TORONTO (Canada).— Tickets for the first game of the 2025 World Series between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Los Angeles Dodgers reached record prices, exceeding $2,000 on the secondary market, according to official reports this Wednesday.
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Tickets for the Rogers Centre, with a capacity for more than 39,000 spectators, sold out in a matter of minutes after sales opened on Tuesday morning through the Ticketmaster platform, the only one authorized for distribution. Although the official price of the most economical seats was approximately 250 Canadian dollars (about 180 US dollars), on Ticketmaster’s own website those same tickets appeared for resale for more than 2,000 Canadian dollars, while the preferential seats exceed 12,000 dollars.Outraged Fans and Official Criticism
The excessive increase in prices has generated outrage among fans and provoked political reactions. The Premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, called the situation a “rip-off” and announced that his government will investigate Ticketmaster’s monopoly in the sale of tickets for sporting events and shows.The company Ticketmaster, a subsidiary of the LiveNation group, also faces a lawsuit in the United States filed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which accuses it of deceptive practices and manipulating the resale market. In Canada, the company was also the subject of a class action lawsuit in 2018 for concealing commissions, a case that concluded this year with a settlement of 6 million Canadian dollars in favor of consumers.“When you have a single actor controlling the market, that’s not fair to the people,” Ford declared. “We are reviewing this situation.”
