This Friday afternoon again, we could find a ticket for PSG-Strasbourg put on (re) sale at 4,297 euros! Add the reservation costs and the place, located in the Auteuil bend, would cost 5,000 euros. Pure madness, a perverse consequence of the arrival of Lionel Messi in Paris this week. And even though the Argentinian will not play at the Parc des Princes before September 12 and the reception of Clermont. But this Saturday evening, against the Alsatians, the new number 30 of the red and blue club will be presented to the public in the company of other summer recruits (Ramos, Hakimi, Wijnaldum and Donnarumma).
This award is exceptional. It only exists in one place. But on Ticketplace, the club’s official platform reserved for resale of subscribed tickets, many others are sold well over 800 euros per unit. In all the stands of the Porte d’Auteuil stadium. An excess that PSG can not control. The capital club does not intervene in the prices offered by its subscribers during a resale. And since the 2018-2019 season, it is possible for a subscriber to resell for more than the total price of his annual subscription. And therefore to make a profit.
Reasonably priced seats also on sale
Faced with the Messi tornado, PSG observes this phenomenon of increase with caution, believing that no one will sell at such prices and that reason will return to the approach of the meeting if the subscriber really wants to give up his seat. Of the approximately 3,000 seats available on Ticketplace this Friday, the vast majority were also at reasonable prices, starting at around forty euros each. Usually, the increase in resale prices is seen especially before the Champions League shocks. For these meetings, the PSG sends a warning email to its subscribers who would like to resell a place at too high a price, encouraging them to lower it.
To regulate resales, PSG limits the possibilities to some of its subscribers. A devotee of the Auteuil turn is entitled to 10 resales per season as well as 5 “loans”. On the other hand, subscribers to the “Grandstand” and “Club Premier” offers have no resale limit. What already give ideas to some for the rest of the season … With Lionel Messi, the prices offered before the major European posters should still soar.
