NBA/MLB/NFL/NHL Season ticket holders

Planning to be a season ticket holder for the very first time once the Warriors make the move to San Francisco.
 
AIRJORDAN JB23 said:
I used to be a season ticket holder for the Nets. I remember we got VIP passes to get into the arena early & meet the players for the Nets & opposing teams during the individual shoot arounds. We easily met like 95% of the league including former players who worked with the teams like Earl Monroe, Walt Frazier, Dominique Wilkins, etc. Even met Hov a couple times :smokin

We also had access to restaurants in the arena & if you bought the all access card, you would get unlimited food & drinks all game.

There's also a bunch of season ticket holder events such as meet & greets too.

Its cool being a season ticket holder because there's of course the perks, but its also cool just getting familiar with everyone since you see the same people around you every game. Supporting your team at every home game is a cool experience.
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How cheap were season tickets cheap when they were in Jersey? I tried getting a pair of tickets for Brooklyn but prices are OD especially since I wasn't trying to be sitiing in the rafters. I started being a Bucs STH last year and some of the perks have been 15% off food, drinks and team memorabilia/apparel. Also meet and greets and attending private training camps. My view.

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ooIRON MANoo said:
Work Ops for both the Dodgers and USC. Comp tix come in handy :pimp:

Also have a set of USC season tickets. Break even with "weak" opponents. Heavy profit for Notre Dame/UCLA/Oregon/Stanford. :pimp:
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I'm doing that this season with Texas A&M football. The Alabama game will be cashed out LOL. Everything else is icing on the cake.
 
DatZNasty said:
Thunder STH since 09' ****'em, they raised prices every year since. :rolleyes And they try to trick you into not going to the meet and greets because our owners are cheap and they give out free hot dogs, soda, and bottled water there so every person who doesn't show up saves them like $2.50.

Like everyone said, best benefit is playoff priority. Resell the games you can't attend on the ticketexchange makes you do the least amount of work, stubhub/cl/ebay you at least have to log in and convert it to a .pdf then upload it.

I don't do day of meets to sell tickets, people will make an agreement with you then keep looking and find another deal and not tell you and then you show up at the game and now you got extra tickets you have to liquidate before you can go in. I live an hour from OKC so I usually tell them Paypal me and I'll email it, or if it's a ticket I bought outside of my season ticket then still prepay me and meet me there.

Finals though, I was in Atlanta last yr during the finals and made the major comeup. $91 ticket, sold both game 1 and game 2 for $1250 EACH.

Y'alls arena is huge. Them 400 levels, I'm not about that life. I was in 124 when I went to game 3 a few weeks ago.
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At what point do you get out because they get too high? I would figure in your market you all are the biggest show in town. Someone will still want those tickets.
 
Came very close to getting out this yr. I'm not satisfied with ownership's commitment to winning instead of just being as profitable as possible. I'll probably do this year and if they even think about another price hike, I'm out. Thing about it though and I don't know how most arenas do it but I bet it's less than half, 75% of our arena is season ticket owned. Then you have 200 set aside for the Rewards Zone contest every game, like 500 for the player giveaways to schools and foundations, group sales holds about a thousand, the opposing team gets X amount, etc. so there is literally close to no availability at box office price when they release on Ticketmaster. Because of this demand > supply and it's always worth having to even just resell. Last I heard, the season ticket list was over 4,000 names deep and that's not 4,000 tickets, that's names.

But again, I've been upset with Presti and Bennett for a while so I might just decide to not support them or let someone else buy the whole package from me at face and they can forego the line altogether

And no I have never had problem getting at least face value for them, even when the Pistons come in town on a Tuesday. Also STH face is 20% cheaper than then the single game purchase face so if you are looking for tickets, which is the other aspect of owning, it's always a better deal to find a STH at the last minute who will just take face over even buying it off ticketmaster. It's like playing stocks, sell high, buy low (hours before the game)
 
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DatZNasty said:
Came very close to getting out this yr. I'm not satisfied with ownership's commitment to winning instead of just being as profitable as possible. I'll probably do this year and if they even think about another price hike, I'm out. Thing about it though and I don't know how most arenas do it but I bet it's less than half, 75% of our arena is season ticket owned. Then you have 200 set aside for the Rewards Zone contest every game, like 500 for the player giveaways to schools and foundations, group sales holds about a thousand, the opposing team gets X amount, etc. so there is literally close to no availability at box office price when they release on Ticketmaster. Because of this demand > supply and it's always worth having to even just resell. Last I heard, the season ticket list was over 4,000 names deep and that's not 4,000 tickets, that's names.

