This thing is literally the dumbest fucking thing in the world. They're basically making you do the work of trying to create new fans! Plus they're going to flood the market with free tickets making our tickets worth even less.
Was gonna post something similar. It’s a play to do marketing for the club without them spending any marketing budget - these tix are from the vast number of unsold seats. I’d rather the club lower my ST price/seat rather than do this, because:
A. The seats can’t be used to bring friends with me since they won’t be adjacent, which defeats the purpose of me taking advantage of them.
B. I can’t even give my regular seats away when I can’t go as there are never any takers, so who am I giving these to....
C. I’m not willing to subject any friends that are interested in catching a match to the club’s mailing list when they register for the tix.
D. If people semi-interested in NYCFC haven’t pulled the trigger for tix by now, based on the current prices juxtaposed against the product on the field in the baseball stadium, then two free tix are not going to convince them to take the plunge.
E. Additional free tix to people on the fence just further dilutes the pool of potential secondary market sales. Not that the market is big, but this melts it away like the worlds last glacier in the year 2030.
Really just seems like an absolute desperate last ditch attempt by the club to raise attendance without paying a dime and systematically not understanding the reasons why the attendance continues to fall. Tix gimmicks is a bandage with limited adhesive and falls off with minimal friction.