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If people are paying $7000 for St Kilda v Melbourne, North v GWS etc then they've got issues anyway. Those tickets are for corporates to allow entertainment at big ticket games such as Friday nights Essendon v North mini blockbuster. My plan is not about those games.
As mentioned you can get medallion club tickets plus car parks for $30 on eBay. Selling a legitimate ticket to the second level minus the bar and other medallion club facilities for $33 doesn't impact the cost of a medallion club ticket in my mind.
As mentioned you can get medallion club tickets plus car parks for $30 on eBay. Selling a legitimate ticket to the second level minus the bar and other medallion club facilities for $33 doesn't impact the cost of a medallion club ticket in my mind.
Those people (businesses) pay their $7k for the right to use that seat whenever they choose and for whomever you choose. If they don't use it - it's their seat and they are entitled to expect the value of it is maintained by not having it on sold by a third party at a low value.
It defeats the whole purpose of purchasing the seat (as opposed to having purchased specific games) in the first place.
I'm not sure on what basis you expect to receive a premium product at a budget price. It's a free market economy and, in short, you get what you pay for. If I was forking out $7k a year to buy my own seat at a stadium, I'd be filthy if Joe Average could "rent" it from the stadium for bugger all. In essence - you're asking them to sell (rent) you a seat that for all intents and purposes isn't theirs to give you.
Lets say, for example, I'm a busy businessman - I can't make the first half of the match but get there at half time, and find someone sitting in my premium seat that had been sold out from under me by Etihad? How good would Etihad look to these important stakeholders? And why should I be expected to inform the stadium whether I will/won't be attending each match to facilitate this regime?
If I own that seat and don't wish to go, I'll either sell it myself, or it can sit empty.

