Once the team released the seats I posted the nights we are not going to the games on StubHub, Ticketmaster and eBay for sale. Hopefully we can hook some other fans up the nights we don't go and recoup some of the money we spent to be Season Ticket Holders in prime seating.
**I only recommend double dipping like this is you are prepared to immediately remove the seats from the whichever site the seats did not sell from at the time you get the email your seats have sold. If you sell the same seats twice you could be looking at getting kicked off one of the sites and having to pay for seats for the person you just cheated. Don't screw people over!!**
**I only recommend double dipping like this is you are prepared to immediately remove the seats from the whichever site the seats did not sell from at the time you get the email your seats have sold. If you sell the same seats twice you could be looking at getting kicked off one of the sites and having to pay for seats for the person you just cheated. Don't screw people over!!**
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| Copy of the email from my first StubHub sale. |
My first impressions about what is better between StubHub, Ticketmaster and eBay.
Ticketmaster
Click the link below for the Ticketmaster NBA tickets selling tutorial.
On Ticketmaster I used the Market Price option were your seats price will be raised or lowered depending on what the other seats are selling for. Well the Market Price option sucks in my opinion. I posted $115 per seat and the next day I checked and the Market Price option had raised my selling price to $235 per seat when there were seats four rows below me being sold by the arena for around $150. When dealing with Ticketmaster and trying to sell NBA season seats the way to go is using fixed pricing and / or the other option of daily decreasing prices. Ticketmaster also has a minimum selling price for every tickets. I paid $95 per seat and the lowest I can list my seat for sale is $88. A minimum selling price sucks. I would rather get something for a night I can't go to a game as apposed to getting nothing because no one wanted to pay $88 on a week night to see a crappy team. Within a week and a few days of posting my tickets at very reasonable prices, I have sold 0 NBA nights on Ticketmaster. Ticketmaster is also not very user friendly and doesn't give you all the info you want to figure out what your selling price should be. I had to search for tickets in my section on one tab to see what the arena and other re-sellers were selling for and had to have another tab open that was logged into my account so I could pull up my seat info. Ticketmaster only allows you to edit one game at a time. Posting or editing on Ticketmaster sucks.
StubHub
Click the link below for the StubHub NBA
tickets selling tutorial.
On StubHub everything is super user friendly. They don't have a nice site made tutorial but the site is so user friendly that you don't need a tutorial. StubHub has a feature where the site will show you all the prices for all the seats in your zones (lowest price, best priced, best seats) so you can adjust your ticket prices to be competitive with other sellers in the same area's as you. Everything you need to re-price, check other sellers prices or delete your post is in one place and super easy to use. Also there is no minimum selling price on StubHub. You can sell a $95 seat for $5 if you want. Within a week and a few days of posting my tickets at very reasonable prices, I have sold 5 NBA nights on StubHub. StubHub has a flat 10% fee that covers their fee and PayPals fee.
eBay
eBay has a function that none of the others have and that is people can offer you a lower price than what you are asking for and you can choose to accept it or not. People seemed to always try and get my tickets for way lower than I would take. Also eBay charges a 10% fee like StubHub and you have to pay a PayPal fee so a $100 sale after fees is really $86.80. People won't pay more for good seats on eBay and the fees kinda suck. I only add eBay because it does work and you can sell tickets but the fee's will get you.
The Winner for me is StubHub
So far StubHub seems to be the best when it comes to re-selling your tickets you can't use. StubHub is super user friendly the fee is low, and there is no minimum selling price like on Ticketmaster.
11/08/2016
UPDATE
At this time after having 43 home games I have given away 1 game, my wife and I are setting aside 8 of the best games for us to go to, I sold 23 games (12 on StubHub, 3 on eBay, 8 random people). We are left with only 11 home games to sell. After selling the 23 games the average price of sale for 2 tickets was $143.24. The tickets costs me approximately $198 for 2 seats a game. So far I've lost $54.76 per game but it's really not a loss. Read my latest blog page about why it might be a good financial decision to be a season ticket holder.
Why Being a Season Ticket Holder Might Be A Good Financial Decision For You
12/22/2016
UPDATE
After selling 34 games I was not going to, the average price per pair of tickets was $140.46. As a season ticket holder I paid $198 per pair of tickets. I lost money but keep in mind that I went to most of the games where the stars came to town that I could have sold the seats for way over the purchase price. If I would have sold a few nights from the big games I may have been able to get very close to paying for my entire season. After selling the nights I didn't go and getting back the money I paid upfront I spent $3730 to go to 8 games in a premium area and have season ticket holder benefits.
1/26/2017
UPDATE
I made back $4726 from the selling of seats during the 2016/2017 season. For the upcoming season I have 6 of my 12 payments already taken care of leaving my 2017/2018 season costing me $4616.18 for the full season. I should be able to sell the nights I don't go during the upcoming season and make the upcoming season cost me nothing.
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