Canada’s NHL teams have offered season-ticket holders rebate or refund options in acknowledgment that no more 2019-20 regular-season games will … If Ligue 1 in France, another huge and lucrative sports league, can play games behind closed doors in empty stadiums, so can the NHL.
Do the right thing!”StubHub and other re-sellers are “rooting for postponement” and rescheduled games because of this, Knopp said.If an event has been canceled, StubHub will provide a full refund, the company said. The problem for ticket holders is these events have not been canceled. Instead of giving cash refunds, these businesses have operated under their normal ticket policies for postponed or rained-out games – holding the money as credit to be used whenever their games resume.In previous years, teams addressed mass cancellations of games by offering refunds plus interest, including for the NHL lockout of 2004-05. If clients top up their accounts or pay for next season in full by June 1, the five per cent is applied to that amount too.The Jets will discount next season’s renewal by three per cent of the credit balance, accrued from March 12 until the first “home pre- or regular-season game at Bell MTS Place.”Taking the credit increases it by half its value — $400 owed makes it $600 for example — and freezes the price on renewing at 2019-20 levels. “Come off it.
It affects ticket holders of all stripes and trickles downstream to the secondary markets, such as StubHub, which faces its own financial reckoning if games are canceled.“If the event is postponed, ticket buyers can choose to either attend the event on the new date or resell the ticket,” StubHub said in a statement.
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And even if games are canceled, many of these teams and ticket sellers are still going to try to hang onto the money through enticements, such as offering credit for next season with perks thrown in, Knopp said. “Please hold onto your tickets until an official policy is announced.”Knopp, whose company works with several large businesses, said that even large companies who bought tickets to entertain clients are losing patience.
Other ticket sellers also are expected to offer refunds if events are officially canceled. “We will not be charging any additional payments unless MLB provides guidance at that time that we plan to play a full season of games. The tension stems from teams and ticket marketplaces engaging in a business-as-usual postponement policy at a time that is decidedly not business as usual for consumers.Growing concerns over the economy have changed consumers' needs in the meantime.“Absolutely ridiculous tickets can’t be refunded because there might be 'make up’ games,’” a Twitter user identified as Mitchell Coleman wrote to the NHL.
“ I think people miss them badly. This reply didn’t go over well with the customer.“People can’t get water, toilet paper, daycare and your (sic) keeping millions of consumers dollars over a technicality,” Erickson responded back to StubHub.“People are out here unable to get basic necessities and @StubHub refuses to issue refunds until @MLB 'cancels’ games that tickets have been purchased for,” a Twitter user identified as Adam Erickson wrote last week. “People are losing their jobs and they’ve got money tied up in these tickets, for games we don’t know when they’re going to happen,” Knopp said. If the lucrative Serie A can be cancelled, so can the NHL season. They’re postponed indefinitely as part of the national effort to keep the coronavirus pandemic from spreading and spiking beyond the capacity of the U.S. healthcare system.Many fans have shared their complaints on social media.The teams and ticket marketplaces have their own financial obligations and staffing issues and aren't always eager to give back cash until it’s necessary. The NBA, NHL and MLB didn’t respond to requests for comment or referred questions on refund policies to individual teams.