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Message: [QUOTE="ConnZag3, post: 5318288, member: 5078"] The last paragraph here is spot on. Tickets these days are both too scarce and too available at the same time. There's basically only 1 source still for an official ticket at a given "face value", but unless you buy tickets regularly across different leagues, sports, and cities, it's nearly impossible to keep track if the official tickets are through Ticketmaster or Paciolan or Seatgeek or some other new sites that seemingly pops up at random. The volume of third-party resellers these days means there's almost always a ticket available for a given game, it's just a matter of what value someone places on that ticket. For someone like me who travels regularly out of state for games, I have to be more willing to pay a face value price to secure a ticket to a game that serves as the main reason I'd be traveling somewhere to know I have a ticket at a price I'm comfortable with and not speculate on the secondary market. For others who live locally to their favorite team and can drive 20 minutes or take a 30 minute train ride to scalp or hang out at the venue until the game is nearly starting to watch secondary prices drop dramatically, their acceptable price is probably much lower. I completely agree that ticket prices are crazy these days, but unfortunately there's plenty of people (myself included) willing to still pay the asking prices for the games I want to attend. [/QUOTE]