My biggest problem with the ticket prices isn't the ticket prices, it's the concessions. The biggest screw-you: when the sales tax went up last year, instead of just eating the 0.05-0.10 increase for most items, they added it to the rounded off prices. A $4.50 soda went to $4.55...or whatever. I mean, that's just the height of money-grubbing when you're already making nearly 97% of the price in profit anyways.
Not to mention how many tickets they sell to Ace, Higs, etc. How a company can be "the official ticket reseller of the red sox" is a little crazy. Basically an endorsed scalper? Seems pretty illegal to me, too bad no legal branch will touch it.
The Red Sox currently charge more than the Phillies, who recently built a new stadium and have that to pay for. The Phillies also went to the World Series, while the Red Sox did not.
The same argument could be made for all of the other teams who went further than the Sox in the playoffs this year.
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My biggest problem
My biggest problem with the ticket prices isn't the ticket prices, it's the concessions. The biggest screw-you: when the sales tax went up last year, instead of just eating the 0.05-0.10 increase for most items, they added it to the rounded off prices. A $4.50 soda went to $4.55...or whatever. I mean, that's just the height of money-grubbing when you're already making nearly 97% of the price in profit anyways.
not to mention
Not to mention how many tickets they sell to Ace, Higs, etc. How a company can be "the official ticket reseller of the red sox" is a little crazy. Basically an endorsed scalper? Seems pretty illegal to me, too bad no legal branch will touch it.
550 consecutive sellouts and
550 consecutive sellouts and counting...
People are going to whine and complain but they keep showing up at the park anyway.
I don't have an issue with ripoff concessions because they are optional. No one is forcing you to eat and drink that overpriced slop.
You want cheap tickets? Then you'll have a non-contender most years. Can't have cheap tickets and a high payroll, folks.
not true
The Red Sox currently charge more than the Phillies, who recently built a new stadium and have that to pay for. The Phillies also went to the World Series, while the Red Sox did not.
The same argument could be made for all of the other teams who went further than the Sox in the playoffs this year.
It depends on who owns the team
and how much money they want to spend as well.