Season tickets-Half season tickets

[cameroncrazies2]

I find my best option is to go to the scalpers.

I think I'm usually pretty good negotiating with those guys, but they are ridiculous for the price they ask, even a half hour before the game. You think they'd be giving them away at that point.

[Thunder Muscle]

I don't like dealing with those **** personally. I'd rather pay a couple more dollars on StubHub then buy from those guys. Especially the one older dude that used to stand out by Goolsby's.

[HurricaneKid]

Have been half season ticket holder for some time. Why lock into some sort of ticket package? It puts you into the queue when the Bucks become relevant again. What will you pay when the Bucks are relevant and we have a new arena? It may be a lot less (with better seats) with some sort of season ticket package if you have a history as a partial or full season ticket holder.

Do people serious believe this? If there is increased demand for tickets in a few years (and I assume that will be the case) a few things will happen. First, ticket pricing will jump. Secondly, commercial entities will start bumping past season ticket holders in placement.

Buying this years tickets is not an investment in the 2017-2018 seating. No more than buying an overpriced subscription to a magazine is an investment in the Publishers Clearing House...

[averageposter]

Have been half season ticket holder for some time. Why lock into some sort of ticket package? It puts you into the queue when the Bucks become relevant again. What will you pay when the Bucks are relevant and we have a new arena? It may be a lot less (with better seats) with some sort of season ticket package if you have a history as a partial or full season ticket holder.

Do people serious believe this? If there is increased demand for tickets in a few years (and I assume that will be the case) a few things will happen. First, ticket pricing will jump. Secondly, commercial entities will start bumping past season ticket holders in placement.

Buying this years tickets is not an investment in the 2017-2018 seating. No more than buying an overpriced subscription to a magazine is an investment in the Publishers Clearing House...

If there is enough interest to cause a price increase there would be some value in holding onto your tickets up to the move as one would think I'll have right of first refusal on whatever the equivalent ticket placement is. Other than that, you are correct the price and probably the perks will move in separate and opposite directions when demand is high nullifying those benefits to the STH.

[HurricaneKid]

When LeBron and Bosh went to Mia they fired the entire ticket staff as they didn't need to SELL tickets any more. If the Bucks turn into what we hope they turn into the perks and pricing available now will be gone.

You aren't locking ANYTHING in other than possibly the seats as the team would have a difficult time giving WORSE seats year over year.

When WI Football tix starting getting really tough they just started selling PSLs. Their ticket staff told people they needed to donate $500/yr and a ton of people that did that didn't get seats and sued the ticket office. When things get good they don't need diehard fans; they can sell tix for more to the fairweather fans out there.

[Thunder Muscle]

Have been half season ticket holder for some time. Why lock into some sort of ticket package? It puts you into the queue when the Bucks become relevant again. What will you pay when the Bucks are relevant and we have a new arena? It may be a lot less (with better seats) with some sort of season ticket package if you have a history as a partial or full season ticket holder.

Do people serious believe this? If there is increased demand for tickets in a few years (and I assume that will be the case) a few things will happen. First, ticket pricing will jump. Secondly, commercial entities will start bumping past season ticket holders in placement.

Buying this years tickets is not an investment in the 2017-2018 seating. No more than buying an overpriced subscription to a magazine is an investment in the Publishers Clearing House...

If there is enough interest to cause a price increase there would be some value in holding onto your tickets up to the move as one would think I'll have right of first refusal on whatever the equivalent ticket placement is. Other than that, you are correct the price and probably the perks will move in separate and opposite directions when demand is high nullifying those benefits to the STH.

I think for the most part alot of "major" benefits have been removed. From my standpoint I don't know what benefits that they would take away that would cause me to leave. Even ticket prices go up, at the very least you'd hope it would correlate with team success which hopefully means there is more interest on the secondary market to sell games.

[utah_getmetwo]

I have had a half season for 5 or 6 years. Although technically, many of the benefits have lessened for half seasons, mine have not. I still get the "under the table" exchanges and actually got court side seats for free last year without asking ($951.60 face value per seat) for the Spur's game. It may be because I am grandfathered in or because my seats are $130+ per seat so I'm not sure.

As an aside, when I sat on court side for the free Spurs game, Gruber strolled in with some prostitute looking chick with Gruber wearing a gnarly 70's style suit and sat next to us. Within 5 minutes, security came and escorted him out because his actual seats were about 4 price levels below. Pretty funny.

One call, that's all.

[bwpn gold]

Do people serious believe this? If there is increased demand for tickets in a few years (and I assume that will be the case) a few things will happen. First, ticket pricing will jump. Secondly, commercial entities will start bumping past season ticket holders in placement.

Buying this years tickets is not an investment in the 2017-2018 seating. No more than buying an overpriced subscription to a magazine is an investment in the Publishers Clearing House...

If there is enough interest to cause a price increase there would be some value in holding onto your tickets up to the move as one would think I'll have right of first refusal on whatever the equivalent ticket placement is. Other than that, you are correct the price and probably the perks will move in separate and opposite directions when demand is high nullifying those benefits to the STH.

I think for the most part alot of "major" benefits have been removed. From my standpoint I don't know what benefits that they would take away that would cause me to leave. Even ticket prices go up, at the very least you'd hope it would correlate with team success which hopefully means there is more interest on the secondary market to sell games.

