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Check Tuesday Night 9/8 Prices on StubHub and other various weeknight games in September. I find it hard to believe that Ticket Brokers bought up all these garbage Promenade level seats and are now listing tickets on StubHub for $1 or $2 a ticket. Season ticketholders in the cheap seats stand very little chance to sell there tickets for even half what they paid for them or at all. Are the NY Mets posting the tickets in there inventory on StubHub since they can’t sell them at the Box Office? I would find it hard to believe they would do this and piss off there season ticket holders but one must ask this question since who else would charge $2 a ticket and have it not hurt them. I am going to call the Mets but I would doubt if they were doing this that they would actually admit to it. If Mets Police could also investigate this that would be great.
I would be very surprised to learn the Mets are selling their tickets on Stubhub at all, and there is no evidence of that whatsoever that I am aware of.
I sense that cutting some of the prices 50% has annoyed those who are holding plans (like me) because now we have no hope of “getting back” any of our money on the secondary market. If you can get my $20 ticket for $10 from the Mets, then I have to sell mine for $9 – minus Stubhub’s commission, so my $40 in tickets becomes about $14 if I can sell them at all.
We all collectively miscalculated….it’s a good team in a first year stadium right? The Mets hiked prices, and we bought in thinking we could make money on Stubhub.
The big difference is: in 2010 I can keep my wallet closed whereas the Mets need to sell tickets. So the 50% cut may help their 2009 sales, but the price they pay may come in 2010.
Which reminds me – I must have been busy with the real job or something but I was late to the party with Jayson Stark’s dire assessment of the Mets’ next few years. If you haven’t seen it by now (most other blogs had it a week ago) you definitely want to read it.
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There was without a doubt some shady business going on with the Yankees and stubhub earlier in the season so to think the Mets wouldn't get involved in the same way is a little hopeful at best. I think the fact that MLB is now an official partner with stubhub, it allows for some behind the scenes dealings that people will never hear about. Heck, ever since Ebay bought stubhub, the place has become rather shady.
At $1 a ticket, wouldn't most people rather donate them to the boys and girls club or something?
Interesting…I just purchased a pair of tickets from Stubhub. They are for the first row out in left field (left field reserve I think they're called).
I paid $9.99 per ticket…and the tickets were emailed to me from mets.com…the official home of the New York Mets.
So it seems that the Mets are, in fact, dumping their tickets on Stubhub in an attempt to recoup something for them.