I just went to Spurs.com and typed in 10 tickets for the of it and i could get them if i wanted too. Come on guys in SA i live in NY i can't go but this is the playoffs how the can you guys in SA not be killing eachother for tickets.
That said, the Spurs should have saved face and given away the final 500 tickets. The negative national publicity only adds fuel to the fire. We'll hear how there's no way in Phoenix would have had tickets left over for that game ... and that's probably accurate.
The Spurs have fudged their numbers before, they should have done it again. Even the most spoiled of Spurs fan will eventually inquire about tickets.
We are all at Whataburger.
But now they've shamed spurfans into buying them.
Dude, ploto is a better fan than us and she doesnt' even like the Spurs!
You tell me is there not a buzz around town for the team. Are fans just not that keen on them anymore because they are used to winning.
I blame how they release the tickets.
On Saturday, I looked for a pair of tickets for Game 2 in the upper level. It showed they were sold out. Now if I go look, there are tons of tickets available.
So I guess that a lot of people might look once and see them as sold out and then not keep checking back for the Spurs to release more tickets.
I got about halfway through this thread before I got tired of reading the responses putting this on Spurs fans.
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This is entirely on the Spurs themselves. Ticketmaster wasn't allowing you to purchase tickets. There was no communication to the public that there were tickets available. The Spurs could have sold those seats to a corporate sponsor at any point simply to get rid of them. The Spurs could have donated them to charity, gotten a tax write off, and gotten rid of the seats.
This has nothing to do with whether or not the Spurs fans deserve but whether or not the Spurs organization does a good job marketing themselves, communicating with the public and selling their tickets. If the Spurs want to sell their damn tickets they need to hire some new people who actually get the job done, IMO. Waiting for the product to sell itself isn't going to get the job done.
I'm not too sure if we deserve it. I'm beginning to think that if we got out of the playoffs before the Finals, and in the next coming years, it wouldn't be too bad of a thing. If you go to the games, stay the whole time and cheer your ass off. If you have tickets, be there on time, it's not that hard. There are a lot of people that can't afford to go or never even get the opportunity and we have spoiled, rich, non-enthusiastic season ticket holders going to the games. Yesterday's crowd was pathetic. It was so ing quiet. Here's a news flash: It's the WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS. Appreciate it, dammit. One of the reasons we haven't been as sharp at home is because the crowd has grown increasingly quieter than normal for the playoffs. It sucks.
will never happen
Just imagine when the Spurs start losing again.
That's what I'm saying. It was showing that there were no pairs of upper level seats for Game 2. And now it's showing that there are tons and tons of tickets.
If I'm average Joe fan and I look once and it shows they are gone - then I'm not going to check over and over again.
So what changed between '99 and '07? In '99 you couldn't find a ticket at any point unless you had season tickets, camped out or were willing to pay 2+ times face value. Even in '03 all tickets were sold out within seconds no matter when they were released.
Did I miss a marketing campaign that suddenly ended between then and now?
It because we built a Meadowlands for the Spurs instead of another Hemisfair.
It was alot easier to get drunk before games downtown and stay drunk afterwards.
Do they ever take out big ADS in the papers in the days before the playoff games thay they have tickets available and how to get them?
What changed? This isn't hte first le run. The first le run will sell itself and thats pretty damn obvious. Its new. But things lose luster, even winning NBA les. The entire city is not made up of people who read Spurstalk and care about the Spurs as much as we do. Its just not.
And another thing, in 99 you actually COULD camp out to get tickets. It wasn't about a lucky HTTP connection at the right time. Now you either get lucky calling or you get lucky online but you can't camp out. That have ended up being a decision in the long run.
Exactly. Ticketmaster ing sucks for like that. How many times in the past have we heard the game is sold out simply for someone to say they got tickets a halfhour before Game one of the finals 30 minutes before tipoff?
They up and then they want to complain that it doesn't sell?
I tell you what, sell tickets nowhere else but at the SBC center and I promise you that will sell out and we'll have lines of people waiting for them before hand. IT GENERATES HYPE.
If the Spurs get to the finals and this is a problem i am going to go NUTS seriously, what more do you want this team is going for their 4th le in 9 years.
, my buddy Penis Monroe works for the spurs marketing. I blame it on him. bas ....
Short answer: Yes.Do Spurs Fans Deserve A Championship?
Or, let the fact you didn't sell out into the media. Plenty of hype this afternoon about that.I tell you what, sell tickets nowhere else but at the SBC center and I promise you that will sell out and we'll have lines of people waiting for them before hand. IT GENERATES HYPE.
Exactly. That's what I'm sayin'.
No marketing plan is going to get Spurs fans out there to the game. It's not like going deep into the playoffs is a new phenomenon for this town.
It's tough for me to buy an argument that revolves around something other than Spurs fans don't care as much as they used to (or should?) care.
Usually the day before the game, the Spurs release a notice to the media saying that there's X number of tickets left.
I didn't see that for Sunday's game (I'm not saying for sure they didn't announce it to the media but I didn't see it). I'm guessing since the tickets just went on sale on Saturday at noon, that was a big part of the problem. (In addition to TicketMaster showing no upper level seats were available)
Did tickets go real fast for game 6 with the Suns?
When the opposing team's fans are within driving distance for the game, they'll pick up the extra tickets. Not many folks are going to drive the extra 20 miles from Salt Lake City.
I don't know about that, but the marketing plan that involves the tickets you're trying to sell to be purchaseable is probably a good start.
sure, some of it's loss of luster, but i think the spurs are pricing a lot of fans out of the market, yes, even when it's the western conference finals. add to that a short turnaround and terrible communication and you had a non-sell out yesterday. back in '99 a family of 4 with household income of $35K could go to a game for a fairly inexpensive price. nowadays it costs a lot more at holt center, in part because you only have 18k seats and not the 35k you had in the dome.
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