No one said that buying tickets in some sort of season ticket package won't get more expensive with fewer expensive benefits if the Bucks become a playoff contender in a new arena. However, you will have seats (presumably pretty darn good seats if you have a history of buying season ticket packages).

Is it crazy to think that if the Bucks are good that buying tickets on the secondary market won't skyrocket in price? There should be significantly higher demand and folks without some sort of season tickets will have to pay the freight on the secondary market. Good luck trying to afford the match-ups with the better teams or playoff tickets. These tickets will be priced so high that most won't have much of a chance to buy decent seats on the secondary market.

The season ticket holders (especially those with a history of buying tickets) will get to enjoy good seats for the best match ups and the playoffs. Without some sort of season ticket package, you might not see much of the Bucks in person without accessing what would logically be a very expensive and uncertain secondary market.

My advice is to get in now when the demand is low and build up your seniority and location before you get boxed out.

[bwpn gold]

By the way, here is a cite to an article at ESPN that describes what Cleveland is doing for those not locked in for some sort of season tickets (and I understand that LeBron is a special player):
http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/11513 ... cket-sales

It is no surprise that the Cleveland organization doesn't think that most fans will be able to afford accessing the secondary market for tickets.

[old skool]

No one said that buying tickets in some sort of season ticket package won't get more expensive with fewer expensive benefits if the Bucks become a playoff contender in a new arena. However, you will have seats (presumably pretty darn good seats if you have a history of buying season ticket packages).

Is it crazy to think that if the Bucks are good that buying tickets on the secondary market won't skyrocket in price? There should be significantly higher demand and folks without some sort of season tickets will have to pay the freight on the secondary market. Good luck trying to afford the match-ups with the better teams or playoff tickets. These tickets will be priced so high that most won't have much of a chance to buy decent seats on the secondary market.

The season ticket holders (especially those with a history of buying tickets) will get to enjoy good seats for the best match ups and the playoffs. Without some sort of season ticket package, you might not see much of the Bucks in person without accessing what would logically be a very expensive and uncertain secondary market.

My advice is to get in now when the demand is low and build up your seniority and location before you get boxed out.

This sounds like something that an inept ticket agent would say.

If the Bucks defy the odds and become a wildly successful team on the court by employing their 1990's L.A. Clipper's strategy, that success and a new arena will translate to high ticket prices for everyone. There will be plenty of tickets available at the high market prices that will be needed to pay for the new building.

But since teams that tank seldom become dominant, I would not spend too much time worrying about that. Tickets will be readily available at reasonable prices for the foreseeable future.

[Thunder Muscle]

If there is enough interest to cause a price increase there would be some value in holding onto your tickets up to the move as one would think I'll have right of first refusal on whatever the equivalent ticket placement is. Other than that, you are correct the price and probably the perks will move in separate and opposite directions when demand is high nullifying those benefits to the STH.

I think for the most part alot of "major" benefits have been removed. From my standpoint I don't know what benefits that they would take away that would cause me to leave. Even (if) ticket prices go up, at the very least you'd hope it would correlate with team success which hopefully means there is more interest on the secondary market to sell games.

No one said that buying tickets in some sort of season ticket package won't get more expensive with fewer expensive benefits if the Bucks become a playoff contender in a new arena. However, you will have seats (presumably pretty darn good seats if you have a history of buying season ticket packages).

Is it crazy to think that if the Bucks are good that buying tickets on the secondary market won't skyrocket in price? There should be significantly higher demand and folks without some sort of season tickets will have to pay the freight on the secondary market. Good luck trying to afford the match-ups with the better teams or playoff tickets. These tickets will be priced so high that most won't have much of a chance to buy decent seats on the secondary market.

The season ticket holders (especially those with a history of buying tickets) will get to enjoy good seats for the best match ups and the playoffs. Without some sort of season ticket package, you might not see much of the Bucks in person without accessing what would logically be a very expensive and uncertain secondary market.

My advice is to get in now when the demand is low and build up your seniority and location before you get boxed out.

Um, that's kind of what I was saying - so in essence I agree with that point.

[Mr Glass]

Two years ago I had no problem attending 10-12 games by buying lower level sideline seats for $15-$25 each on craigslist or stubhub.

Last year it seemed like no one bought tickets to resell on craigslist or stubhub! I only ended up going to 3 games.

I seriously considered a 10 game or half season this year but with two young kids (2.5 and 10 months) its tough to fit in the time to attend that many games. I already have to sell most of the games for my Badger football season tickets because of time constraints. When both boys are older, I will most certainly be getting some sort of ticket package whether they like it or not!

I do know that I will be in attendance (in a party of about 4-6 others, in a Herb Kohl/Mr Burns costume of course) for the home opener with tickets purchased from a secondary market.

[BobbyLight]

I bought season tickets the year after the ECF's. That was the only year I did so.

I'm sorry for ruining that team.

(Half kidding, but I believe enough to the point where I don't think I should get season tickets because I am a stupidly superstitious person... a few years ago the Bucks were down 20 something to the Pacers before Mo Williams hit a game winning 3. I went to the laundromat in the 3rd quarter and missed it. Every time they were down 20 in the 3rd quarter the rest of that season, I went to do laundry. It never worked again... Yes, I am dumb.)

Here's that shot:

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcbnsl0ib4E[/youtube]

[Thunder Muscle]

They really were dead in that game and just slowly chipped away in that last minute. I remember screaming as I watched at my parents house.