Stubhub Inventory Going Up

dl152203 · February 2013

For everyone that is still looking for Wrigley tickets, the good news is that Stubhub inventory is continuing to creep up. Inventory has gone up about 300 tickets in the past few days alone. That indicates that few people are panicking and paying crazy prices. I would expect that as other dates are released, prices will eventually start coming down. Do us all a favor and be patient. I'm not saying these tickets will ever be cheap but I do expect 300, 400 and 500 level tickets to eventually sell for around $150 per. Be patient my friends, show is five months away and a lot can happen between now and then.

helplessdancer · February 2013

another wrigley thread
really?

bigguybigeye · February 2013

dl152203 wrote:

Do us all a favor and be patient. I'm not saying these tickets will ever be cheap but I do expect 300, 400 and 500 level tickets to eventually sell for around $150 per. Be patient my friends, show is five months away and a lot can happen between now and then.

Agree.

front spacer · February 2013

bigguybigeye wrote:

dl152203 wrote:

Do us all a favor and be patient. I'm not saying these tickets will ever be cheap but I do expect 300, 400 and 500 level tickets to eventually sell for around $150 per. Be patient my friends, show is five months away and a lot can happen between now and then.

Agree.

Hopefully!

81 · February 2013

dl152203 wrote:

For everyone that is still looking for Wrigley tickets, the good news is that Stubhub inventory is continuing to creep up. Inventory has gone up about 300 tickets in the past few days alone. That indicates that few people are panicking and paying crazy prices. I would expect that as other dates are released, prices will eventually start coming down. Do us all a favor and be patient. I'm not saying these tickets will ever be cheap but I do expect 300, 400 and 500 level tickets to eventually sell for around $150 per. Be patient my friends, show is five months away and a lot can happen between now and then.

what is this 300 level that you speak of?

front spacer · February 2013

81 wrote:

dl152203 wrote:

For everyone that is still looking for Wrigley tickets, the good news is that Stubhub inventory is continuing to creep up. Inventory has gone up about 300 tickets in the past few days alone. That indicates that few people are panicking and paying crazy prices. I would expect that as other dates are released, prices will eventually start coming down. Do us all a favor and be patient. I'm not saying these tickets will ever be cheap but I do expect 300, 400 and 500 level tickets to eventually sell for around $150 per. Be patient my friends, show is five months away and a lot can happen between now and then.

what is this 300 level that you speak of?

Does Wrigley just have 100, 200, 400, 500?

dmbolp · February 2013

dl152203 wrote:

For everyone that is still looking for Wrigley tickets, the good news is that Stubhub inventory is continuing to creep up. Inventory has gone up about 300 tickets in the past few days alone. That indicates that few people are panicking and paying crazy prices. I would expect that as other dates are released, prices will eventually start coming down. Do us all a favor and be patient. I'm not saying these tickets will ever be cheap but I do expect 300, 400 and 500 level tickets to eventually sell for around $150 per. Be patient my friends, show is five months away and a lot can happen between now and then.

Or, it means that people are buying lots of tickets but scalpers are adding slightly more each day

81 · February 2013

front spacer wrote:

81 wrote:

dl152203 wrote:

For everyone that is still looking for Wrigley tickets, the good news is that Stubhub inventory is continuing to creep up. Inventory has gone up about 300 tickets in the past few days alone. That indicates that few people are panicking and paying crazy prices. I would expect that as other dates are released, prices will eventually start coming down. Do us all a favor and be patient. I'm not saying these tickets will ever be cheap but I do expect 300, 400 and 500 level tickets to eventually sell for around $150 per. Be patient my friends, show is five months away and a lot can happen between now and then.

what is this 300 level that you speak of?

Does Wrigley just have 100, 200, 400, 500?

pretty much. stub hub shows the bleachers are 300's. so i guess that's the 300's...although they aren't sold.

just looked at inventory. right at 1400 available which is where it's been pretty much since tuesday.

i'm pretty confident prices will drop, but not as much as people think.

Blood Red Mosquito · February 2013

Its been a week. They will go down when people stop paying $250-350 a ticket for the 200, 400 and 500 sections.

dmbolp · February 2013

I'm going into Stubhub now, will create a shell listing, and will have actual sale numbers shortly.

iwasatpj20 · February 2013

Not surprising, only a surprise when the tickets are bought now instead of near the date of the show.

dmbolp · February 2013

Here are the current numbers: 2,189 tickets have been sold so far on Stubhub. The vast majority were sold last weekend by far, so a whole bunch of people panicked on day 1. Here are the first 20 sections with # sold, High and Low price sold:

Section # High Low
Field GA 23 $1,925 $750
A 16 $680 $500
J 14 $1,050 $585
K 18 $826 $499
P 2 $1,350 $1,350
T 4 $699 $499
U 28 $750 $389
V 2 $275 $275
AA 16 $649 $400
BB 14 $750 $199
CC 10 $825 $400
DD 15 $595 $300
14 2 $500 $500
16 2 $294 $294
17 4 $995 $995
24 6 $649 $649
25 8 $650 $395
27 6 $666 $400
36 4 $689 $644
38 2 $350 $350
101 20 $389 $299
102 18 $450 $149

I did take a shortcut, counted all the Field sections and the 10s and 100s. I counted half of the 200s, 400s, 500s (3rd base side) and doubled those.

