OT: the pirates lost a paying customer tonight
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And yet; the brain dead yinzers continue to line his wallet with their $$$$.
P.T. Barnum was right.
It always amazes me that people basically think that any organization, the Pirates, Pitt, the Yankees, the Cowboys, and of them, would, or maybe I should say "should", rather sell 40,000 tickets for $10 than 30,000 tickets for $40.
I'll will guarantee that the Pirates made more money last night from ticket sales selling them the way that they did rather than offering a bunch of crappy seats for $10 and maybe selling 100 more tickets. In fact it wasn't even close. If people can't understand why sports teams owners are trying to maximize their profits in 2023 I can only imagine you've been living under a rock for the last several decades.
Have you noticed any of the toll lanes on highways that use that same dynamic pricing model based on traffic? In fact, our nation's capital has had it for 15 years or more.
Your airline analogy is not correct. Price isn't altered based on your account. Price is altered by the amount of interest being generated by all parties looking for those particular flights. They can't charge you more, and somebody else less.
That's not necessarily true. There have been multiple studies about whether airlines and other ticketing services use cookies to determine price for airfare with no conclusive outcome. If his wife's anecdote is true then they do in fact charge a different rate to different people at the exact same moment for the exact same flight.
pittdan77
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There are a lot of nuances to dynamic pricing. Goes well beyond demand but I do think it is driving some of the inflation we're seeing. Ever get stuck waiting for something you ordered and it misses the delivery date? Someone probably offered more for it. That concept isn't new but it's a big contributor to some of the "shortages" we're seeing.
pittdan77
Athletic Director
It's not necessarily driven by cookies but just having that particular flight get multiple views in a short period of time will drive the price up. Source doesn't matter.
Internet myth.
I can tell you from my own experience as someone who travels a lot (work & pleasure), and is borderline obsessive on getting deals. The best way to get a good deal on a flight is to continuously monitor pricing. Probably something the airlines don't want you to do.
Btw tickets today are like 28 dollars after fees. I can get tickets to see the Yankees at yankee stadium tonight for around 23 dollars.
That’s absolutely absurd
That’s absolutely absurd
Once again, from their perspective it is obviously better to have 23,000 people who pay $25 than to have 30,000 people like you who paid $10.
The fact that you don't understand that doesn't mean that it isn't true.
And of course the difference isn't really between 23,000 and 30,000. The difference is between 23,000 and 23,100.
Update tonight. Cheapest ticket with fees are 32 dollars. This is more expensive than every other home game tonight other than Fenway park.
This includes 15 dollar tickets to see the first place rangers, 15 dollars to the angels to see ohtani pitch, 15 dollars to see the orioles play the first place reds.
This includes 15 dollar tickets to see the first place rangers, 15 dollars to the angels to see ohtani pitch, 15 dollars to see the orioles play the first place reds.
These corporate thieves. Kenny that is not right. You should get in for free. Especially with your family, they should never have any hardship ever. It's disgusting!!
It's why we're seeing all the new stadiums built with fewer general seats and more premium seating. Fewer people paying a huge price makes a lot more money.
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Not sure what you don’t get? They don’t even open 10 sections. 301-305 and like 330-335 are closed.
I don't get how someone can be so economically illiterate.
Maybe it will help if I put it like this. The Pirates sold approximately 10,000 extra tickets to the game that started your bitchfest. Let's say they all sold for $25 each. They didn't but let's pretend. If instead of selling those tickets for $25, how many tickets would they have had to have sold at $10 a piece to make the same amount of money?
Since math is hard, let me help you. They would have had to have sold 25,000 extra tickets instead of just 10,000 extra tickets. Do you really think that there are 15,000 people out there like you who think that $25 for a ticket to a major league baseball game is just a bridge too far but that who would have gone to that game on that night had the tickets only been $10? In reality, a better question would be not if they sold an extra 15,000 tickets, it's if they would have sold an extra 150 tickets.
They made literally hundreds of thousands of extra dollars doing it the way that they did rather than the way that you wanted them to. Is it really any surprise that a business didn't turn down all that extra money like you wanted them to? Would you have?
I remember why I had you blocked. You’re one of the most condescending and arrogant jagoffs I’ve encountered.
Btw, you aren’t taking at all into account concession revenue. If you sale an extra 2k tickets by opening the closed sections for 15 dollars a ticket and those people spend on average 20 dollars in concessions, why don’t you do the math there buddy.
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Either you didn’t read my post or you don’t know how to read the internet.
Just looked, using that code, cheapest tickets before fees is $13 for outfield seats. So like $18-19 after fees
I agree. Capitalism is bad. This sucks. They should just hand out everybody makes the same and we have free tickets. It's not fair. I am glad people like you don't just cave to the system but stand up to it. Your generation is inspiring.
If you are complaining between a $32 ticket and a $25 ticket then you should be staying home to watch the game because clearly you can't afford to go to the game.
The cheapest ticket available for tonight's game is $23. Fees are an additional $7.50. That's ridiculous.
I am supporting your plight. And you insult me. I think we should all boycott the Pirates! Kenny was wronged! Just tell me when to show up, I will be there. If you need me to bring anything, let me know. Time to it back from "the man".
Yeah i am not sure what people aren’t understanding on here. When I can click through the App for mlb and get tickets at wrigley field for the same price or Baltimore for ten dollars less, or he’ll the angels again for half that price there is a problem.
Believe me, I can understand why someone as "bright" as you could find someone else condescending.
Do you really think that there are 2,000 people a night that aren't going to Pirate games because they would have to pay $25 per ticket rather than $15 per ticket? Because if you do that explains a lot. And not in a good way for you.
