I have a buddy with season tickets. Luckily for me he takes me to a handful of games. He sells off his Leafs, Edmonton, Pittsburgh games and maybe a few others. He doen't break even, but it's close, so season tickets are basically free. I can't say I blame him, but it does suck giving the Leafs 2 extra home games.
This is not possible. The hottest games on sked are Toronto, Montreal, Pittsburgh, Chicago and Edmonton. That's eight games. I pay US$53 a ticket for row 1. That's $2,175. The Leafs are the best of the bunch and double the season average price is unlikely (especially if you are selling on stubhub with commission.) There are maybe four or five others around Christmas that are good too. Maybe you average $90 for all those. Even so, that's $1080 for 12 games. There are another 15 games that I'm lucky to average $20/game for so another $300. Let's say I can sell five more at cost to friends doing me a favour for $265. So $1080 plus $300 plus $265 for 12+15+5=32 games. So $1645 for 32 games= $51/game. I'm left paying about $535 for nine games or like $60.
Maybe your buddy is selling his seats to Leafs for triple season ticket price but you can't get that from anybody who knows the market. Go on stubhub or Kijiji or Craiglist.
THERE HAS BEEN NO WAY TO MAKE A PROFIT ON SABRES TICKETS THE LAST FIVE YEARS. Repeat that. I don't care what Mike Harrington at the News says. He hasn't done the math. There is no way your buddy can sell the top seats and get season tickets for free. The BEST you can hope for is sell the top games and come close to breaking even on the games you to go to.
Ask any season ticket (willing to tell you the truth) and they'll admit this. If they don't, I want to see an audit of how they "made" money because it won't hold up.
Tonight's game vs Calgary? 15,000. A friend took mine at cost. I wonder what was real cost. I'm going Saturday. I see row 2 in my section going for US$40 -- a weekend game.
You want to tell season ticket holders how to sell their tickets, I'm out. So will thousands of others and your team will be in Hamilton or somewhere else.