Eddieshometown · February 2013

I have been tracking the # of tickets sold in the cheaper sections (200, 500 sections) and it seems very few tickets have been sold in most of these sections over the past few days. The sellers will ultimately lose this game of chicken since they don't want to get stuck with them. They still have plenty of time so it might be a little slow for prices to come down.

dl152203 · February 2013

DMbolb,

How do you obtain these statistics?
I would love to be able to keep track.

Thanks

Here are the current numbers: 2,189 tickets have been sold so far on Stubhub. The vast majority were sold last weekend by far, so a whole bunch of people panicked on day 1. Here are the first 20 sections with # sold, High and Low price sold:

Section # High Low
Field GA 23 $1,925 $750
A 16 $680 $500
J 14 $1,050 $585
K 18 $826 $499
P 2 $1,350 $1,350
T 4 $699 $499
U 28 $750 $389
V 2 $275 $275
AA 16 $649 $400
BB 14 $750 $199
CC 10 $825 $400
DD 15 $595 $300
14 2 $500 $500
16 2 $294 $294
17 4 $995 $995
24 6 $649 $649
25 8 $650 $395
27 6 $666 $400
36 4 $689 $644
38 2 $350 $350
101 20 $389 $299
102 18 $450 $149

I did take a shortcut, counted all the Field sections and the 10s and 100s. I counted half of the 200s, 400s, 500s (3rd base side) and doubled those.

dmbolp · February 2013

Create a listing on Stubhub. Just pick one of the 500 sections, and "sell" a single ticket for $1000 so that no one buys it. Once complete, go into the YOUR ACCOUNT link and click on the COMPARE link. This allows you to look at any/every section and see sold prices, unsold prices, and price alerts (as a buyer, you can put in a price that once tickets are available for, Stubhub will send you an alert).

And keep in mind, a ton of people have done this, so there probably is less than 1,000 tickets really for sale, again with 2,200 already sold. So I'm starting to side with the folks saying that scalpers don't have a lot of the tickets. Or, all tickets haven't been released yet. Just think of the great press the band would get if in a month or so they announce "we held back 20,000 tickets to allow the scalpers to do their thing, and now we have a great method to get half the tickets in the hands of real fans...will call!"

81 · February 2013

dmbolp wrote:

Create a listing on Stubhub. Just pick one of the 500 sections, and "sell" a single ticket for $1000 so that no one buys it. Once complete, go into the YOUR ACCOUNT link and click on the COMPARE link. This allows you to look at any/every section and see sold prices, unsold prices, and price alerts (as a buyer, you can put in a price that once tickets are available for, Stubhub will send you an alert).

And keep in mind, a ton of people have done this, so there probably is less than 1,000 tickets really for sale, again with 2,200 already sold. So I'm starting to side with the folks saying that scalpers don't have a lot of the tickets. Or, all tickets haven't been released yet. Just think of the great press the band would get if in a month or so they announce "we held back 20,000 tickets to allow the scalpers to do their thing, and now we have a great method to get half the tickets in the hands of real fans...will call!"

which one is yours? i'm gonna buy it.

dmbolp · February 2013

81 wrote:

dmbolp wrote:

Create a listing on Stubhub. Just pick one of the 500 sections, and "sell" a single ticket for $1000 so that no one buys it. Once complete, go into the YOUR ACCOUNT link and click on the COMPARE link. This allows you to look at any/every section and see sold prices, unsold prices, and price alerts (as a buyer, you can put in a price that once tickets are available for, Stubhub will send you an alert).

And keep in mind, a ton of people have done this, so there probably is less than 1,000 tickets really for sale, again with 2,200 already sold. So I'm starting to side with the folks saying that scalpers don't have a lot of the tickets. Or, all tickets haven't been released yet. Just think of the great press the band would get if in a month or so they announce "we held back 20,000 tickets to allow the scalpers to do their thing, and now we have a great method to get half the tickets in the hands of real fans...will call!"

which one is yours? i'm gonna buy it.

