ticket prices...is this normal?

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Supercross.com is selling tickets for the Georgia Dome race..lower levels at 170.00 per ticket...of course it includes the 15.00 "pit pass"

Ticketmaster is selling the same tickets for 53.00 each and if I buy a Monster drink, i get in the pit free......is this gouging normal, especially from such a "in industry" website?

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tireguy111 12/30/2012 5:58pm
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I bought my tickets for all three Anaheim races at the local Yamaha dealer...Very good ticket prices and no fees added on.........don't know if the Yamaha dealers down south sell tickets tho....
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bobby397 12/30/2012 6:14pm
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The ones I found were $87
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mojoman42 12/30/2012 6:20pm
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I always buy the week they go on sale from ticketmaster. You can get the best seats at sale price, instead of paying second-hand vendors a ridiculous markup.

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drmarkr 12/30/2012 6:26pm
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You guys are nuts....come to Phx for the weekend to beat all, and get in our Executive Suites for $100/ticket.....
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JG2 12/30/2012 6:52pm
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I would stay away from Supercross.com until it is your only option. My GF bought Phoenix tickets off that site last year and paid 2x what she should have - caveat emptor for sure.
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GuyB 12/31/2012 1:47pm
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Corey_Tallent wrote:
Supercross.com is selling tickets for the Georgia Dome race..lower levels at 170.00 per ticket...of course it includes the 15.00 "pit pass" Ticketmaster is selling the same...
Supercross.com is selling tickets for the Georgia Dome race..lower levels at 170.00 per ticket...of course it includes the 15.00 "pit pass"

Ticketmaster is selling the same tickets for 53.00 each and if I buy a Monster drink, i get in the pit free......is this gouging normal, especially from such a "in industry" website?

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I'm not sure how many people think Supercross.com is an in industry site these days.
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Corey_Tallent 12/31/2012 1:49pm
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I wasnt really certain. I just was pointing that pricing out.
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Just paid $210.00 for 6 people at the Yamaha Dealer with a pit pass included . No Fees
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Corey_Tallent wrote:
Supercross.com is selling tickets for the Georgia Dome race..lower levels at 170.00 per ticket...of course it includes the 15.00 "pit pass" Ticketmaster is selling the same...
Supercross.com is selling tickets for the Georgia Dome race..lower levels at 170.00 per ticket...of course it includes the 15.00 "pit pass"

Ticketmaster is selling the same tickets for 53.00 each and if I buy a Monster drink, i get in the pit free......is this gouging normal, especially from such a "in industry" website?

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GuyB wrote:
I'm not sure how many people think Supercross.com is an in industry site these days.
There is a reason why Supercross.com is plastered all over MC's Pro 2, Twitch's Pro 4, a Pro Lite, a Trophy truck, was on the side of a race semi etc etc. Something has to pay for the toys.
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jimmie 12/31/2012 4:20pm
12/31/2012 4:20pm
I too was blown away with price of tickets on Supercross.com, really?
lostboy819 12/31/2012 4:34pm
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jimmie wrote:
I too was blown away with price of tickets on Supercross.com, really?
anyone dumb enough to buy them from supercross.com deserves to get ripped off.
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smrscott 12/31/2012 4:59pm
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Looks like the tickets via SX.com are through a broker ticketsnow.com. SX.com probably gets a piece. If you read the terms and conditions you will see the ticketsnow.com reference. People that don't know any different or just do a search might thing the tickets cost that much. Do your research people. SEO is a wonderful thing for some sites.
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Stanford 12/31/2012 7:17pm
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Almost every year my wife gets me Atl sx for Christmas. She orders them on line and gets gouged every time. This year I was pretty worked up over the announcement for the national at Muddy Creek which is less then 100 miles away so she got tickets for me, her and our nine year old daughter. She ordered them through a site called Eventbrite. She didn't know what she was ordering and wanted to get me the best tickets she could find, so she got us VIP Fan Zone tickets, which has "deluxe tent seating, VIP viewing area, all day/hot pit access, lunch buffet on pro day, live timing and scoring feed, souvenir yearbook, private restrooms and Friday & Saturday admission." Adult tickets were $203.50 ea and the child ticket was $103.50!! Total cost was $510.50!! Granted, the covered seating and private shitter will be nice, and the fact that I won't have to mingle with you common riff raff (you all won't be allowed in my private shitter will you??) is a definite plus, but for that kind of money they better have someone standing at the end of the buffet line asking me if I would like a hum job.
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drmarkr 1/1/2013 2:50pm
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jimmie wrote:
I too was blown away with price of tickets on Supercross.com, really?
lostboy819 wrote:
anyone dumb enough to buy them from supercross.com deserves to get ripped off.
Took two pages to get to this....amazing what this place has become....
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jimmie 1/1/2013 3:25pm
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jimmie wrote:
I too was blown away with price of tickets on Supercross.com, really?
lostboy819 wrote:
anyone dumb enough to buy them from supercross.com deserves to get ripped off.
drmarkr wrote:
Took two pages to get to this....amazing what this place has become....
Two pages?
What exactly is your point?
Just a couple of opinions on how inflated SX tickets are, at Supercross.com.
For my Anaheim tickets I purchase them from either the stadium or Yamaha dealer.
Anyway, see you at the Chase field.Smile

