Middedon
Well-Known Member
We live in the US and my husband has season tickets to a Major League Baseball team (a popular one that has a lot of fans that aren’t local). The club allows him to sell his season tickets back through an official ticket exchange - however, the price of those tickets can fluctuate depending on the popularity of the game. The exchange is also open to anyone (away fans aren’t segregated here). So he can actually make money on his tickets (now with three kids who have their own baseball games it’s harder for him to go as frequently and the major leagues have multiple games a week). I know a lot of fans wouldn’t like that and it likely wouldnt work in the UK, but it certainly has some positives.There are a lot of resellers out there messing it up. Hence, some seats are empty despite being "sold." There are hundreds of tickets available for tonight as we speak. Just google it. They are the problem because they are driving the prices up. There should be a rule that you can only buy tickets from the official website. There must be a way to implement it somehow.
Eta - you can still buy tickets through resellers, but there is obviously less need to do so because the official exchange is more accessible to everyone. And they can drive up interest if necessary by lowering the price of tickets.