Cavs : We don't need your stinking tickets

http://espn.go.com/nba/playoffs/2016/story/_/id/15932452

Something similar will happen when they open JPMorgan Arena in SF. The only difference is that it will happen to season ticket holders first.

Lol

I am a Warriors season ticket holder and I sit upstairs in Club 200. My Finals tickets are $435 each. The Warriors are selling the same seats to the public for $705. Unlike last year when I paid about $350 for Finals tickets, resales are tough this time around. My brother-in-law and I have four seats and we go to all the Playoff games. We sell two seats to pay for all four. It works great for the regular season, but not working that great for the playoffs. Lots of season ticket holders depend on making money off the playoffs to pay for their season tickets. The Warriors are starting to hear complaints from many of us. So far all it's gotten us is 10% off additional Finals tickets. As for the Cavs, I have a hard caring that a bunch of millionaires can't afford $1300 Finals tickets. If those guys want something to cry about, they should price Sharks playoff tickets. Their resale prices make the Warriors tickets look like bargains.

P.S.While I agree Finals tickets are overpriced, if i wasn't spending $435 to attend the Finals, I would not be spending that money on the needy. Why do people always use that faulty logic?

GOCAL73;842698300 said:

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I am a Warriors season ticket holder and I sit upstairs in Club 200. My Finals tickets are $435 each. The Warriors are selling the same seats to the public for $705. Unlike last year when I paid about $350 for Finals tickets, resales are tough this time around. My brother-in-law and I have four seats and we go to all the Playoff games. We sell two seats to pay for all four. It works great for the regular season, but not working that great for the playoffs. Lots of season ticket holders depend on making money off the playoffs to pay for their season tickets. The Warriors are starting to hear complaints from many of us. So far all it's gotten us is 10% off additional Finals tickets. As for the Cavs, I have a hard caring that a bunch of millionaires can't afford $1300 Finals tickets. If those guys want something to cry about, they should price Sharks playoff tickets. Their resale prices make the Warriors tickets look like bargains.

P.S.While I agree Finals tickets are overpriced, if i wasn't spending $435 to attend the Finals, I would not be spending that money on the needy. Why do people always use that faulty logic?

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I'm not sure why you have a gripe. If the resale value of this year's playoff tickets are about face value or slightly higher, then the Warriors priced them correctly. If you or anyone else are able to sell 2 tickets to pay for all 4, then the Warriors are leaving money on the table.

The NBA teams are a for profit enterprise - I don't see why you think they should sell you tickets at a severe discount to market price.

GOCAL73;842698300 said:

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I am a Warriors season ticket holder and I sit upstairs in Club 200. My Finals tickets are $435 each. The Warriors are selling the same seats to the public for $705. Unlike last year when I paid about $350 for Finals tickets, resales are tough this time around. My brother-in-law and I have four seats and we go to all the Playoff games. We sell two seats to pay for all four. It works great for the regular season, but not working that great for the playoffs. Lots of season ticket holders depend on making money off the playoffs to pay for their season tickets. The Warriors are starting to hear complaints from many of us. So far all it's gotten us is 10% off additional Finals tickets. As for the Cavs, I have a hard caring that a bunch of millionaires can't afford $1300 Finals tickets. If those guys want something to cry about, they should price Sharks playoff tickets. Their resale prices make the Warriors tickets look like bargains.

P.S.While I agree Finals tickets are overpriced, if i wasn't spending $435 to attend the Finals, I would not be spending that money on the needy. Why do people always use that faulty logic?

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I mean I hear what you're saying. But I also understand the Warriors perspective.

In college, I made a living pulling tickets and then reselling them on the secondary market.

Trust me, when tickets go on sale to the public (below what actua market value is) those tickets are getting pulled by professional ticket scalpers, not the general public.

You know when they say, tickets will go on sale at 9am on Saturday. And then you go in your computer and then you wait and wait and can't get through to the site. It's because the professional scalpers have a computer program that allows them to pull tickets faster than you.

This is a long way of saying; from the Warriors perspective, why should these professionals and stubhub get rich? Why not just price the tickets at market value?

And yeah, it sucks for the loyal season ticket holders. But capitalism and all that. The Warriors ain't running a non profit.