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TripleFive 1/1/2013 4:11pm
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jimmie wrote:
I too was blown away with price of tickets on Supercross.com, really?
lostboy819 wrote:
anyone dumb enough to buy them from supercross.com deserves to get ripped off.
I know, right?!

I mean, how could someone possibly be under the impression that supercross.com was the official site of supercross? Don't these idiots check Vital every day?

Casual fans get exactly what they deserve.
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jimmie 1/1/2013 4:52pm
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jimmie wrote:
I too was blown away with price of tickets on Supercross.com, really?
lostboy819 wrote:
anyone dumb enough to buy them from supercross.com deserves to get ripped off.
TripleFive wrote:
I know, right?! I mean, how could someone possibly be under the impression that supercross.com was the official site of supercross? Don't these idiots check Vital...
I know, right?!

I mean, how could someone possibly be under the impression that supercross.com was the official site of supercross? Don't these idiots check Vital every day?

Casual fans get exactly what they deserve.
Yeah, I guess it helps to be a hardcore insider type, huh?

Pity the rest of us.Grinning
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mooremoto 1/1/2013 5:05pm
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Corey_Tallent wrote:
Supercross.com is selling tickets for the Georgia Dome race..lower levels at 170.00 per ticket...of course it includes the 15.00 "pit pass" Ticketmaster is selling the same...
Supercross.com is selling tickets for the Georgia Dome race..lower levels at 170.00 per ticket...of course it includes the 15.00 "pit pass"

Ticketmaster is selling the same tickets for 53.00 each and if I buy a Monster drink, i get in the pit free......is this gouging normal, especially from such a "in industry" website?

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FREE MARKET PRICE.

Price(supply) intersects at demand. This is your market price.

AND THE ATL, GA ROUND ALWAYS SELLS OUT.

Once again, simple economics; someone has that amount of disposable income to spend!!!
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mooremoto 1/1/2013 5:12pm
1/1/2013 5:12pm
For future questions along these lines, I have embedded a graph of this simple principle that the average American can seemingly not understand, unfortunately.

lostboy819 1/1/2013 5:30pm
1/1/2013 5:30pm
With all the information available at your fingertips anyone who pays too much for anything deserves to take it in the shorts. " A fool and his money are soon parted" is more true today than ever before. It takes less than a minute to find all the info on everything you could ever want on any purchase big or small.
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Nighttrain 1/1/2013 6:19pm
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Every year I buy 4 tix for ATL SX from dude on corner at Popeye's Chicken. Good eats, good seats. Atlanta should have 2 races, place always sells out.
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brod 1/1/2013 8:16pm
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supercrossonline.com is the site you guys should be looking at for tickets

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