So is it commonly known that the Bruins were basically scalping their own playoff tickets yesterday?
I was in line at the box office early yesterday trying to get reasonably priced Game 7 tickets. I was shocked that when they were finally released around 2 pm - the price for a loge 19 since seat was $2100. During the regular season, those are $210 tickets.
But here's the kicker .. when I compared that price to what StubHub was selling in the same section at that moment, there was only a 100-200 difference. So it seemed to me that the Bruins were monitoring the ticket broker prices online and dynamically re-pricing their own tickets stock to be in that 'scalped' range.
And to clarify - these tickets were not from the Ticketmaster reseller market - it was straight from the box office.
Some other weird stuff:
- There was no price listed on the printed tickets. Is this common? Seems fishy.
- The ticket manager was adament that no tickets sold that day would ever drop below $2100. How could that possibly be?
- During the week I could not find any Stanley Cup ticket pricing anywhere on their website, so I don't really know what season ticket holders and others were playing for similar seats. Was that intentional?
I didn't stick around to see what was going to be available after that. That was too rich for my blood. People who waiting in line all day were pissed as well.
I've done the day-of-game tickets routine many times for the Sox. As long as you can put the time in line, you can get into any big game you want at a real face value price. It was disheartening to see the B's screw over their fans like this.
So is this a new thing? Has it been happening all playoffs or just yesterday? What is the normal "face value" of a loge 19 seat during this series cost? Maybe I just wasn't aware they do this and everyone know, but I thought it was really crappy of them.
In the end I'm glad I didn't take the bait given the game outcome, but I still feel wronged by the B's ticket people.
Any insight appreciated!