We mentioned this on Friday, but it might have gotten lost in the weather posts. If so, please check it out now...
Fansnap has a fun Yankees/Red Sox smack talk haiku contest going on right now, through September 23. All you have to do is submit a haiku supporting the Yankees or bashing the Red Sox, and you'll have a chance to win $1,000 in event tickets. We expect to see some hilarious entries from Yankees fans. Don't disappoint us, and feel free to leave any especially funny ones in the comments section below.
Read the full post, after the jump
Showing posts with label FanSnap.com Yankee tickets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FanSnap.com Yankee tickets. Show all posts
Monday, September 14, 2009
Friday, September 11, 2009
Some Information On Secondary Market Ticket Prices For Tonight's Game
Our buddy Christian from the invaluable fansnap.com has checked in with some secondary market ticket information regarding tonight's Yankees game. Prices for the game rose dramatically after Jeter collected 3 hits on Wednesday night, and here are the numbers to prove it:
Date Average Price
9/10/09 $208.97
9/9/09 $80.30
9/8/09 $80.30
9/7/09 $79.97
9/6/09 $79.56
9/5/09 $80.30
9/4/09 $80.30
9/3/09 $79.00
9/2/09 $80.30
9/1/09 $82.50
8/31/09 $84.70
8/30/09 $82.50
8/29/09 $82.50
8/28/09 $84.70
8/27/09 $85.00
8/26/09 $84.70
8/25/09 $84.24
8/24/09 $82.50
8/23/09 $82.50
8/22/09 $83.60
Right now, the "get in the door" price is $105 (cheapest seat), according to Fansnap. Expect this same increase if/when tonight's game is canceled due to rain, so you might want to hedge your bets as soon as possible.
Speaking of Fansnap, they have a pretty fun Yankees/Red Sox smack talk haiku contest going on right now, through September 23. All you have to do is submit a haiku supporting the Yankees or bashing the Red Sox, and you'll have a chance to win $1,000 in event tickets. We expect to see some hilarious entries from Yankees fans. Don't disappoint us! Read the full post, after the jump
Date Average Price
9/10/09 $208.97
9/9/09 $80.30
9/8/09 $80.30
9/7/09 $79.97
9/6/09 $79.56
9/5/09 $80.30
9/4/09 $80.30
9/3/09 $79.00
9/2/09 $80.30
9/1/09 $82.50
8/31/09 $84.70
8/30/09 $82.50
8/29/09 $82.50
8/28/09 $84.70
8/27/09 $85.00
8/26/09 $84.70
8/25/09 $84.24
8/24/09 $82.50
8/23/09 $82.50
8/22/09 $83.60
Right now, the "get in the door" price is $105 (cheapest seat), according to Fansnap. Expect this same increase if/when tonight's game is canceled due to rain, so you might want to hedge your bets as soon as possible.
Speaking of Fansnap, they have a pretty fun Yankees/Red Sox smack talk haiku contest going on right now, through September 23. All you have to do is submit a haiku supporting the Yankees or bashing the Red Sox, and you'll have a chance to win $1,000 in event tickets. We expect to see some hilarious entries from Yankees fans. Don't disappoint us! Read the full post, after the jump
Thursday, April 30, 2009
FanSnap.com Might Overstate The Number Of Tickets On The Secondary Market
Earlier this week, we went into detail about the volume of Yankee tickets on the secondary market. Interestingly enough, ticket brokerage insiders keep an eye on NSI and one such insider left a comment regarding FanSnap.com. He let us know that using Fansnap.com's numbers to gauge how many tickets are on the secondary market might not be the best idea. Apparently FanSnap.com's system for counting total inventory does not take duplicates into account:
Our secondary ticket market expert further dispelled the myth that ticket brokers are slimy by letting us know that Yankee fans can currently take advantage of some great deals on Angels and Rays tickets. Tickets for these upcoming series' are going for significantly less than face value. It is starting to look like those fans shut out of Yankee season ticket plans might end up doing better creating their own plans on the secondary market.
UPDATE: FanSnap's response to this claim if you
It's not that brokers all work off the same pool of tickets. The reason for duplicates is that firms (like my company) post our inventory on multiple online outlets or exchanges (websites like stubhub), and when fansnap collects their data from those sites they do not have a way of removing the duplicate entries.Even so, it is clear that there are significantly more Yankee tickets available on FanSnap.com than for any other MLB team, so it can be assumed that more tickets for the Yankees were bought just to sell.
Our secondary ticket market expert further dispelled the myth that ticket brokers are slimy by letting us know that Yankee fans can currently take advantage of some great deals on Angels and Rays tickets. Tickets for these upcoming series' are going for significantly less than face value. It is starting to look like those fans shut out of Yankee season ticket plans might end up doing better creating their own plans on the secondary market.
