Is it fair that I bought a Subway sandwich for $7 a day before they introduced the $5 footlong program? Would it be fair for you to buy tickets at $150 a day before the Rockets acquire D-Wade and raised prices to $250? You bought the ticket voluntarily at $150, nobody forced you into it. As a consenting adult, I don't see how you can cry rape.
Here's a schedule with all the ratings of each game this year: http://www.nba.com/media/rockets/Groups_0910HomeSchedTEMP.pdf It goes like this: PREMIUM A-GAME B-GAME C-GAME The Grizzlies are a C...guess what the Lakers got.
In a commercial sense, sure, why not? If I bought them for $250, evidentially the tickets are worth $250 to me. If there are a large number of people like me, then evidentally, there is an inefficiency in the market and the team is underpricing its tickets. Now if we are talking about other values out there-- i.e. the team is intentionally underpricing the tickets in order to "give back to the community" or allowing people without very high income to see the games live, or to maximize attendance rather than just revenue, then I can see how a secondary market (i.e. scalping) is frustrating the team's purpose. In these events, then teams, I belive, would take steps to prevent such secondary sales from happening. Now, if the team is changing the pricing of the tickets depending on expected or actual market demand, I can't see how it's any more "unfair" than the price fluctuation of a number of other goods.
astros did the same thing when the yankees and redsox came to town. people paid...why not raise prices?
Are you mad because you are scalping your tickets too and they are running a business with a price structure that's been in place for a couple of years now? Premium games always cost more... If you season ticket holders want the "regular" season ticket prices for the premium games, call your service executive and tell them. I am positive you will get positive news. Seems to me that you are making attempts to as you try to sell at least 3 different seating ticket sets for every game in the selling section of this site...
Buy season tickets and the price for the clips is the same as the lakers. I did buy some 10 laker tickets... Just sayin' I think the cubs did somethig similar
dont know about you but I think the demand to watch Lakers would be higher then watching Memphis and scalping? please, its called market.
Generally... Rockets Hot Streak = Raising of prices. Good Matchups = Raising of prices. Rockets Cold Streak = Lowering of prices. Bad Matchups = Lowering of prices.
Yes, it is. It's called revenue management; airlines do it ALL THE TIME (in fact, they're the pioneers of it). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenue_management If you're willing to pay $150 10 days before the game, but no one else is willing to 5 days before the game, you have to cut prices to sell them. There is no option unless you want empty seats (which, for a sports team, is a complete loss of revenue).
Generally people get more utility watching a Rox vs Lakers game than a Rox vs Grizzlies game, so they are willing to pay more, thus they are charged more. What's the problem?
The Astros raised their tickets prices for the Red Sox and Yankees games when they've been here during interleague play over the last couple of seasons.
to clarify, this year is the first time in awhile they raised prices for premium games for individual sale while season ticket/mini package holders get the same price for all games In the business world, its a smart move because u can get single game tix prices for premium games IF u buy a package which includes tickets to other games, so more tix sales for the non-premium games. We were lucky in years past because they didn't do this, I remember Yoyo saying tixs vs the Rockets at Staples carried a premium price. For groups, they never discounted tickets for premium games for the games I've organized the past 3 seasons, although I was lucky to get a discount for Game 1 vs. Jazz for the '07 Playoffs
