Dumb

Front office or individual both try and raise the price. Unfortunate reality of life.

Supply and demand. As long as people keep buying them, (Remember this is the city that holds the longest sellout streak in sports history at 814 games) they can keep raising the prices. They are running a business. They don’t care that YOU don’t buy their tickets because SOMEONE will. The price will continue to rise until they stop selling out games.
Come to think of it, maybe that was the true meaning behind the 08-09 slogan “Rise with Us”

Front office greed? really? Paul Allen loses millions every year keeping this team alive. raising ticket prices is the simplest way to cut those losses down a little. They’re working hard to make us want to attend the games, and it’s working. I agree that the meteoric jump in prices in the past 6 years looks bad, but take the good with the bad, meteoric jump in WIns and excitement too.

C.R.E.A.M., get the money, dolla dolla bills y’all.

It’s the ticket “brokers” who are screwing things up. They’re buying up all the tickets, and then having their curbside scalpers out there selling them before every game. That’s why we’ve sold out every game for over two seasons and half the time you go there’s a ton of empty seats. The scalpers couldn’t sell them.

This variable ticket pricing won’t solve this problem one bit, it’ll just discourage the scalpers from buying up all the higher priced game tix. The average fan will be left paying extra to the Blazers for those premium game tickets or paying extra to the scalpers for the ‘less desireable’ games the scalpers buy up.

Basically, the average fan still ends up footing the bill.

The sad part of all this is I know lots of regular fans who WANT to go to games, but it’s always ‘sold out’ even though there are often many seats available. I really wish the Blazers would find a real solution to this problem, and not just use the scalpers as an opportunity to make more money. (which may not be their intent, but it is the outcome).