UPDATE: FanSnap's response to this claim if you
Hi Ross,Read the full post, after the jump
We agree that brokers are great partners for tickets. In fact, we partner with top brokers from across the country. You're also right that there are significantly more Yankees tickets listed on FanSnap than any other MLB team. This is due, in part to the large new stadium. There are simply more seats to be had. The economic downturn has been especially pronounced in New York and the high demand for tickets means many season ticket holders are selling. Because so many people are selling, it is a great time for fans to get great seats at great values.
I did want to clarify the point about comparable tickets on FanSnap. Giving fans the ability to compare tickets is one of our most popular features. We spend a ton of brain power and engineering time on enabling comparing. This way the fan is in control of where they buy the tickets.
In your broker's example where he posts to multiple sites, we show fans that ticket and each place it's posted. This way the fan can buy direct from the broker or if the fan has a StubHub account and wants to buy that way, they can. FanSnap is about comprehensive choice for fans. We posted about comparable tickets here: http://www.fansnap.com/blog/2008/11/fansnap-are-these-the-same-tickets-or-what/.
We love that you use FanSnap as a resource. If the future, if you need assistance with stats, please let me know.
Best regards,
Christian Anderson
FanSnap
christian@fansnap
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Get Used To Large Announced Attendances With Sparsely Populated Seats At The New Yankee Stadium
We were recently introduced to the extremely useful FanSnap.com. It is essentially Kayak.com - but for event tickets instead of airline tickets. In other words, the search engine has access to inventory for tickets from multiple sources and aggregates them within a well-designed website (why don't we ever think of this stuff?!) In perusing the website for Yankee tickets, we realized that there is considerably more inventory on the secondary market for Yankee tickets than for any other baseball team. This may explain why Yankee Stadium looked so empty during the first homestand.
This shouldn't come as a surprise - it was months ago when we first pointed out that Yankee fans were justifying irrational ticket upgrades with ideas of putting excess on the secondary market. Finally, we have some proof of the Yankees success in scaring fans into purchasing tickets that they had no intention of using.
The Yankees officially state the maximum capacity of the new Yankee Stadium at 52,235, which includes "approximately" 2,000 standing room only tickets. However, the Yankees announced opening day's crowd of 48,271 as a sell out. Therefore, we will operate under the assumption that 48,271 is the maximum number of Yankee tickets that could ever be on the secondary market (standing room only will only be day of game sales, if they ever start selling them).
Referring back to FanSnap.com, the number of tickets available for the remaining 75 Yankee games is ridiculous. Doing math based on the rounded numbers of tickets available according to the site (which does not include all ticket brokers, or Craigs List), an average of 16,900 Yankee tickets are available on the secondary market for each game. In other words, 35% of the per-game inventory sold by the Yankees is now back on the market, presumably with the intent of making a profit. Even worse, ticket inventory for "premium" games such as the Red Sox and the Mets come in at over 20,000 tickets available. According to FanSnap.com. nearly half of the tickets sold for the premium games were bought just to sell and and these totals don't even include outlets such as Craigs List. For some perspective, the Mets secondary market doesn't have one game with 10,000 tickets available - not even when the Yankees visit their cross-town rivals in Queens.
While large portions of the empty seats at the new Yankee Stadium can be attributed to the fact that the team still has plenty of good (and overpriced) seats available directly from their box office, there are other contributing factors. As evidenced above, the secondary market is completely flooded with tickets. It appears that people who purchased tickets in the "cheap" seats did so with the intent to sell many of the games in order to subsidize their ticket purchase. Premium games in these "cheap" seats are still going for above face value, so there is obvious secondary market demand for them. For such games, the unsuspecting ticket brokers (hardcore Yankee fans forced to upgrade to larger plans to keep their tickets) and regular ticket brokers (the people who take advantage of the free market) are taking profits, and the stadium is full.
However, when hardcore fans fail to attend the non-premium games and ticket brokers are unable to sell them, the result is a half-empty stadium for mid-week games against Oakland, as we saw last week. We were stuck at work last Wednesday and had to sell a pair of Grandstand tickets for $10. We were happy to get that, as some people were giving them away on Craigslist.
Aaron Elstein touched on the financial aspect of this in a recent Crain's NY article, but there is also a fan-friendliness angle to the new-fangled ticket sales model. By encouraging fans to sell tickets, the Yankees have made it harder on everyone. Typically, nobody feels bad for ticket scalpers. In this case, many of the "scalpers" are simply defacto ticket brokers, hawking their extra tickets so they can afford to attend the number of games they originally intended on going to.