Go right ahead!! I'll buy a $250 ticket in the same section, closer to the stage, "upgrade" you as Stubhub allows, and make $750 for doing next to nothing and never really having my own ticket in hand!! :P

dougfloyd · February 2013

dmbolp wrote:

81 wrote:

dmbolp wrote:

Create a listing on Stubhub. Just pick one of the 500 sections, and "sell" a single ticket for $1000 so that no one buys it. Once complete, go into the YOUR ACCOUNT link and click on the COMPARE link. This allows you to look at any/every section and see sold prices, unsold prices, and price alerts (as a buyer, you can put in a price that once tickets are available for, Stubhub will send you an alert).

And keep in mind, a ton of people have done this, so there probably is less than 1,000 tickets really for sale, again with 2,200 already sold. So I'm starting to side with the folks saying that scalpers don't have a lot of the tickets. Or, all tickets haven't been released yet. Just think of the great press the band would get if in a month or so they announce "we held back 20,000 tickets to allow the scalpers to do their thing, and now we have a great method to get half the tickets in the hands of real fans...will call!"

which one is yours? i'm gonna buy it.

Go right ahead!! I'll buy a $250 ticket in the same section, closer to the stage, "upgrade" you as Stubhub allows, and make $750 for doing next to nothing and never really having my own ticket in hand!! :P

:fp:

dmbolp · February 2013

dmbolp wrote:

81 wrote:

dmbolp wrote:

Create a listing on Stubhub. Just pick one of the 500 sections, and "sell" a single ticket for $1000 so that no one buys it. Once complete, go into the YOUR ACCOUNT link and click on the COMPARE link. This allows you to look at any/every section and see sold prices, unsold prices, and price alerts (as a buyer, you can put in a price that once tickets are available for, Stubhub will send you an alert).

And keep in mind, a ton of people have done this, so there probably is less than 1,000 tickets really for sale, again with 2,200 already sold. So I'm starting to side with the folks saying that scalpers don't have a lot of the tickets. Or, all tickets haven't been released yet. Just think of the great press the band would get if in a month or so they announce "we held back 20,000 tickets to allow the scalpers to do their thing, and now we have a great method to get half the tickets in the hands of real fans...will call!"

which one is yours? i'm gonna buy it.

Go right ahead!! I'll buy a $250 ticket in the same section, closer to the stage, "upgrade" you as Stubhub allows, and make $750 for doing next to nothing and never really having my own ticket in hand!! :P

Speculators are a good portion of the scalping world these days

Blood Red Mosquito · February 2013

dmbolp wrote:

Create a listing on Stubhub. Just pick one of the 500 sections, and "sell" a single ticket for $1000 so that no one buys it. Once complete, go into the YOUR ACCOUNT link and click on the COMPARE link. This allows you to look at any/every section and see sold prices, unsold prices, and price alerts (as a buyer, you can put in a price that once tickets are available for, Stubhub will send you an alert).

And keep in mind, a ton of people have done this, so there probably is less than 1,000 tickets really for sale, again with 2,200 already sold. So I'm starting to side with the folks saying that scalpers don't have a lot of the tickets. Or, all tickets haven't been released yet. Just think of the great press the band would get if in a month or so they announce "we held back 20,000 tickets to allow the scalpers to do their thing, and now we have a great method to get half the tickets in the hands of real fans...will call!"

Interesting stuff. Thanks

dimitrispearljam · February 2013

Blood Red Mosquito wrote:

dmbolp wrote:

Create a listing on Stubhub. Just pick one of the 500 sections, and "sell" a single ticket for $1000 so that no one buys it. Once complete, go into the YOUR ACCOUNT link and click on the COMPARE link. This allows you to look at any/every section and see sold prices, unsold prices, and price alerts (as a buyer, you can put in a price that once tickets are available for, Stubhub will send you an alert).

And keep in mind, a ton of people have done this, so there probably is less than 1,000 tickets really for sale, again with 2,200 already sold. So I'm starting to side with the folks saying that scalpers don't have a lot of the tickets. Or, all tickets haven't been released yet. Just think of the great press the band would get if in a month or so they announce "we held back 20,000 tickets to allow the scalpers to do their thing, and now we have a great method to get half the tickets in the hands of real fans...will call!"

Interesting stuff. Thanks

RE4790 · February 2013

Blood Red Mosquito wrote:

dmbolp wrote:

Create a listing on Stubhub. Just pick one of the 500 sections, and "sell" a single ticket for $1000 so that no one buys it. Once complete, go into the YOUR ACCOUNT link and click on the COMPARE link. This allows you to look at any/every section and see sold prices, unsold prices, and price alerts (as a buyer, you can put in a price that once tickets are available for, Stubhub will send you an alert).