But again, I've been upset with Presti and Bennett for a while so I might just decide to not support them or let someone else buy the whole package from me at face and they can forego the line altogether

And no I have never had problem getting at least face value for them, even when the Pistons come in town on a Tuesday. Also STH face is 20% cheaper than then the single game purchase face so if you are looking for tickets, which is the other aspect of owning, it's always a better deal to find a STH at the last minute who will just take face over even buying it off ticketmaster. It's like playing stocks, sell high, buy low (hours before the game)
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Good stuff. I've also been told to get my tickets up on the exchange as soon as possible, not counting the premium games against you guys, the lakers, the heat, etc. I'd love to be able to flip my bad games even at face value and not lose money.
 
yvespo3 said:
AIRJORDAN JB23 said:
I used to be a season ticket holder for the Nets. I remember we got VIP passes to get into the arena early & meet the players for the Nets & opposing teams during the individual shoot arounds. We easily met like 95% of the league including former players who worked with the teams like Earl Monroe, Walt Frazier, Dominique Wilkins, etc. Even met Hov a couple times :smokin

We also had access to restaurants in the arena & if you bought the all access card, you would get unlimited food & drinks all game.

There's also a bunch of season ticket holder events such as meet & greets too.

Its cool being a season ticket holder because there's of course the perks, but its also cool just getting familiar with everyone since you see the same people around you every game. Supporting your team at every home game is a cool experience.
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How cheap were season tickets cheap when they were in Jersey? I tried getting a pair of tickets for Brooklyn but prices are OD especially since I wasn't trying to be sitiing in the rafters. I started being a Bucs STH last year and some of the perks have been 15% off food, drinks and team memorabilia/apparel. Also meet and greets and attending private training camps. My view.
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I paid around $440 for my tickets... We had one of the first few rows in the upper section (When they were at Izod there were only the 2 levels). Thing is, since we had access to get in early & right near the court, we just stayed in the lower level when the game started :lol: The perks of the Nets never selling any tickets :lol: :smh:

Brooklyn season tickets were A LOT more expensive then when they were in Jersey though :x
 
7thAve btn 31stN33rd St said:
Plan on being a NY Giants season tix holder eventually. For the peeps who have NBA/MLB, how many games do you intend on going to appx?
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I'll probably go to around 15 games this season out of the 41. Flip most of the weekday games and any weekend games I can't make it to or are really worth it (like against the Heat and Lakers).
 
Well with Dwight coming the Rockets season tickets are probably going to go up in price. Hopefully I can flip my games I'm not attending for more now and upgrade at the end of the season though.
 
DatZNasty said:
Came very close to getting out this yr. I'm not satisfied with ownership's commitment to winning instead of just being as profitable as possible. I'll probably do this year and if they even think about another price hike, I'm out. Thing about it though and I don't know how most arenas do it but I bet it's less than half, 75% of our arena is season ticket owned. Then you have 200 set aside for the Rewards Zone contest every game, like 500 for the player giveaways to schools and foundations, group sales holds about a thousand, the opposing team gets X amount, etc. so there is literally close to no availability at box office price when they release on Ticketmaster. Because of this demand > supply and it's always worth having to even just resell. Last I heard, the season ticket list was over 4,000 names deep and that's not 4,000 tickets, that's names.

But again, I've been upset with Presti and Bennett for a while so I might just decide to not support them or let someone else buy the whole package from me at face and they can forego the line altogether

And no I have never had problem getting at least face value for them, even when the Pistons come in town on a Tuesday. Also STH face is 20% cheaper than then the single game purchase face so if you are looking for tickets, which is the other aspect of owning, it's always a better deal to find a STH at the last minute who will just take face over even buying it off ticketmaster. It's like playing stocks, sell high, buy low (hours before the game)
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I have a good source that says Thunder actually have the highest % of season ticket ownership in the entire league, it's above 90%. The next 2 teams are the Knicks and Warriors.
 
