ECW One Night Stand matches announced

[CanadianGuitarist 0]

Fifth row for Buffalo tapings of HardCore Tv and ECW on TNN cost 26 American. I'm going to assume the next four rows didn't each double in price.

[Lord of The Curry 0]

I had box seats when they came to Canada and the seats were 30-something Canadian. 400 bucks for ringside seats to any match, even if it's Benoit vs Eddy is ludicrious.

[RedJed 0]

I'm not sure if anyone has said anything about this, but the tickets for ONS are $400 for floor seating.

 

Was there EVER a time when a ticket for ECW was $100, let alone $400.

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Their ppvs (at least in 2000) had "golden circle" ringside seats (which was first 3 rows) for $100 a pop. Went to a ECW ppv in St Paul (the one where Jerry Lynn won the belt) and at that time, it seemed high to me, but shit, nowadays thats nothing for ppv shows from WWE.

 

With that said, WWE doesnt even charge $400 for ringside seats to their ppvs other than Mania and probably SS and Rumble. No wonder they didnt sell out immediately, thats way too high to charge and they really should have known better. Just because the DVD sold like hotcakes doesn't mean you can get away overpricing tickets like that. I thought they would have learned that when Mania tickets this year were all over the place avaliable even the day of the show, especially those spendy ringside ones that were hard to sell.

Edited June 3, 2005 by RedJed

[TheDevilAndGodAreRagingInsideMe 0]

I was amped up to go to the show till I heard the price.

[Guest QUP2CME]

How many people does the arena hold?

[JJ Johnson 0]

How many people does the arena hold?

 

About a thousand.

[Guest nokia]

From pwinsider.com

 

"There is a lot discussion internally within the WWE ranks about the upcoming ECW PPV, and what I am hearing is not good. Originally, the plan was for the card to be a "true" ECW show, with WWE management largely keeping their hands and non-former ECW workers off the show. Things changed pretty quickly when it became obvious that WWE totally miscalculated how to price and promote the show and set unrealistic expectations for the event.

 

Internally they, misguidedly, budgeted the show to do 300,000 buys, which is more than the average brand-only show does. Then the tickets for the show, which were priced extremely high, went on sale and didn't sell out, which the company hadn't expected. Even though some people in the company told them that the $400 price tag for the top seats was just too high, WWE management thought that, largely based on the sales of the ECW DVD, there was a demanding fan base that would be willing to overpay for the tickets. Then, the tickets went on sale and they found out they were wrong.

 

At that point, they decided to move away from the "ECW Only" aspect of the show and add WWE workers to the mix, thinking that would make the show more of a draw. When that didn't work, they were forced to drop some of the ticket prices and now the show will not be anything close to what it was originally marketed to be. The original plan of making it a pure ECW show was thrown out the window, and it's now scheduled to have many WWE workers, from both brands.

 

In talking to a number of people in the company, some of who worked in ECW and some who didn't, the expectations for the show have gone down considerably. People who were very excited about the PPV even a few weeks ago are now dreading it. Instead of it being run by "ECW people" like Tommy Dreamer and Paul Heyman, it's now a baby of WWE Creative. Given the recent direction of Raw and Smackdown, that has led a lot of people think that the only chance the show has of succeeding will be via the matches."

[Jobber of the Week 0]

I think we'll only know once the show airs who's really in charge. I don't really see Creative taking it away from Tommy Dreamer because of ticket sales. The prices were more simply a mistake calcualted by availability, I think, than actual demand. In other words, ticket prices were boosted because the building couldn't hold that many, not because of they thought people would pay that much.

 

There's simply no way WWE would be braindead enough to think that people would pay $400 a seat to the likes of Sandman and Psychosis. First of all, these guys aren't even regular WWE workers, which means that in the minds of the office they're not worth anything near that much.