Posted: Thursday, October 2, 2008, 2:26 PM | 4 comments |
 

Want a ticket for tonight? They're still out there
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    Four hours before game time there are still tickets bouncing around out on the market.
    StubHub reports that more than 300 remain for tonight’s game, which starts at 6 o’clock. Prices for those tickets are averaging $149, only a couple dollars more than the average price for Game 1 tickets. Meanwhile, a representative from Wanamaker Tickets here in town said that they are looking at an inventory of 195 tickets, all of them infield amd Diamond Club seats. Paul Conoway said  a few minutes ago that average prices for tonight’s game are running a little higher than they did for yesterday’s game. He said the infield tickets are going for $185 and up, and Diamond Club tickets were starting at $350 a seat.
     Phillies tickets are running right in the middle of the range for Division Series games. Cubs tickets are at the top of the scale, at $298. Meanwhile, ticket prices for games in Tampa are averaging $95. StubHub reported that the least expensive ticket it saw sold for Game 1 at Citizens Bank Park went for $46 in the leftfield terrace deck, and the most expensive was $936 for a seat in the Diamond Club behind home plate.
     Inventory for Game 5 on Tuesday likely will remain at its present figure – around 3,400 tickets, according to StubHub – until Monday when fans know whether that game will need to be played.
Posted by Paul Vigna @ 2:26 PM  Permalink | 4 comments
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 5:07 PM, 10/02/2008
    Crazy.... I miss the days in 93 when I was at Drexel.... would jump on Septa, walk up, get a $5 ticket and I could sit anywhere I wanted........
    — joeolive
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 5:09 PM, 10/02/2008
    i'm so glad there was a 'lottery'?
    — oz
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 5:21 PM, 10/02/2008
    Exactly - stubhub has an 'inventory' of 3,400 tickets? where did they come from? what happened to the lottery? Guess regular fans never really had a shot to get the tickets.
    — flyersfan74
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 5:44 PM, 10/02/2008
    even the regular season tickets are overpriced.... the last game I went to was game 3..... of the 2007 season..... I took my 2 yo son and he 'lasted' 3 innings.... at least I was able to get him in for free last year... I actually would have had to buy him a ticket this year.. for a seat he probably wouldnt even end up sitting in
    — joeolive


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