What's with all the remaining tickets in Washington? Tickets too expensive?

blueandgoldguy

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I have been looking at tickets for various teams available throughout the playoffs and I noticed in past rounds there were several hundred blue dots (mostly in pairs or higher) available for some of the Washington Capitals games at the Capital One Center. I figured it was due to fatigue from being let down by the team season after season.

However, in round three I have seen several blue dots available for at least two (possibly all three games). For game 6 at home

https://www1.ticketmaster.ca/easter...catid=9&tm_link=artist_msg-0_1500546DB3BA3FCF

there are close to five hundred seats (blue dots) still available just in pairs or greater....that doesn't include the singles. Most of these seats are in the prime seating areas of the lower bowl including an entire row by the penalty box!

Capitals are in somewhat uncharted territory - first time in the third round in 20 years. They have a exciting superstar in Alex Ovechkin who while slightly past his prime is still one of the best in the game. So what gives? Are the prices too high...even in a market of 5 million plus with many wealthy individuals?
 

Devil Dancer

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Almost all of those tickets are "verified resale tickets," meaning they're already owned tickets. Maybe the scalpers jumped in and tried to profit on the 3rd round and misjudged the market? And many of them are STHers I'm sure. Don't know why they want to sell, I guess some of them are profit motivated too.
 

LeHab

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Almost all of those tickets are "verified resale tickets," meaning they're already owned tickets. Maybe the scalpers jumped in and tried to profit on the 3rd round and misjudged the market? And many of them are STHers I'm sure. Don't know why they want to sell, I guess some of them are profit motivated too.

Are they selling below face value?
 

tarheelhockey

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Feb 12, 2010
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We’re quickly getting to the point where every team in the league could have a thread like this.

“Sellout” doesn’t mean quite the same thing it used to.
 

TOGuy14

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Dec 30, 2010
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We’re quickly getting to the point where every team in the league could have a thread like this.

“Sellout” doesn’t mean quite the same thing it used to.

Especially since most tickets to any kind of event these days are bought with the sole purpose of reselling at a profit.

Doesn't matter if that is sports, concerts or even limited museum events.
 

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