It's the dishonesty that kills me. The reason I think I was bugged enough to look into it is that I fell for the trick. I knew it's going to be a sold out game, so I assumed it was real traffic/user actions and almost let that influence my purchasing decisions.
we got into the OU/OSU game in Columbus for less than face
i've only paid appreciably more than face once, and that was when OU played Florida in Miami for the national championship in 2009
i don't have hard numbers, but i've done this over fifty times in the last 10+ years, both coasts, bowl games, etc... mostly college football, but a couple NFL games as well.
there have even been a few times where i was nervous and bought tickets beforehand because it was a big game, and then regretted it when i got there and found cheaper better seats than what i could get beforehand.
i worry that sites like stubhub could stifle availability at games if more people try to just sell online instead of taking them to the stadium
hasn't seemed to have been an issue yet though.
i'm afraid the venues could make more tickets non-transferable and force you into stubhub so they could get a cut of the secondary market, it could actually make it more expensive to get tickets in the end for average events, low end tickets anyway
Also, since the ticket cartel is also a scalper, they get a cut of the resale action as well!
It works, and it is REAL unlike the javascript you see here, but it is still stupid.
Can you imagine going to a Donut shop in the morning that had just sold 10% of its daily inventory and them putting up a SOLD OUT sign for Tier 1 Early Bird donuts?
I hope one day marketers find a better solution for generating interest in their products.