I'll trade my soul for a ticket...

[nmsles]

So, I have two extra Bon Iver tickets, and I was browsing craigslist to try to sell them.  People are offering upwards of $100 for them, which I found ridiculous, but very exciting (in the sense that I will be rich!).
 
 It made me wonder...what is the most you'd offer for concert tickets, and to what concert would you offer it?

[azaghal1981]

Face value.
 
 
 To any concert I'd like to go to but get shut out of.
 
 
 And if I can't find such a deal, life goes on.
 
 
 No beef here with scalpers though; if you can find someone willing to pay absurd amounts of money for your tickets, more power to ya.

[Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface]

I believe I was on record as offering $250 for a Smashing Pumpkins @ 9:30 ticket last July before more tickets got released.

[Smylie]

I'd pay probably $1000 to see a band i love get back together (Floyd or NMH probably)
 
 For a 'common' concert of a band that tours...no more than double face.

[azaghal1981]

I bet that if an NMH show were to ever happen again, it'd be an on-the-spot spur-of-the-moment kinda thing probably taking place in some random town after one of the members' many bands' sets partially in order to avoid people paying $1k to see them.
 
 
 Holy run-on sentence!  

[hutch]

i don't usually pay more than face... but these days for big concerts you're talking close to $140 for the good seats...
 
 so i'll pay that.
 
 i can remember a time i wouldn't pay $50....
 
 but basically i won't pay more than face.. but to get really good tickets for example- to see acdc- i bet its going to cost me...

[sweetcell]

i don't think i've ever paid more than double of face for a ticket.  even for high-demand shows, if you look around hard enough you can find something reasonable.  i always have.
 
 however, i'd paid a whole lot to get myself to a show - airfare, hotel, etc.  same difference in the end.

[Bombay Chutney]

I don't think I've paid more than face value for anything in about 20 years.
 
 It would have to be a huge band in a tiny venue.  Something like The Stones at 9:30.  Even then I'd probably only pay a few hundred $$$.  I don't even pay the top-tier face-value price for some of the larger shows I go to.
 
 I'd pay a few hundred to see R.E.M. at the club, but I imagine I know enough people that I could find a way to get a ticket much cheaper.

[sweetcell]

swapping tickets with other fans is another way of keeping ticket costs under control.  would have cost me an arm and a leg to see all the radiohead shows i'm seeing this tour if it wasn't for trading.

[sonickteam2]

speaking of that....if you hear of someone with one extra camden pavilion ticket......

[6949]

I paid about $250 for a Redskins/Cowboys ticket (lower level) then found out, just like with concerts, people are trying to give them away the day of the game.
 
 Somewhat related, I was trying to sell an extra ticket at the club because my friend bailed at the last minute and I was asking way below face value. The 930 security guard said he was going to have me arrested for scalping. Haven't been back since.

[sweetcell]

Originally posted by very sonick:
  speaking of that....if you hear of someone with one extra camden pavilion ticket......

will keep my ears open and let you know.

[distance]

i have not and would not ever pay more than face value for a ticket.
 
 ...and there's never been anything that i wasn't able to see that i wanted to see.  i might not have gone to the closest show, but travel is fun anywya.

[Frank Gallagher]

I doubt I would ever pay over face value for a ticket, but what face value would I pay for a Smiths reunion? I honestly can't put a number on it.  $500, $600, $1,000?
 
 I had two $150(ea) box tickets up for grabs at The Cure show down here recently. I was selling them for whatever someone wanted to pay within reason, as I had been given 4 tickets by a vendor so just wanted some beer money out of the deal. Some chump came over and I showed him the tickets and I said $50 for the two...he offered me $20 so I tore them up in front of his face.....the look on his face was worth the $20 I didn't make.

[Bombay Chutney]

Originally posted by Ever Circling Skeletal Family:
  he offered me $20 so I tore them up in front of his face.....the look on his face was worth the $20 I didn't make.

Ha!  A guy once started berating me because I wanted face-value (about $25, I think) for my extra ticket to a sold-out show.  He offered me $10 and when I said no, he started calling me a dick, yelling at me, etc.   I turned around and gave to ticket to the next person I saw, absolutely free.  The guy just about lost it when I did that.