Super Bowl XLIV: Ticket prices remain low, sorta
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| Monday 1 February 2010 12:12 pm
Six days before the Super Bowl at Dolphin Stadium, there may be as many as 7,000 tickets for sale on the secondary market, according to several scalping websites.
And that has depressed the prices.
On StubHub.com, for example, a regular Joe who really wants to see the New Orleans Saints take on the Indianapolis Colts can get a seat in the nose bleed with a face value of $500 for about $1,200.
Lower premiums are hovering around the $3,500 mark, a far cry from the average price of scalped tickets at the Super Bowl two years ago in Arizona, $4,300.
But if you happen to have more extra cash, there may be deals to be had in the suites.
“I just sold my suite for $60,000,” said West Palm Beach attorney Joe Farish, who leases an 8-seat box for $115,000 during the regular Dolphins season. The Super Bowl, he says, is extra, and he paid $17,000 for the game including food.
But he put it on the market last week, and he more than tripled his money. And those who bought it got a deal.
“I just wanted to get rid of it, but compared to previous super bowls here, it’s not that good,” Farish said.
Super Bowl XXXIII at Dolphin Stadium in 1999 brought Farish offers of $150,000.
As for Sunday’s game, StubHub has a 32-seat luxury suite up for $243,000! Keep an eye on it. It will free fall by the weekend.
And, believe it or not, there’s a secondary market for parking passes, too. Current prices are $200 for the cheapos far from the stadium gates on theseats.com, and $1,000 for the parking reserved for NFL officials.
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the lux boxes i get but ……..$1,000.00 to park a car, has the entire world gone insane - thats just disgusting………..LOL
Obscene. Simply obscene.
Has everyone forgotten that the economy is still bad? I mean 1,000 for a nose bleed seat and 1,000 to park? This game like all the other sports has been taken out of the hands of the real sports fans.
Who can afford to go to the Super Bowl, let alone a regular season game…?
I would love for there to be a lot of empty seats there. The Super Bowl is just for celebrates and the socal elite to attend. It has gotten way to Glam. It looks more like an academy awards show than a sporting event. It’s become a concert/circus/red carpet event with a football game thrown in. It will take 5 hours to see an hour worth of football.
still sounds a little higher, just watch the game on the net