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Fox News
25-07-2025
- Sport
- Fox News
More than 100 NFL players and coaches scalped tickets to Super Bowl LIX
The NFL's secondary ticket market is a very profitable business, but when folks are simply scalping tickets, well, the NFL and its teams don't love that. And they definitely don't love it when players and club employees do it for a Super Bowl. But that is apparently what happened at Super Bowl LIX, played on Feb. 9 at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans. And the league, which frowns on this, caught the scalpers. The NFL can track the tickets to its games and has the digital capability to confirm if the people who purchased a Super Bowl ticket actually used it. So the NFL is fining approximately 100 players – 100! – and two dozen club employees for violating league policy of selling Super Bowl LIX tickets above face value, a league source told OutKick on Friday. The story was first reported by the Associated Press. The NFL isn't done. There is an ongoing investigation into the matter. The actual amount of the fines will vary. Players who resold their tickets will have to pay 150 percent of the face value of the ticket they originally bought. Those players will also forfeit their privilege of buying tickets to future Super Bowls unless they're actually playing in the game. Club employees who were caught scalping will be fined 200 percent of the face value of the tickets they purchased. No names of the players or other employees already caught are known. What is known is that coaches were involved as well as players. The players and coaches apparently sold their tickets to so-called "bundlers" who were working on behalf of a ticket reseller, who then marked up the price of the tickets a second time. This isn't the first time this has happened, although the scale this year is quite something. Former Minnesota Vikings head coach Mike Tice admitted to scalping part of his allotment of Super Bowl tickets in 2005. Tice was eventually fined $100,000 by the NFL. Super Bowl LIX tickets were averaging around $4,708 on the secondary market the week of the game, according to various reports. The cheapest tickets started around $2,668 on TickPick, while the most expensive seats, particularly those close to the field and sidelines, exceeded $10,000. Some seating for the game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles climbed to prices as high as $50,000.
NHK
27-05-2025
- Business
- NHK
Scalper arrested in Japan for reselling major league baseball tickets
A company president has been arrested for the illegal resale of tickets for this year's Major League Baseball opening series in Japan. The opening series was held at Tokyo Dome in March. The games attracted fans of Ohtani Shohei and other star players in Japan. Behind the scenes, the scalping of many tickets at inflated prices was discovered. The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department arrested a company president on suspicion of reselling 12 tickets for nearly 55,000 dollars. They were originally worth about 3,000 dollars. He put 62 tickets on a resale site. He is alleged to have resold two seats worth 1,500 dollars for about 28,000 dollars. He is believed to have made a total profit of more than 150,000 dollars. Police say the man has admitted to the charges. He stated he sold pro-baseball tickets on a resale site several times to earn extra income. A baseball fan said, "It's very unfair since those who want to see the games can't buy tickets at proper prices." One expert has pointed out the grave responsibility of resale site operators. Lawyer Fukui Kensaku explained that website operators receive commissions based on selling prices, and earn more from higher prices. "They could be held responsible for complicity, or at least social responsibility," he added. Fukui believes resale site operators should be required to run thorough checks on a voluntary basis. Efforts to clamp down on the scalping of tickets for sports events and concerts have not been very successful.
