Posted on by Shannon Shark @metspolice

Are these Mets ticket fees excessive in your opinion? (updated)

This is an update to a post from earlier.  The comments section made me begin to doubt myself….

After yesterday’s discussions, I was sent a copy of an actual Mets ticket invoice.   I understand that the Mets do not put a gun to our heads to make us buy tickets.

I’m just going to post some information to go along with the question I framed in the headline.

  • Two tickets to opening day:  $70
  • Two tickets to the Hall of Fame game:  $69  Correction.  It is three $23 tickets not two.
  • Ticket Charges:  $139
  • Non-refundable Per Order Service Charge: $115
  • Non-refundable per Ticket Service Charge: $30
  • Total Charges: $284

That’s $145 worth of fees on $139 worth of tickets.

Updated:  click on the post title if the image is not displaying below.   Am I missing something?



31 Replies to “Are these Mets ticket fees excessive in your opinion? (updated)”

  2. Where are these fees coming from. I just looked at my invoice from opening day. Same level tickets $70 for 2 tickets and my invoice came to $159. $7 dollar per ticket fee that is all.

    BTW your math is way off. it is $278 dollars for the tickets alone. 2 tickets at $70 is $140. 2 tickets at $69 is $138 which equals $278 for the tickets alone

  3. I call major BS on that $115 dollar fee. The breakdown of my opening day tickets are as follows

    2 tickets $70 per = $140
    $7 fee per ticket = $14
    $5 order charge = $5

    My entire order was $159

    $19 dollars in total fees.

  4. That seems way off.

    I got 3 Prom Reserved Infield seats for Opening Day. Ticket Price: 35.00 each / 105.00 total. 6 dollar fee per ticket, for a total of 18 dollars.

    I also got 2 Prom Reserved Infield seats for HOF Game. Ticket Price: 30.00 each / 60 total. 6 dollar fee per ticket, for a total of 12 dollars.

    Then there was an order charge of 5 dollars total.

    So total ticket price for both games: 165.00

    Total Fees: 35.00

    It’s still way too much in fees, but like you said, I chose to pay them because I want to see these two games a whole lot.

    1. it does seem off…i looked up my own email. I have two $35ers for the opener..the total price was $87. ($6 fee on each ticket) plus a $5 order fee.

      Let me sniff around some more.

  5. i think Shannon is off too, but I think he meant 2 tickets for a total of 70 dollars and 2 tickets for a total of 69 dollars…not 2 tickets times 70 bucks…

  6. do the mets have price points similar to $34.50 for a ticket? If so color me surprised because I don’t think I have ever seen a ticket for anything but an exact dollar amount.

  7. Yeah. there is no way that can be right.

    $5 order charge is what most of these are, probably $8 a ticket fee on the Plat game, $7 on the gold, for $30 in per ticket fees, so $35. Which is only like..22% or so percent, or only slightly more than you’d pay to tip a waitress on that same amount for dinner.

  9. Ceetar,

    All these “fans” who seem to hate the Mets and complain about everything probably aren’t 22% tippers

  10. @bpalm..i looked up the prices before i commented too…i have no idea where the 69 dollar ones came from i was trying to point out that it wasn’t for 2 tickets at 70 dollars. I know shannon pretty well and he is an uppers guy. thats how i came to the conclusion of the 2 tickets totalling 70 bucks..and not 70 a piece..

  12. i hate to continue to not believe this but i just looked at my invoice and mine looks absolutely nothing like that…is this an invoice you have in your hand or something someone e-mailed to you? It looks nothing like any invoice from the Mets I have seen and really looks very very generic as if it was done in Word

    1. I also have a pic of the complete invoice. I try to respect people’s privacy, if you’ve emailed me on the site you’ll notice I usually email you back to say “can I post this?” – it’s a real invoice. I’m buying into the “there’s an mistake on the invoice that doesn’t match the actual” charge theory – we’ll see where that goes.

      Also please note the article is titled “Are these Mets ticket fees excessive in your opinion?” I think we’ve all settled in on YES, those fees would be excessive.

  13. the bottom of my invoice looks like that.I just got home from work and checked it out…look below the box bpalm…i just sent a pic of my invoice to shannon..he sucks at taking pics…

  14. it just looks so generic…i guess i am just finding this fee so hard to believe that I am not looking at the picture with an open mind

  15. I will say I looked at Bon Jovi tickets in Philly today. $30 for 2 tickets….$20 in fees…absurd.

    1. My issue with “fees” is that they there disingenuous. It would be like the Mets selling two dollar soda, but you have to have served in a cup which is a dollar, plus the service tax of pouring you a soda which is 50 cents. Then you could defend “well it’s common to pass along the cost of the service to the consumer, and it’s common for all teams to mark up the cups” – just tell me how much the thing costs.

