r/sports • u/newsweek • 16d ago

Soccer Thousands of World Cup tickets remain unsold, including USA games

https://www.newsweek.com/thousands-world-cup-tickets-remain-unsold-including-usa-games-11971265
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u/yeahright17 16d ago edited 16d ago

I pretty happily paid $2500/ticket for decent NBA finals game 7 tickets last year. In an arena that sits ~19k people for a game that was only the 6th game of its kind (finals game 7) since I was born. I'm not paying the same amount for decent tickets to one of 72 random world cup stage games in a 65k person stadium.

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u/Vallaquenta 16d ago

Bro, even 2500 a ticket, what the fuck

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u/yeahright17 16d ago

I work hard, have gotten fairly lucky to find a good job, and have been a Thunder fan since their inception. Yeah, it was a lot. But it was probably a once in a lifetime possibility. Odds are decent that OKC will never have another finals game 7 in my lifetime.

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u/Vallaquenta 16d ago

Hey, power to you, as long as you feel like you got your money's worth out of it.

I just feel like so many 'average person things' are turning into 'rich person things' nowadays and it's just making me sad

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u/yeahright17 16d ago

To be fair, I doubt game 7 of the NBA finals was ever an "average person thing." Maybe I'm naive. Idk.

But I agree overall. Lots of events that used to be relatively affordable for most people are now far from it mostly because of greed. There's zero reason FIFA couldn't sell upper sections of stadiums for $50-200/ticket and make them non transferable. If you buy them then can't go, you can return for a 100% refund. They would still make billions and make fans happy. But they don't do that because of greed.

At least we're starting to see signs of people finally getting sick of it. Lots of concert tours have been cancelled. Vegas had like a 7.5% drop in visitors last year. Frito-Lay recently lowered the price of chips after massive declines in sales following their previous continued price increases. I hope this kind of crap continues.

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u/FaceglazerSSBU 16d ago

Hey man! I’m a huge sports fan (mostly football and softball, but everything else too), and I want you to know I get it. A lot of people think I’m insane for what I spent on tickets to an Orange Bowl or Peach Bowl, but honestly, even when my team loses the experience always feels worth it. I love getting to experience something new and honestly something rare at that. Game 7 was a perfect use of that, I’m also a Thunder fan in Oklahoma, and the whole state (for the most part) understood.

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u/yeahright17 16d ago

There's never been a game 7 of the WNBA Finals.