Wait, so 90% of the attendance is of season ticket holders???
 
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Wait, so 90% of the attendance is of season ticket holders???
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I'm 100% sure that is not correct and the number is 13,500 which would be about 75% of 18,206. Now what it might be is to say, 90% of tickets are already accounted for. Since after the 13,500 you have group tickets holds ~1,500, you have 100 held for the first 50 people to stand outside and wait get a pair for $25 contest, maybe another 500 for all the "KD foundation has purchased 100 tickets for kids from such and such local inner city school," contributions, the opposing teams gets a small number probably around 100, and so forth. So basically whenever there is a ticketmaster 10am release, inventory/availibility is almost 0 so nobody scores anything, kind of like online Jordan releases.

The reason is because we pay the highest or 2nd highest (read an article from some ticket aggregator site) markup from face value to market value, so even if you have no intentions to go or can't afford it, it'd benefit you more to just keep them and resell, especially the yr we made the finals and I hit my game 1 and game 2 tickets, $96 face for me, for $1,250 each.
Waiting for your tickets in the mail is torture.
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The Thunder, being the cheapasses they are, are trying to faze out printing and mailing paper tickets. Like all of their optional cost cutting measures, if you don't respond in time you opt into whatever most benefits them, in this case no longer receiving printed tickets and the souvenir box and first game ticket with lanyard. Saves them like 6 bucks per person :rolleyes
 
DatZNasty said:
I'm 100% sure that is not correct and the number is 13,500 which would be about 75% of 18,206. Now what it might be is to say, 90% of tickets are already accounted for. Since after the 13,500 you have group tickets holds ~1,500, you have 100 held for the first 50 people to stand outside and wait get a pair for $25 contest, maybe another 500 for all the "KD foundation has purchased 100 tickets for kids from such and such local inner city school," contributions, the opposing teams gets a small number probably around 100, and so forth. So basically whenever there is a ticketmaster 10am release, inventory/availibility is almost 0 so nobody scores anything, kind of like online Jordan releases.

The reason is because we pay the highest or 2nd highest (read an article from some ticket aggregator site) markup from face value to market value, so even if you have no intentions to go or can't afford it, it'd benefit you more to just keep them and resell, especially the yr we made the finals and I hit my game 1 and game 2 tickets, $96 face for me, for $1,250 each.
The Thunder, being the cheapasses they are, are trying to faze out printing and mailing paper tickets. Like all of their optional cost cutting measures, if you don't respond in time you opt into whatever most benefits them, in this case no longer receiving printed tickets and the souvenir box and first game ticket with lanyard. Saves them like 6 bucks per person :rolleyes
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The Nats did the same thing, they gave us electronic cards to scan now, which is kinda convenient I guess but I don't really like it. It was also a disaster on Opening Day since they hadn't fixed all the kinks in the system with it yet.
 
That sounds neat actually. We have a Season ticket holders card that gives us a discount at the team store, but using it to replace tickets would be convenient other than when you sell or give them away, but my understanding is we still have the same Ticketmaster online management so we can email or print still, just now that's the only option plus now you can scan the .pdf barcodes on your phone.

This is what they are discontinuing, unless you saw the email in time and called your rep to opt in. Like I said, bunch of billionaires figuring out ways to save 5 bucks
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had no idea i posted in here, but i just recently got rockets tickets as well, not too far from where OP is.

OP, how much were your seats. you can PM me if you'd rather not post it
 
True story: some guy offered Nick Collison a boat for two of his four season tickets in OKC. Collison took it in a heartbeat lol.
 
The Warriors are doing the season ticket holder card this year, as well. I thought about it, but seeing as I will be unable to attend any weekday games until January, I opted for the hard tickets. Selling tickets to friends, family, and CL pretty much made the games I attended free.
This is my 3rd season, and I have nothing to complain about. My first year I got a nice rep, she got me a bunch of free stuff. They moved tbeir STH event to March(?) last year, so I couldn't attend. 3 seasons ago they had Kevin Hart hosting, so that was nice. Nothing really to complain about.
 
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