Ticket prices

Jvfireman416 · February 2018

rey said:

dlymnfld said:

I have had Patriot season tickets since 1992. 28 dollars then, 160 dollars now. Patriots sucked then and are great now. PJ in 92 played a short set and now a pretty long set. All relative.

How much did the Patriots tickets cost in 2016. Have they increased by 30+% since then??

Ha Ha you have to pay PSA's for the rights to even buy tickets to pro football games. Giants seasons tickets cost 10k just for the rights to buy the tickets. Wouldn't compare.

Jvfireman416 · February 2018

They are also selling through Ticket Bastards now. We are also probably paying the service charge...Is that not accurate?

rey · February 2018

Jvfireman416 said:

rey said:

dlymnfld said:

I have had Patriot season tickets since 1992. 28 dollars then, 160 dollars now. Patriots sucked then and are great now. PJ in 92 played a short set and now a pretty long set. All relative.

How much did the Patriots tickets cost in 2016. Have they increased by 30+% since then??

Ha Ha you have to pay PSA's for the rights to even buy tickets to pro football games. Giants seasons tickets cost 10k just for the rights to buy the tickets. Wouldn't compare.

I'm not comparing prices of football tickets to the price of PJ tickets. I'm just trying to figure out if other products have seen a 30+% increase in their cost (for the EXACT same product) in just two years. I'm truly curious to know if tickets for the Patriots (like PJ, basically the best at what they do) have increased that much since 2016.

mace1229 · February 2018

rey said:

JimmyV said:

rey said:

dlymnfld said:

I have had Patriot season tickets since 1992. 28 dollars then, 160 dollars now. Patriots sucked then and are great now. PJ in 92 played a short set and now a pretty long set. All relative.

How much did the Patriots tickets cost in 2016. Have they increased by 30+% since then??

This is a fair point. The bump from 2016 to 2018 is far more relevant than anything the band said or did or charged in 1992 or 1994.

I don't care what other artists charge for their tickets, how much PJ tickets cost in the '90s, or how much tickets to a sporting event cost. The bottom line is that PJ played baseball stadiums in 2016 and are playing baseball stadiums again 2018. The cost for the EXACT same product has increased by 30+ % in the course of just two years. Think about other products you purchase and how you would feel about a 30% increase for the EXACT same product in just two years.
I fully expected the 2018 tickets to cost more than the 2016 tickets because everything goes up in price. I totally get that. I just did not expect they would go up by that much and am having a hard time understanding why.

If the answer is the band wants to make more money playing less shows, would you have a problem with that?
I'd be bummed if that is why, but I'd do the same thing

JP218404 · February 2018

Everyone will have their answers once the on sale happens. you will see all the fees and what the actually FACE is on the tickets. Until then everyone should just be happy they are playing gigs and that we all have a chance to get the best seats in the house plus ALL GA BEFORE SCALPERS AND STUB HUB GETS THEIR HANDS ON THEM. They are putting the tickets in the hands of the fans as best they can.

JimmyV · February 2018

Blaming Ticketmaster is missing the point. Visit this page and look at the prices other artists are charging at Fenway. These tickets aren't through TM and the fees are through the roof. All prices below are for ONE TICKET, not a pair.

https://www.mlb.com/redsox/tickets/concerts

Def Leppard/Journey
$185.50 face value
$37.50 fee
$4.85 fee
$227.85

Billy Joel
$159.50 face value
$42.50 fee
$4.85 fee
$206.85

Foo Fighters (Turf seats are gone, these prices are for bowl seating)
$79 face value
$23 fee
$4.85 fee
$106.85

rey · February 2018

mace1229 said:

rey said:

JimmyV said:

rey said:

dlymnfld said:

I have had Patriot season tickets since 1992. 28 dollars then, 160 dollars now. Patriots sucked then and are great now. PJ in 92 played a short set and now a pretty long set. All relative.

How much did the Patriots tickets cost in 2016. Have they increased by 30+% since then??

This is a fair point. The bump from 2016 to 2018 is far more relevant than anything the band said or did or charged in 1992 or 1994.

I don't care what other artists charge for their tickets, how much PJ tickets cost in the '90s, or how much tickets to a sporting event cost. The bottom line is that PJ played baseball stadiums in 2016 and are playing baseball stadiums again 2018. The cost for the EXACT same product has increased by 30+ % in the course of just two years. Think about other products you purchase and how you would feel about a 30% increase for the EXACT same product in just two years.
I fully expected the 2018 tickets to cost more than the 2016 tickets because everything goes up in price. I totally get that. I just did not expect they would go up by that much and am having a hard time understanding why.

