don corleone wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 7:16 am
B.C.FAN wrote: ↑Tue Mar 05, 2024 11:15 am
don corleone wrote: ↑Tue Mar 05, 2024 10:37 am
Curious how they are including the Grey Cup option and if they are asking for money now for that. I would love to see home town season ticket holders get a deal on their seats.
I bought my Grey Cup tickets last November when I renewed my season tickets and switched seats for 2024. They're paid for. I don't know whether I got a discount. End zone seats are already cheap. It cost me $485.50 per seat for 10 games plus Grey Cup. I'll get a credit for surrendering my Touchdown Pacific tickets.
Very reasonable for a full season of entertainment. Especially for Vancouver.
I searched 2024 Grey Cup tickets and see listings on Stubhub ranging from $350 to $900+ for the GC game alone so it sounds like the home fans are being treated right. It's looking now as if this could be a year in Lions history that will be remembered for a long time. Hopefully for the right reasons.
Now I am curious how season ticket sales are going? Working through Hambone's equation seems you could make money by buying the extra seats and selling them provided there is a demand. Flip side is a bunch of Rider fans that did the same thing when they last hosted and ate the tickets.
The idea of buying extra tickets with the thought of profiting is really risky. Of the 40 GCs I've attended the host team has participated 8 times. BC leads with 3 appearances but in 9 hostings for a 1 in 3 average. Edmonton (1 in 5), Saskatchewan (1 in 4), Hamilton (1 in 3), Montreal (1 in 3) and Toronto (1 in 5) round out the rest. Calgary, Ottawa and Winnipeg have never played in a GC they hosted since 1983.
For a period of time in the late 90s, early 2000s when money was much tighter I bought my tickets outside the stadium and never paid more than 75% of face value. The downside of that was instead of enjoying myself I'd spend a lot of GC week worrying about getting a ticket. The 1 or 3 times I did buy an extra ticket, thinking I could find a home amongst my large circle of GC regulars, I had a helluva time finding a buyer. I said to myself no more of that I'll look out for #1 and get a ticket for myself. Now that money is no longer the factor it once was I like to secure my seat as soon as they are available to me as a Lions ST holder.
When it comes to offers from the Lions to buy extra GC seats I will never play the high risk speculation game. I canvas friends and offer to use my ST privileges to get them tickets. I think in 2011 I hooked friends up with 12 tickets. This year I've already hooked up one group with 5 and am waiting for answers for the other 5 I can get. To show how amazing technology is I got the thumbs up from my PG buddy to get 5 in Level 2 pricing. He was back home in PG while I'm in Mazatlan. I was having a beer at a Mazatlan bar when the email came through advising the window to buy extra tickets was now open. I clicked on the link that took me into my Lions account then Ticketmaster and within 5 minutes had processed the order for 5 tickets in 243. I let my buddy know it was a done deal and the cost per ticket. Within 24 hours him and his 4 buddies had EFT'd the money to me.
You're as old as you've ever been and as young as you're ever going to be.
