Savannah Bananas

[imref]

I’ve got a slot at 10 on Tuesday. It’s complicated because they want to keep prices low and eliminate scalping. They leave a ton of money on the table.

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

Like buying a car in the USSR

[Copecwby20]

I tried for Nashville and Atlanta and didn't get pulled for either.


My sister said the bleacher seats were selling for $200 out in the San Francisco area of California.

[imref]

Like buying a car in the USSR

huh?

Their entire vision is a fan-first experience. So they try and do away with the things that annoy fans the most about baseball. Ticket prices and resale fees are pretty high on that list.

In Savannah they used to include food with tickets.

[imref]

I tried for Nashville and Atlanta and didn't get pulled for either.

My sister said the bleacher seats were selling for $200 out in the San Francisco area of California.

The Bananas will cancel tickets they see being sold at high mark-up on third party sites. They run their own resale platform. I have seen folks get away with selling tickets at face value on 3rd party sites, but you won't get your bar code until the day before the game so you only have a limited time to sell.

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

Cap the price of something that is in demand and has a finite supply and people have to pay more with their time.  Maybe I should have said Soviet groceries.  Or Fugazi tickets.   

 

[imref]

Cap the price of something that is in demand and has a finite supply and people have to pay more with their time.  Maybe I should have said Soviet groceries.  Or Fugazi tickets.   

The could probably sell out at 2 or 3x the cost. So time versus money.

I've spent a grand total of about 15 minutes registering for the lottery and confirming my identity. Last year I bought tickets in about 15 minutes.

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

At the risk of outing myself as an ancient geezer, I remember the good old days of people literally camping out overnight to buy tickets to jurassic rock shows.  But the people who regularly did that had an almost asymptotic time:money substitution curve 

[imref]

At the risk of outing myself as an ancient geezer, I remember the good old days of people literally camping out overnight to buy tickets to jurassic rock shows.  But the people who regularly did that had an almost asymptotic time:money substitution curve 

yep. I spent many a night in the 80s camping out at the local record store that had a ticket shop.

[wj73]

My time slot is 11:00 AM on Tuesday, April 29. I can buy up to 5 tickets then, if any are still available. They have divided Nats Park up into 5 "zones" and you buy 1-5 tickets in a zone. Then you don't learn your actual seat assignments until a week before the game. Tickets range from $40 (uppermost parts of the upper deck) to $175 (PNC Diamond Club) each.

I have bought MLB Playoff tickets at two different ballparks during deep playoff runs and getting Bananas tickets is way more complicated than that.

I’m right behind you with the 11:30am slot. Hope there are some decent tix left!

[imref]

My wife and son won’t be using their 11am slots. I suspect a lot of families had everyone register after the difficulty getting tickets last year.

[imref]

Just remember, if you can’t get tickets then call Mike Damone.

[Count Walewski]

Might this be a preview of getting World Cup tickets in 2026? My understand is that since Europeans find scalping to be "icky" and have strong norms against it, FIFA severely restricts the secondary market.