https://www.wral.com/consumer/5onyourside/canes-tickets-stanley-cup-june-2026/
Over a grand per ticket. Ouchie.
Lucky fans and some season-ticket holders got final tickets at face value or a discount. They told WRAL that their tickets were between $170 and $500, but they’re reselling at much, much more.
So it seems like this is due to scalpers - who are ruining absolutely everything unfortunately. Fucking dickheads…
Too many people decided during lockdowns that scalping was big money, and it’s been atrocious ever since.
Or companies buy them and don’t use them.
OK, so what’s in it for them, if this is true? How do they profit from an empty seat?
The seat tickets are used to bribe external parties for favor. If there’s nobody to bribe, then either way it’s a business expense and a tax write-off.
Like who? In return for what? And how is this better than just selling the seat to a spectator, or the company giving them to one of their staff?
has the last few decades been capitalism, or just what the people rigging the system call capitalism, free market my ass
Yes, a high price resulting in low sales is capitalism working exactly as expected.