If the answer is the band wants to make more money playing less shows, would you have a problem with that?
I'd be bummed if that is why, but I'd do the same thing

Yes, I would have a problem with them taking advantage of their fans so that they could make more money playing less shows.

JimmyV · February 2018

mace1229 said:

rey said:

JimmyV said:

rey said:

dlymnfld said:

I have had Patriot season tickets since 1992. 28 dollars then, 160 dollars now. Patriots sucked then and are great now. PJ in 92 played a short set and now a pretty long set. All relative.

How much did the Patriots tickets cost in 2016. Have they increased by 30+% since then??

This is a fair point. The bump from 2016 to 2018 is far more relevant than anything the band said or did or charged in 1992 or 1994.

I don't care what other artists charge for their tickets, how much PJ tickets cost in the '90s, or how much tickets to a sporting event cost. The bottom line is that PJ played baseball stadiums in 2016 and are playing baseball stadiums again 2018. The cost for the EXACT same product has increased by 30+ % in the course of just two years. Think about other products you purchase and how you would feel about a 30% increase for the EXACT same product in just two years.
I fully expected the 2018 tickets to cost more than the 2016 tickets because everything goes up in price. I totally get that. I just did not expect they would go up by that much and am having a hard time understanding why.

If the answer is the band wants to make more money playing less shows, would you have a problem with that?
I'd be bummed if that is why, but I'd do the same thing

I wouldn't be bummed that they wanted to make more money so much as I would be bummed they were trying to play as few shows as possible after playing no shows in 2017.

JP218404 · February 2018

JimmyV said:

Blaming Ticketmaster is missing the point. Visit this page and look at the prices other artists are charging at Fenway. These tickets aren't through TM and the fees are through the roof. All prices below are for ONE TICKET, not a pair.

https://www.mlb.com/redsox/tickets/concerts

Def Leppard/Journey
$185.50 face value
$37.50 fee
$4.85 fee
$227.85

Billy Joel
$159.50 face value
$42.50 fee
$4.85 fee
$206.85

Foo Fighters (Turf seats are gone, these prices are for bowl seating)
$79 face value
$23 fee
$4.85 fee
$106.85

and there is it. Fenway 2016 face was $85. so maybe face went up to $90 (if that at all) and throw an average of those fees from the venue onto it you get to $123 a piece for PJ.

Clapper · February 2018

rey said:

mace1229 said:

rey said:

JimmyV said:

rey said:

dlymnfld said:

I have had Patriot season tickets since 1992. 28 dollars then, 160 dollars now. Patriots sucked then and are great now. PJ in 92 played a short set and now a pretty long set. All relative.

How much did the Patriots tickets cost in 2016. Have they increased by 30+% since then??

This is a fair point. The bump from 2016 to 2018 is far more relevant than anything the band said or did or charged in 1992 or 1994.

I don't care what other artists charge for their tickets, how much PJ tickets cost in the '90s, or how much tickets to a sporting event cost. The bottom line is that PJ played baseball stadiums in 2016 and are playing baseball stadiums again 2018. The cost for the EXACT same product has increased by 30+ % in the course of just two years. Think about other products you purchase and how you would feel about a 30% increase for the EXACT same product in just two years.
I fully expected the 2018 tickets to cost more than the 2016 tickets because everything goes up in price. I totally get that. I just did not expect they would go up by that much and am having a hard time understanding why.

If the answer is the band wants to make more money playing less shows, would you have a problem with that?
I'd be bummed if that is why, but I'd do the same thing

Yes, I would have a problem with them taking advantage of their fans so that they could make more money playing less shows.

How are they taking advantage of you? They have been charging less than half the market value of these tickets for years. What is it you think this band owes you? In your line of work, how many customers do you have that you charge less than half the market value for your product/service?

CantKeepmedown · February 2018

I'm hoping that the increase over the past 2 years has to do with how many 10C seats they were able to secure. I'm not entirely sure how it works, and I'm sure someone can/has spoke more eloquently about it. But maybe the PJ organization goes to the Red Sox or Ticketmaster and says, "we want 10K fanclub seats this time around (or however many more than 2016) and in turn, they say, "fine, but ticket prices are going to increase 30%).

