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Dude!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They are screwing with the man......
It's possible.
Just a quick intro - I've read these boards for a while as a guest but never have contributed. I figured y'all would have more info on this than I would. Also, if this is in the wrong location, please let me know.
I am a season ticket holder and the individual games for the regular season went on sale today for us. First thing I noticed right off that bat is that ticket prices are different depending on the game. For example, the opener with Portland, along with the Dallas and Phoenix games are much higher than normal. Houston tickets were slightly higher than normal, and the lesser teams were the normal price. I only looked at 6 or 7 games just to see if there were different prices.
Have the Spurs done this before and I've just never noticed it? Are they doing this only to the season ticket holders for the presale and then will have normal prices for everyone once tickets open up to the public (assuming tickets for the opener, Dallas, etc are available)?
Dude!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They are screwing with the man......
It's possible.
I think the Portland games just went to normal price.
Call your rep
It is something new that they're doing. It's the supply and demand story. The've upped the price on the more marquee games.
Did they make some kind of announcement about that?
I just think people are shocked and are reacting like a deer in headlights.
I can understand supply and demand.
After all, they are the defending Champs.
And boy do I wish I was there to pay those higher prices!
I understand it, but I don't think most franchises do it. And I was curious if season ticket holders and the public in general was informed through a press release or something. I have never seen it.
I've never been a season ticket holder to an NBA team, but when I was doing lots of Sonics games I know those prices went up every year and different games varied on price. (For the same seats.)
I assumed all teams did it, but I guess I'm wrong.
Ticket prices go up every year. But for most NBA teams a $45.75 ticket (for example) is the same price vs the Cavs as vs the Hawks.
For example look at this - http://www.nba.com/media/spurs/seatingmap_0708.pdf It says "Tiered ticket pricing will be in effect for select games" at the bottom. That's how they announced it, I guess.
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Sonics varied by team. Elite teams cost more.
I guess they "tiered"!
Another summer- another bad PR move with ticket holders.For example look at this - http://www.nba.com/media/spurs/seatingmap_0708.pdf It says "Tiered ticket pricing will be in effect for select games" at the bottom. That's how they announced it, I guess.
On the premise of supply & demand some games should be cheap-- I don't think they lowered the prices for those games.
Sonics are the only team that I have heard of doing this. No team in the NFL or MLB does it that I have heard of, but it has been a while since I lived in an NFL/MLB city.
This is a pretty pathetic move by the Spurs to make without making some sort of announcement. You don't just change how you sell tickets without explaining it.
I'm sure they just want to avoid any public outcry but they should deal with any public outcry instead of confusing their ticket buying fan base.
Damn, going to Spurs vs Mavs games for $9 was fun. this .
I told you motha as .
Outside of what Kori found on the seating chart (and I never noticed that when picking my seats), there was no announcement to my knowledge. $26 seats are selling for $40 and $33 seats are selling for $60 for the big games... at least that's what I see in the season ticket presale. The medium price increase (i.e. Houston) is like $5-8 more per seat than the normal price. It kinda looks to me that a good amount of the games are going to be sold out via ticketmaster before going on sale to the public or you'll be paying ~$30-40 per to sit in row 19+ in the 200's.
I guess it's even more of an incentive for season tickets - I hope the same pricing won't carry over to season tickets in the future too. I guess this maybe ups the resale value too for brokers...???
If it is intended as a means to encourage people to buy season tickets- that is, if you buy the season ticket then you still get the regular price for all games, then it seems like they would be telling people of the policy. But, instead, they figure that a lot of people only go to the big games and won't even know.
My question is..........
WTF is considered a big game in the regular season? Did someone consult Pop on how important a regular season game is against Dallas or Phoenix?
WTF? They sell out every ing game. This is just another way to screw you dip s that starve your children so you can pay Matt Bonner 3 got dam million dollars.
I called this years ago. I even told the Spurs sales dept.. Next thing you know you're going to be charging me more to see Kobe/Shaq, etc.
The Spurs have a few superiority years left. When Duncan leaves/retires, this team is going to struggle both compe ively and financially.... They might as well bleed you mofos now while they got the chance.........
I don't think it's so much to encourage season tickets from their point of view - I think you're right on the head where most people won't notice. With that said, it's still an incentive to the spurs fan to get season tickets when all of a sudden you're getting some tickets at "half-price" if you go to enough games regularly. I don't know if anyone would really buy that many tickets individually to technically make it financially worth it... but I think the general point is there.
The Chicago White Sox tier their prices based on the opponent and day of the game. To my knowledge they increase the prices for the Yankees, Cubs and weekend games.
Another fan friendly marketing inovation brought to you by Jerry Reinsdorf.
*edit to add link*
http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/cws/...rk_seating.jsp
I guess they figure, "get it while we can."
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