{"id":12055,"date":"2015-02-01T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T14:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12055"},"modified":"2015-02-01T17:00:17","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T22:00:17","slug":"speculating-on-super-bowl-xlix-tickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/speculating-on-super-bowl-xlix-tickets\/","title":{"rendered":"Speculating On Super Bowl XLIX Tickets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/020115_2108_Speculating1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"415\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Joe Pinsker wrote about the business of speculating on Super Bowl tickets:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>About two weeks before the Super Bowl, prices of tickets on the secondary market (through sites like StubHub) usually drop around $900.<\/li>\n<li>Thus for the past few years speculators have sold tickets that they didn&#8217;t own two weeks before the event when prices are at their peak.<\/li>\n<li>The speculators then bought tickets on the secondary market to fulfill their orders once prices began to drop.<\/li>\n<li>This year, however, prices dramatically shot up to more than double their normal level as the event drew closer.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s unclear why \u2013 it&#8217;s possible that those who own tickets are colluding to reduce supply and drive up prices.<\/li>\n<li>Sites like StubHub, meanwhile, are making a killing since they make a 25% commission on each Super Bowl ticket sold.<\/li>\n<li>Estimates suggest that up to 15% of Super Bowl tickets are bought through StubHub so the company will have made tens of millions of dollars due to Super Bowl XLIX<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See an excellent chart, and read more about the tactic of shorting and how it is best used over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2015\/02\/the-risky-business-of-reselling-super-bowl-tickets\/385044\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2015\/02\/the-risky-business-of-reselling-super-bowl-tickets\/385044\/\">The Atlantic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Pinsker wrote about the business of speculating on Super Bowl tickets: About two weeks before the Super Bowl, prices of tickets on the secondary market (through sites like StubHub) usually drop around $900. Thus for the past few years speculators have sold tickets that they didn&#8217;t own two weeks before the event when prices [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/020115_2108_Speculating1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12055"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12061,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12055\/revisions\/12061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}