Jan. 28 (Bloomberg) -- The price of tickets to see the Indianapolis Colts play the New Orleans Saints at the National Football League’s Super Bowl are up about 5 percent from last year at the largest online ticket reseller, and may fall.

The average price of a ticket to the Feb. 7 game in Miami is $2,728 at EBay Inc.’s StubHub, up from an average of $2,594 at this time last year, before the Pittsburgh Steelers beat Arizona Cardinals in Tampa, Florida, according to Joellen Ferrer, a company spokeswoman.

“Right now, the average price is slightly higher,” she said. “But there’s still quite a bit of inventory available throughout the secondary market in general, so we expect it to settle in the next week.”

Face value for Super Bowl tickets ranges from $500 to $1,000. Some 85 percent of the seats are in the $800-$900 range.

The average secondary price is down about 32 percent from a high of $4,004 in February 2007, when the Colts beat the Chicago Bears in the NFL’s title game, she said. That game also was held in what is now 76,500-seat Sun Life Stadium in south Florida.

The most expensive ticket sold so far cost $8,300 for a spot for a front-row 50-yard-line seat along the Saints’ sideline. The cheapest cost $1,500 and were located in the upper level of an end zone.

The average sale price at Razorgator Inc.’s online market is $2,790, about the same as last year, according to Jean Nickerson, a company spokeswoman. That’s down from an average of about $3,900 in 2008.