Welcome to another eWrestlingNews Question of the Day!
WWE continues to make profits hand over fist and break records with every event, and when you look at the cost for WrestleMania 41 tickets, it makes perfect sense, as they are absolutely absurd. Due to Ticketmaster’s “dynamic pricing” and whatever other factors you want to claim (greed, corporate insanity, the economy, 2024 being a dystopian year where rationality seems to be going the way of the dodo), people are sharing some outrageous prices. $2100 for a single nose bleed seat? Packages for $11,000 per person? Who has this kind of money?!
My question for you today is “What is the most you could see yourself justifying to pay to get tickets for WrestleMania 41, whether it is a ringside seat, a nose bleed, or something else?”
Remember to answer with your response in the comments below.
As far as my answer…
I’m from South Jersey and I currently live in New York. I had the ability to potentially go to WrestleMania 40 and not have to pay for a hotel, but I would have still had to pay some travel costs. The tickets were far too much out of my price range, and even then, they seem to be over half as much as what they’re going for now. When I factor in that this is a two-night show, and I wouldn’t be paying to just go for one of them, and that I would be going most likely with my wife as well, 4 tickets for that show last year would have cost me several thousand dollars, and I just couldn’t afford it no matter how much I tried.
When it comes to WrestleMania 41, I’m on the complete opposite coast compared to Las Vegas. Not only would I then have to pay for 4 plane tickets (my wife and I there and back), but also realistically 2-3 nights for a hotel, we’re talking several thousand dollars before even getting tickets. And then, when those tickets are $2100+ per person, per night, am I really supposed to be expected to pay something like 20 thousand dollars just to go see two nights of wrestling from a seat that will likely still require me to watch it on the giant monitor, and not even go to WWE World and all that on top of it? That’s not including food or an Uber or rental car, either, and I’m sure I’m forgetting all sorts of other expenses, like how I wouldn’t be able to do my job during that, technically, so I wouldn’t be getting paid either. Yikes.
Even if WrestleMania were right at the closest arena to me—which would be Madison Square Garden—and I didn’t have to do any of the other costs, I could still only justify spending at the very most $400 per ticket for a grand total of around $1600-2000 after taxes and such, with some food and subway tickets thrown in there. That would still be breaking the bank in a way that I wouldn’t be able to recover well from it for a long, long time, but I would at least feel like it didn’t completely wreck my entire savings and leave me destitute like the way these tickets are coming across for Mania 41 right now.
Like with everything else out there, there comes a time where businesses need to realize that people just do not have that kind of money. This is a different type of business in the sense that a restaurant that keeps raising its prices just gets fewer and fewer customers until they go under, while Ticketmaster is going to have scalpers and bots purchase these tickets and try to re-sell them, so WWE will end up making their money whether or not those tickets actually do end up being sold with butts in seats. But the bubble is going to burst, eventually, and this ever-growing constant progress mentality that stock-focused corporations have is not sustainable. You cannot perpetually grow your profit by x percent every single quarter until the end of time when people can’t afford groceries.
Certainly, at this rate, I and most of the world can only afford to pay the $5-20 for Peacock that month, and even that is a stretch for a lot of us and the price keeps going up. At least that is doable, though. These ticket prices sound like you’re not just getting a pro wrestling show, but the cure for cancer to go along with it.
What do you think? Drop your thoughts below!
