afford to go or choose not to spend the money, that's on them. Somebody else will.

I would hate to live in your world. And I hate that my son will not be able to see as many MLB baseball games live with his father as I saw with mine.

 

Why don't you just take your son to less in-demand games then? Or just pick up some tickets for under face value the week of off of stubhub. Or wait until the team sucks and then pick up some tickets that some poor season ticket holder is begging to get rid of.

 

There are plenty of ways to see a ballgame at a cheap price if you are flexible with the opponent you wish to see.

[Guest]

I went to a game and sat 3 rows behind the Cubs dugout for $15 last year because I sat at a bar until the middle of the 2nd inning and then looked for a scalper.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

I would hate to live in your world. And I hate that my son will not be able to see as many MLB baseball games live with his father as I saw with mine.

 

Maybe if you loved your son enough you'd pony up for the tickets.

[Soul]

The ones getting "screwed" are the fans trying to score tickets to big games at face value because they love this team. The guy who took off work to fight the VWR, or to stand in line at Wrigley, only to be greeted with the dynamic, demand-inflated price.

 

The Cubs have every right to do this, and I am pleased that the ballclub will have more revenue to work with that previously lined the brokers' pockets. But I am not blind to the fact that there are fans being hurt.

 

The Cubs were screwing themselves by charging people less than the market would allow. I get what you're saying, but those fans aren't getting screwed in any way by having to pay what the market deems that those tickets are worth. If they can't afford to go or choose not to spend the money, that's on them. Somebody else will.

I would hate to live in your world. And I hate that my son will not be able to see as many MLB baseball games live with his father as I saw with mine.

 

Oh FFS. Get the hell out with that [expletive].

 

The one thing I'll say is this: they don't yet know that the market will demand this price. They're taking an educated guess. If people didn't buy, or if they decide not to come but then can't re-sell (then next year's tickets go unsold), then the true price may wind up being lower.

 

I understand the reasoning and agree with it, but saying "this is what the market demands" is not entirely accurate. They're guessing that this is the demand. If people then buy, and continue to, then it is confirmed.

[KingCubsFan]

The ones getting "screwed" are the fans trying to score tickets to big games at face value because they love this team. The guy who took off work to fight the VWR, or to stand in line at Wrigley, only to be greeted with the dynamic, demand-inflated price.

 

The Cubs have every right to do this, and I am pleased that the ballclub will have more revenue to work with that previously lined the brokers' pockets. But I am not blind to the fact that there are fans being hurt.

 

The Cubs were screwing themselves by charging people less than the market would allow. I get what you're saying, but those fans aren't getting screwed in any way by having to pay what the market deems that those tickets are worth. If they can't afford to go or choose not to spend the money, that's on them. Somebody else will.

I would hate to live in your world. And I hate that my son will not be able to see as many MLB baseball games live with his father as I saw with mine.

 

Oh FFS. Get the hell out with that [expletive].

 

The one thing I'll say is this: they don't yet know that the market will demand this price. They're taking an educated guess. If people didn't buy, or if they decide not to come but then can't re-sell (then next year's tickets go unsold), then the true price may wind up being lower.

 

I understand the reasoning and agree with it, but saying "this is what the market demands" is not entirely accurate. They're guessing that this is the demand. If people then buy, and continue to, then it is confirmed.

I'm pretty sure that, with the new dynamic pricing system, the price will fluctuate up until the game. So if there's still tickets available, the price could eventually go down until they are all sold out.

[SouthSideRyan]

I'm pretty sure that, with the new dynamic pricing system, the price will fluctuate up until the game. So if there's still tickets available, the price could eventually go down until they are all sold out.

 

It's only for bleachers, and the price can't drop below the season ticket rate.

[KingCubsFan]

I'm pretty sure that, with the new dynamic pricing system, the price will fluctuate up until the game. So if there's still tickets available, the price could eventually go down until they are all sold out.

 

It's only for bleachers, and the price can't drop below the season ticket rate.

Right. So it really only affects the Red Sox and White Sox game.

[jersey cubs fan]

I would hate to live in your world. And I hate that my son will not be able to see as many MLB baseball games live with his father as I saw with mine.

 

How many games did you see live as a kid? I think I went to about 4 Cubs games by the time I was 18. I can only remember 2 specifically but I'm sure there were a couple more. I probably went to about three a year on average through the college years and then a few more when I got out of school and had my own real income. If you spend 18 years of your kids life without being able to take him to a Cubs game that would be a shame, a total first world ridiculous shame, but a shame nonetheless. But odds are you can at least go to one a year if you insist and any kid that needs more than that is a spoiled brat.

[SouthSideRyan]

I'm pretty sure that, with the new dynamic pricing system, the price will fluctuate up until the game. So if there's still tickets available, the price could eventually go down until they are all sold out.

 

It's only for bleachers, and the price can't drop below the season ticket rate.

Right. So it really only affects the Red Sox and White Sox game.

 

I just hate that my future son can't sit in the bleachers with me for all of those games.

[apete6]

I would hate to live in your world. And I hate that my son will not be able to see as many MLB baseball games live with his father as I saw with mine.

 

How many games did you see live as a kid? I think I went to about 4 Cubs games by the time I was 18. I can only remember 2 specifically but I'm sure there were a couple more. I probably went to about three a year on average through the college years and then a few more when I got out of school and had my own real income. If you spend 18 years of your kids life without being able to take him to a Cubs game that would be a shame, a total first world ridiculous shame, but a shame nonetheless. But odds are you can at least go to one a year if you insist and any kid that needs more than that is a spoiled brat.

 

Or you could go to an unlimited amount of White Sox games. They are still MLB.

[Fred Hornkohl]

Or you could go to an unlimited amount of white sox games. They are still MLB.

 

I have heard that debated.

[ConstableRabbit]

You should just get season tickets. They're so choice. I highly recommend picking some up.