The Police Concert at NY MSG, on Halloween Night $ting
It should have been criminal, but if you wanted to watch the Police from the fifth row, dead center at their opening Madison Square Garden concert Aug. 1, you had to get ready to cough up an astronomical $11,500 per ticket.
And better move fast. There were only four seats available there from national ticket brokerage house TicketsNow for the Police’s reunion tour. Scooping up the entire block was setting you back $46,000. If Sting and the boys would play 23 songs over two hours, ticket holders will be paying $500 a tune, or $96 a minute.“The reason there’s mega-excitement about this tour is because it’s once in a lifetime. They haven’t played together for 23 and after this, they may never play together again,” sayed Mike Domek, CEO and founder of Chicago-based TicketsNow. “The fans buying tickets from us range from college age to boomers in their 50s and 60s who loved this music when it came out and could afford now seeing them up close if they wanted to. That drived up the price of these tickets.”
TicketsNow does not set prices, but represents smaller brokers who are offering tickets that have either been purchased from individuals or are placed on consignment. If the $11,500 tickets sell, it will set a new record for TicketsNow. A 25-seat luxury box for the Super Bowl in Miami this year went for $250,000 - a mere $10,000 a seat. But for the record, Domek thought the price would come down. At StubHub, the top orchestra seats were listed before a day before the concert at a mere $8,824.If you were willing to watch from a distance, Craigslist had a number of seats ranging from $275 to $900.
TicketsNow had some in section 409 (read: nosebleed) for $115.While the Aug. 1 and Aug. 3 Police concerts at MSG and the Aug. 5 show at Giants Stadium were all sold out, there was still a chance to snag a ticket the old-fashioned way.On Saturday at 9 a.m., tickets for the just-announced Police Halloween ball at the Garden for October 31 went on sale.Your ticket bought you more than a seat - you may just have won the lottery.
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