Average fan priced out

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From Sunday's (2/25/07) Buffalo News


Average fan priced out

I am writing to let you and the Sabres management know how disappointed I am with the prices for playoff tickets presented to the minipack holders.

I specifically bought minipacks to the Sabres games this year because of what happened with the playoff tickets last year. I was excited to find that we would be offered the opportunity to purchase tickets for the playoffs, but when I received my letter from the Sabres with the pricing I was floored.

I was expecting to have to pay 100-200 percent over the regular-season prices for the first round of the playoffs, but not 400 percent. I consider this price gouging. We are required to buy tickets for all of the games for the first two rounds of the playoffs, eight games in all. For a team that seems to be making an effort to keep prices in line with what the community can afford, how can they justify having to pay out $1,488 for two tickets to 300 upper level seats restricted to the corners?

Glenn Orgek

Lancaster

[NoCtUrNaL]

$1488 for 2 seats for 8 games....what's that, $93 per seat per game?

He could get easliy get $120 per seat (even more for 7th games in a series and the second round series games) if he resold those tickets on Ebay.

Plunk down the $1500 now and collect $2000+ later.

[colossus27]

$1488 for 2 seats for 8 games....what's that, $93 per seat per game?

He could get easliy get $120 per seat (even more for 7th games in a series and the second round series games) if he resold those tickets on Ebay.

Plunk down the $1500 now and collect $2000+ later.

Such is the price for success, hmm? Still the cheapest tix in the league and people will complain, but I suppose it's understandible. He knew the rules- pick tens only get an option to buy the seats before they go on sale to the GP...that's it. Regarding this 'price break'- season ticket holders need to put a deposit on next year's season tickets before getting a price break- so I guess everybody's gotta grab ankle. They gotta make their money somehow.

That said, this guy is nuts if he doesn't sell 'spare' tickets- four games in a week and change will kill you, hockey nut or no. I did it last year...never again!

[DR_GONZO]

Sports in general priced this average fan out about ten years ago. I find it crazy to pay crazy amounts for any sporting event. The Bisons are about the only team I'll spend my ten bucks on!

[DansDarkSide]

Really, You do know what we spend some of it goes to the athletes that are entertaining us, Now your going to ask me why should they deserve to be paid so much, Well I will tell you this, because they devoted the better parts of there lives to entertain you and after words there is not a lot of jobs for them to do because all they know is the sport they have been playing for most of there lives. And god forbid they get hurt and that narrows down the jobs even more for them.

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I'm thinking supply and demand. If every playoff game sells out the Sabres got the right price. If the upper deck is empty they outpriced themselves.

[PaulJonson]

People around here are so sport crazy they would rather pay for tickets than pay their bills. No price is too high for some of these fans as long they can see a championship.

Plus, if the ticet prices aren't so high, how else can we pay Willis McGahee millions of dollars to support his illegitimate children??

[concernedwnyer]

People around here are so sport crazy they would rather pay for tickets than pay their bills. No price is too high for some of these fans as long they can see a championship.

Plus, if the ticet prices aren't so high, how else can we pay Willis McGahee millions of dollars to support his illegitimate children??

Fine then let the people who MUST ATTEND THESE GRAND SPORTING EVENTS, or they will have a nervious breakdown, PAY THE PIPER WHAT THE PIPER SEEKS. QUIT PICKING AT EVERYONES WALLET TO SUPPORT THE VENUE AND THE SPORT TEAM'S FOREVERLASTING PRESENCE.....

You have Pilot field or Bison field or Dunn Tire park or what ever the place is now called in Buffalo. Another braining idea from Bob Rich just so he could eat his hot dog at lunch time during a live baseball game.......

You have that supersized toilet bowl in Orchard park that needs to be retrofitted just about every year per the contractual agreement between Erie County and Ralphy boy Yoda.....

Enough is enough man...

If people wised up and said I am not goign to pay no damn high ticket prices then guess what...... I would rather get $5.00 bucks a seat then $0.00 bucks a seat....

[InFromTheCold]

No one is making you go to the games.

[concernedwnyer]

No one is making you go to the games.

Exactly and I should not be the one to satisify your sports cravings by providing you with a comphy seat at a sports venue so you could sit there and enjoy the game on part of my dime.

Ralph Wilson's crying is getting much older then he is already. Time to enjoy the cows in the green pasture, charter a jet for around $30,000.00 on a one way trip to give the Bills one last ride. Here is a clue to the destination it will not be to the superbowl.

[BFLOCOP]

There is also a charity hockey game at HSBC Arena Thursday March 29th at 7:00 pm between the BPD Hockey Team and the Buffalo Sabres Alumni. Tickets are only 10 bucks and all proceeds go to Parete fundraiser. Where to purchase tickets TBD. Probably at Sabres ticket Office and at the door. Good chance to get your kids into the arena at a cheap price at a time when Sabres tix are scarce. Lots of stuff for kids to do and hopefully current Sabres on hand. A chance for Biker and LeftWNYBS to boo The Police Dept. Fun night for all

[sharky]

All the more reason to go to a Bandits game
more exciting (I've been to both) and a hell of a lot cheaper

[steven]

Ralph Wilson's crying is getting much older then he is already. Time to enjoy the cows in the green pasture, charter a jet for around $30,000.00 on a one way trip to give the Bills one last ride. Here is a clue to the destination it will not be to the superbowl.


Off your meds and wandering around again? This thread isnt about the Bills, The bills play FOOTBALL this is about the Sabres, The sabres play HOCKEY. One is played with a puck the other and oblong ball.

Much like you polluting the central terminal thread with rants about freebuffalo one has nothing to do with the other.

Adjust your aim young man. Your arrows are falling all over the place and the mark you are looking for is three threads over. :rolleyes:

[leftWNYbecauseofBS]

First off, the Sabres have one of the lowest ticket prices in the game. Not sure what people expect but going to a game for $15 is not an option. Maybe if we were in 1977.

The sad truth is the average fan in Buffalo makes less and can afford less then the average fan in most large market cities. Because of this, in the small market teams will have to force out the small spend fan. It is the only way to compete with the teams that has fans spending $500 a ticket.

The reality is a lot of people are going to have to get used to being a Sabres TV fan. The other option is rooting for the Kansas City Sabres.