This is not my best writing, choppier than usual, but it has been a busy week and I didn’t want to leave this topic hanging.
On Wednesday,as part of my travels in Flushing I got to meet Leigh Castergine the VP of ticket sales and services for the Mets. Leigh was quite nice and answered some questions about 15 game plans.
Making this about me – I like “my” seats. They are right behind home (in the uppers) and the sight-lines are awesome. I’d like to keep them heading forward.
Can I keep them as part of a 15 game plan? Most likely. At worst, almost always.
Here’s how it works. The full season ticket holders get first choice. Makes sense to me.
Then the 20 game holders get to pick. Makes sense to me.
So then when it gets to the 15s…factor in that I am pulling random dates not just one particular day of the week.
If they’re available (and they likely will be, after all I am mainly asking for Saturday and the guy sitting there last year was me) then I’ll get them. If I try to move down maybe it becomes more complicated since the seats will be more in demand.
So in that way it’s a trade-off. I am no longer saddled with games I didn’t want…but maybe I have to move a few seats or rows sometimes.
Make sense? Made sense to me.
Yesterday (back in real-me mode not blogger mode) I spoke with my ticket rep who was quite cool on the phone. I took a quick look at my 2012 schedule, and given that I have a lot of travel coming up the flex plan actually works better for me than all-Saturday might have. I dropped the Saturdays where I will be out of town and threw in some value weekday games to keep my costs down. Those $40 Saturdays in the summer add up, so throwing in some $20’s got me back around what I spent last year.
Hopefully it will work out for me with “my” seats and I’ll keep you posted how that shakes out.
One important takeaway is that the Ticket Sales team is very responsive to fans. Even in non-blogger mode I have always gotten a really quick response, and I know Media Goon always says the same.
This is really good to hear that the Mets are finally on a roll being responsive and doing things right. Maybe the culture of the front office is starting to turn around.
Now if they could just carry this a little Rutherford and improve the product on the field…
It’s pretty easy to be responsive when noone is calling to get tickets. Hell, the fact they’re getting calls is probably thrilling to the sales reps.