The most expensive NFL Divisional Round game in more than 10 years

[Ranching]

you and @Ranching at a game together would be pure gold lol

We'd be hugging, high fiving, chest bumping and giving each other likes! Lol!

 

[Reid1boys]

There is one way to stop the racket. Less demand for the tickets.

I’ve never bought brokered tickets . If it’s sold out from the venue I’m not going.

I plan well in advance for sporting events and concerts always purchasing from the venue site at original prices.

These other sites like Stubhub, etc are simply taking advantage of basic supply and demand.

I dont think you understand how this is working in todays world. Did you read about all the outrage over Taylor Swift concert tickets about 3 or 4 weeks ago? There is no doubt in my mind that ticketmaster also owns some of these resale sites. So here is how it works. Tickets go on sale for a concert, ticketmaster releases a limited few on their site at list price, they take a huge number of those tickets and they put them on their resale site at prices that are 50% or so more. They use algorithms to monitor "foot traffic," into a particular event and they move ticket prices up or down accordingly. Im not even talking about how fast tickets are selling, but they monitor how many people are browsing, they know your ticket purchase history.. trust me, it is complex and they absolutely squeeze every nickle out of the public for EVERY EVENT ON THE PLANET that sale tickets.

10 years ago I would buy tickets and they would come from all over. Then all of the sudden, every singe Cowboys ticket I bought was mailed to me from the same Las Vegs address..... its because peole actually have created businesses where that is all they do. The day Cowboys single game tickets go on sale, they are gone IMMEDIATELY, because businesses use bots and suck em all up, then they immediately are put on the secondary market.

I have been writing about this for a year now and many of you dismissed me. Then after the fiasco with Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift happened people started taking notice and members of Congress are apparently now looking into this. Some of those after market sites dont even let you set the price for your tickets, they do, because they dont want people putting prices lower than their algorithms. The site charges a fee to both the seller and the buyer. It is ridiculous. Those sites started out as a GREAT way to get cheep tickets, it was quickly taken over by big business as a way to hold us hostage.

 

[Reid1boys]

Everything is relative . $5,000 bucks is chump change to some people.

Not much more than a luxury week on vacation for some .

And to others it’s a once in a lifetime opportunity.

I remember shaking my head at my wife's boss hearing how he paid like 500 bucks for a brake job on his wife's BMW. Then my wife was talking to me about him landing a million dollar deal with Foster Farms. Then it made sense. The 2 hours he would have spent doing the brake job himself he could make back 10 fold by working in his business.

 

[ghst187]

Like a once a generation event for the Cowboys to make it this far in the playoffs so yeah people are bidding the tickets up. No one is there to see the whiners. It’s the Cowboys selling the tickets. If had been Tampa, prices would’ve stayed normal.

 

[Mark]

The price for a ticket to the Cowboys first Super Bowl in 1970 was $15.

The equivalent of about $115.00 today.

 

[Doomsday101]

So if you had tickets to this game would you sell them for a big profit?

 

[glimmerman]

Woohoo! I am going to see all of them for the same amount I've been spending........0. I will have better drinks and food and not have to wait in line for the bathroom unless I want that "at the game experience". I did wait one time until I was doing the "I gotta go dance" and discovered living alone with two bathrooms, that was probably dumb. So, I got drunk on my cheaper and better booze to give myself an excuse for doing such a dumb thing. It worked.

Besides that, all those people that actually go to the games are missing out on watching the game on TV along with Real Housewives like that woman on DirecTV. BTW, Prescott stole that flipping the table from fans after watching him throw Pick 6's.

Best seat in the house and nobody can see me yelling at the players. Except my wife and next door neighbors..

 

[glimmerman]

I remember shaking my head at my wife's boss hearing how he paid like 500 bucks for a brake job on his wife's BMW. Then my wife was talking to me about him landing a million dollar deal with Foster Farms. Then it made sense. The 2 hours he would have spent doing the brake job himself he could make back 10 fold by working in his business.

500 is standard for a brake job. Or you could spend the same amount and buy the tools you need to do it yourself if you didn’t already have them. I remember changing my own oil for 10 bucks. Now everything is so expensive 50 bucks for someone else to do it makes since. Isn’t a quart of oil 7 or 8 bucks or so now.

