Tariq Panja
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
There's also, for the first time in the history of this tournament, something called dynamic pricing.
Those of us who have booked flights or hotels might be used to this, how on Monday the flight was $200 and suddenly you waited two days and that's now $500.
So annoying.
FIFA have thought, this will be bright.
Why don't we do this?
Why don't we decide to have World Cup tickets for these 104 games dynamically priced?
So the idea was, depending on the demand, the prices would fluctuate lower if there isn't that great demand for those games, or spike if there is a lot of people wanting to do this dynamically.
So far, what we've seen is not much coming down because the prices started very expensive and prices then shooting up.
$800 for a group stage game, $1,000 for a group stage game.
Then you get into the knockouts.
And then fans are also confused as to where they're going to be sitting because FIFA keep changing the categories.
The seats are designated into pricing categories depending on where they are in the stadium.
And fans have now complained that, hang on, I paid for this category.
Why am I now in the nosebleeds?
And what is this new category that's emerged?
So there's a lot of confusion.
So much confusion, in fact, that the...
Attorney generals of New Jersey and New York have talked about starting legal proceedings against FIFA over this.
The fans are furious and disappointed and it doesn't matter where you go.
They feel exploited.