2018 Season Ticket Thread

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Lets have this serve as the thread for all discussion for 2018 season tickets: renewing, seat relocating, etc.

If you log onto your TicketMaster NYCFC AccountManager website, 2018 season ticket invoice is now posted.

Founding Member Pitchside A prices increased by 2.27% or $10/game.

Renewal Website: https://www.nycfc.com/2018-city-membership-auto-renew

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Not sure if im reading that right...looks the same for me for 2018....supporters section
 
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Delta down by $5 per ticket (Founders Price) to $80, almost a 6% decrease. I am not surprised as it is far from full and they want to retain what they have and entice some others to upgrade. Last year's price was $85 per and the total decrease is $170 so it's like I'm getting one game free.

ETA: I made a mistake. My tickets are holding steady not going down. I mistakenly compared the 2017 non-Founders price with the 2018 Founders price. I paid $80 per in 2017 and it's the same in 2018. Still a good outcome for me.
 
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mgarbowski said:
Also, even if you're on the payment plan, you're usually paid up for 2-3 games ahead of what has been played. So you'd never get a refund for all unplayed games, but reasonably close to it. Still quite a nice benefit, as OP suggested.
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Quoting this over from a different thread since it applies. I've always done pay in full but I'm thinking of switching to monthly. However looking at the payment schedule, I'd already have made 6 payments before the season even starts. So id be so far ahead that if for some reason I wasn't able to continue going mid-season, I'm never going to recoup what I've already paid. Am I missing something?
 
I was mistaken before. Section 206, row 13 went up $45 per seat not $150. Still steeper than I expected considering our attendance hasn't exactly been growing.
 
LeeNYCFC said:
Quoting this over from a different thread since it applies. I've always done pay in full but I'm thinking of switching to monthly. However looking at the payment schedule, I'd already have made 6 payments before the season even starts. So id be so far ahead that if for some reason I wasn't able to continue going mid-season, I'm never going to recoup what I've already paid. Am I missing something?
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You're basically right, but when games start the gap grows smaller so you end up prepaid by about 2 months.

So if you cancel a week before the season you've aid for probably 7-9 games, and would have to sell to recoup at least some of what you paid for that, and that number decreases for a few months, then grows again. You're still always better off than prepaying the entire season and getting $0, 0% refund.
 
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I'm in 228/yellow, and it went up $34/ticket for the season ($2/game, so increase of 6.25%). That's a pretty steep increase if we're strictly talking about inflation. I wouldn't say that the team has done anything to improve the experience of watching the team play in YS, so I don't see why the increase is warranted (I look at tickets being directly attributable to stadium experience since salaries should be covered by TV/sponsorship/merch/MLS). Now if CFG is going to start dropping mad transfer fees, maybe I can understand it, but on a down year for attendance, an increase is questionable.
 
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Ulrich said:
I'm in 228/yellow, and it went up $34/ticket for the season ($2/game, so increase of 6.25%). That's a pretty steep increase if we're strictly talking about inflation. I wouldn't say that the team has done anything to improve the experience of watching the team play in YS, so I don't see why the increase is warranted (I look at tickets being directly attributable to stadium experience since salaries should be covered by TV/sponsorship/merch/MLS). Now if CFG is going to start dropping mad transfer fees, maybe I can understand it, but on a down year for attendance, an increase is questionable.
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Especially considering prices in some sections apparently dropped. How did my experience in 206 improve to justify the increase whereas theirs worsened to justify the drop?

Not a happy camper.
 
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Now I need to find the 2015/2016/2017 seat maps for comparison
 
I am right next to you in 205. I have two Founding Member seats, which went up from $32/game to $34, and one add-on seat that went from $35 to $37. My blended cost went up by 6%. A little high, but not awful, and I still think the price is quite reasonable given how much I enjoy the games and how good those seats are.
 
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Gotham Gator said:
I am right next to you in 205. I have two Founding Member seats, which went up from $32/game to $34, and one add-on seat that went from $35 to $37. My blended cost went up by 6%. A little high, but not awful, and I still think the price is quite reasonable given how much I enjoy the games and how good those seats are.
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Don't misunderstand me. I'm renewing. And I still think the price is a good value for the experience. But a 7.5% increase is a little much.
 
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SanBartG said:
Especially considering prices in some sections apparently dropped. How did my experience in 206 improve to justify the increase whereas theirs worsened to justify the drop?

Not a happy camper.
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That has nothing to do with how it works. You're entitled to be unhappy because price increases are always annoying, but prices do not work that way. If demand for Category 4 seats was high, and demand for Delta was low, then Cat 4 prices will go up while Delta goes down. Further, even if pricing were based upon an attempt to ascertain the relative value of an experience based upon an objective metric, it does not follow that this change in relative pricing means that the experience of Section 206 must have increased while Delta decreased. It could just be that they got the 2017 pricing wrong. There is no reason to assume it was correct, after all. The change would then be the result of determining that the Section 206 experience was better than they realized while Delta was worse.

And then on top of that, I made a mistake. My Delta tickets aren't going down, they're just holding steady. I looked at the wrong column on my chart and the non-Founders tix were $85 last year and Founders were $80. Admittedly I'm still pleased.
 
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Section 234 season tickets went from $391 to $408 each so a 4.34% increase
 
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mgarbowski said:
That has nothing to do with how it works. You're entitled to be unhappy because price increases are always annoying, but prices do not work that way. If demand for Category 4 seats was high, and demand for Delta was low, then Cat 4 prices will go up while Delta goes down. Further, even if pricing were based upon an attempt to ascertain the relative value of an experience based upon an objective metric, it does not follow that this change in relative pricing means that the experience of Section 206 must have increased while Delta decreased. It could just be that they got the 2017 pricing wrong. There is no reason to assume it was correct, after all. The change would then be the result of determining that the Section 206 experience was better than they realized while Delta was worse.

And then on top of that, I made a mistake. My Delta tickets aren't going down, they're just holding steady. I looked at the wrong column on my chart and the non-Founders tix were $85 last year and Founders were $80. Admittedly I'm still pleased.
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I realize that. My comment was in response to another post based on the premise of relative value, not demand.

If they priced my section wrong by 7.5%, I'll begrudgingly accept it because I have no choice but that's a steep effing correction by any standard. If my rent increased that much and my landlord told me he priced the rent incorrectly the last two years, I'd have a few choice words for him and I don't think I'd be alone.
 
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LionNYC said:
And founding member vs. non-founding member for comparison. Some sections are up, others are down.
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Yeah, I guess we'll have to wait until we see the full map. Unless we have someone in every section chime in.
 
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$62/game was 60/game +3.33% increase.
Much more palatable then last years bump from 55 to 60 for 9.1% increase.

For some perspective. My NYC property tax jumped 7.92%. No changes to my quality of life, but some how nyc wants to charge me ~8% more. Lovely.
 
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