3/02/2015 @ 2:00PM 2,147 views
Tickets For The Grateful Dead Reunion Shows Are Now Up To $116,000
The remaining members of the Grateful Dead are reuniting for a handful of concerts this coming summer, and if you want to get a ticket, it’s going to cost you a very pretty penny. In fact, tickets for you and a friend are now going for insane sums of money on the secondary ticketing market. How insane? Try $116,000.
Passes for the three shows in Chicago all sold out in minutes, which was expected. The Grateful Dead have a diehard fanbase, one which would do almost anything to see them perform live one last time. They were initially offered to the group’s fan club, and then they went on sale to the public after that. Plenty of people are of course taking advantage of the situation by snapping up whatever tickets they could get their hands on and reselling them on the secondary ticketing market. In the few days since they originally went on sale, the price for entrance has gone up exponentially.
Stubhub.com, a website that allows people to resell tickets to events they won’t be needing, has dozens of options for the shows, but none of them come cheap. The prices range from the astronomically-high $116,000 (which gets you two spots in the general admission area) down to just under $1,300 for just one pass.
If you’re prepared to spend a good chunk of change, Stubhub has plenty of options, so don’t worry about them selling out anytime soon. So far there are five sets of passes all selling for over $100,000, and some of them aren’t even good seats. Two of the ticket packages with price tags in the six digits are labeled as “Obstructed” or “No View”. So, would you pay $100,000 to listen to a band live and imagine what’s happening on stage?
Altogether, 210,000 tickets were sold for the shows, but there were hundreds of thousands of others (and possibly millions) who couldn’t get through fast enough to purchase the tickets. While there may be an enormous premium on them now, when they originally went on sale fans got a deal, as tickets were priced under $200.
The shows are being arranged to celebrate the band’s 50th anniversary, and the band members are saying that these three shows are likely to be the last time they all perform together. Phish frontman Trey Anastasio will be filling in for Jerry Garcia, who passes away many years ago.
