Bowl/National Champ markets from a broker's perspective
Dec 6, 2016, 12:50 AM
I posted here last year about tickets and demand and so forth. A Tiger poster from California emailed me and asked me to post what I thought would happen this year. I will try to do so below:
Ticket prices for this year's Fiesta started much lower than they did for Orange and much, much lower than for last year's National Championship. So, a lot of inventory is being bought up already. That being said, Clemson will put a lot more inventory on the market the next week as I suspect they will have a public onsale. But, they will be selling $100 and $150 tickets. The market is already less than that so Clemson having tickets to sell won't impact the market that much. It will bring down the high end tickets as quite a few brokers like myself will get a lot of good inventory directly from Clemson. So, if you want Club or lower premium, wait. Those prices will come way down.
I suspect prices will stay above $50 for get-in and maybe even head back toward $100 the week of the game because of local demand. I have sold about 500 tickets already to the game and about 70% are going to AZ. The majority of the rest are going to Ohio. Local demand will be strong with these prices and should move through most of the inventory the next two weeks. I sold about 100 tickets this evening at $65-$75 and have raised prices for the cheap stuff to $80-$90. My cheap stuff is not the worst of the worst as it is rows 5-10 so I think I might be able to get $80-$100 from here on out.
I will post more if requested once Clemson beats Ohio State but expect prices and demand this year to be much greater than last year. I'm not suggesting a $1000 get-in but I do think it will stay quite a bit above face because of location, size of stadium, size of fanbases within driving distance, and lack of a lot of "get-in" tickets in Tampa because of the design of the stadium.
Re: Bowl/National Champ markets from a broker's perspective
Dec 29, 2016, 8:18 PM
Amy, Enjoy hearing your insight into the ticket trends. Could you give an update on Fiesta Bowl tickets and what you expect the market to do after Alabama wins and then after Clemson books their ticket to Tampa? Thanks