Tom had an idea:
I wish they had a “you pick what games work for you packâ€. Kind of like the premium picks pack, but for 15 games in the promenade. Do it before the promotional schedule is released. And you can pick who you want to see and that’ll decide what it costs. Why don’t you just buy 15 random games you ask? To make it a package you stipulate that in order to go to Opening day or the subway series, you buy 15 games, but at least you can make it work for you, instead of being told what games you’re going to.
Tom, I get what you are saying, and in the Utopian World it might work, but the Mets are a BUSINESS (not yelling at you, yelling at everyone who forgets that this isn’t 9 kids out to hit a ball with a stick) – it’s a business that wants to make money.
Let’s look at my Saturday Plus plan. Â Do you think the Mets think, “Wow, Shannon would really love to come on Thursday night!” Â Nope. Â I imagine someone thought, “Ugh, Thursday night against the Tigers. Â We won’t draw well that night.” Â So that game made the plan. Â Or so my imagination thinks.
Under your plan we could all decide to go to Opening Day, some Saturdays, maybe three agianst the Phillies, screw all those April games and screw those late September games.
That really wouldn’t help the Mets.
Of course, not buying a 15 game pack at all doesn’t help the Mets either.
The contrast to this is people will complain that you have to buy 15 games to get a chance at Opening Day or the subway series. And some games will still be more popular, so it doesn’t help them sell the least popular games. Maybe if they blocked it off..”Select 5 from [least popular games”, select 5 otherwise..
How about at least 2 from each month (Apr/Oct count as a month)with a restriction of one game per series
maybe. Programmatically that seems a little tougher to program into the ticket selection site. (And presumably this means paying the third party taht develops it. hmm..I wonder who it is..wouldn’t mind working for them..) might work though, although it still wouldn’t sell teh Nationals over the Giants and Phillies if that was the option for the month.
Maybe if they just priced seats reasonably for games that people don’t want to go to ($5 select Yankees regular season games), they would actually sell some seats.
Novel idea there…low demand, lower prices = increased attendance, increased parking and increased concessions. I’m not economics major, but then again I don’t think anyone else there is either, especially seeing as how they lost all their money to Madoff.
Ceetar, there is nothing difficult about programming something like that. Any college comp sci guy could do it.
I’m aware that _I_ could program it. But it doesn’t appear to currently exist within the current version.
They do have lower demand, lower prices. they’ve got five tiers of pricing and really aren’t doing badly with it. Those Yankees tickets are only a couple of bucks off, and they’re horrible seats, and only the one section. It’s not like they’re discounting good seats.
Yea. I was trying to make a point that if you wanted to go to all 9 Phillies games, Opening Day or a Yankee game, and the Dodgers and Braves, you’d be paying for it based on the staggered pricing. Some people may take all the Nats games, Pirates games and Astros games as opposed ot the others because they are cheaper and the Mets are more likely to win those games. I understand the business aspect of it. But it could work either way depending on the person that is buying the package. That is why I only bought a 6 pack this year and am buying my tickets for induvidual games when it works. Formerdirtdart has a good idea. I think that could work for many people.
They do use the system of lower demand and lower prices, but their prices are still out of whack with reality. Why do you think the Ducks do well? Or the cyclones? It’s because their prices are reasonable across the board. People aren’t going to pay $12 + 50% more in fees to go see the Marlins in April. Blow the place out for 5 bucks upper level, 10 bucks lower level and reap the home field advantage profit from the concessions.
do the Ducks still have free parking? I always thought that was cool. Ducks games are a GREAT time.
When did the ducks have free parking? I seem to remember paying (haven’t been there since the first couple of years)
I imagine if you get there early enough on a weekday however, given that you’re basically parking at the courthouses.
Yes they do…at least last year they did. And the SI Yankees have unlimited food plans that are well worth the price of admission.