Selling Playoff Tickets--A Proposal (4 Viewers)

[RJ in Lafayette]

I read the 2016 thread. There were seats available to those season-ticket holders with the greatest seniority who were picking early. I had season tickets for perhaps 15 years before the Saints hired Ditka as head coach; I did not renew in protest over how poorly I though the organization was being run. I became a season-ticket holder again in 2001. But because I gave up my tickets for four years or so, I went to the bottom of the list in season-ticket holder seniority.

I have had loge corner tickets. Good seats. But I relocated some time ago to the end zone upper box (row one) because of value and the view. I would consider--consider because I really like my current seats--upper box sideline and loge corner and end zone seating depending on the number of tickets available because I am trying to increase the number of tickets I buy. But those seats are usually not an option when it is my turn to buy extra season tickets, and they surely will not be available this time when it is time to renew.

The pricing of season tickets is skewed. The plaza bunker club seats are, in my view, grossly overpriced, and I have sat in bunker club seats as a guest. The upper box and terrace seats are overall underpriced.

The critical comments in response to my original post have caused me to reconsider and sharpen my original comments. I am keenly aware that the New Orleans market does not allow the Saints to adopt the policies adopted by Denver and that those buying tickets that I consider overpriced might need some flexibility with the resale of tickets during the regular season. And I fully understand those who buy several season tickets for family and friends who may decide on two or so occasions during the season to sell their tickets.

But I remain critical of those who buy season tickets like brokers, especially in large blocks, for the purpose of selling them for a profit; and do favor a statement with the sale of playoff tickets that those tickets should be used by the ticket holders, family, friends and co-workers, and not for resale for profit on the secondary-ticket market.

 

[hornets440]

My preseason tickets cost more than your entire season. And with very rare exception, I cannot even sell my extra regular season tickets for face value, especially after fees. Then, when they tried “flex pricing,” the Falcons game was $500 a ticket so that the preseason could be $150 a ticket, which I still could not get anyone to pay.

The average season ticket holder who resells his seats for big games above face value is not exactly buying a house with the “profits.” They pretty much cover the next year’s preseason games.

Your arguments are invalid. If you want tickets, pay what they cost on the market. If you want the privileges of being a club season ticket holder, you have to eat a significant amount of money no matter how good the team is. The market works. If you don’t want to pay for and attend a 10-game yearly home schedule, don’t go. But don’t cry foul when big games and playoff tickets are “way above face value.”

The real problem is that the team has not raised the prices in non-club areas to appropriate levels. If they raised the prices there like they have in the club areas, the profit margins for resale would disappear. But I’m pretty sure you would be upset about that. You don’t get to have it both ways.

 

[Tpstr]

Very cool, thanks for clarifying Saint Greg, I do not remember being notified of it in 2009.

My seat neighbor was selected for Miami in 2009. I can vouch you do have a chance, however small. We both have had our tickets since the 80’s.

 

[ArchiesGhost]

Threads like this, disturbing as they are, truly capture the tenor of the times in which we live . The appeal to fairness and the public good is nothing more than an attempt to create one's preferred outcome at the expense of others' freedoms. If the result of free will and unregulated commerce for all prove unpalatable to a few, an emotional appeal to strip or deny rights or freedoms soon follows. IMO, rather than call for the rights of others to be restricted, the OP, and those who share his or her views on this subject, should work to accept outcomes that don't please them. It would certainly be more efficient.

Awesome post!

 

[Saint Greg]

I read the 2016 thread. There were seats available to those season-ticket holders with the greatest seniority who were picking early. I had season tickets for perhaps 15 years before the Saints hired Ditka as head coach; I did not renew in protest over how poorly I though the organization was being run. I became a season-ticket holder again in 2001. But because I gave up my tickets for four years or so, I went to the bottom of the list in season-ticket holder seniority.

I have had loge corner tickets. Good seats. But I relocated some time ago to the end zone upper box (row one) because of value and the view. I would consider--consider because I really like my current seats--upper box sideline and loge corner and end zone seating depending on the number of tickets available because I am trying to increase the number of tickets I buy. But those seats are usually not an option when it is my turn to buy extra season tickets, and they surely will not be available this time when it is time to renew.

