What's with eBay ticket prices?

[savedsol]

I'm tracking one auction that's got two hours left for 2 tickets on the 14th. It's only at $61? There's a ton of others with low Buy It Nows too. Guess the band has some serious PR to do.

[dave-gnfnr2k]

I'm tracking one auction that's got two hours left for 2 tickets on the 14th. It's only at $61? There's a ton of others with low Buy It Nows too. Guess the band has some serious PR to do.

Its not that at all, its there are 4 shows, why would anyone  pay $300 for a pair when they can get them for face value?

[Mr.Intensity]

Bids also go up like crazy right at the end......

[Evil Ash]

or, more obvious, scalpers got a lot of tickets and can't sell them now 

[GNRkid]

I dont know it just seems like those people are always ripping you off somehow

[tristanj13]

Yeah..any auctions like that I assume are from people with little to no feedback. People arn't dumb....their going to only pick from the auctions with someone who a decent amount of feedback thats above the 98% mark as positive. At least thats how I choose what to bid on on ebay...

[Howard2k]

Absolutely ANYONE who knows anything about buying on Ebay knows that you don't bid until the last 10 seconds.   Last 3 or 4 if you have the nerve. 

[tristanj13]

Absolutely ANYONE who knows anything about buying on Ebay knows that you don't bid until the last 10 seconds.   Last 3 or 4 if you have the nerve. 

Doesn't stop a ton of people from doing it though....most of the other open ended auctions w/o Buy It Now on ebay I scanned through had bids days before they ended..as long as the seller was someone respectable.

[Crashdiet]

I've been watching ebay for a while and there are people losing money on tickets.... the odd 12th show goes for just over 200 a pair, but mostly at cost or slightly below.

I think the second two shows really took the demand out of the tickets.

Unforuntely for me I had to bite a scalper priced ticket that I bought out of fear before whole presale thing happened. 200 bucks for one ticket on the 17th... ouch. Oh well that was the risk i took.

[tristanj13]

Stub hub on the other hand are significantly higher than ebay. I've never used them before but I'm assuming this is because they pretty much take the risk entirely out of buying tickets online whereas ebay, even with the precautions they have, isn't 100% perfect. SO buyers are more willing to pay more for the piece of mind. I'm glad I got thru for the presale so I dont have to worry about who's trustworthy and who's not  . I've been checking these two sites out of curiosity though.

[Minneapolisnewsman]

I don't use e-bay, but I am seeing ton's of tickets, and pairs listed at one cent??  Can someone expand upon this?

[Minneapolisnewsman]

I have to bump the thread, can someone answer the above question???

[tristanj13]

I don't use e-bay, but I am seeing ton's of tickets, and pairs listed at one cent??  Can someone expand upon this?

Not having looked..I'm only assuming these listings have days and days left and/or are from sellers with bad/no feedback.

[Groovie In VT]

The new ebay scam is to sell stuff for like 1 cent and charge you $140 shipping and HANDLING. Ebay gets no part of the that for basing their fees, only on final value.   So often you see stuff with Buy It Now for a dime and shipping is crazy.

[tristanj13]

The new ebay scam is to sell stuff for like 1 cent and charge you $140 shipping and HANDLING. Ebay gets no part of the that for basing their fees, only on final value.   So often you see stuff with Buy It Now for a dime and shipping is crazy.

Can ebay shut those down? Im sure they can...would be hard to track them all though.

[Barbie567]

just wondering,
are there going to be a lot of scalpers outside of the Hammerstein selling the nights of the shows??
I'm surprised that people are getting tickets below cost considering the shows sold out in just a few seconds.
Maybe that is an indication of just how many scalpers were trying to get tickets at the presale!

I've never been to a concert where scalpers weren't selling tickets out front.

[BLS-Pride]

Yeah I am prob gonna go over to Hammerstien on one of the nights and see if anyone is selling some tickets.

[sandman]

i've been watching e-bay and tix are still selling over face.

mezz have typically been selling for $75-$100 each
floor $90-$150
floor for the friday show are $125-$175

my guess is there will be some real good bargains next week.

[brobot]

I think prices will go up next week as there will be less to choose from. Keep in mind how many there still are our there and that they are constantly being sold on ebay. I think by the end of this week, supplies will be low. If I were in need, I'd snatch them up very soon.

[sandman]

I think prices will go up next week as there will be less to choose from. Keep in mind how many there still are our there and that they are constantly being sold on ebay. I think by the end of this week, supplies will be low. If I were in need, I'd snatch them up very soon.

you may be right. there's a few variables that no one can measure.

but i do know that there has been no decrease in supply over the last week. there has consistently been an average of about 40 auctions per show.

it'll be interesting to see what happens next week.