I continue to think the Mets don’t think everything through.
Now that the 6 packs are out, one of them includes the Hall of Fame Game. Â That seems nice, right? Â A Nice Sunday afternoon at the park with some old greats.
However, as I previously discussed, the Hall of Fame game is not part of the Sunday Plus pack. Sure it’s part of the Weekend Plus pack, but if I give the Mets money for 15 games (and let’s all be real, anyone buying that pack wants it for the Sunday games and will just live with the rest) and then they put a cool event on a game I don’t have I get mad. Â Now they go and bundle the game with 5 others. Â It’s no longer as easy as “shut up and buy one more game.” Â You may need to now have, in-effect, a 21 game pack.
That’s the sort of thing that makes people like me throw up their hands and decide to buy no tickets. Â Why give the Mets money for 15 games when they could gouge you for 21 just to see the coolest day of the year. Â The smart guys are the guys that waited for the Mets to blink and now are buying 6 packs. Â The smarter guys are the one’s who will just buy day-of or use Stubhub.
This is the kind of thing I don’t think they think through. Â Maybe they do, maybe they run some numbers and figure most Sunday Plus holders are fools and will come back no matter how poorly they are treated. Â This is the New York Mets, in Citi Field where the Shakes are great! Â Fans would never walk away in droves! Â What else can we bundle? Â The short-term balance sheet looks great! Â We just need to win before they catch on. Maybe that’s the mentality. Â Oh yeah. I forgot my own rule: everyone remember, it’s a business.
It’s a business. That’s why.
They released the 15 game pack without it so that they could have more tickets available for that games so they could sell more.
When the appeal of the packs weren’t great, sales didn’t pick up, they realized they should go with the 6-pack option. They chose that game as a big draw (suggesting they _do_ know how much we want to celebrate the team’s history btw) and packaged it as the hub of a pack.
It sucks, but I do think they thought about it. a lot.
If you noticed the ticket packages are only for the promenade reserved. I upgraded my tickets for the sunday plus plan and moved down a level to the promenade box. I wrote the mets an email about how disappointed I am in the fact I don’t have the hall of fame day game. Would I have bought the 6 game package just for the hall of fame game? Nope. Due to my work schedule I can not go to the weekday games and it would be a bigger waste to me if I bought any of the 6 game packs. But I am going to keep contacting the Mets ticket office as much as possible to be that “annoying” customer that they get tired of hearing from.
Ok, so I’m one of the suckers. I’m sorry… I just am. If you remember, I was called a bad fan and even told I wasn’t wanted in the building. Well, sure I’m frustrated/angry like the rest of us, but at the end of the day, I’m a fan and I like to go to games, especially Opening Day. So as the season creeps in, my friends and I were already discussing if we were going to Opening Day and have our annual tailgate. I mean, its a day of re-birth. Everyone is 0-0. Its a day to talk Mets from 8am till 5pm with other diehard Mets fans, over a few “red cups” in the parking lot.
So, now its decision time…do I pay minimally $75 for an opening day ticket from a scalper, where it is hard to get 6-10 tickets together, or do we pay the extra $50, get a guarantee to be in the building and then have 5 other games at essentially $10/game? Well, one is a Phillies game, plus 2 more Fri games (I usually get a Fri pack). So really I might be eating one random inter-league game vs the Tigers. Not so bad. Sure my seats are the worst area of the building, but you know what, if the team is good, then we’ll make the area fun and if the team is bad, the place is going to be empty so I can alway move down. At the end of the day, I’m a fan (as disgraceful as they may be and as hard as it feels they try to push us away). I’m all for the Blue Cap Army up in the LF Promenade, so count me +5 in.
Pitchers & Catchers in 14 days…so LETS GO METS!!!
I’m considering the 6 game opener pack as I want to be there for the Blue Cap Army meet up. Alternately, I might just try my luck on the single game lottery for tickets for opening day (as they usually have) or stub hub. Right now the cheapest tickets for opening day on Stub Hub are over a hundred bucks, but I’m wondering if that might come down as the game nears. Thoughts?
Yes, I am one of the suckers who bought the 15-game Weekday plan. But hey, I’m guaranteed one game per playoff series! Uh, wait a second….PLAYOFFS?!? Who am I kidding.
Hey, I don’t even think we were going to see six packs if the sales for the 15 ticket plans had been better.
I still think I’m better off watching StubHub and picking the games I want to go to rather than letting the Mets force me into ones I don’t want. Maybe if they offered a discount or some sort of benefits for buying a plan…