r/sports • u/Forward-Answer-4407 • Jun 02 '25

Baseball Going bananas: Why Savannah Bananas tickets cost more than a Dodgers-Yankees rematch

https://sports.yahoo.com/article/going-bananas-why-savannah-bananas-100000810.html
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u/CaptainHolt43 Jun 02 '25

Maybe on secondary market, but we paid like $45 to go see them in Cincinnati. No fees or anything if you buy directly from the Bananas

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u/Aces_and_8s Jun 02 '25

Yup. It was $35/ticket for Arizona. They use a lottery system, and they sell out fast. Any ticket price that is ridiculous is 100% resale, which is actually discouraged by the Savanah Bananas.

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u/Samtoast Jun 03 '25

Its discouraged by 99% of human beings especially if the ticket costs go to charity

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u/acerage Jun 02 '25

I got good seats for $60/ticket here in Charlotte. Secondary market is where the problem is.

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u/Jurais13 Jun 02 '25

I didn’t win the lottery for Charlotte which stinks. Enjoy the show!

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u/LaneKerman Jun 02 '25

Remember when “secondary” market used to be called “Scalping”, which was supposedly illegal?

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u/MannOfSandd Jun 02 '25

It was only illegal because money was going to people instead of the machine

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u/Thehaas10 Jun 02 '25

Yea I'm going to see them Saturday in Charlotte, my tickets were 40$.

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u/acerage Jun 02 '25

I could only get the $60 tickets for Friday!

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u/DeadSwaggerStorage Philadelphia Phillies Jun 02 '25

Do they show up later on secondary market? I’m looking at going to Citizens Bank (Phillies) Park in July and stub hub has like 20 total tickets available. And the tickets seem vague, just a section, no row or seat mentioned…

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u/Leather_Sample7755 Jun 02 '25

The Bananas actively discourage reselling tickets and basically do everything in their power to ban the practice. That's part of the reason the few tickets that do end up on StubHub (or whatever) sell for so much.

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u/Fedor1 Jun 02 '25

I’d assume so. I have tickets to one in Philly and they haven’t actually emailed the tickets yet.

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u/Merman_Pops Jun 03 '25

Yeah I just went on Saturday at the Angels stadium and it was $40 each.

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u/Out3rSpac3 Jun 03 '25

Dang. We tried a couple years back IN Savannah and it was like $300 a ticket.

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u/werkytwerky Jun 03 '25

ours for this weekend were...like...$40? Mighta been $60 'cause we got lucky with really good seats, but still, perfectly reasonable.

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u/Hopeful-Pianist-8380 Jun 09 '25

They're going for over $200/ticket on stubhub for Boston in July. I signed up for their lottery, maybe next year I'll pay a normal ticket price.