"If you're in the mood to splurge, there are still plenty of tickets available through Ticketmaster's verified resale for all four games in Toronto. The cheapest tickets in the house for Game 1 in Toronto, as of midday Wednesday, seated far from the field in the 500s section, would run you more than $1,300 apiece. Prime real estate behind home base is more sparse, with tickets priced anywhere from $3,600 to more than $8,000, depending on how far back you feel like sitting. And the priciest seat in the house? More than $10,000 per ticket, for prime seats."
"It feels like we're being excluded from something that we've been so dedicated for."
"To think that people bought these tickets and just jacked them immediately, it's just so disheartening."
Legions of Blue Jays fans queued on Ticketmaster when tickets went on sale at 10 a.m. ET, and face-value tickets were scooped up quickly. One fan logged in at 9:45 a.m., reached about 22,000th in line, received a limited-inventory notice at 10:25 a.m., and reached the front at 10:40 a.m., only to find all face-value tickets sold out. Verified resale listings remain for all four Toronto games, with cheapest seats in the 500s above $1,300 and prime behind-home-base seats ranging $3,600–$8,000; some prime seats exceed $10,000. Other marketplaces show similar pricing. Fans described the experience as exclusionary and disheartening, and digital ticketing systems have reshaped the resale-dominated market.
Read at www.cbc.ca
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