How can Dodgers fans in Japan get a break on high ticket prices
Shohei Ohtani returns to the home as a world championship, and requests a ticket request for the series of opening the season in Tokyo.
Want one? The less price ticket on Stumbhub from Wednesday afternoon: $ 1,855 for the armed match next week; 1,352 dollars for the second and final match, in both cases including the fees. By the time you read this, these tickets may not be available.
If you live in Japan, Dodgers offered an acronym: paying $ 500 to join the new fans club, and securing the right to buy two tickets for a game.
On the day they fell, Ohtani, the evaders announced their intention to draw Japan in blue. On the day they signed Roki Sasaki, they shared their plan at Dodgers Fan Club in Japan.
“This is something that the Premier League and European football clubs are already doing, as they gathered international fans,” said President Stan Castin. “We are doing a pilot program to start this and see how it happens.”
Now, and Fans Club It offers four levels of membership. He presented the highest level-at about $ 500 per person, and this year was sold to 1,200 members-the opportunity to buy two tickets to a game of Tokyo series “on the basis of first.”
The higher level members also won what was described as a “very rare comprehensive component” – a ticket with Dodger Stadium Dirt from the game in which Dodgers won the Western National League championship against San Diego Padres. Autani had three strikes In that game, including a double against his compatriot Yuki Matsui.
Other membership levels cost about $ 120, $ 100 and $ 45 annually. Among the four membership levels, the first three include Ohtani BobbleHead and other promotional elements, as well as discounts on Dodgers fan events in Japan. (Ohtani BobbleHead can sell $ 100 or more on EBY. On the Dodgers website on Wednesday, it was the cheapest ticket for the first night of Ohtani Bobblehead this season $ 132).
All fans members’ membership levels include discounts on tickets and goods at Dodger Stadium.
The company said that Dodgers are paying international sales on Stumbhub more than any other major team in the league. The company said that Dodgers tickets have been purchased this year by fans in 29 countries outside the United States and Canada, but often by fans in Japan.
Over the past five years, the automatic goods have been 57 % of the total sales of fanatics in the main goods in the baseball league in Japan. In one year since Dodgers signed, the company said, its sales have jumped to Dodgers goods in Japan “more than 2000 %”.
Joel Wolf, Sassaki’s agent, said that he visited many Ballparks in Japan with a team store for goods and a booth for smuggled goods.
For the Tokyo series, though this MLB fans festival created In Japan Their evaders have put their own. The World Series Championship is shown, as well as more than 200 Bobbleheads. The exhibition area is devoted to Utani.
“We did this, really, for the first time, just in Japan,” said Dodgers Michael Speetner, the Japan Times, “and they are attending the evaders here to meet our fans.”
Fans Club in Japan in Japan is not open to the fans outside Japan. Dodgers currently does not have the fans club for the American fans.