Danish
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The $700 tickets are one thing it's more the way they advertise and market the whole thing that really pisses me off. Particularly when a D**khead like Paul Kind used to come out and say 'tickets have gone down by $10 this year to the Grand Final' making it more affordable then ever for families' to attend the Grand Final when in actual fact that's a total lie.
They were made $10 cheaper in 1 Aisle and they doubled in price in another.
I don't mind them ramping up ticket prices as massively as they do for the GF, as it allows them to maximise ticket sales revenue while still giving a reasonable option for some cash strapped fans to attend. The high prices for platinum and diamond seating mean scalpers are no longer scooping up thousands of seats and selling them back at a premium, as the financial risk of picking up those tickets when certain team combinations will mean they make a loss on resale (scalpers would be pretty screwed with this year's GF for example with Roosters having a fairly small fan base and the rest of the teams being interstate and so unlikely to scoop up too many last minute tickets).
It does become annoying though when hack journos like Kent use the small allocation of cheap tickets as a means of attacking the game e.g. "Tickets are only $15, and they still can't sell it out. Troubling times for the NRL/This would never happen in AFL etc".