That’s even sadder if so

I think you’re underestimating the number of people who could « afford » to do it as a stretch. It’s not the wisest spend maybe but it’s like a family vacation. I see people at Kalahari drop 3k for a weekend who are clearly not « rich » like I don’t think it’s a stretch that are literally millions of people the NY area who could swing it without putting themselves in financial difficulty.

Not my life savings but once my hometown was named a World Cup host city I started saving money for tickets. I was determined to take my family to as many games as I could. Once in a lifetime and all. All the side funds went straight into a separate account. Worth it.

Or going into credit card debt.

Essentially just watching from the Jumbotron lol wild

Finals games in SA are above $1K for the worst seats.

Well yeah the reason you can spend so little and the reason we turn our nose up, is you have to live in a place with nothing else to do

it’s not crazy that people are willing to spend that. What is crazy is the wealth disparity. The fact that people have disposable income equal to my salary is crazy.

Lot of rich people in the tri state area in general, we got the highest number of millionaires per capita and by total I think

Idk honestly. If there’s one city in the world with 20,000 people who can comfortably afford to pay those prices, its New York City

Obviously some people are over spending and using credit but I bet most are just going to this game instead of taking a 4th vacation or something

Not just sports. Concerts too.

I think it’s a big part of why baseball is having a surge in popularity right now, it’s really the only sport left with the reasonably priced tickets

A quick peek says outfield tickets are \(35 CAD tomorrow night, not nothing but not terrible either. Compare that with the leafs where it’s \)100+ per ticket and there’s no reason to go to hockey games anymore

This is just a symptom of having an arena that seats 20K for a city that has literally 8.5million people

Supply and demand.

The face value on those tickets aren’t as high as but people are just trying to go and there’s so many people that want to go that they’re able to charge so high it’s more so the secondary market that’s causing the price jump. There are people who are going to that game for like $200 but those that see their months salary for sale on the open market who have tickets might simply sell bc that’s just so much money to give up to go on your own.

I remember I had Mavs Christmas tickets for $150 total

Lebron was coming to town. I sold the 2 of them for $1600. For 3rd level seats

I could’ve gone for my price but the opportunity cost of giving up $1600 for when I could get cool things for my family for Christmas was too good to pass up.

Demand for live events have never been hotter — and for events that might be once in a lifetime, the demand is generational.

Even if the prices were reasonable (whatever that is), all that happens is they get resold at the prices close to what they are now.

Realistically they just need a bigger arena at this point

Having cheaper tickets with a lottery system for assigning them may be more fair, but unless you also shut down the resale market, it wouldn’t work.

Even then, you’d have to have ID verification, and unless you allowed resale, that would result in empty seats if people who won the lottery can’t transfer the tickets, and if you allow transfers, you’d still have a black market.

No reasonable way to deal with the insane demand w/o inflated prices in any type of market system, demand is too high.

What am I missing here?

Nothing, it’s just Reddit children screaming into the void. Again.

If you are a Knick season ticket holder you probably are already decently wealthy  

Mean if that’s just for a seat if you got two that’s $16K…hard to pass up on that kinda payday.

Yea I would sell game 3 and go to game 4

idk why people think being rich excludes you from being a “hardcore” fan, whatever that means

Just because you don’t have $6-8k of discretionary income to spend on season tickets doesn’t mean you’re not a hard-core fan.

There is someone on here yesterday saying they got a ticket for 500 bucks. Another person for a thousand depends where it is but completely reasonable if you are aSeason ticket holder

MSG released limited public tickets this morning at face value. Upper level tickets were in the 2.5K range

Some obviously are, hence the wild resale market. But I have a few friends who are Knicks season ticket holders who got face value Finals tickets, and none of them are selling.

They might, but they weren’t priced out from attending.

There’s supposed to be beer and circus. Where is the circus? 

Gonna have to be once the crowd starts booing the shit out of him

May as well put the all star game there and go full spectacle

the yankees world series were over 1k and thats with a capacity more than double and probably half the fans so its kind of in line.

What people inadvertently want is the freeze on re sale. They don’t know that means that they still won’t go because people will most likely buy up the tickets before you even get a chance to get one.

That doesn’t solve the problem. There are 20 million people in the New York area and MSG has a capacity of 19.5K. 99.9% of the population is still getting excluded no matter how you try to solve pricing.

How would you control people reselling on the black market though. The only real way to resolve this is to have a lottery associating each ticket to a person’s personal data and ban ticket transfers, but would that really be justified for a sports event?? Supply and demand should be respected IMO

but the point of “people waiting a long time to see it and cant” still stands. even if you do that there are still millions who wont get to go.

even if 10k average new yorkers went there are still probably millions who couldnt. Its just about capacity

Yeah but who’s to say that the people paying 10k aren’t absolute diehards willing to spend that because they are crazy about the Knicks? New York has probably the largest fan base (with probably the highest average income based on high cost of living), so the amount of people who’ve squirreled away 10k and would spend it instantly on a finals game is clearly tons because that’s the price. Now will there be a bunch of corporate bozos in boxes who don’t really give a shit….yes 100%, but that’s not what is driving the price to 10k, it’s the huge fan base desperate to see the Knicks at MSG in the finals. There are almost no high level corporate people who want to go to standing room only. There will plenty of rich people who don’t care as much as other fans, but that’s pretty much every game and just how it goes.

the ticket prices are not being set this high by billionaires… they are being set this high by free market ticket resale