As with all things Mets Police don’t take this as gospel and I leave it to you to decide if you find the site reliable.
The Mets have assigned specific ticket reps to 15 game plan holders and those folks have been phoning existing customers to pick their brain about their seats. So if you have a plan now you have “a guy.” This I know first-hand.
As you may know, I am not a fan of the Plus part of the Saturday Plus plan…. tonight is a “Saturday” and I’m not using my tickets yet again (Mets Police Mom will go).
I’m hearing from a few sources that they are considering going back to the types of plans they had at Shea. I’m not quite sure what that means, but one scenario being discussed is one where the “plus” games come from a “choose your own” menu for the non-Saturday games. Better, but not what I want.
So let’s look at the scenarios
1. Same as now
2. “Saturday” means the 13 Saturdays and nothing else. That’s optimal to me. The argument against seems to be “what about the poor guy with the same seats who is in the weekend plan.” I’m confident with some minor moving we can all fit in Citi Field. When I go on Saturday the entire row behind me is empty. I’ll move up a row and Mr. Weekend Plan can have our present row. Let’s not act like Citi Field is filled.
3. The 10/5 choose your own plan. I could even live with a 13/2 if the 13 were the scenario laid out above.
4. Thing I am not thinking of.
What ideas do you guys have?
It would be nice if “Saturday” and “Sunday” plans offered exactly that. I suspect ticket sales will be low enough to transition any current “weekend” plan holders that want to renew without much difficulty.
Ticket plan creation/pricing is a very very well-developed branch of sports industry management. If the Wilpons are so stupid as to need a fumbling learning-on-the-job fan outreach program, things are far worse in the front office than we’ve been led to believe.
The Saturday plus plan is the reason I didn’t get a set plan and went with a six pack this season. If it had been Saturdays and not “Saturdays,” I certainly would have signed up.
Why would you buy a ticket plan like that when you know they are not going to draw again next year?
Why would you pay market value when you know you can get the tickets for 1/2 price?
Are they going to reduce prices next year?
The half-price ticket theory relies on season ticket buyers wanting to dump their inventory. No season ticket buyers, no cheap seats on StubHub.