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Post by jrsamu on Dec 12, 2018 15:07:18 GMT
Any prognostications on the haircuts scalpers will take on ticket prices at the United Center for the rest of the season?
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Post by garyu on Dec 12, 2018 15:54:36 GMT
Any prognostications on the haircuts scalpers will take on ticket prices at the United Center for the rest of the season? I would not want to be a Season Reservation Holder. |
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Post by gadi on Dec 12, 2018 19:50:56 GMT
You can get actual seats for tonight's matchup (not SRO) for $20 on Stubhub. The ND game hasn't sold out and while the secondary market isn't showing panic yet, I'd be shocked if you couldn't get $20 tickets on 12/31.
People are taking a bath right now. It's not helping that the Hawks are offering all sorts of packages to enhance the value of the tickets on the primary market. I feel terrible for anyone who thought about giving up their tickets last season and decided to give this team one more chance.
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Post by lari on Dec 12, 2018 19:55:24 GMT
Is the sellout streak in danger?
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Post by gadi on Dec 12, 2018 20:19:19 GMT
From what I've seen, the answer is yes & no. Yes, the sellout streak is intact because they continue to announce that more than 19,717 tickets have been sold. 19,717 is the number of seats. But the reason why the answer is no is two-fold. First of all, they now sell up to 2800 standing room only tickets for regular season games even if the seats aren't sold out, which is something that they didn't do back in the $Bill days. They've also introduced several packages that get those tickets down to $11/game, so you have a fair number of smart people purchasing cheapo SRO tickets and then finding an empty seat to sit in for most of the game. The other thing the Hawks have been doing is in the afternoon of games, flipping some primary market tickets to the secondary market at a discount.
So officially, the sellout streak continues, but if they were to be honest (about something that means absolutely nothing), the streak ended earlier this season.
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Post by garyu on Dec 12, 2018 20:51:56 GMT
From what I've seen, the answer is yes & no. Yes, the sellout streak is intact because they continue to announce that more than 19,717 tickets have been sold. 19,717 is the number of seats. But the reason why the answer is no is two-fold. First of all, they now sell up to 2800 standing room only tickets for regular season games even if the seats aren't sold out, which is something that they didn't do back in the $Bill days. They've also introduced several packages that get those tickets down to $11/game, so you have a fair number of smart people purchasing cheapo SRO tickets and then finding an empty seat to sit in for most of the game. The other thing the Hawks have been doing is in the afternoon of games, flipping some primary market tickets to the secondary market at a discount. So officially, the sellout streak continues, but if they were to be honest (about something that means absolutely nothing), the streak ended earlier this season. Honest. Good one. |
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