01-20-2009, 11:14 PM
<!--quoteo(post=12610:date=Jan 20 2009, 05:36 PM:name=rok)-->QUOTE (rok @ Jan 20 2009, 05:36 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=12554:date=Jan 20 2009, 12:39 PM:name=BT)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BT @ Jan 20 2009, 12:39 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->You might both be right. Scalpers can charge more if they'd like, but more and more people, with the Cubs encouragement, are selling (and buying) their tickets on stubhub. In most cases, tickets are sold on a declining price method, in that every day tickets listed have their prices come down, until the price meets demand. So while ticket brokers might transfer the cost of the PSL to the end user with their fixed prices, tickets bought on stubhub will reflect current demand, regardless of what the person selling the ticket paid for it.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I could be wrong, but most people that buy on StubHub don't wait until the final day of the event to complete a transaction. You're most likely describing a small % of the secondary market.
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I'm not sure what you are getting at here Rok. It doesn't matter WHEN they buy the tickets, all that matters is that the price has dropped to whatever they deem as "worth" their investment. Unless the tickets are being sold at a static price, the prices come down until the hit whatever "demand" says they are. Even the ones set with a static price are subject to demand, in that if you set your price at 150 dollars, and other similar tickets are going at 100, your tickets won't sell.
My guess is that more people buy tickets on stubhub now than buy from scalpers.
I could be wrong, but most people that buy on StubHub don't wait until the final day of the event to complete a transaction. You're most likely describing a small % of the secondary market.
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I'm not sure what you are getting at here Rok. It doesn't matter WHEN they buy the tickets, all that matters is that the price has dropped to whatever they deem as "worth" their investment. Unless the tickets are being sold at a static price, the prices come down until the hit whatever "demand" says they are. Even the ones set with a static price are subject to demand, in that if you set your price at 150 dollars, and other similar tickets are going at 100, your tickets won't sell.
My guess is that more people buy tickets on stubhub now than buy from scalpers.
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