The Yankees Blame Stub Hub For Poor Attendance

[Stitch]

It depends what market, but I've seen plenty of Yankees, Mets, and Rockies tickets below face value. If you're fine seeing the Diamondbacks or Royals, tickets are going to be cheap.

 

[Boom_70]

It depends what market, but I've seen plenty of Yankees, Mets, and Rockies tickets below face value. If you're fine seeing the Diamondbacks or Royals, tickets are going to be cheap.

The only expensive tix are for The Red Sox and Mets and maybe The Braves. Otherwise their are plenty of good below face seats available.

The problem for The Yankees is that they forked with the free market when they moved to new stadium. They wanted to suck up the money that season ticket / brokers were making on their seats. They raised face value of tickets up to top value of what tickets sold for on open market for a Red Sox game. What they did not understand is that no one wants to pay top value for the Royals or Blue Jays. As a result they lost a lot of season ticket holders and brokers who would just buy seats to resell.

Old system worked great. The Yankees were selling out every night. Not anymore.

 

[Batman]

Where did StubHub get the tickets? Did they send Lex Luthor to sneak in through an air duct and steal tens of thousands of tickets to sell them on EBay?

Lex Luthor?
Don't be silly.
They keep Jason Grimsley on the payroll for that sort of thing.

 

[Sea Bass]

Is the President of the New York Yankees seriously railing against free enterprise?

 

[LongTimeListener]

This all gives me a warm tingly that the Yankees, in the absence of Big Stein, are on their way to becoming the competitive equivalent of the Redskins or Knicks or Maple Leafs.

 

[beanpole]

I got opening day Nats tickets behind first base for $35 on StubHub, and sat on the front row down the right field line for $9 a couple of weeks ago. I love StubHub.

 

[buckweaver]

I say the same thing but for completely opposite reasons. I blame Stubhub,etc for making it impossible to get tickets to MLB games. You go to the team's web site and it says sold out or offers nose bleeds but there are thousands available at online sites jacked above face value. fork you.

Yeah, not sure what games you're trying to get into. But StubHub has made it 1,000 times EASIER to get a ticket to any game I could possibly want to see.

And if it weren't for all the prepare-your-anus convenience fees, they'd almost always be cheaper, too. I've been to NLCS games in Los Angeles for less than $20 (before fees) and got to an NHL playoff game last month for less than $50.

 

[Boom_70]

From a consumer price standpoint the market for Yankee tickets is much more price favorable then it was when there were "No scalping laws" on the books. Tickets were still sold but laws served as a deterrent from surplus of tickets hitting the market.

 

[Tom Petty]

somebody toss randy a towel.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Is the President of the New York Yankees seriously railing against free enterprise?

Free enterprise is great, as long as the taxpayers are paying for your workplace. But if taxpayers figure out a way to save money, then it's unfair to the corporation. Because corporations are people too!

 

[bigpern23]

It depends what market, but I've seen plenty of Yankees, Mets, and Rockies tickets below face value. If you're fine seeing the Diamondbacks or Royals, tickets are going to be cheap.

The only expensive tix are for The Red Sox and Mets and maybe The Braves. Otherwise their are plenty of good below face seats available.

The problem for The Yankees is that they forked with the free market when they moved to new stadium. They wanted to suck up the money that season ticket / brokers were making on their seats. They raised face value of tickets up to top value of what tickets sold for on open market for a Red Sox game. What they did not understand is that no one wants to pay top value for the Royals or Blue Jays. As a result they lost a lot of season ticket holders and brokers who would just buy seats to resell.

Old system worked great. The Yankees were selling out every night. Not anymore.

Boom nailed it.

I actually just bought Yankees tickets on StubHub as a Father's Day present for my old man, who has yet to see the new digs. With the fees, I think they came out to face value (although I'm sure if I ordered them through the Yankees, there would have been charges added there, too, so I might have saved $10-$20). Anyway, the seats are nine rows back in the upper deck behind home plate for a Sunday afternoon game against the Angels and I paid a total of $68 for two.

Weekday games? You can get seats for $5, $10 each.

As others have noted, if they're on StubHub, they've been purchased, so I have no idea what Levine was talking about. Unless the Yankees are actually selling tickets on StubHub, and getting undercut by season-ticket holders, then I can't imagine how StubHub would negatively affect attendance.

And, frankly, I've heard rumors for years about the Yankees (and other teams, for that matter) selling tickets on StubHub. Francesa refers to the rumors pretty often actually on WFAN.

 

[Shoeless Joe]

I say the same thing but for completely opposite reasons. I blame Stubhub,etc for making it impossible to get tickets to MLB games. You go to the team's web site and it says sold out or offers nose bleeds but there are thousands available at online sites jacked above face value. fork you.

Yeah, not sure what games you're trying to get into. But StubHub has made it 1,000 times EASIER to get a ticket to any game I could possibly want to see.

And if it weren't for all the prepare-your-anus convenience fees, they'd almost always be cheaper, too. I've been to NLCS games in Los Angeles for less than $20 (before fees) and got to an NHL playoff game last month for less than $50.

ANY Braves game you go to THEIR web site and get diddly in terms of ticket choice. Stubhub has them all. I have the phone number to talk to a human at Turner Field and can reserve OK