Skins sell ticket straight to scalpers

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Originally Posted by sandtrapjack

Here's a hypthetical question, that really happens.

What about those Season Ticket holders, that sell off a portion of thier season tickets in order to finance the purchase of the following years season tickets?

Tons of people will buy season tickets, go to 4 or 5 games, and sell the remaining tickets at a marked up price and use the profit to pay for next years seeason tickets.

How do we classify those fans? They literally pay for season tickets for one year, and then all subsequent years are paid for with "house money".

Ugh...not so much. Unless you have some of the coveted $99 seats then there's zero chance you're selling the other tickets for enough to pay for next season's tickets. They simply don't fetch all that much. You can get maybe face for the upper bowls in decent games, possibly a little more than face for the really popular games and less than face for about half of the games total. If you break even on the ones you've sold you have performed a minor capitalistic miracle.

For the more expensive tickets you're lucky to get face at all for any games. Just because Stub Hub has tickets listed for $200-$300 doesn't mean they sell.