If you’re so compelled to attend the first World Series game in Colorado history that you’d happily dole out the bucks needed to buy a ticket or two from any one of several online vendors, then you should at least shop around.
Don’t hold your breath for drop- dead deals among the online brokers – though there have been several posts to from ticket holders willing to resell at face value to “real fans.”
But the disparity in price from one website to the next for roughly the same ticket to Game 3 of the World Series on Saturday is tremendous and changes each day.
You could save lots of money – up to $2,000 a ticket in some cases – with just a little bit of work and patience.
One website not like the next
People turn to the Internet to avoid the potential problems and uncertainties of buying from a street hawker. Despite this good sense, folks often don’t make the effort to comparison shop before buying, believing one site is like the next.
Not true. For instance, seats in the deepest part of Coors Field – the top rows of the Rockpile section above center field and the cheapest available on the secondary market of website brokers – on Thursday ranged in price from $703 on 1-800BestSeats.com to $925 on .
Then there are the truly hot seats, those that make grown baseball fans tremble at the thought of sitting in them. Just the phrase “home-plate seats” causes a shudder of excitement. They are the throne of the ballpark, the ultimate in braggadocio.
But they can also create a giant hole in the wallet, made larger by poor shopping and anxiousness.
Wide range in prices
In our review of more than a dozen ticket websites, Game 3 tickets in row 4 of section 134 – behind the right- hand batter’s box and the most expensive available – ranged in price from a low of $5,225 at 1-800BestSeats.com to a jaw-dropping $6,875 on three different websites including . and .
That was on Wednesday.
By Thursday, the same seats had dropped by as much as a third to a range of $3,076 to $4,875.
The “gotta-be-there” fans also can buy parking passes to Lot B – the farthest from the stadium – during their online purchase for prices ranging from $33 to $138.
Save your money. You can still get the same parking pass directly from the team at . for $9.
So before you automatically click on “purchase tickets” at any website that happens to be offering game seats, take the time to snoop around. Your savings could be substantial enough to leave you with enough dough for tickets to another game.
Unless, of course, money is no object, in which case you’re likely a Red Sox fan, no?
Get ’em while they’re hot, but they aren’t cheap
Tickets to Game 3 of the World Series at Coors Field vary in price wildly from one online ticket broker to the next. Here’s a look at how the same seats in three different sections are pricing. Prices are from Thursday and (Wednesday). NC means “no change.”
Sec. 143 Sec. 134 Sec. 130 Sec. 403
Row 1 Row 4 Row 13 Row 38
(Rockpile)
Website Price Price Price Price
$4,375($2,750) $4,875($6,875) $3,660($4,095) $925(nc)
1-800BestSeats.com $3,325(nc) $3,705($5,225) $2,779($3,111) $703($750)
$3,413(nc) $3,803($5,363) $2,852($3,193) $722($583)
$3,500(nc) $3,900($5,500) $2,925($3,275) $740($750)
$3,675(nc) $4,095($5,775) $3,071($3,439) $777($800)
$3,784(nc) $4,217($5,947) $3,442($3,854) $1,000(nc)
$3,850(nc) $4,290($6,050) $3,218($3,603) $814($658)
None($3,914) $3,076($6,151) $2,501($2,978) $828(nc)
$4,375(nc) $4,875($6,875) $4,680($5,240) $885(nc)
