4 Ways You Are Overpaying For Braves Tickets

We want to preface this email by saying that we realize it's somewhat audacious for a ticket broker to be talking about price gouging practices. Our industry was basically built on charging people more for tickets that are in high demand. That being said our purpose in writing this email is a buyer beware. We are fans of the Braves and happen to keep very close tabs on their pricing practices. So when we noticed a few things that seemed funky we decided it would be a good idea to give people a heads up.

4 Ways You Could Be Overpaying For Braves Tickets

#1. The Braves Change Ticket Prices Like The Stock Market: The Braves are one of many professional sports teams that use the practice of dynamic variable face value pricing for single game tickets. DVP is a fancy way of saying that the team fluxes prices based on the demand for tickets. So a section 301 ticket on Thursday night against the Reds might set you back $20, that same ticket on Friday night will be $30 and for the Sunday day game (if it's going to be 100 degrees) will cost you $15. The obvious issue we, as fans, have is that the team can do this with no notice. So if you put off buying tickets even for a 1/2 hour the price could have increased. We urge you to go to TMOTickets.com and compare prices before buying from the Braves site. Most of our tickets are purchased at lower season ticket holder rates and often times you will find our tickets to cost less.

#2. The Braves Use Ticket Holds As A Means To Drive Up Ticket Values: The Braves game on Saturday May 6th versus the St. Louis Cardinals was a PERFECT representation of this. The game was listed as sold out from a few hours after single game seats went on sale and for weeks tickets remained scarce. Miraculously the week of the game the team announced they had found a few thousand tickets laying around and that would be made available to fans. What the team didn't mention is that would using their DVP powers to raise prices for this "sold out affair" by an astounding 30% over the initial face value for this game. So a ticket in the Terrace Infield (200 section) that was originally listed at $59 was then sold for $76. We know this seems obvious, but we just want to point out that it's incredibly shady for the box office to declare a sellout and then release thousands of tickets the week of the game at an inflated price. This would be equivalent of umpires being able to bet on games.

#3. Getting Your Tickets Is Very Hard & Can Involve A Hidden Fee: If you haven't bought tickets from the primary of secondary market for a Braves game yet, you are in for a treat. The team no longer provides PDF tickets, which means everyone has to have a Braves ticket account and Ticketmaster account to access their parking passes and game tickets. If you buy tickets from the secondary market (StubHub) the seller has to transfer the tickets to you. So you, the end user, have to create an account, claim the tickets and then go through the cumbersome process of getting them on your phone. Oh..and the many ticket websites charge up to a $7.95 transfer fee for the hassle. At TakeMeOut Tickets we actually EAT THE COST of the fee so our clients don't have to pay extra to get their tickets and we are working on a way to create PDF versions of the digital tickets for people who aren't phone savvy. The price you see on our website or are quoted on the phone is the price you pay. No games! No bogus delivery fees!

#4. The Fees: The Hardball times did a study back in 2013 about how MLB teams charge outrageous service charges for tickets. Back then the Braves were one of the cheapest in the MLB. Unfortunately the times have changed though, and with a new ballpark comes a raise in the service fees. In 2016 it was a measly $3 per ticket, now the fees are quite more. If you look at the screenshot above you'll see that a pair of $3.50 tickets on the Braves website end up costing $24.60.

In Closing... We hope this buyer beware is helpful. The goal of it is just to let you know that when you are looking for Braves tickets make sure you check out a couple of places before you buy, especially tmotickets.com. We aren't a faceless organization of scalpers. We are a local Atlanta business that is here to have your back. Our goal is to save you some money and make your buying experience the best it can be.

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