I was under the impression they were closed most of this year, but on this I am probably wrong.
2018 Season Ticket Thread
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It's pretty rare for anyone to be sitting there. Mostly, they are conspicuously empty. Sometimes, it looks like they've put a special group in those seats. They sold out for the Cows.
I can only imagine they are terrible. Better that they do this and open up more seats upstairs on the rare occasion they are needed.
I can only imagine they are terrible. Better that they do this and open up more seats upstairs on the rare occasion they are needed.
It gets you free food? You would be sitting in the same seats so the upcharge is literally solely for the food.
Prepaid does not equal free.
And it has to be more than $100 per head or the people sitting in the Legends seats are going to be perturbed...
Category 1 & 2 seats are not Legends, they're in the 100s section down the third base line. Essentially, you're buying a pass to eat at Legends before the game and the parking pass.
Right -- you are buying a pass for admittance to an all-you-can-eat buffet, which is not free food. You're literally paying for just the food.
And if those passes are less than $100, it means the Legends ticket holders are paying more than $100 for their seats, which I would think most would think is too much.
The increase is pretty shocking to me. I've sold my fair share of games this year cause of work travel schedules and the pricing on the secondary market is significantly less than what I pay for category 5 tickets. Even for the Revolution game this Sunday night, tickets in my section are going for $22, and I pay founding member price of $26 (about to be $28 for 2018). I don't think closing those home plate sections matter either.
Right, you're paying for the food. It's priced into the ticket for Legends. If it's $40/game it's probably worth the price.
I hope somebody in Category 1 or 2 calls and asks for the pricing and reports it here for the reasons being discussed by Fred and Lion. I'm very curious to see how they price the food/parking as a stand alone. It's also interesting that it is not being offered to Champions and Delta Club patrons. I suppose the idea is we already have the parking, and Champions Club people have prepaid, though different food, but maybe we'd like to upscale for the right price while keeping our current seats just like Category 1 and 2 people might. I doubt they can ever price prepaid food such that it would be a decent value for me, but others might view it differently.
Unless you are a 20-something college student, or part of the competitive eating circuit, prepaid food will never be economical.
You unfortunately face the highest % increase of 7.14%. The average increase among Founders is 2.39% and for regulars it is only 1.26%. Blended that is 1.82%. As averages, none of those sound bad, but for those facing the 7%+ increase that has to sting even more.
Disney World offers a prepaid meal plan on which maybe 2% of guests come out ahead compared to paying out of pocket. There are online calculators that show how impossible it is to just break even, and hundreds of Disney forums where the advice is essentially unanimous. If you buy the meal plan you almost always come out on the short end. Yet many, many people buy it -- most knowing full well they will overpay -- because they like knowing exactly how much it will cost, and knowing that the vacation is paid for before they get on the plane, and not having to think about menu prices. I don't understand it.
This year they offered an Audi Club add on for Delta. It was around 1,300 for the season.
That's right. Forgot. That's like $77 per game. I probably spend a bit more than half that each game for 2 people on average counting my beer. But if people buy it I can't really say it is overpriced.
Meh the % doesn't bother me as much as the fact that it's getting increased at all. It's only $2 per game per seat, but I'm wondering what the value is if I can get the same seats for $6 less on the secondary market. There were some games earlier in the year that cost $8 to get in on Stubhub, for a $26 seat. $8!!!
I think it's clear the club knows that founding members will continue to renew for new stadium benefits, and they are milking it for all it's worth. And THAT is what is bugging me.
I agree. The value of season tickets decreased this year, yet the price goes up.
Why do I get the feeling that supporting the club from day 1 is going to become rather valuable as the years drag on?
My friend, you need to experience a Golden Corral PRONTO!
Wasn't it $77 per seat? $144 per match? I forget exactly when I looked into it. But thought there's now way that could ever come close to being worth it.
Yes I'm pretty sure that was per ticket, so very much not competitive with OOP costs for food. It could only make sense for corporate entertaining. Even there I'm not sure it makes sense but with agency problems it will happen.
LOL, well, I value the taste of food.... so I'll pass....
In my youth, I did my fair share of all-you-can-eat places, and painfully made it worthwhile to my later-day chagrin. In college we had an all-you-can eat Chinese restaurant, which was a big deal in a small midwestern town. A bunch of fraternity brothers went one Saturday and proceeded to demolish the lunch special. Multiple times a few of them went to the restroom to boot&rally, then back for more; one guy did it 2-3 times (it wasn't an eating disorder in the true sense, just a mutual dare). Hearing the stories of that expedition killed any interest I had in those establishments any longer.
