Toronto Blue Jays fans already face an uphill battle even before the start of the World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers when trying to get tickets to the home game.
On Wednesday, legions of Jays fans lined up on Ticketmaster to try to get tickets, which went on sale at 10 a.m. ET. But face valueElectronic input was scAccording to fans, they quickly sold out, leaving only expensive, resold ones.
Greg Overmonds was one of them. He logged in at 9:45 a.m. to try to get tickets and was about 22,000 people in line when he took his seat. At 10:25 a.m., he said, he saw a notification on his screen that said: the supply of tickets was limited, and didn't get to the front of the line until 10:40 am.
By then, “they were all sold out and the only thing I could find was a 500-level resale ticket for $1,600,” which he said was out of his budget.
“It feels like we're being excluded from something we're so dedicated to,” Overmonds told CBC News. “To think that people … bought these tickets and immediately stole them, it’s so disheartening.”
If you're in the mood to splurge, there are still plenty of tickets available for all four games in Toronto through trusted resale Ticketmaster.
The cheapest tickets for Game 1 in Toronto, as of Wednesday afternoon, will cost you less if you're sitting away from the field in the 500 section.you're over $1,300 a piece.
Premium real estate behind the base is more rare, with tickets ranging from $3,600 to over $8,000, depending on how far away you want to sit. What about the most expensive place in the house? Over $10,000 per ticketbest places.
Other ticketing sites like StubHub offer similar deals, with nosebleed tickets costing around $1,300 and better tickets in the $6,000 range.
Several dominant companies
Vass Bednar, Managing Director of Canada's SHIELD Institute, a non-partisan think tank, says the situation shows how much digital technologyl systems have changed the situation with purchasing tickets.
While the resale market on platforms such as Ticketmaster hhow it helped buyers avoid fraud, BEdnar says this also means every ticket sale is brokered.yes, big computerany.
And in the case where the ticketing company is also involved in resale, this means that it can “sell tickets.”I'll get the same ticket twice… and I'll pay all the associated fees,” Bednar told CBC News. “So who will really win in the end?” A corporation that formalized what was a nebulous, informal secondary market.”
Although Ticketmaster has par value exchange policy which may limit the resale price of tickets to the amount that buyers originally paid for them, artists you will have to choose to use the policy. British band Oasis used the option for their recent tour, for example, capping ticket prices at $$104 and $430, depending on section, excluding fees and taxes.
Ticketmaster also has promised to deal with the traderspartly by preventing users from having multiple accounts, which would allow them to collect more than the allowed limit of four to six tickets per concert.event. The company also said it would no longer allow bulk resale of concert tickets, CBC reported, but that rule would not apply to tickets to sporting events and theaters.
The change comes after the US Federal Trade Commission sued Ticketmaster in September, claiming that the platform and its parent company Live Nation were coordinating withh ticket brokers who bought tickets on the primary market and sold them at much higher prices. (Company dis.makes these claims and plans to challenge them in court.)
Ticketmaster did not respond to CBC News' request for comment.
No legislation
Stephen Selznick, a partner at Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP in Toronto, says some Canadian jurisdictions have ticket pricing rules, but they don'tthe end will be limited bot ban or require platforms to prove the authenticity of resold tickets.
Quebec is a rare jurisdictionAn idea that limits resale prices.again, sellers cannot list their tickets for more than what they originally paid for them, although the system is not without loopholes.
Ontario passed the lawagreement that would cap ticket resale prices at 50 percent above the original price, but it was decommissioned in 2019 because it was “unenforceable,” according to then-Consumer Affairs Minister Bill Walker.
When asked on Wednesday why The government repealed this law in 2019, and if it can propose additional legislation to cap prices, Pr. OntarioEmir Doug Ford told reporters about this.RS, he wasHe's studying it.
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“[Companies] they rob people. When there's one player in the market that controls the tickets, it's not right for people, so we're looking at that now,” Ford said.
Selznick says that's not the problem This problem is easy to solve because ticket prices are a limited resource: there is a limited number of seats in the stadium, and demand usually exceeds supply.
“When you only have, you know, 50,000 tickets to sell, you're really at the mercy of the seller when there's a demand for more,” Selznick said.
Bednar says policies that canPS resale prices can help solve this problem. Legislation that restricts dynamic pricing (prices that fluctuate depending on market conditions, such as time of day), or that requires sites to disclose nominal price tickets in the resale process are options that other countries have used, she says.
“We've now come to accept this as the norm, and I think people are starting to push back against it and reject it and say it's gotten a little out of control.”
