Lynne Kiesling Any of you planning to watch the Penguins/Sabres NHL Winter Classic game today? Here’s ESPN’s Scott Burnside on some of the possible pitfalls of an outdoor hockey game in the snow belt of New York on New Year’s Day. Here’s the weather forecast: Periods of snow, mainly before 10am. High near 36. Southeast …
Michael Giberson Today, December 10, 2007, StubHub announced that the ten millionth ticket was recently exchanged through the site. The company said that the exchange involved a pair of tickets to next Sunday’s game between the Green Bay Packers-St. Louis Rams in St. Louis. In a pattern perhaps typical of many exchanges on StubHub, a …
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Michael Giberson How many times do we have to say it? Online secondary ticket markets can be good for teams and fans. Fans can buy tickets earlier, knowing if they have a conflict, there is an easy way to recoup at least some of their price. Teams can therefore sell more tickets to fans earlier, …
Michael Giberson Yesterday, NPR’s All Things Considered ran a story on the Jordan Furniture Red Sox promotion that we discussed here earlier. An excerpt: So with the Red Sox and the Colorado Rockies now facing off in the World Series, some of the couch potatoes watching from home are rooting to win the very couches …
Michael Giberson At Midas Oracle, Eric Zitzewitz asks, “Is sports betting legal if you bundle it with furniture?” A furniture retailer in Boston offered furniture that would be free to customers purchasing a mattress, dining table, sofa, or bed between March 7 and April 16, if it turned out that the Red Sox won the …
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Michael Giberson I just set up a market for predicting the winner of the Women’s World Cup 2007 tournament, which is kicking off in China this weekend and wrapping up on September 30. (Women’s football/soccer.) Took me about 45 or 50 minutes, start to finish. A lot of it was just cut-and-paste team names and …
Michael Giberson Major League Baseball has entered into a revenue-sharing agreement with StubHub, an online ticket resale marketplace now owned by eBay. Radio news program Marketplace had a brief story that was far too breezy in the introduction for my tastes: Scott Jagow: In pro sports, ticket scalping is — let’s face it — part …
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Michael Giberson If my post of last week didn’t sate your interest in economic commentary on secondary ticket markets, here is a much longer piece put out by the Arizona State University business school: “Scalping goes upscale: The secondary ticket market’s online revolution.” A sample: Software upgrades have taken much of the back-alley risk out …
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Michael Giberson The secondary market for tickets to sports events is hot. Once upon a time the market was a bunch of guys standing curbside waving tickets in the air. Or, depending on local antiscalping laws, making furtive eye contact and calling in a low voices. There were brokers, too, for the more upscale crowd. …
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Lynne Kiesling I’m not being as productive this week as I could be, because I am trying to keep up with the Floyd Landis doping trial/arbitration taking place this week at Pepperdine University. I’ve been silent on this topic since October, when I wrote about Floyd’s “wikipedia defense” and the wisdom of crowds (back in …
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