Sentence examples for desirable tickets from inspiring English sources

Some ticket brokers are so certain of their ability to get hold of desirable tickets that they confidently advertise tickets on these exchanges even before tickets go on sale to the public.

A representative of "The Producers" would have us believe that the show is raising the price of desirable tickets to $480 -- $480! -- to "strike a blow at the heart of the scalping operation".

According to Ticketmaster, bots have been used to buy more than 60 percent of the most desirable tickets for some shows; in a recent lawsuit, the company accused one group of scalpers of using bots to request up to 200,000 tickets a day.

When I commented that it hardly seemed the promoters wanted to make buying tickets desirable, my guide explained the situation away by means of a sort of denial mechanism, never seeming to lose interest in pointing out the gargantuan monument to culture the concert hall itself represented.

Scalping, which by some estimates is a $4.5 billion business nationwide, remains a hot-button issue for consumers who increasingly find the secondary market the only source of tickets to desirable events.

Neither could anyone recall the previous owner offering a pricey presale enticement that provided access to the most desirable games and — for ticket buyers willing to pay 20 percent more than face value and then "save" 5 percent by using a certain credit card — eliminated the need to stand in line.

Directed by Christopher Alden, Partenope is the most desirable musical (maybe game) ticket of the season.

Undesirable desire turned desirable.

And single-game tickets for less desirable games rose by as much as 57 percent.

But as corporate America's entertainment and business-account spending grew, it was no longer enough for the boss grandly to dole out a pair of tickets to a desirable client.

Travelers have been complaining more often about frequent flier programs — namely, the lack of award seats on desirable flights, escalating fees for ostensibly free tickets and quicker expiration dates for miles.