Hey Shannon,
I’m hoping you or someone else with ins to the Mets can give me some insight to my question. I bought some tickets through a reputable resale site for Sunday’s game vs the Phils and I’m baffled. I have tickets in section 129 (baseline box) and on the ticket itself it says the full price is $18.35. Now I’ve sat in the box before and I know for a fact the lowest those seats go “officially” are $54. Do you (or anyone else) know what the deal is with these seemingly irregular tickets?
Thanks in advance
-BG
That seems strange. There must be something we don’t know. Can anyone help? I don’t want to hear your “Mets dumping tickets” conspiracy theory – if you can prove one well then yes I’d love to hear it – but since you can’t, please let us know what we don’t know about this…
…is there some amazin’ discount program I should avail myself of?
My fact checking shows the seats go for $48 at the low end.
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UPDATE: The smart folks in the comments are saying this must be a Stubhub price printed on the ticket. Ah, makes sense. Thanks all!
I paid $36 for Section 106 in April and the ticket showed the same price.
18.35 * 81 = $1,486.35
I think the Mets are dumping their unsold season tickets.
The ticket price reflects what you paid on Stubhub for it no?
When you buy tickets from Stubhub it shows what you paid for the ticket on the ticket, not the face value. Not sure if other resellers do it like this too.
I’m not sure what StubHub is doing this year, but in the past it had printed the face price of the tickets.
I just verified my ticket from April. I purchased a Ceasar’s Club ticket for $15 (plus taxes) price printed on the ticket was $14.02
at one point it was sold thru Stubhub to you and that was the the amount someone unloaded it to the person who sold it to you.
Fairly certain they unload the unsold tickets on Stubhub. My uncle’s business has several sets of season tickets at Citi and he says he’s seen tickets in nearby sections set sell for less than half the value he pays up-front to the Mets – those seats, on games he goes to, are usually empty.
Nope, Stubhub prints the face value. And I paid $54 for the ticket anyway. However, the story takes another turn. The morning of, my printer refused to print the tickets, so I wound up having to pick them up at ticket services (plus a $5 REPRINTING fee PER TICKET. They were never printed in the first place….). The value on the ticket that was printed at the stadium however said $64.80. For marquee tickets in the baseline box, the price is 84 at face value.
So although its passed, the mystery still continues.