Maybe it's a price that the band is willing to take (at both their and the fans' expense) to assure that more real fans (fanclub members and regular fans) are going to be in the building.

rey · February 2018

JP218404 said:

JimmyV said:

Blaming Ticketmaster is missing the point. Visit this page and look at the prices other artists are charging at Fenway. These tickets aren't through TM and the fees are through the roof. All prices below are for ONE TICKET, not a pair.

https://www.mlb.com/redsox/tickets/concerts

Def Leppard/Journey
$185.50 face value
$37.50 fee
$4.85 fee
$227.85

Billy Joel
$159.50 face value
$42.50 fee
$4.85 fee
$206.85

Foo Fighters (Turf seats are gone, these prices are for bowl seating)
$79 face value
$23 fee
$4.85 fee
$106.85

and there is it. Fenway 2016 face was $85. so maybe face went up to $90 (if that at all) and throw an average of those fees from the venue onto it you get to $123 a piece for PJ.

Interesting that the fee varies from artist to artist. Is that fee charged by the venue?

rey · February 2018

Clapper said:

rey said:

mace1229 said:

rey said:

JimmyV said:

rey said:

dlymnfld said:

I have had Patriot season tickets since 1992. 28 dollars then, 160 dollars now. Patriots sucked then and are great now. PJ in 92 played a short set and now a pretty long set. All relative.

How much did the Patriots tickets cost in 2016. Have they increased by 30+% since then??

This is a fair point. The bump from 2016 to 2018 is far more relevant than anything the band said or did or charged in 1992 or 1994.

I don't care what other artists charge for their tickets, how much PJ tickets cost in the '90s, or how much tickets to a sporting event cost. The bottom line is that PJ played baseball stadiums in 2016 and are playing baseball stadiums again 2018. The cost for the EXACT same product has increased by 30+ % in the course of just two years. Think about other products you purchase and how you would feel about a 30% increase for the EXACT same product in just two years.
I fully expected the 2018 tickets to cost more than the 2016 tickets because everything goes up in price. I totally get that. I just did not expect they would go up by that much and am having a hard time understanding why.

If the answer is the band wants to make more money playing less shows, would you have a problem with that?
I'd be bummed if that is why, but I'd do the same thing

Yes, I would have a problem with them taking advantage of their fans so that they could make more money playing less shows.

How are they taking advantage of you? They have been charging less than half the market value of these tickets for years. What is it you think this band owes you? In your line of work, how many customers do you have that you charge less than half the market value for your product/service?

In my line of work, if I increase what I charge for the EXACT same product by 30+% in just two years I won't have to worry about having any customers.

BMo-643 · February 2018

Good luck to all registering...I'm out. I saw them in 2013 at Wrigley and if I'm not mistaken those were $116 a pair. Granted thats 5 years ago.

estarr31 · February 2018

wnh1977 said:

Today, I found out that tickets for the shows I'm interested in for 2018 are $122.50/ticket for Chicago... and $123.50 for Boston. Let's take a walk down memory lane......

"Pearl Jam wanted to charge no more than $18.50 for tickets in '94, with service fees of no more than $1.80. Ticketmaster balked, saying that it needed at least $2 in fees simply to cover its own costs." - courtesy Ultimateclassicrock.com

"Our band, which is determined to keep ticket prices low, will always be in conflict with Ticketmaster," Gossard asserted. - courtesy Ultimateclassicrock.com

This guy started a thread about 1994 prices?! Those were the days, when you could own and manage casinos in Atlantic City and go bankrupt to get taxpayers and share holders to cover debt you created.

Poncier · February 2018

JimmyV said:

Blaming Ticketmaster is missing the point. Visit this page and look at the prices other artists are charging at Fenway. These tickets aren't through TM and the fees are through the roof. All prices below are for ONE TICKET, not a pair.

https://www.mlb.com/redsox/tickets/concerts

Def Leppard/Journey
$185.50 face value
$37.50 fee
$4.85 fee
$227.85

Billy Joel
$159.50 face value
$42.50 fee
$4.85 fee
$206.85

Foo Fighters (Turf seats are gone, these prices are for bowl seating)
$79 face value
$23 fee
$4.85 fee
$106.85

I almost fell out of my chair last week when I saw the prices for Journey & Def Leppard. Maybe if Steve Perry were reuniting with Journey I could see those prices working, but no chance with Arnel Pineda.
The per ticket service fees this year at Fenway make Ticketmaster seem like reasonable folks and that's hard to do.

