Is the WJC overpriced?

[Crosby2010]

Yes they are too expensive. Made much worse by the poor saps that bought tickets assuming Canada would be good enough to be in the gold medal game. Sure you expect that if you have that much money for hockey games then you can afford it, however what about the people that maybe took an entire year to save up for that package only to see quite possibly the worst Canadian team in WJC history.

 

[Golden_Jet]

For those listing the price paid , I’m assuming it’s Canadian dollars.

 

[tyhee]

I don't think most of us can relate to the early bird, all-session prices. Not many of us would be interested. I'm guessing the target market is NHL teams who wish to send scouts to games and those luxury buyers for whom price is pretty much irrelevant. For that market, maybe the price of an all-session ticket isn't unreasonable.

It will probably be easier to guess whether tickets are overpriced when smaller packages and single game tickets go on sale. Presumably they'll be priced to maximize total revenue which isn't necessarily the same as maximizing the number of seats sold, which will likely leave tickets for at least the more desirable games seeming overpriced to everybody except those 18,000 or so fans willing to pay the most for them.

 

[clevelandcane]

I'm not even upset at the price per game cost. For me, it's more the fact that I can't buy games ala cart. I want to buy a couple of days worth and that's it.

 

[Drake1588]

I'm not even upset at the price per game cost. For me, it's more the fact that I can't buy games ala cart. I want to buy a couple of days worth and that's it.

Indeed. Who in their right mind wants to pay to go to ~29 games over 11 days? Who has that kind of free time, especially into January?

Insisting that you subsidize the Kazakhstan-Bumf*** third-tier nation game, as that's the only way to go see the six/seven power teams, isn't cool.

They're banking on you not going to the bad games, but paying for them anyway so you can go to the premier games.

But they sell the tickets, in the end, so by definition it's not overpriced. It's priced to sell, evidently.

You always wonder if that will hold when it's not in Canada, but Minnesota will get both Canadian Prairie and diehard US college hockey fans. I expect them to do very well again.

 

[Chris Coutu]

I went to 6 games this year in Ottawa. Bought tickets same day on Ticketmaster . Paid $40-$50 for the non Canada games sat in 1st row of 2nd deck . For the 2 Canada games paid $130 and sat in 2nd row of 2nd deck…. Was pretty impressed. The hockey was good. Even Germany versus Latvia was entertaining. Beer at $15 was too much. Stayed in Carlton Place, 15 mins down the road for $200 a night.