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Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy
Even worse, it's going to lead to the Yankees being an even more expensive event. Reportedly there are actually less regular seats in the new ballpark, but it does have plenty of luxury boxes.  Sad that the stadium's bronx neighbors can't even afford a ballgame. |
Put yourself in the place of the owners. Let's see, we can charge $5 for tickets and feel all warm and fuzzy that the locals can come and watch, and we'll make a few bucks profit, or we can charge $200 for tickets and make a pile of cash. This is a corporation, not a charity. If they can make the money, why not? Otherwise the scalpers will.
A few years ago when ticketmaster announced they were going to do auctions for some events everyone cried foul saying ticket prices would be too expensive. Guess what, it's a free market and the scalpers were buying most of the tickets and selling them at 10x the face value anyway. If 20,000 people are willing to pay more than you to see a ballgame or concert, you ain't going. If you want to blame someone, blame the fans who are willing to pay for it. (ahem-maple leafs fans...)