2018 Season Ticket Thread
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Kangaroo Jack
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I'm not saying I but my ticket to resell them, but if you can just pick up tickets for 25% of face value without a season ticket plan, kinda defeats one of the few benefits werew supposed to get (a discount off single game process).
At this point during the season, I think I've given up hopes of getting my name in a future stadium and will give up my season tickets. It's not worth it to me to have to resell the tickets every match since my recent move. The fact that I can't even do it on the team site with my tickets is enough of a hassle to put me off. The seemingly permanent sales kills my resale value so at this point it's just an annual donation to the club.
A question to those who have canceled, what happens to your city points?
Do you have to see out the entire season if you're on a payment plan?
A question to those who have canceled, what happens to your city points?
Do you have to see out the entire season if you're on a payment plan?
Not sure about the city points but you can cancel at any point but they charge you like three months out. So if you're cancelling today you still have games through probably August.
Jon is right about cancellation and payment AFAIK. I'm also quite certain that City Points will be forfeit, though they should remain in effect until your 2-3 month prepayment is exhausted. Of course "should" is not a certainty. City Points cannot even be transferred between seats in the same account, so I would be shocked if you can transfer them to a friend or keep them after the account is closed and there are no seats they can be associated with.
NickFromAstoria
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Didn't ask, admittedly - I just tried to burn through them as quickly as I could before the end of last season. (Now I'm the proud owner of a HypnoKit lapel pin, since it was pretty much what was left.)
Kjbert is going to be a regular at the next 5 meet & greets.
This.
At this point, the club doesn’t do nearly enough to incentivize season ticket holders to keep their seats. Maybe they never did.
I will likely nix season tix next year as well. As we’ve said before, it’s not like there will be a rush to get season tix when the new stadium opens that prevents you from getting decent seats. I don’t find this likely anymore.
Once Villa goes, this club is just going to be another MLS team but without a stadium.
The thrill is gone baby...
For the last couple of years we had City in the Boroughs events which were announced very early on in the season. NYCFC House, the speaker events, is the best non-game value thing they've done in my book. I'm surprised after Hartford, the playoff crap-out, the general decline in attendance, that they haven't announced any similar ongoing or featured events yet to keep people's interest this year.
It is getting harder to justify buying season tickets.
The increased number of night games means I go less often. Forcing us to use StubHub to resell is difficult, time consuming and costly. It's a slap in the face. I can now go to fewer games and have more trouble selling the tickets I can't use. Plus, the member benefits are decreasing - Cityzens offers less than ever, and as the post above points out, they don't seem to be doing member nights.
On the other hand, I do love my seats, and I like supporting the Club. I also feel that without buying the season tickets, I would go less often, which I also don't want.
The increased number of night games means I go less often. Forcing us to use StubHub to resell is difficult, time consuming and costly. It's a slap in the face. I can now go to fewer games and have more trouble selling the tickets I can't use. Plus, the member benefits are decreasing - Cityzens offers less than ever, and as the post above points out, they don't seem to be doing member nights.
On the other hand, I do love my seats, and I like supporting the Club. I also feel that without buying the season tickets, I would go less often, which I also don't want.
I'm in the exact same boat. I will either drop one ticket and keep one. I can combine 6 of the games and put 2 seats together. That takes care of 12 of the 17 home games. The other games I can just add an extra seat if I want and sit anywhere because there's so many empty seats.
This has really backfired for the club (unless the experience and preference for non-forum fans is very different). The switch to StubHub was poorly implemented, and failed, but was most certainly meant to be an enhancement. The negative response must be a rather distressing shock to them.
I'm in the same boat because I go to almost every game. The secondary benefits are very secondary. But the folks posting about secondary benefits are not doing so because they really care about secondary benefits. It's pretty clear they are doing so because the basic deal that satisfies you and me is not working for people who don't go to nearly every game, the ones who buy season tickets and go to maybe 10-12 games a year. STH sales to people who go that often should be an important part of a club's STH portfolio. The inability of those STHs to easily and reliably sell the unused tickets at close to cost (except supporters section AFAIK) makes keeping those tickets a bad value proposition, and before they decide to drop their subscription they're going down the list of tangential benefits and finding they don't make up the deficit: priority seat selection and a name in the someday, some way stadium, and cityzens stuff.
Well said sir.
