Sales figures are meaningless as Ticketmaster scalps their own tickets electronically through their API to 3rd parties. Then their resale ecosystem takes a fee every time they trade hands so maximizing transactional value through frequent trading is encouraged.

As for hotels, travel and the economy are now in the shitter thanks to Fascists who abandoned law and built detention camps.

I would love to see Canada host the World Cup well, but fuck fifa and fuck their fascist “peace prize” and sucking trumps shrivelled dick.

They can’t claim they’re not political or corrupt. They’re probably one of the most corrupt organizations on earth.

FIFA deserves to fail.

wait the peace prize company is getting into sports now?

And nothing of value was lost.

And I mean that as a pretty big soccer fan. Not as big as I used to be, but still pretty big. FIFA can go fuck itself. And I hope that this entire debacle is such a massive failure that not even Trump can try to bullshit his way through the ensuing press conference.

I see in the article that Canada and Mexico are fairing better than the US. Makes sense as who wants to travel to the US under the current administration....

Good. Boycott it.

Does not matter. These articles are just copium.

Every single stadium will be packed come game time.

Here in Kansas City, the city opened the doors for short term rentals and a lot of people registered their homes. But very few have been booked. I've seen people ask questions like "How can I get from the Airport to the game and back to the airport?" So many if they do come don't plan on staying. It's cheaper to fly down and see a game in Mexico than to stay here in Kansas City.

I CANT believe all this NEGATIVE Press surrounding Fifa! They gave Trump the PEACE PRIZE for Gods Sake!

I hope the World Cup is an abject failure

Can't wait for this shit to be over

Gee I wonder why. Oh right, the Icestapo.

Whether it hits ticket skalpers, hotel overpricers, or FIFA directly, the only thing that matters is that any miss here is a lost opportunity.

They are turning Fifa into a black swan event lmao

On the plus side, FIFA will learn from this, and temper their greed in the future.

/s

This impacts management more than workers (of course, it still impacts workers, but not nearly as much). Therefore, I don’t care.

I was curious and looked at tickets for a game in Houston since we could drive. $680 a ticket. Yeah, no thanks.