Giants to charge more for Lincecum games

which you completely made up. not only that, but they will only vary the price on a small fraction of upper-deck outfield seats. please.

the way the team has played lately, you’ll probably only see prices fall. The Giants would be taking over a scalper’s main function (and hopefully capturing their surplus). I imagine most scalped tickets went for below face value last season (at least the ones I scalped went for less). The variable prices are supposed to match demand, so if they increase more often than they decrease, then there is likely because we are fielding a competitive team and that’s not such a bad trade-off.

I’m all for the Giants experimenting with this. Particularly since they’ll be doing it with the weakest selling seats (view outfield probably), prices will probably only increase on sell-outs, while dropping for most games.

Finally, most of Tim’s games were paired with his strikeout discount. I probably went to more Lincecum starts because of that… $8 is cheaper than the cheap seats at the Coliseum.

do they charge less for zito games?

i got to go to Zito’s first 3 starts last year and i wish i had gotten a discount

this ‘dynamic pricing’, I think it’s worth checking out for the Giants. As for whether or not Lincecum days will cost more, that K special I think is going on next year too, so it’s probably not true. Now if it’s Lincecum pitching against the Dodgers in September and we almost have the division wrapped up, then I’d see a price hike for those few small sections in the 3rd deck in right field with the cool views of the bay bridge downtown and water