All-Purpose News Thread Part II

yahhockey

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$1750 for fourth last row in the upper deck is ridiculous. Unsurprising but ridiculous. They are taking the UFC approach to pricing. Keep going higher until people stop buying and if they keep buying then go even higher. In 2016 I attended a UFC event and had tickets in the upper deck first couple rows of what would be behind the net if it were a hockey game. The cost was ~$100. For a UFC event in the same building seven years later it was ~$450-500 although the more I think about it the more I think it was 500ish.

For WWE and any other ticketed event sometimes (seemingly more often than not if you regularly refresh the event listing on Ticketmaster) if you wait until the week of the event or even the day of the event you can obtain tickets to a previously sold out event and/or tickets at a reduced cost. Everyone has their own price to enjoyment ratio and sometimes you have to decline to attend an event out of principle if they insist on pricing the event too high.
 

sabremike

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Well, you have WWE actively promoting how successful their price gouging is, but also this is Vegas, a place people go to gleefully set money on fire.
Looks like they're going to need all that money to pay out a settlement:


Given that announcers were literally making inside jokes about this on-air while it was going on... yeah, they all knew.
 

Khelandros

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Looks like they're going to need all that money to pay out a settlement:


Given that announcers were literally making inside jokes about this on-air while it was going on... yeah, they all knew.
I don't think TKO will be involved for much longer. This all happened way way before they were involved.
 

sabremike

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I don't think TKO will be involved for much longer. This all happened way way before they were involved.
If you buy/absorb a company you are also acquiring their liabilities. They are going to settle and have to pay out a ton of money because if this goes to trial they are dead meat and they know it.
 
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