Clapper · February 2018

rey said:

Clapper said:

rey said:

mace1229 said:

rey said:

JimmyV said:

rey said:

dlymnfld said:

I have had Patriot season tickets since 1992. 28 dollars then, 160 dollars now. Patriots sucked then and are great now. PJ in 92 played a short set and now a pretty long set. All relative.

How much did the Patriots tickets cost in 2016. Have they increased by 30+% since then??

This is a fair point. The bump from 2016 to 2018 is far more relevant than anything the band said or did or charged in 1992 or 1994.

I don't care what other artists charge for their tickets, how much PJ tickets cost in the '90s, or how much tickets to a sporting event cost. The bottom line is that PJ played baseball stadiums in 2016 and are playing baseball stadiums again 2018. The cost for the EXACT same product has increased by 30+ % in the course of just two years. Think about other products you purchase and how you would feel about a 30% increase for the EXACT same product in just two years.
I fully expected the 2018 tickets to cost more than the 2016 tickets because everything goes up in price. I totally get that. I just did not expect they would go up by that much and am having a hard time understanding why.

If the answer is the band wants to make more money playing less shows, would you have a problem with that?
I'd be bummed if that is why, but I'd do the same thing

Yes, I would have a problem with them taking advantage of their fans so that they could make more money playing less shows.

How are they taking advantage of you? They have been charging less than half the market value of these tickets for years. What is it you think this band owes you? In your line of work, how many customers do you have that you charge less than half the market value for your product/service?

In my line of work, if I increase what I charge for the EXACT same product by 30+% in just two years I won't have to worry about having any customers.

Even if you were already offering that product at less than half the actual market value and less than half of your other competitors? A quick check of Ticketmaster brought me to Pitbull in Niagara Falls....top ticket is $293.80ca BEFORE any fees. PITBULL. This band has left hundreds of millions of dollars on the table over the last 25 years and continues to do so. Even if they spike prices by 75% over last tour they'd still be well below the market. I'll ask my original question, what is it you think this band owes you?

estarr31 · February 2018

Sugar-Magnolia said:

I am shocked at these ticket prices. I'm lucky enough to be able to afford it but what happened to being reasonable enough every fan could attend? I'm disappointed in this. I know, I know, if I don't like it I can not go so you others have a better chance. But PJ taught me to stand for something or fall for anything and I can not keep my mouth shut about this. And don't give me this "well, it's for charity". These band members don't need to jack prices up to be able to afford to donate. And if fans are that fortunate they can donate on their own, not through inflated ticket prices. I used to brag about how PJ treats their fans...

What should they charge? Should they not pay their crew?
I'm not trying to belittle you or anyone, this is not a cheap option but you also have to look at within context and what our society now charges for comparable entertainment acts. These prices are in-line or cheaper than good seats at a Red Sox or Cubs game, in-line or cheaper than good seats at a Broadway show or theater experience, or NFL game, or even other concerts being held in Fenway and Wrigley this year.
But also remember that PJ is only playing seven US shows next year, so they're not designing this for their fans to attend all 7 shows. This is set up so fans can get to one of the shows. If you're lucky enough to be able to afford it, maybe two or three shows. Lastly, our prices are most likely cheaper than what the public sale tickets will go for with worse seating locations, certainly less than comparable seats on secondary markets as well. Everything is relative. If anything, be upset at the entertainment industry as a whole - this is not PJ's doing and I think they're trying to do their best while comfortably pulling off these shows and compensating their crew (which is large).

GT1015 · February 2018

With increase in ticket prices, plus travel and lodging...I can't do it. Throw in some more show dates closer to home then we'll see if the price is too high.

tempo_n_groove · February 2018

JP218404 said:

JimmyV said:

Blaming Ticketmaster is missing the point. Visit this page and look at the prices other artists are charging at Fenway. These tickets aren't through TM and the fees are through the roof. All prices below are for ONE TICKET, not a pair.

https://www.mlb.com/redsox/tickets/concerts

Def Leppard/Journey
$185.50 face value
$37.50 fee
$4.85 fee
$227.85

Billy Joel
$159.50 face value
$42.50 fee
$4.85 fee
$206.85

Foo Fighters (Turf seats are gone, these prices are for bowl seating)
$79 face value
$23 fee
$4.85 fee
$106.85

and there is it. Fenway 2016 face was $85. so maybe face went up to $90 (if that at all) and throw an average of those fees from the venue onto it you get to $123 a piece for PJ.

We don't pay fees when going through 10C though, that was the beauty of that, which is now gone.

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