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What's happened to 'standard' ticket prices?

Discussion in 'Steelers Talk' started by takenoprisoners1, Aug 3, 2025 at 11:22 AM.

  1. takenoprisoners1

    takenoprisoners1 Well-Known Member

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    Maybe I've just been away too long, but since when is the 'standard' ticket price for a Steelers game (not resale, just the single seats that are unclaimed), 150%+ above face value? I asked a season ticket holder what the face value for the Packers game was for a decent lower level seat, and he said somewhere in the low 200's. The cheapest lower level sideline standard single seat on Ticketmaster all in is $523. In the past, it was just face plus Ticketmaster fees for a single standard ticket. Are ticketmaster fees $300+? Nothing would surprise me, but that sounds punitive even for the ticket mafia!

    I wouldn't get a ticket this early anyway, but times certainly have changed. See you all here on the boards for opening kickoff!
     
  2. Voice of Reason

    Voice of Reason Well-Known Member

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    I feel like ticket prices tend to be higher this early on. There isn’t much urgency for ticket holders to sell. As games approach, I would think they should come down some.
     
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  3. strummerfan

    strummerfan Well-Known Member

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    No idea. The last time the Steelers played here it made more financial sense to buy cheap season tickets then to buy a single game ticket.
     
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  4. jeh1856

    jeh1856 Im a happy camper

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    This is season ticket holder per ticket prices see attached pdf

    I suspect individual games may be higher
     

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  5. takenoprisoners1

    takenoprisoners1 Well-Known Member

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    Thanks for the file, brother. In my past, the season ticket price for individual games is what you could get them for on Ticketmaste4 (plus ticketmaster fees, of course). In those days, ticketmaster fees were about 10-20%. NOW, a $241 seat in row 138L or further back is quoted at $522 for an individual standard seat on Ticketmaster (not a resale). That's a 120% markup. Still I would always wait until closer to gametime. Thanks again. I still have hope of being there for the Packers on 10/26
     
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  6. thorn058

    thorn058 Well-Known Member

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    I have no knowledge about what tickets would go for currently in Pittsburgh but I do know that 20 years ago ticketmaster in Minnesota forced me to buy a ticket package to get Steelers at Vikings tickets that included a preseason game of the Chargers at the Vikings and I paid over 500 for the tickets. I still get random emails for Chargers tickets from TM.
     
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  7. S.T.D

    S.T.D Well-Known Member

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    I didn't know they could do that.
     
  8. Brice

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    Why is the Seattle game part of the 3 most expensive games on the schedule? Sunday 11AM. (Seattle, Green Bay, and Buffalo)
     
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  9. thorn058

    thorn058 Well-Known Member

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    They were trying to say the preseason tickets were basically free but why they were pushing the package deal I had no idea. It was a strange experience.
     
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  10. jeh1856

    jeh1856 Im a happy camper

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    Good question
     
  11. jeh1856

    jeh1856 Im a happy camper

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    Last time Pitt and Penn State played Pitt made you buy a season ticket if you wanted to go to the Penn State game
     
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  12. DJ18Baller

    DJ18Baller Well-Known Member

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    Home Opener? People want to see A Rodg!
     
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  13. Brice

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    Yeah, I just saw that as week 2, and didn't put the pieces together about it being the home opener. :)
     
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  14. mac daddyo

    mac daddyo Well-Known Member

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    it used to be you paid the same price for every ticket. including preseason. yes full price for preseason. there was no seating license either for season ticket holders. the price did drop for preseason tickets but you then had to buy a one time purchase of a seating license per seat. season tickets then started adjusting per the opponent in pricing. food and parking went through the roof as well. the NFL is like the fat kid at the end of the chocolate line eating as much as he could. soon and it's already started and i might add i said this many years ago, you will soon pay a ticket price to watch it at home since they miss out on parking, beer and food along with your ticket price. they will get it from you one way or another. feed the machine. follow the money. :smiley1::cool:
     
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  15. Steelhammer92

    Steelhammer92 Well-Known Member

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    The nfl now prices their single game tickets to market. meaning, teams simply scalp their own tickets.
     
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  16. jeh1856

    jeh1856 Im a happy camper

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    Bingo

    I wasn’t realizing it is the home opener
     
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  17. 86WardsWay

    86WardsWay Well-Known Member

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    Concerts and sporting events used to be a more affordable form of entertainment. Those days are long gone. I’m starting to speak with my wallet more now that I am getting older and wiser. I am still a sucker for Sunday ticket though.
     
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  18. S.T.D

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    That seems freaking illegal.
     
  19. jeh1856

    jeh1856 Im a happy camper

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    When the Ravens first played in Baltimore and you tried to buy tickets when you put in the 412 area code (Pittsburgh) you would automatically be booted out of the system
     
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  20. MojaveDesertPghFan

    MojaveDesertPghFan Vinyl Rules

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    It's the Russell Wilson factor for those rich techie folks traveling from the Pac NW. Oh wait......................:rolleyes:
     
  21. Steelvision

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    Everything is going up, it costs 200 dollars to go to dinner for four at a decent restaurant.

    The dollar is losing more and more of its value almost daily.

    going to a steelers game for four has got to be about 3k when all is said and done.
     
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  22. SteelerJJ

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    I cannot even bring myself to Sunday ticket. If the game isn't on in my area I sit on the porch in the nice autumn air with the radio.
     
  23. thorn058

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    I got it the last two years with YouTube TV and made sure I got full value by making sure to give family membership to my older Brother, My younger brother in California so that my dad could watch the Vikings and the Steelers if he wanted to and my daughter at college where she pulls it up on the network at the hotel she works at on Sundays to let her co workers watch or her roommates too. I think I have two more family members I can invite so I may send invites to my nephews in Oklahoma.
     
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  24. jeh1856

    jeh1856 Im a happy camper

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    For perspective my 4 tickets plus parking for the Green Bay game is $1920

    And then I may have a beer or two at the game

    We do tailgate
     
  25. thorn058

    thorn058 Well-Known Member

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    I always used to getting a kick out of ppl in North Dakota complaining about concert ticket prices because its such a remote location obviously thinking they should cost less. In reality they cost more because smaller crowd size coupled with being in bumblef@#k ND in December.

    I got to see my favorite band Collective Soul once at the annual ribfest cookoff in Fargo for the price of admission to the event less than 50 dollars for the wife and I. Which was way better than almost 300 for a hotel room in the cities, plus gas and parking for a 6 hrs drive and 75 dollars for general admission tickets per person to see the wife's band Breaking Benjamin 5 years ago. Need a month of overtime to pay for some of these trips.
     

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