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Indy, usually you are a spot on poster, but you are clearly wrong on this (I am speaking specifically on stubhub); they get a cut thus why I hate it:
http://futureinnumbers.quora.com/The...013-and-Beyond
Only teams that have "opted out" don't get a cut.
There's no economic reason to be pissed about this. There isn't anything underhanded going on, all the fees are disclosed, and there are other places to get tickets. That said. There are companies that I don't do business with for non-economic reasons so if this gets your goat, by all means, vote with your dollar.
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Yes, it's a free country. Maybe you stopped reading after the first line so here's the second half of my post again:
"There are companies that I don't do business with for non-economic reasons so if this gets your goat, by all means, vote with your dollar."
A bit hyperbolic with the junk mortgage comparison. Tickets are expensive but they aren't the single most significant financial transaction of a person's life and if buying them materially increases the leverage on your personal balance sheet you've got bigger problems than StubHub.
Personally, I think there's plenty that's screwed up about the fees that just about everyone in the ticket selling and reselling business extract from the process. But that's not specific to MLB or StubHub.
Last edited by bisonaudit; 12-12-2016 at 10:05 PM.
I have the honor to be Your Obedient Servant - B.Aud
We all live in stories... It seems to me that a definition of any living vibrant society is that you constantly question those stories... The argument itself is freedom. It's not that you come to a conclusion about it. Through that argument you change your mind sometimes... That's how societies grow. When you can't retell for yourself the stories of your life then you live in a prison... Somebody else controls the story. - S. Rushdie
Thanks for sharing. I read up a little based on your post and it appears this fee is new in 2013. I'm not aware of any other league getting a cut. I did some searches and didn't find any similar articles. From what I read the fee is $1.50 per ticket which affects the high volume sellers a lot more than the buyers. It appears MLB may require someone to download an electronic ticket if they are selling through StubHub since I saw some discussions from sellers complaining they would rather send the actual ticket than having the buyer download it. At $1.50 each and the extra cost of the technology to do this I don't see this as a huge money maker for MLB. It's more about covering their costs.
Not sure where to post this, but scheduled myself to call ticket office on way home from work. Called in just before 5 and got answering machine, is could not buy my season tickets for this (CC) game. Wtf and what do I do know?!?!? I want my tickets!!!
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