You might have season tickets for 4 and sell 2. Or, the idea of making tens of thousands of dollars for zero work is just really appealing.

It’s not just rich folks, there are ticket brokers too. And some of the rich folks aren’t in NYC that day

I know a very wealthy person with 100 level seats who plans on selling those seats and buying higher up. That honestly doesn’t make sense to me. But, unless you are a true fanatic or have exorbitant money, it’s hard to pass up on an easy 5k (or more) profit

People are busy, and sometimes cannot use their tickets.

There’s a fair market price for everything.

Like, even if you’re a lifetime Knicks fan and badly want to go to the game, there’s obviously some number out there which would get you to change your mind.

$100k/seat sounds like it.

Rich people always want more money.

If someone wants to pay half the cost of your whole season worth of tickets for one game, you sell.

You buy 4 season tickets and then sell 2

Probably a lot of then are owned by firms/companies/etc, so selling them makes sense

Some of these season tickets are owned by corporate /institutional accounts.

Not everyone is free for the finals games especially since I don’t think really anyone planned the Knicks to be in the finals at the start of the season per say.

It’s also normal to miss 1-2 playoff games

It’s not that deep

Resell prices are crazy tho

Last week I had access to the presale for finals tickets at MSG., game 4

Lowest face value seat available, single seat so you go solo, was $1750, in the 400s.

If you wanted 4 tickets together, to go as a family like me, it was $2700 each in the 200s.

I’m a season ticket holder and was able to get our seats in the 200s for ~2100 each. The costs vary depending on how long you’ve had a season ticket and how much you normally pay for them (the earlier you became a season ticket holder the lower the cost, which is why you’ll often see so much variation in how much people pay)

Thanks. I was thinking, when the fuck did I miss regular season ticket holders getting playoff tickets.

Or staying home. My tv is better than the one at the bar, and my couch is comfier than a bar stool. Food is better at home, and the drinks are cheaper. Also, I can control who comes to watch the game with me.

85 bucks is 3 beers and some nachos

Yeah now imagine instead of flying the arenas are only a 2 hour drive apart from each other.

You could travel from NY for the game and still make it into work the next day.

Edit: and you don’t even need to drive because you can do the entire trip by train with only 2 transfers.

Plus they can see them big ole women and eat churros

Especially if you buy tickets for both games, then you only need one flight ticket and an extra two hotel nights

According to the figures you posted, it is not an order of magnitude cheaper for the get-in price.

Not an order of magnitude

Not comparable, but a couple years ago wife wanted to go to Beyonce’s Renaissance tour. It was about the same price for us to fly to Seattle, have a nice weekend, take the train to Vancouver (beautiful, highly recommend), stay a couple days, and watch the concert there than the tickets alone to see her in Chicago.

I had friends that went to Europe and made a vacation out of it because the price difference to see her somewhere here wasn’t much different than the entire trip.

Yep. Bought tickets for SA and got a message that if my billing zip code was not within 150 miles of the Frost Bank Center then they would be cancelling my order and giving me a refund. Pretty neat imo.

didn’t they try to do that for philly? taht did not work

Season ticket members get access to the presale. I thought the package was expensive when I bought it but it was cheap as hell in hindsight.

You don’t post something like that if you don’t actually want people to at you. He’s playing hardball.

refund

You only get charged when you advance to that round. So it’s basically a commitment to buy each round at a set price before the playoffs start. I’ve been to a game every round with my wife, and including the Finals tickets the total cost was about $1800. Honestly a steal with all things considered

It’s because there is only one Super Bowl a year while there is at minimum 4 finals game a year

There were 2016 World Series Game 7 tickets going for a million dollars.

http://cubsinsider.com/2018/06/06/cubs-world-series-win-people-forget-that-featured-most-expensive-ticket-ever/

Saleswoman or cult leader. You decide! 

People who think about \(100k the way we think about \)20.

Can’t wait until she dunks on Wemby

If fucking Chalamet gets more screen time the NBC producers hate life.

Easy way to test this. Have Dodgers WS tickets gotten cheaper over the last few years? They’ve been to the WS 5 times in the last 10 years (one was the Covid empty stadium, but still). Especially with the back to back trips, did the price/demand go down?

big head*

It’s mind boggling. They put some on sale for chase last week and pulled the listing from ticketmaster.

They have to rework their computer system to handle all the extra digits in these prices.

If you can get into a playoff game for under 100 you’ve got it good

The idea that people with a lot of disposable income can’t be “real fans” is so silly to me. Sure, there’s some people in the arena sitting courtside for big games that are there to socialize and be seen and don’t really love basketball but that’s not exactly a majority. But a guy that grew up middle class and watched the games on the couch with his dad like most of us did and ended up building himself a nice career where he can afford to spend a few thousand on finals tickets doesn’t actually love basketball and the team? Give me a break. \(500k salary as a Target executive is top 1%ish money but it's not unlimited money, maybe it's awesome season tickets or a sweet boat but not both. I don't think a guy that isn't a real fan chooses the season tickets over the boat or whatever else he likes for \)20k a year

The Knicks do give free tickets to celebrities with the understanding they might be asked to do occasional promo work. But they don’t just get a ticket because they are famous. They have to be actual fans. Dolan is famously picky about who is invited. For example when super model Emily Ratajkowski left a Knicks comeback early she was denied future free tickets. https://pagesix.com/2023/12/18/society/emily-ratajkowski-denied-comped-seats-to-msg/

He died in 1987 so I’m assuming OP meant someone else

At 900k, that’s still ¹⁄₉ of your income. I make a lot less than 900k, but I would never spend ¹⁄₉ of my income on Knicks tickets.