And keep in mind, a ton of people have done this, so there probably is less than 1,000 tickets really for sale, again with 2,200 already sold. So I'm starting to side with the folks saying that scalpers don't have a lot of the tickets. Or, all tickets haven't been released yet. Just think of the great press the band would get if in a month or so they announce "we held back 20,000 tickets to allow the scalpers to do their thing, and now we have a great method to get half the tickets in the hands of real fans...will call!"

Interesting stuff. Thanks

I disagree with the premise that less than 1000 of the 1400 tickets on stubhub are real offers. The ticket for London that is $100k is probably a fake offer, but very few others are at this point. It doesn't benefit the scalper much now that the secondary market has been running for a week and the high margin panic buyers have already bought. There are other ways to game the system or they could watch ebay. How about this: What would stop a scalper from buying tickets from themselves to keep the prices inflated? A small service charge?

And there is no way a large number of tickets (>1000) haven''t been sold yet. Do you really think PJ is so huge that Wrigley would lie about it being the "fastest sell out in the whole history of everz!!!!" if they were holding a large number back. A wicked cool idea, but PJ is not that powerful.

dmbolp · February 2013

It's not just scalpers who have fake listings. Anyone who wants to pay as little as possible for tickets should be monitoring actual sale prices. All this info I'm posting about scalping is to help everyone here eventually get tickets as cheaply as possible.

The best way to beat the scalpers? Understand how the system works, and watch how pricing moves.

RE4790 · February 2013

dmbolp wrote:

It's not just scalpers who have fake listings. Anyone who wants to pay as little as possible for tickets should be monitoring actual sale prices. All this info I'm posting about scalping is to help everyone here eventually get tickets as cheaply as possible.

The best way to beat the scalpers? Understand how the system works, and watch how pricing moves.

Even if you assumed every ticket for sale on the field was fake, you are still at less than 10% of the tickets on stubhub.

You may be on to something about "beating" the scalpers though, if the site is flooded with fake offers to the point all sales become suspect, people will stop using it. *** I am NOT advocating interfering with anyone's business model or defrauding any one or any company, just speaking in theory.

It's only been ten days, people. The show is months away and tickets will still be available in the secondary market then. Let's not forget about the good will of our fellow 10c'ers.

dmbolp · February 2013

RE4790 wrote:

dmbolp wrote:

It's not just scalpers who have fake listings. Anyone who wants to pay as little as possible for tickets should be monitoring actual sale prices. All this info I'm posting about scalping is to help everyone here eventually get tickets as cheaply as possible.

The best way to beat the scalpers? Understand how the system works, and watch how pricing moves.

Even if you assumed every ticket for sale on the field was fake, you are still at less than 10% of the tickets on stubhub.

There are fakes in most all sections. GA Field is the riskiest; what if someone buys your ticket? Much safer to have a fake in lousy sections, with a high price.

Eddieshometown · February 2013

You don't even need to post a ticket on Stub hub to see the sold prices. Go through the steps to sell tickets and they will let you see the sold ticket prices by section. You can cancel before you post the tickets for sale That's what I have been doing

dl152203 · February 2013

We have some sharp people on this board. Thanks for all of the input. This will make it easier to be patient and keep monitoring what tickets are selling for. Goo luck all, stay patient.

Get_Right · February 2013

For reference, you can also check completed sales on Ebay. People are paying big bucks for this show. Crazy.

-Buru- · February 2013

From the sold tickets information posted in this thread...
Someone actually paid close to $2000 for a GA ticket.
Mind-boggling.

Thanks for info on how to track the prices/tickets sold.

dimitrispearljam · February 2013

-Buru- wrote:

From the sold tickets information posted in this thread...
Someone actually paid close to $2000 for a GA ticket.
Mind-boggling.

Thanks for info on how to track the prices/tickets sold.

...will be a fun day at 16th july for him..

RE4790 · February 2013

dmbolp wrote:

RE4790 wrote:

dmbolp wrote:

It's not just scalpers who have fake listings. Anyone who wants to pay as little as possible for tickets should be monitoring actual sale prices. All this info I'm posting about scalping is to help everyone here eventually get tickets as cheaply as possible.

The best way to beat the scalpers? Understand how the system works, and watch how pricing moves.

Even if you assumed every ticket for sale on the field was fake, you are still at less than 10% of the tickets on stubhub.

There are fakes in most all sections. GA Field is the riskiest; what if someone buys your ticket? Much safer to have a fake in lousy sections, with a high price.

Rather than have a bunch of 10c'ers post fake sales (I assume this is a violation of the TOS that stubhub makes you agree to, and thus you are committing fraud), could someone just start posting the information using Eddieshometown's trick in this thread or another like it?

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