And the team is responsible for setting the artificial capacity of Yankee Stadium. It would be nice to see that capacity lowered. If there is demand of a certain game, the club can open sections.
2018 Season Ticket Thread
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no but people still freaking about the numbers going down...even if we had 12K or so its "bad" and we always compare ourselves to the pacific northwest or atlanta.
I renew the season tix just to preserve my right of first refusal on seats in the new stadium. If not for that, wouldn’t be worth it.
I’d be fine if they capped the typical match at 20k for the near future. Maybe for big matches like RB or Atlanta, or LA, they upped it to 25k, but those extra tickets should be exceptionally more expensive as single-game purchases for the people that wait until the last minute.
I still think they need to reward STH with massively reduced prices, because where the club really makes their money is on concessions and merchandise, and money saved by STH on tickets will still be had via the other two spending outlets, but in doing so the STH will have a better game day experience.
So you want a reward for doing something you’re likely to do anyway because you want to do it? Interesting concept
Do you read or just troll? Because if you read, you’d answer your own question, a question that is offbase.
I read it, and reread it again. Still think rewarding you for purchasing something you would purchase anyways is a piss poor business model. No guarantee the discount would yield to increase spending elsewhere, enough intoxicated jersey wearing people in the stands to show they’re making their money just fine without needing to change.
Try reading all of my posts regarding it, and you're have an epiphany that purchasing tickets is not something that would be purchased anyway. And you just proved my point that the intoxicated jersey wearing people are how they make their money, it's definitely not off of ticket sales.
I'm not sure why you are assuming season ticket holders would already be spending those dollars on food and merch.
There are many season ticket holders on this forum alone that bring their own food into the stadium. Perhaps they start spending money on in-stadium food. I always try to eat before the game, because I know I'm going to get gouged on in-stadium food. I don't buy merchandise at the stadium, because its ridiculously overpriced.
Look at what Atlanta did with Mercedes Benz stadium. They had realistic stadium food prices and their revenues from that were way up.
I could have done with a new blue card carrying thing that we got last year. I used it for my metro card for the whole year with no issues until last week when my card must have fallen out and I lost it. I'm now going to use the new vinyl bag to carry my metro card. It's going to take some time getting used to it but it will be safer.
The straw man rears his ugly head once again on our boards. We should get him his own log-in, he comes around so much.
That's actually a myth. Teams make the most money from tickets, not concessions. You're thinking of movie theaters.
Are you sure? I bring food a lot. If I had a reduced price ticket, I’d end up spending the extra saved money on food/merch, and would be likely to spend even more on food/drink because giving in for one item often leads to multiple.
It’s a combination of both. A lot of times teams will cut ticket prices to increase the number of people actually in the stadium, so there are more people inside to buy concessions and merchandise. Since concessions and merchandise are so marked up, it’s usually a good deal, especially since most of us are pretty liberal with our beer spending. Also, if people think they’re are getting a deal on tickets (or concessions/merchandise for that matter) they’ll spend whatever they saved on something else anyway, figuring it’s part of the budget they’ve allocated for going to a game. This is why the experiment in Atlanta with cutting concession prices worked so well - people feel they’ve saved $10-20 on concessions, and can use that to buy more food, another beer, or a T-shirt or something.
All in all, it’s not crazy to suggest they cut ticket prices for STHs, because they know that if we save $10 a ticket, we’ll probably spend that extra $10 on another beer anyway, possibly more.
How low would ticket prices have to go for you to end up spending more on food? Not more than now -- more than on the tickets.
What your saying anecdotally makes sense, but when you look at the actual breakdown of revenues for most sports teams, ticket sales are miles ahead of concessions and merchandise in both revenue and profit. Every incremental t-shirt and hot dog comes with a cost, whereas the incremental marginal cost of an additional ticket sold is close to zero.
Getting you to spend $10 more on concessions instead of $10 more for your ticket is a terrible trade for the team.