 

[MWH1967]

This is just plain out silly!

I'm 10 ft from the toilet and I don't have to stand in line for a beer or a snack. I don't have to fight traffic, pay for parking or deal with drunks.

Other than the fact of (just being there), This old man is sitting on the couch with surround sound and my nerf Dallas cowboy football to throw at the screen when the refs *F* up!

 

[Reid1boys]

500 is standard for a brake job. Or you could spend the same amount and buy the tools you need to do it yourself if you didn’t already have them. I remember changing my own oil for 10 bucks. Now everything is so expensive 50 bucks for someone else to do it makes since. Isn’t a quart of oil 7 or 8 bucks or so now.

I can use synthetic oil and change the oil myself for about 37 dollars. Taking my wife's car in to get synthetic oil change would run almost 80 dollars.

 

[Reid1boys]

So if you had tickets to this game would you sell them for a big profit?

no. Some of my best memories of the last 10 years are going to games with my family. At home, they dont all come over to watch the game like when we all go.
We make enough money, that if I made 1k off a couple of tickets that 1k would come and go and I wouldnt even notice having that extra 1k. But the memories we could make from possibly attending a franchise altering game??? No money is worth that.

I was at the Raiders/Cowboys at LA Coliseum in 92 that had 92k people attend.
I was at the 92 Title game in SF.
I was at the OBJ game in NJ when he made that 1 handed catch.
I was at the playoff game at Lambeau when Dez made the catch.
I was at the 16 playoff game where Rodgers completed that 3rd and 25 and then they kicked a 56 yard FG as time expired.

Ive been lucky to attend some games we will be talking abou tin ten years from now.

You think Ill remember what I spent the extra 1k on in ten years?

 

[DripTooHard]

Wonder what tickets will go for in the Super Bowl should Cowboys get in??

$6k for nosebleeds

 

[dsturgeon]

My experience will be spending about $50 for pizza and wings for my family and watching it on a 65'' TV from about 15' away. It'll feel just like I'm the 10th row from the field and if it's raining in SF, I'll just open my windows to get the extra effect of being there.

It would be far better to be in that 10 th row, and you know it feels nothing like it

Although a 65 inch would feel better than my laptop screen, and most likely better than at a sports bar

 

[Doomsday101]

no. Some of my best memories of the last 10 years are going to games with my family. At home, they dont all come over to watch the game like when we all go.
We make enough money, that if I made 1k off a couple of tickets that 1k would come and go and I wouldnt even notice having that extra 1k. But the memories we could make from possibly attending a franchise altering game??? No money is worth that.

I was at the Raiders/Cowboys at LA Coliseum in 92 that had 92k people attend.
I was at the 92 Title game in SF.
I was at the OBJ game in NJ when he made that 1 handed catch.
I was at the playoff game at Lambeau when Dez made the catch.
I was at the 16 playoff game where Rodgers completed that 3rd and 25 and then they kicked a 56 yard FG as time expired.

Ive been lucky to attend some games we will be talking abou tin ten years from now.

You think Ill remember what I spent the extra 1k on in ten years?

I'm with you.

 

[RS12]

Considering the times we live in, is this really a shock?

I just replaced a car key for $450. That's right, four hundred and fifty U.S. dollars.

You used to be able to buy a replacement key for $4.95. The price for a ticket to the Cowboys first Super Bowl in 1970 was $15.

You mean FOB not key right? Not that it isn't a total rip off either way.

 

[SuperBowlz]

guess what, im referring to a section of SEATS, plural.

I wasn't calling you out homie, I was trying to emphasize that one upper level seat runs around $5,000. My bad brother.

 

[Reid1boys]

I wasn't calling you out homie, I was trying to emphasize that one upper level seat runs around $5,000. My bad brother.

my bad... because I was thinking you were being a wise guy. My apologies.