Other Yankee fans, who can't commit to attending a game until the last minute, are left without an obvious venue to purchase affordable seats - even while outlets represented on FanSnap are flooded with tickets. Many of us are well-versed in the ways of Stubhub, but the majority of casual fans have never purchased tickets from an online broker and are leery about being ripped off. These people would rather go to Yankees.com or go to the Yankee box office to buy tickets for games that clearly aren't in high demand.
We don't have access to the numbers, but it can easily be assumed that walk-up ticket sales in the new Yankee Stadium have dramatically decreased. How couldn't they? All of the available tickets are on sale through websites like FanSnap.com, and are deactivated a few hours before the event. Affordable tickets are wasting away in cyberspace, while they could be in the hands of the box office to sell on the day of the game. Until this is fixed, Yankee fans who are priced out of the new stadium will have to deal with the frustration of seeing empty seats while they watch at home on TV.
Read the full post, after the jump
This shouldn't come as a surprise - it was months ago when we first pointed out that Yankee fans were justifying irrational ticket upgrades with ideas of putting excess on the secondary market. Finally, we have some proof of the Yankees success in scaring fans into purchasing tickets that they had no intention of using.
The Yankees officially state the maximum capacity of the new Yankee Stadium at 52,235, which includes "approximately" 2,000 standing room only tickets. However, the Yankees announced opening day's crowd of 48,271 as a sell out. Therefore, we will operate under the assumption that 48,271 is the maximum number of Yankee tickets that could ever be on the secondary market (standing room only will only be day of game sales, if they ever start selling them).
Referring back to FanSnap.com, the number of tickets available for the remaining 75 Yankee games is ridiculous. Doing math based on the rounded numbers of tickets available according to the site (which does not include all ticket brokers, or Craigs List), an average of 16,900 Yankee tickets are available on the secondary market for each game. In other words, 35% of the per-game inventory sold by the Yankees is now back on the market, presumably with the intent of making a profit. Even worse, ticket inventory for "premium" games such as the Red Sox and the Mets come in at over 20,000 tickets available. According to FanSnap.com. nearly half of the tickets sold for the premium games were bought just to sell and and these totals don't even include outlets such as Craigs List. For some perspective, the Mets secondary market doesn't have one game with 10,000 tickets available - not even when the Yankees visit their cross-town rivals in Queens.
While large portions of the empty seats at the new Yankee Stadium can be attributed to the fact that the team still has plenty of good (and overpriced) seats available directly from their box office, there are other contributing factors. As evidenced above, the secondary market is completely flooded with tickets. It appears that people who purchased tickets in the "cheap" seats did so with the intent to sell many of the games in order to subsidize their ticket purchase. Premium games in these "cheap" seats are still going for above face value, so there is obvious secondary market demand for them. For such games, the unsuspecting ticket brokers (hardcore Yankee fans forced to upgrade to larger plans to keep their tickets) and regular ticket brokers (the people who take advantage of the free market) are taking profits, and the stadium is full.
However, when hardcore fans fail to attend the non-premium games and ticket brokers are unable to sell them, the result is a half-empty stadium for mid-week games against Oakland, as we saw last week. We were stuck at work last Wednesday and had to sell a pair of Grandstand tickets for $10. We were happy to get that, as some people were giving them away on Craigslist.
Aaron Elstein touched on the financial aspect of this in a recent Crain's NY article, but there is also a fan-friendliness angle to the new-fangled ticket sales model. By encouraging fans to sell tickets, the Yankees have made it harder on everyone. Typically, nobody feels bad for ticket scalpers. In this case, many of the "scalpers" are simply defacto ticket brokers, hawking their extra tickets so they can afford to attend the number of games they originally intended on going to.
Other Yankee fans, who can't commit to attending a game until the last minute, are left without an obvious venue to purchase affordable seats - even while outlets represented on FanSnap are flooded with tickets. Many of us are well-versed in the ways of Stubhub, but the majority of casual fans have never purchased tickets from an online broker and are leery about being ripped off. These people would rather go to Yankees.com or go to the Yankee box office to buy tickets for games that clearly aren't in high demand.
We don't have access to the numbers, but it can easily be assumed that walk-up ticket sales in the new Yankee Stadium have dramatically decreased. How couldn't they? All of the available tickets are on sale through websites like FanSnap.com, and are deactivated a few hours before the event. Affordable tickets are wasting away in cyberspace, while they could be in the hands of the box office to sell on the day of the game. Until this is fixed, Yankee fans who are priced out of the new stadium will have to deal with the frustration of seeing empty seats while they watch at home on TV.
Read the full post, after the jump
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