WOW! The Bloom Is Really Off The Rose! (Ticket Sales Overflow Thread)

and tens of thousands of fewer tickets are sold the increase in price will not come close to making up the revenue.

and who’s this Al fellow?

I just like to not have duplicate posts on topics.

Although, to be fair, there are over 600 comments on the front page thread, so I’m changing the headline here to make this an overflow thread for ticket topics, since it was commented on.

If the team plays well and is near first place early on, these tickets will sell eventually.

If not — look out below.

IF they got caught surprised last season at all, they for sure won’t this one. They are probably a large reason those 5 or so marquee games sold outh (as they all undoubtedly put all their attention there instead of investing time in the random Saturday bleacher tickets that used to be worth twice face a couple of years ago).

They are also smart enough to go with what’s hot. I’m sure they are worried about Bulls tickets right now, and probably Rihanna at the United center and things like that instead.

Brokers aren’t dumb. Many are fans. Some are probably even here, the ones smart enough to really keep their finger on the pulse of their target market. They know what’s going on.

for games you didn’t use?

I had a blast going at the end of last season when the park was emptier. Don’t get me wrong. I have even more fun when they are winning. But it was pretty cool being able to sneek down to some of the better seats in later innings.

in any large way now. Can they have sales for some April, May & Sept games. sure, but I don’t see them cutting back on the $81 bleacher tickets for the Premium games and so on. First I don’t think they could do it enough to make a big difference now and second the bad feeling from both season ticket holders and anyone who bought tickets ahead would be staggering. They made their bed and they will pretty much have to lie in it. Next year I expect some major changes.
The frustrating thing is that it is not like you could not se this coming. The marketing guys are simply idiots, who are selling like it is 2007.

despite having a face value of about 25% less.

But if the tickets stay unsold — because in the past they were bought by brokers — they’ve kind of defeated the purpose.

I still think they should try the dynamic pricing system the Giants use, and the White Sox tried on a limited basis.

The secondary market.

This whole argument of number of [perceived] ticket sales this year versus some other arbitrary year is a moot point unless one has access to the ledger sheets.

There’s some folks here – one sometimes called “sweetheart” – that cite things as if they were fact, when truly no one knows what the revenue is for ticket sales. We’re a whole 36 hrs into single game sales and there’s already the “they’re not gonna make 3M tickets” comments.

We will not know the true affect on the ticket prices until the Cubs either start putting together 100-win seasons or fall so flat on their faces, they resemble the O’s.

How dare those ‘idiots’ do their job in trying to make money. Those damned greedy marketers and accountants….!

They crippled the secondary market. Now its a matter if they increased their overall revenue and their overall margin. But some folks here simply do not understand that. They want “fan friendly” which is simple terms for cheaper overall prices, be damned that PnL statement.

With the high prices and bad marketing they were hoping to light a fire under Ricketts & Hendry to do whatever it takes to win and fill the seats. It is all a nefarious plot to force the Cubs to sign Pujols after ticket sales fall well under 3,000,000 and concession sales tank with swaths of empty seats.

Pretty impressive.

… the team starts winning, in which case these tickets will probably sell. But that’s a huge chance the team is taking.

Essentially, they’re selling tickets like they’re the Red Sox, with a decade of sustained success. You can do that when you win, but the winning has to come first.

You’re gonna have 2 ex-Stanley Cup Champion Blackhawks help you guys to your first title since ’75.

B’s & Leafs fans will be pissed but Philly should go absolutely ape-shit in 3.5 months.

I found a charge slip last summer from ’91 or ’92. I bought 4 bleacher tickets for 8 different games for $5 each. The total for 32 tickets was $160. No convenience fees, no order charges, no taxes and no amusement fees.

If the Cubs were good, people would find a way to go.

1/3rd each to bad team, bad marketing and high prices. Bad team makes it too easy since the Cubshad been very good in the past at filling up the park especially the bleachers when they were bad.If they had a really good team, it would cover up most of the bad marketing and high prices but the genius of the Cubs for a long time was sellling tickets to a bad team.

As I have mentioned a lot, the Cubs were very, very good for a long time in promoting the bleachers as an in place and thus being able to sell tickets at many times the price of any other team for similar seats. However in the last two years in particular they have badly misjudged the value and how to sell the tickets which given their genius in making them big in the fist place is especially frustrating.

Both are equally killing them.

Charging Yankees prices for Royals performance is a joke.