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Originally Posted by Hammock Parties
So there's a really DUMB story behind the exorbitant prices and limited availability on these seats.
When they were taking them out to put in the new ones, the workers were PITCHING THEM OVER THE SIDE OF THE STADIUM. Aside from that being incredibly dangerous and potentially lawsuit-inducing, it BUSTED a lot of the seats. From my understanding some were completely shattered beyond repair, which is why you only see 2,500 for sale.
The other thing that happened is they realized - oh shit, we need to sell these broken seats. So the ones they could salvage, they HAD THEM SHIPPED OFF TO GET REPAIRED. So they had to pay for shipping BOTH ways AND the repairs.
And now you get extremely expensive souvenir seats?
The Chiefs also were going to sell them themselves and keep all the money until Jackson County stepped in and were like "uh, nah, our Stadium, our seats."
Now, I'm not sure who is more responsible for the seats being completely raped by incompetent workers - the Chiefs or Jackson County - but if someone hadn't been an idiot about it I'm guessing a seat would be $100 at most.
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Why sell 50,000 seats when you can sell 2500 for the same total?
When the workers supposedly "destroyed" those seats, they drove up demand, hence the price. It takes a lot less work and cost to sell fewer seats.