 

[SuperBowlz]

I dont think you understand how this is working in todays world. Did you read about all the outrage over Taylor Swift concert tickets about 3 or 4 weeks ago? There is no doubt in my mind that ticketmaster also owns some of these resale sites. So here is how it works. Tickets go on sale for a concert, ticketmaster releases a limited few on their site at list price, they take a huge number of those tickets and they put them on their resale site at prices that are 50% or so more. They use algorithms to monitor "foot traffic," into a particular event and they move ticket prices up or down accordingly. Im not even talking about how fast tickets are selling, but they monitor how many people are browsing, they know your ticket purchase history.. trust me, it is complex and they absolutely squeeze every nickle out of the public for EVERY EVENT ON THE PLANET that sale tickets.

10 years ago I would buy tickets and they would come from all over. Then all of the sudden, every singe Cowboys ticket I bought was mailed to me from the same Las Vegs address..... its because peole actually have created businesses where that is all they do. The day Cowboys single game tickets go on sale, they are gone IMMEDIATELY, because businesses use bots and suck em all up, then they immediately are put on the secondary market.

I have been writing about this for a year now and many of you dismissed me. Then after the fiasco with Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift happened people started taking notice and members of Congress are apparently now looking into this. Some of those after market sites dont even let you set the price for your tickets, they do, because they dont want people putting prices lower than their algorithms. The site charges a fee to both the seller and the buyer. It is ridiculous. Those sites started out as a GREAT way to get cheep tickets, it was quickly taken over by big business as a way to hold us hostage.

I remember reading on a different site years ago some Eagles fan saying the minute their season tickets went on sale some other ticket broker site had thousands of tickets. He researched their company and they had the same address in Beverly Hills that TicketMaster had. Don't know why that's burned into my memory and I remember him stating how no one listened to him either. It's obviously a scam that the teams are a part of. How did they have thousands of tickets as sudden as the tickets went on sale and how could this other company have the same business addy. The teams knew they were missing out on a ton of cash...

 

[Diehardblues]

I dont think you understand how this is working in todays world. Did you read about all the outrage over Taylor Swift concert tickets about 3 or 4 weeks ago? There is no doubt in my mind that ticketmaster also owns some of these resale sites. So here is how it works. Tickets go on sale for a concert, ticketmaster releases a limited few on their site at list price, they take a huge number of those tickets and they put them on their resale site at prices that are 50% or so more. They use algorithms to monitor "foot traffic," into a particular event and they move ticket prices up or down accordingly. Im not even talking about how fast tickets are selling, but they monitor how many people are browsing, they know your ticket purchase history.. trust me, it is complex and they absolutely squeeze every nickle out of the public for EVERY EVENT ON THE PLANET that sale tickets.

10 years ago I would buy tickets and they would come from all over. Then all of the sudden, every singe Cowboys ticket I bought was mailed to me from the same Las Vegs address..... its because peole actually have created businesses where that is all they do. The day Cowboys single game tickets go on sale, they are gone IMMEDIATELY, because businesses use bots and suck em all up, then they immediately are put on the secondary market.

I have been writing about this for a year now and many of you dismissed me. Then after the fiasco with Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift happened people started taking notice and members of Congress are apparently now looking into this. Some of those after market sites dont even let you set the price for your tickets, they do, because they dont want people putting prices lower than their algorithms. The site charges a fee to both the seller and the buyer. It is ridiculous. Those sites started out as a GREAT way to get cheep tickets, it was quickly taken over by big business as a way to hold us hostage.

Single game Cowboys tickets do often sell out quickly but not usually the first day. It’s been a few years since I’ve bought one but not that long.

And I have friends and family which still buy single game tickets directly from ticket office.

And yes I did hear about Taylor Swift although couldn’t care less. I’m sure you are more up to speed on the online purchasing but I buy other sporting events directly from the venue like Big 12 Championship game from AT&T directly.

 

[Diehardblues]

I remember shaking my head at my wife's boss hearing how he paid like 500 bucks for a brake job on his wife's BMW. Then my wife was talking to me about him landing a million dollar deal with Foster Farms. Then it made sense. The 2 hours he would have spent doing the brake job himself he could make back 10 fold by working in his business.

I’m not mechanically inclined. Never changed the oil or a tire. Take my vehicle to dealership.

My wife is our handyman around the house if needed. She got it from her dad. I can do some work in the yard. That’s about it. Lol