Cubs Ticket Prices Skyrocketing - Your Team Is Next
The Chicago Cubs (and I'm sure your MLB team soon) have created in my view a disgusting new concept, online auctioning of tickets, that already have ticket prices skyrocketing.
The Chicago Cubs are testing this online auction on 70 new seats that are right near the Cubs dugout.
These 70 seats are being sold via online auction only, with the bidding beginning at $200 per seat.
The "lucky" fan that bids, must bid on the entire 81 game season ticket, which for starters would be $16,200 per.
The minimum amount of tickets per fan is 2, so double that amount to $32,400 for two season tickets.
The rub is that since the Chicago Cubs have these seats on auction, there is an onlinebidding war that has driven the price to over $250 per ticket as of this writing.
One of the Chicago Cubs Executives told a sports radio station in Chicago essentially, that one of the interesting aspects of this auction is to determine what the actual value of these seats are.
So, the Cubs fans are actually helping the Chicago Cubs do their research, and this auction will establish a much higher price than even the Cubs may have originally determined.
If you think it stops with a few seats and the Chicago Cubs, I have news.
This, in my opinion, is the way that MLB, NFL and NBA tickets will be sold, and it may happen sooner than you think.
Imagine battling it out via online auction each game.
Can't happen? That was actually the original idea of the Chicago Cubs for these 70 seats, but they canceled the idea.
Conscience got them?Hardly.
The Chicago Cubs were afraid to take a chance and have a non-competitive team late in the season, thereby making the prices of their tickets free fall.
They decided for a nice, safe cash grab while the shine was still on the Cubs 2008 campaign.
So fellow fans, brace yourselves.
The NFL, NBA and MLB are, as always, hard at work conjuring up new ideas to separate you and I from our hard-earned money.
The Chicago Cubs are testing this online auction on 70 new seats that are right near the Cubs dugout.
These 70 seats are being sold via online auction only, with the bidding beginning at $200 per seat.
The "lucky" fan that bids, must bid on the entire 81 game season ticket, which for starters would be $16,200 per.
The minimum amount of tickets per fan is 2, so double that amount to $32,400 for two season tickets.
The rub is that since the Chicago Cubs have these seats on auction, there is an onlinebidding war that has driven the price to over $250 per ticket as of this writing.
One of the Chicago Cubs Executives told a sports radio station in Chicago essentially, that one of the interesting aspects of this auction is to determine what the actual value of these seats are.
So, the Cubs fans are actually helping the Chicago Cubs do their research, and this auction will establish a much higher price than even the Cubs may have originally determined.
If you think it stops with a few seats and the Chicago Cubs, I have news.
This, in my opinion, is the way that MLB, NFL and NBA tickets will be sold, and it may happen sooner than you think.
Imagine battling it out via online auction each game.
Can't happen? That was actually the original idea of the Chicago Cubs for these 70 seats, but they canceled the idea.
Conscience got them?Hardly.
The Chicago Cubs were afraid to take a chance and have a non-competitive team late in the season, thereby making the prices of their tickets free fall.
They decided for a nice, safe cash grab while the shine was still on the Cubs 2008 campaign.
So fellow fans, brace yourselves.
The NFL, NBA and MLB are, as always, hard at work conjuring up new ideas to separate you and I from our hard-earned money.
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