Mine was like 140% increase with the loss of my young alumni discount. St00pid.
The crazy thing is that the resale value is basically zero most of the time. Which means once you buy them theyāre worth nothing.
I was going to get seasons tickets for the first time in many years but not with the increase in pricing. Not for something with a residual value of zero.
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They have more resell value than the last 15 years but itās still almost nothing. One can hope we get a ranked Memphis, USF, or FAU in Halton again this year. Iām sure ECU will be a great draw again if the team is winning.
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When I saw the mandatory $100.00 per seat donation, I trashed, it breaking a 40+ year run. Dont mind donating, but theyāre not going to demand it.
Not to nitpick my beloved Alma Mater but if itās mandatory itās not a donation, lol
My recollection is that there was a mandatory per seat ādonationā last season as well.
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$50.00
Itās almost as if they are trying to push fans away. Like thereās a wolf in the hen house.
I dropped my basketball tickets last year after 20 plus years. Iām not paying to watch mercenaries and team flip every year. F that. Even if they win itās not Niners winning.
The donation per seat thing makes sense to a degree. Lots of program have them and we have it for football. Given where our program is tho ot doesnt make any sense.
Instead of charging people who have been around for years more try finding new sources of money.
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The pricing scheme Mike is trying to implement is for an established (pretty much captured all the people youāre gonna get) fanbase for a high demand product (long term winning program).
Itās all wrong for what we have. We need a structure aimed at winning new fans. Iām not saying give it away, but the approach makes no sense to me. Iāll probably just buy single game Tix again this year, though I do like Fearne.
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Almost everything we do makes no sense. This pricing scheme works if you have high demand. Again, we canāt even resell tix to 99% of games.
Years ago, before weād been on such a long drought, I couldnāt even give them away sometimes.
Multiple times Iād post them to Craigslist just so my seats wouldnāt be empty. Got a few people free date nights or a night out with their kids. But sometimes I couldnāt even get people I knew or strangers on the internet to take them for free. You donāt gouge the people keeping the lights on.
We need a bigger tent, but thatās obviously not on Mikeās agenda.
Actually this is exactly what we do.
Posting this here because I think itās ridiculous.
My follow up is that there is a good chance I will not ever get them again if I let them go. Life has more layers now and pricing is whatās driving this.
I just buy the cheapest seats. If I ever have supreme confidence we will be good, Iād get better seats those seasons. Unfortunately with the way the game is now, Iām not sure Iāll ever have confidence going into a season because we will probably always have tons of new faces.
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Sure, but when I first started buying season tickets I had better seats and was paying $100 for 2. Now they want $592 and the product has not changed all that much. We will never build a bigger fan base pricing like that.
Sports tickets in general, because of the dollars required to run a team, have risen too dramatically.
I love watching the Niners football, basketball, the Panthers etc. I dropped my Panther PSLs a few years back. I may do same with my Niners. Value prop just isnāt what it used to be for any of them. College sports are now just mercenaries and I have no clue who they are.
Just an old guy missing the old days of 5 year players (red shirt year) and passion for the school name.
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I know data analytics runs most things today as it relates to pricing. There is so much historical data that they plug in that tells them what to charge for certain packages and games to optimize the profit not just from total number of seats but operating costs and additional money generated from concessions, etc.
They know exactly where to price to reach that optimization point and they trust that number.
Iām just old school. Price in such a way to sell every seat. More concessionsā¦more parking $$ā¦more souveneir salesā¦etc. Create an environment so a lot of people can come and attend and create more lifelong fans (if the product is good enough to hold on to them).
The money may not be anymore in that scenerio than the perfect pricing matrix they useā¦but if it creates more lifelong fans thats a much better long term return due to future possible sales and donations.
IMHO
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Sounds like everything is going exactly as planned. I donāt know when yall will finally realize we let a wolf in the hen house.
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The head of our athletics department doesnāt want to sell every seat.