  16. There is just no way. It makes no sense, and isn’t supported through anybody else posted info or website anywhere.

    Let’s see the entire invoice. Something’s being left out.

  17. i think its a misprint on the invoice….my fees aren’t like that either. sometimes computers make mistakes…I think he needs to take a look at his credit card statement…maybe even call the mets up and check it out..or maybe they found out he runs metspolice and are messing with him(that was a joke)

  18. Holy cow! its obvious that this person has a ticket plan because thats where that type of per order fee comes from.. i am a plan holder myself. whoever this invoice belongs to has absolutely no common sense..

  19. Either its a mistake/glitch, total BS, or like Josh said a plan (and even the fees on a plan aren’t that high).

    Shannon, instead of posting this nonsense, why didn’t you take 2 minutes to investigate? I just did.

    The cheapest seats I can find for sale on Mets.com for Opening Day are Caesars Silver at $168.00 face + $10 each in fees.

    For Aug 1 HOF Day, I pulled the same $23.00 Promenade Reserved tickets, they have $6.00 fees.

    So the total ticket fees on this order (with 2 higher priced tickets on Opening Day) would be “only” $38.00. I think the $30.00 charge on the printed invoice is comparable to this, if I were able to pull cheaper tix for OD.

    They charge NOTHING for mail delivery and tack on a $5.00 Order charge.

    So no way, no how was this invoice for 5 tickets and if it was, that $155 charge is either for something else or a mistake.

    Next time, instead of a kneejerk Mets rip, how about doing a little research first?

    1. Corey, I did try to match the order but since there were no tickets in that range available I couldn’t do it exactly. I do believe this invoice to be real, I increasingly think it’s a typo on the invoice.

  21. Shannon,
    I have to think someone is yanking your chain.
    Yes, those fees would be excessive, if they were real.
    Pretty sure I could whip-up an invoice showing $137,000.00 worth of service charges, if I was so inclined.

    1. Well sure. And you could photshop a brick wall in front of your seats, and I could run the uniforms through MS Paint and show Tom Seaver wearing a black uniform in the 1969 World Series and so on. Not sure what to say, I’m trying to figure out how to keep responding to comments without ‘all thinking I am hiding, nor do I want to sound defensive. As I wrote to Corey I believe it to be a real invoice, perhaps with a typo or a mistake – all I can do is leave it to you guys to decide if I ave street cred or if I’ve been punked.

  22. Shannon,

    If you checked the prices and found that there were no tickets in that price range, why couldn’t you have posted the fees for the next lowest price range like I did?

    You claim to be a “fan advocate” but how is posting an obvious mistake in anyone’s benefit? I guess it’s much easier to try and make the Mets look bad and then ask questions later

    Something is rotten in Denmark. Either you knowingly posted BS or you failed to investigate what all of us Immediately called out as a mistake or BS.

    1. Honestly, I don’t remember. I came home Thursday night and got some stuff in the mail including the franchise caps and the Maple Street Guide (which is cool and I need to write about) so I jumped online and wrote about the caps and the invoice for Friday posts. After you guys commented, I took a quick look at what you were saying – I dunno around 11am or so – priced the tix quick and then just parked the post. Then I went back to “real job” – I did a quick post when I saw the Noble thing, and added the MSG thing which I had been sitting on – that was “type two sentences and cut and paste” – then I got home and looked at the invoice again and updated the post.

      Not sure what to tell you, call me Castillo. Perhaps my investigation is slipshod but dude I’m not going to make crap up. I’ve spent two years building this thing up so I’m not going to fabricate something. Besides, the way things have gone since the end of 2006 all I have to do is sit back and wait.

      A few weeks ago we were chatting about other blogs and responding to all comments. I’m trying to, but I’m not sure what else I can say on the subject.

  23. Hmm, I have no idea how it gets broken down once it’s printed and mailed, but if you added each ticket individually, and selected the $20 UPS delivery option for each, that’d show up as $100 charge.

  24. I never said you made it up. All I said is that I think you were eagerr to make the Mets look bad, so much so that a simple fact check went out the window.

    Ticketing fees suck and actually the Mets fees are somewhat better than Ticketmaster’s. But did you really think the Mets charged this much in fees?

    Never once did you mention that this could be an error until multiple commentors pointed out that something didn’t seem right.

    I think you are one of a growing number of Mets fans who take as much pleasure in rooting for the team as they do looking for things to complain about.

  25. Burns: And to think, Smithers, you laughed when I bought Ticketmaster. [imitating Smithers] Nobody’s going to pay a hundred-percent “service charge.”
    Smithers: It’s a policy that ensures a healthy mix of the rich and the ignorant, sir.

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