u/CautiousMagazine3591

Maybe this has already been discussed, but I just came across a post showing that Olympic tickets are getting hit with a "service fee" that's roughly 25% of the ticket price. First of all, what exactly is the service being provided here? I'm already buying the ticket online. Why am I paying hundreds of extra dollars for the privilege of giving them my money? And second, why can't they just be upfront about the actual cost from the beginning?

If a ticket costs $1,250, then list it as $1,250. Don't advertise it as $1,000 and then tack on a massive fee at checkout. What really drove this home for me was seeing an international article refer to the fee as a "tax" because the concept is so bizarre that they couldn't even identify what it was. The funny part is that there's still actual sales tax on top of both the ticket price and the service fee.

I had already looked through some of the ticket prices people were posting here and started making plans for the August sale. I accepted that attending the Olympics was going to be expensive. What I didn't expect was finding out that every price I had mentally budgeted for was actually about 25% higher than advertised. So a $1,000 ticket suddenly becomes $1,250+ before taxes. At that point, it just feels ridiculous.

I've decided I'm not buying anything during this ticket drop. Honestly, I think a lot of people are going to hit the same breaking point. There will almost certainly be tickets available closer to the Games, and possibly even at lower prices once the initial frenzy dies down. I don't see the appeal of handing over thousands of dollars years in advance just so they can add fees and inflation to the total. I knew the Olympics would be expensive. I was prepared for that. But this whole pricing structure has pushed it from "expensive but worth considering" to "I can't justify this anymore."

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