In my lifetime said:
And I think, by the changing tone of the thread, the feeling that it is better the RS make the extra money vs. private resellers has evaporated.
1. The sheer amount of time to get tickets is ridiculous and frustrating
2. The manipulation of the market is obvious. No OD available from Noon - 2, then magically some available at double the price.
3. The fact that it is a 1 way market at this point --- prices only going up
4. The stupid high volume and other error messages when you are blocked
5. The fact that baseball is not a free market and have a legal monopoly. Look if you want to sell tickets at what the market will bear --- great. But then you have a great reason to have your legal monopoly busted up.
6. Come on how hard is it to just extend the tiered pricing, price every ticket according to a predicted demand and be done with it. At least it is transparent if done in that manner.
7. This has the potential to create ill will from the fan base, so I don't see the advantage over just using more extreme tiers.
1. You can go on now, and in about 5 minutes have a SROs at 45-60 a ticket. You din't have to win a lottery to do it. That could be seen as an improvement by some.
2. I think it's short sighted to say No OD were available at noon. We're talking about easily thousands, probably 10s of thousands of people logging on at 12 noon to buy a subset 300-400 tickets. The Sox were up front in saying the demand would drive the price, which I think said to a lot of us, they'd be holding some back. They blew through the allotment at the original price, they upped it with the next batch.
3. I agree - The tickets that have been sitting out there aren't going down.
6. It's all about maximizing revenue. I think that's transparent enough.
7. I like many didn't get OD today, but from what I am seeing in the ticket forum is that people generally did okay with getting something for a decent price.