The pricing of season tickets is skewed. The plaza bunker club seats are, in my view, grossly overpriced, and I have sat in bunker club seats as a guest. The upper box and terrace seats are overall underpriced.

The critical comments in response to my original post have caused me to reconsider and sharpen my original comments. I am keenly aware that the New Orleans market does not allow the Saints to adopt the policies adopted by Denver and that those buying tickets that I consider overpriced might need some flexibility with the resale of tickets during the regular season. And I fully understand those who buy several season tickets for family and friends who may decide on two or so occasions during the season to sell their tickets.

But I remain critical of those who buy season tickets like brokers, especially in large blocks, for the purpose of selling them for a profit; and do favor a statement with the sale of playoff tickets that those tickets should be used by the ticket holders, family, friends and co-workers, and not for resale for profit on the secondary-ticket market.

Well I've been a season ticket holder since 2006 and I've had opportunities to buy those seats so I'm sure you have as well. I added some loge seats a few years ago and released them last year since the people I bought them for weren't using them.

 

[Saint Greg]

I read the 2016 thread. There were seats available to those season-ticket holders with the greatest seniority who were picking early. I had season tickets for perhaps 15 years before the Saints hired Ditka as head coach; I did not renew in protest over how poorly I though the organization was being run. I became a season-ticket holder again in 2001. But because I gave up my tickets for four years or so, I went to the bottom of the list in season-ticket holder seniority.

I have had loge corner tickets. Good seats. But I relocated some time ago to the end zone upper box (row one) because of value and the view. I would consider--consider because I really like my current seats--upper box sideline and loge corner and end zone seating depending on the number of tickets available because I am trying to increase the number of tickets I buy. But those seats are usually not an option when it is my turn to buy extra season tickets, and they surely will not be available this time when it is time to renew.

The pricing of season tickets is skewed. The plaza bunker club seats are, in my view, grossly overpriced, and I have sat in bunker club seats as a guest. The upper box and terrace seats are overall underpriced.

The critical comments in response to my original post have caused me to reconsider and sharpen my original comments. I am keenly aware that the New Orleans market does not allow the Saints to adopt the policies adopted by Denver and that those buying tickets that I consider overpriced might need some flexibility with the resale of tickets during the regular season. And I fully understand those who buy several season tickets for family and friends who may decide on two or so occasions during the season to sell their tickets.

But I remain critical of those who buy season tickets like brokers, especially in large blocks, for the purpose of selling them for a profit; and do favor a statement with the sale of playoff tickets that those tickets should be used by the ticket holders, family, friends and co-workers, and not for resale for profit on the secondary-ticket market.

I'll also suggest this...If you look for seats when you select a seat time is up, don't leave and not come back if the seats you want aren't available. Keep checking back because If I'm after you and I relocate my seats, I just opened up loge seats for you.

 

[duhonmark551]

New Orleans has a reputation as a nice place for visitors to take a warm weather vacation while the snow piles up in the north. Saints fans are the best at welcoming opposing teams and their fans. The tourist dollars brought in is enormous to the citizens of the state and city. The tourists stay longer if they are warmly encouraged to come, whether or not the Saints are top notch or basement dwellers. The Saints ticket holders who are looking for a profitable sale will be giving out of town guests the ability tonot only get tickets but book their flights, restaurants, hotels and excursions.

NO is a tourist destination city. If we have a problem with visitors coming to the dome to cheer for their team, but only allowed to loiter on Poydras Street, it doesn't exemplify the gracious NO traditions and our team spirit.

Edit I think places like Buffalo, SF, and Philly where the fans are jerks to the limited amount of brave or foolish opposing fans that show up there are shameful to their team, their city, and the league. That is not what we want to become in NO.

 

[Swimmer]

Where were all the “die-hard” fans in 2005/2006 when they could have purchased a season ticket for as little as $125? You weren’t griping about ticket prices in 2014, 2015, and 2016 and you won’t be griping about the price of preseason tickets next year, because only the season ticket suckers will pay face value for them.

About 100 of us, regulars at Shoal Creek in Austin for Saints games, got a block of the San Antonio season tickets. The hospitality of the locals was wonderful. Most of our fellow tailgaters were Cowgirl fans, most Mexican and hysterically most were watching soccer games on their TVs. And they welcomed us like we were all homeless family members.

I wonder if we could have bought season tickets for 2006 through our purchase