October 2025
Regarding the high prices for Blue Jays tickets on the resale market, the only way the price insanity is going to end is if people stop buying them, plain and simple. In reality, all products and services are only worth what people are willing to pay for them. If people refuse to pay $12, 000, or $25, 000 for a Jays ticket, or anything above the face price of the ticket, then the re-seller is holding nothing more than a worthless hunk of paper. Of course, there are apparently lots of people who are willing and/or able to pay any price, so apparently refusing to pay such high prices is easier said than done.
Speaking of easier said than done, another way to combat not only high re-sale prices, but also reduce the power of scalpers and their ticket buying bots that scoop up tickets faster than you can blink, is to go back to the days of lining up at the Ticketmaster outlet in your local mall, with a strict limit of four tickets per person. Do people really want to go back to those days, like the time my brother and I lined up all night at the Burlington Mall to get tickets for Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the USA Tour? Of course not. Why would you, when you can sit in your living room, in your pajamas, and order tickets? We all know the answer, so I guess we’re stuck with the current situation. By the way, for a couple of teenage boys, spending the night at the mall to get tickets was quite the fun experience, one that I still remember fondly.
