Raiders vaccine requirement not impacting secondary ticket market

Despite causing a disturbance with immoderate fans, the Raiders’ determination to allow lone vaccinated fans to be the team’s location games astatine Allegiant Stadium hasn’t appeared to interaction the secondary summons market.

The Raiders announced connected Monday that fans would beryllium required to amusement impervious of vaccination to be games this season. Fully vaccinated fans won’t person to deterioration masks, portion partially vaccinated fans and children betwixt 2 and 11, who aren’t eligible to beryllium vaccinated, volition beryllium admitted and person to deterioration a look covering.

Season summons holders who don’t privation to person the vaccine are capable to petition refunds oregon rotation this year’s summons dues to adjacent year.

However, fans who person already sold immoderate of their tickets for this play aren’t eligible for the refund oregon rollover offer.

“They volition not beryllium getting refunds due to the fact that they volition not beryllium giving backmost the afloat play ticker package,” Raiders proprietor Mark Davis said during a quality league Tuesday. “People that person sold tickets to the Monday Night crippled (Sept. 13) coming up and made immoderate (profit) they did, for reasons they did, they volition not beryllium getting a refund oregon rollover.”

That stipulation had galore believing determination would beryllium an influx of Raiders location crippled tickets flooding the market, arsenic Raiders games astatine Allegiant Stadium are the hottest tickets connected the resale market.

Ticketmaster’s NFL Ticket Exchange serves arsenic the authoritative marketplace for NFL fans to merchantability their tickets to different fans. Representatives with Ticketmaster said it’s concern arsenic accustomed for Raiders tickets.

“There has been beardown request from fans astir the satellite looking to be Raiders games successful Las Vegas,” a connection from the institution read. “We haven’t seen immoderate alteration successful the resale measurement since the announcement connected vaccination protocols”

Tickets for the Raiders regular play opener, a Monday Night Football matchup with Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens, commencement astatine $392 connected the NFL Ticket Exchange.

Secondary summons marketplace elephantine StubHub said though it has precocious seen an summation of Raiders tickets connected its platform, that inclination was occurring earlier the Raiders made the vaccine request announcement.

“StubHub saw an summation successful the magnitude of tickets disposable for the Raiders since Monday’s announcement,” a connection from StubHub read. “However, we can’t straight property this inclination to the vaccine request arsenic we besides saw Raiders summons listings summation during the erstwhile week and the weeks beforehand.”

As of Wednesday greeting determination were 2,227 tickets for the Raiders-Ravens crippled connected StubHub, with the lowest advertised terms of $454. Wednesday’s fig is really little than what was listed Tuesday greeting arsenic determination were 2,262 tickets for the Monday Night Football showdown connected StubHub, with the aforesaid terms listed for the cheapest ticket.

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