Want first-round Phoenix Suns playoff tickets? Prepare to dig deep into your wallet

The Phoenix Suns began selling tickets to the general public for Game 1 and Game 2 of their first-round NBA playoff series at 1 p.m. Tuesday.

They're rather expensive, to say the least, on Ticketmaster, which is "an official ticketing partner of the NBA" as stated on its website.

Patience is also a key. When we signed on to the Ticketmaster site, we were put in a queue of nearly 700 people, and it took 5 minutes to actually be able to access the tickets. Once we did, there were quite a few tickets available, starting at $144 (plus fees) for the last row of the upper bowl, and ranging well into the thousands of dollars for the priciest resale seats, e.g. tickets being made available by other ticket holders.

Prior to the release of tickets for general sale by the Suns, the only tickets at Footprint Center that were available were being resold on the Ticketmaster site for as much as $6,500 in Section 105F, Row A for Game 1 Sunday and for as much as $7,500 in Section 101F, Row A when looking to buy two tickets.

There were still resale tickets available for as little as $150 in the upper reaches of the arena.

Here's a look at some of the priciest Game 1 resale tickets on the Ticketmaster site:

$3,000-6,500 range

• Sec 105F, Row A Verified Resale Ticket $6,500.00 each

• Sec 115, Row 3 Verified Resale Ticket $5,000.00 each

• Sec 115, Row 4 Verified Resale Ticket $5,000.00 each

• Sec 113F, Row A Verified Resale Ticket $4,500.00 each

• Sec 102, Row 1 Verified Resale Ticket $3,000.00 each

$2,000-$2,999 range

• Sec 111F, Row C Verified Resale Ticket $2,799.00 each

• Sec 103F, Row C Verified Resale Ticket $2,700.00 each

• Sec 101F, Row C Verified Resale Ticket $2,450.00 each

• Sec 114, Row 1 Verified Resale Ticket $2,270.00 each

• Sec 108F, Row C Verified Resale Ticket $2,250.00 each

• Sec 101F, Row C Verified Resale Ticket $2,150.00 each

• Sec 102, Row 13 Verified Resale Ticket $2,024.00 each

• Sec 103F, Row C Verified Resale Ticket $2,000.00 each

• Sec 115, Row 17 Verified Resale Ticket $2,000.00 each

$1,000-2,000 range

• Sec 108F, Row C Verified Resale Ticket $1,950.00 each

• Sec 120F, Row C Verified Resale Ticket $1,850.00 each

• Sec 104, Row 2 Verified Resale Ticket $1,800.00 each

• Sec 120F, Row D Verified Resale Ticket $1,495.00 each

• Sec 114, Row 1 Verified Resale Ticket $1,483.00 each

• Sec 103, Row 2 Verified Resale Ticket $1,500.00 each

• Sec 111F, Row B Verified Resale Ticket $1,500.00 each

• Sec 115, Row 22 Verified Resale Ticket $1,434.00 each

• Sec 102, Row 14 Verified Resale Ticket $1,420.00 each

• Sec 102, Row 1 Verified Resale Ticket $1,400.00 each

• Sec 105F, Row C Verified Resale Ticket $1,300.00 each

• Sec 102, Row 5 Verified Resale Ticket $1,290.00 each

• Sec 113, Row 17 Verified Resale Ticket $1,250.00 each

• Sec 108F, Row D Verified Resale Ticket $1,250.00 each

• Sec 114, Row 9 Verified Resale Ticket $1,250.00 each

• Sec 115, Row 19 Verified Resale Ticket $1,250.00 each

• Sec 114, Row 9 Verified Resale Ticket $1,250.00 each

• Sec 101, Row 5 Verified Resale Ticket $1,155.00 each

• Sec 121, Row 7 Verified Resale Ticket $1,112.00 each

• Sec 114, Row 9 Verified Resale Ticket $1,050.00 each

• Sec 106, Row 3 Verified Resale Ticket $1,000.00 each

• Sec 113, Row 11 Verified Resale Ticket $1,000.00 each

• Sec 101, Row 13 Verified Resale Ticket $1,000.00 each

• Sec 115, Row 15 Verified Resale Ticket $1,000.00 each

• Sec 114, Row 23 Verified Resale Ticket $1,000.00 each

• Sec 111, Row 6 Verified Resale Ticket $1,000.00 each

• Sec 109, Row 10 Verified Resale Ticket $1,000.00 each

• Sec 115, Row 8 Verified Resale Ticket $1,000.00 each

• Sec 114, Row 23 Verified Resale Ticket $1,000.00 each

The most expensive resale seats for Game 2 are as follows:

$2,000-$7,000 range

• Sec 101F, Row A Verified Resale Ticket $7,500.00 each

• Sec 108F, Row A Verified Resale Ticket $5,400.00 each

• Sec 108, Row 8 Verified Resale Ticket $3,669.00 each

• Sec 108F, Row C Verified Resale Ticket $2,150.00 each

• Sec 108F, Row D Verified Resale Ticket $2,150.00 each

• Sec 102, Row 1 Verified Resale Ticket $2,000.00 each

• Sec 103F, Row C Verified Resale Ticket $2,000.00 each

$1,000-2,000 range

• Sec 101, Row 1 Verified Resale Ticket $1,999.00 each

• Sec 102, Row 1 Verified Resale Ticket $1,800.00 each

• Sec 102, Row 15 Verified Resale Ticket $1,600.00 each

• Sec 102, Row 2 Verified Resale Ticket $1,450.00 each

• Sec 114, Row 25 Verified Resale Ticket $1,350.00 each

• Sec 104, Row 2 Verified Resale Ticket $1,350.00 each

• Sec 124, Row 8 Verified Resale Ticket $1,250.00 each

• Sec 108F, Row D Verified Resale Ticket $1,250.00 each

• Sec 124, Row 3 Verified Resale Ticket $1,124.00 each

• Sec 111, Row 5 Verified Resale Ticket $1,200.00 each

• Sec 115, Row 11 Verified Resale Ticket $1,200.00 each

• Sec 111, Row 5 Verified Resale Ticket $1,199.00 each

• Sec 102, Row 8 Verified Resale Ticket $1,112.00 each

• Sec 121, Row 7 Verified Resale Ticket $1,112.00 each

• Sec 102, Row 16 Verified Resale Ticket $1,104.00 each

• Sec 121, Row 9 Verified Resale Ticket $1,100.00 each

• Sec 105, Row 2 Verified Resale Ticket $1,100.00 each

• Sec 111, Row 26 Verified Resale Ticket $1,000.00 each

• Sec 108, Row 6 Verified Resale Ticket $1,000.00 each

• Sec 114, Row 23 Verified Resale Ticket $1,000.00 each

• Sec 108, Row 5 Verified Resale Ticket $1,000.00 each

• Sec 103, Row 18 Verified Resale Ticket $1,000.00 each

The Suns (64-18) open postseason play Sunday as the top overall seed. They will face the eighth seed that emerges out of the play-in tournament that ends Friday.

Phoenix has had 26 consecutive sellouts at Footprint Center, the longest regular season sellout streak for the franchise since 134 straight from 2006-09.

Phoenix Suns playoff primer: What you need to know

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Have opinion about current state of the Suns? Reach Suns Insider Duane Rankin at dmrankin@gannett.com or contact him at 480-787-1240. Follow him on Twitter at @DuaneRankin.

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This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: Big bucks needed to land Suns playoff tickets on resale market