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- From: shayne@cs.mcgill.ca (Lydia Mancini)
- Subject: Re: Team Payroll/Season Ticket count
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.162313.15925@cs.mcgill.ca>
- Sender: news@cs.mcgill.ca (Netnews Administrator)
- Organization: SOCS - Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada
- References: <23986@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM> <1992Nov13.165618.13391@sei.cmu.edu>
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 16:23:13 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov13.165618.13391@sei.cmu.edu> jwh@sei.cmu.edu (John Huber) writes:
-
- >|> Team Tickets Pct.
- >|> ------------------------------------
- >|> 4. Montreal 14,500 90%
- >
-
- [stuff deleted]
-
- >This brings a question to mind. I know the Penguins refuse to sell all of the
- >seats as season tickets. Even though a waiting list exists for season
- >tickets, we still sell only 80% of the capacity. This allows individual game
- >sales and possibly keeps the cost of scalped tickets down.
- >
- >Is this common for other teams/cities?!? Do most teams only sell a portion of
- >their seats as season tickets? Or do they sell as many season tickets as are
- >demanded (usual supply/demand concept)? It seems from these stats that most
- >arenas follow the same practice as the Penguins.
-
- As you can see above, most of the Forum's tickets belong to season ticket
- holders. There is about a 2 year waiting list for season tickets.
- As for scalped tickets, I just spoke to someone who paid about $10-15
- dollars more for a good seat, so I'd say scalped tickets are expensive.
-
- >-Jay
- -- Lydia
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