Ticket Prices through the Years...

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  • High Fidelity 2000
    High Fidelity 2000 New Mexico USA Posts: 4,439
    Yeah yeah yeah, you can say that with everything, everyone always says.

    So, you paid $0.75 a gallon for gas in 1992? No? That's what I thought. :)
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  • Mahone
    Mahone Posts: 62
    slightofjeff wrote:
    That's been established.

    The number isn't important.

    People expect PJ to undersell themselves ... why exactly? Because of some stance they held in 1994?

    that stance was actually held until 1998, when they dropped their grievance. They wanted to keep ticket prices fair and service charges to just a couple bucks. The fight with ticketmaster had more to do with the money ticketmaster was charging for fees, which has grown by leaps and bounds. They lost their ticketmaster fight, but the cost of the ticket is mostly determined by the band. the cost of tickets has jumped a lot in the last 5 years, and thats all I was pointing out, I never said they should go back to 1994 and only charge the 2008 equivalent of 1994's $20. But at the same time, we're their bread and butter. They're albums certainly aren't selling like they used to (they lost a lot of their audience in 1996, a few years before CD burning technology and album downloading were easily available), and the same core group of people are always going to see them, helping them sell out shows, buying the CDs and bootlegs.
    4.6.94 Springfield 4.12.94 Boston III (Orpheum) 10.2.96 Hartford 9.16.98 Mansfield II 8.29.00 Mansfield I 7.11.03 Mansfield III 9.29.04 Boston II 5.24.06 Boston I 6.30.08 Mansfield II
  • slightofjeff
    slightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    Mahone wrote:
    that stance was actually held until 1998, when they dropped their grievance. They wanted to keep ticket prices fair and service charges to just a couple bucks. The fight with ticketmaster had more to do with the money ticketmaster was charging for fees, which has grown by leaps and bounds. They lost their ticketmaster fight, but the cost of the ticket is mostly determined by the band. the cost of tickets has jumped a lot in the last 5 years, and thats all I was pointing out, I never said they should go back to 1994 and only charge the 2008 equivalent of 1994's $20. But at the same time, we're their bread and butter. They're albums certainly aren't selling like they used to (they lost a lot of their audience in 1996, a few years before CD burning technology and album downloading were easily available), and the same core group of people are always going to see them, helping them sell out shows, buying the CDs and bootlegs.

    That's all well and good.

    But I'm still missing the argument as to why PJ should sell themselves below market value ...
    everybody wants the most they can possibly get
    for the least they could possibly do
  • Mahone
    Mahone Posts: 62
    slightofjeff wrote:
    That's all well and good.

    But I'm still missing the argument as to why PJ should sell themselves below market value ...

    I never had an argument, I was pointing something out, mostly for pointless reasons.
    4.6.94 Springfield 4.12.94 Boston III (Orpheum) 10.2.96 Hartford 9.16.98 Mansfield II 8.29.00 Mansfield I 7.11.03 Mansfield III 9.29.04 Boston II 5.24.06 Boston I 6.30.08 Mansfield II
  • 12345AGNST1
    12345AGNST1 Posts: 4,906
    Do any of you think that maybe the prices are so high only because this is such a small tour? So they raised the prices to equal it out sorta? Maybe there next big tour the prices will be like $50-60
    5/28/06, 6/27/08, 10/28/09, 5/18/10, 5/21/10
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  • slightofjeff
    slightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    12345AGNST1 wrote:
    Do any of you think that maybe the prices are so high only because this is such a small tour? So they raised the prices to equal it out sorta? Maybe there next big tour the prices will be like $50-60

    Nah. Prices will never go down. They never do.
    everybody wants the most they can possibly get
    for the least they could possibly do
  • hopethatuchoke
    hopethatuchoke Posts: 2,927
    slightofjeff wrote:
    That's been established.

    The number isn't important.

    People expect PJ to undersell themselves ... why exactly? Because of some stance they held in 1994?


    I hardly think a $50 ticket price would be underselling themselves

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