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fatlever wrote:why do some of the seats have to be renewed every few years instead of every year? are the expensive seats all on a 3 year contract?

Felton for Pres wrote:I've been a season ticket holder (105 I) for a little while now and in a situation where I have more seats than I want (long story). In the past, I've been able to syndicate out just about all of them. This year, with the economy and general fan apathy, I am taking a bath. It doesn't help that the team is having promotions like $75 Ruth's Chris gift cards, bring your Panther stub and its buy 1 get 1 free, etc.

I realize the team is doing everything they can to get butts in the seats. I am actually glad to see them doing it. However, the question I pose to the group is: does management owe anything to season ticket holders (any sport) if they are slashing prices or giving out SWAG thus killing any ability to sell tickets at or near face?

Again, I'm not angry, just a little annoyed. I'll be angry next year, the last year of my contract. All I get is a warmup shirt (and I haven't even gotten it yet!!) The dis-incentive to buy season tickets is HUGE. Part of me feels like I should be getting a Ruth's Chris meal for each seat I own for each game on a M-W.

Thoughts?

Battery wrote:What I cannot understand is how in the hell can the Bobcats charge such ridiculous prices when the team SUCKS and they haven't won jack since they entered the league. Where do they get off charging these prices?!?!?

Ummmm isn't it supposed to be that supply and demand should dictate the market???

W_HAMILTON wrote:PS - for people complaining about parking costs, this article says that the Bobcats have the cheapest parking in the league: http://www.cnbc.com/id/27440018

As a Bobcats Season Ticket Holder, you are more to us than just a customer or an account. You’re our biggest fans, our best ambassadors and our biggest investors. With your support, the opportunities for this franchise to grow and achieve greatness are limitless. Without your support, we simply cannot reach the level of success this team is capable of reaching. In short – you matter to us, and every decision we make in some way reflects our commitment to making your experience with the Bobcats the best it can be.



Part of providing you with a great experience at Time Warner Cable Arena is doing everything we can to fill the building with fans. A recent survey of Season Ticket Holders indicates pretty clearly that you agree with the idea that a full building is a far more entertaining environment in which to watch a game, and that you also support discounting single game tickets as long as they don’t diminish the integrity of the long-term investment you have made as a Season Ticket Holder. With those principles in mind guiding our decision-making process, we would like to take this moment to unveil a new strategy to help stimulate single game ticket sales, improve our attendance, enliven the atmosphere and experience at Time Warner Cable Arena, and enhance your investment as a Season Ticket Holder.



Starting on Monday, you are going to see a number of single game discount offers made available to the general public with the aim of selling more tickets and giving more people the opportunity to experience all the things you enjoy 41 nights per year. These offers are strategic in their goals and projections, and ever-mindful of one important and immutable law: no offer will ever undercut the value you receive as a full Season Ticket Holder.



Through our “Holiday Ticket Sale” that begins at 10:00 a.m. on November 24, the general public will have one week to purchase single game tickets for all games between that evening’s contest with the Philadelphia 76’ers and the January 21 matchup with the Memphis Grizzlies at discounts of 10% to 50% off the full single game rate. Tickets are limited to lower level non-premium and upper-level seats, and are only available through bobcats.com or the Time Warner Cable Arena box office.



We want this sale to do well and bring a lot of potential mini-plan buyers and future Season Ticket Holders to the arena – many for the first time. But we also want to do more than just protect the value of your season tickets as we make this offer to the general public, so we’ve come up with a unique plan to make an enhanced version of the above sale available exclusively to Season Ticket Holders.



As of today, we have deposited a “Ticket Stimulus Credit” directly into your MyBobcatsAccount of anywhere from $250 to $1,000 depending on the amount of your season ticket investment. This credit can be used to buy additional single game tickets for any game the rest of this regular season at prices 10% to 50% off the already-discounted season ticket price you pay, in any section of the arena where availability exists. If you’re a club seat holder and need additional tickets for the Boston or Lakers game, this is your break. If you’re a Season Ticket Holder in the upper bowl and have always wondered what it would be like to sit in club seats, this is your opportunity. You have until our final regular season game, April 7 against Philadelphia , to use the credit in your account towards the purchase of single game tickets, and the credit can only be used for that purpose. But between the credit and additional discount, you should be able to enjoy an upgrade for yourself or be the hero for your friends and family who want to see the big games this season as your guest. To redeem your credit for single game tickets, please contact your personal account manager directly.



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Keetch wrote:Well that letter does nothing for me. I can't use all of the tickets I have, and struggle to sell them at 50% value for games I can't go to. Why on heaven's earth would I buy more?

LOL FFP; I've got 2 lower level tix 104 B on a contract that expires after next year too. Maybe we can buddy up and share a years worth after that? I hate to give up these seats, but man the PRICE; THE PRICE!

I bumped into a buddy of mine who has 2 tix and lives out of town. He was telling me that he gets upgraded for most games (he sat on the floor 5 seats away from Peppers for the Jazz game) and the he got the season ticket SWAG for each seat he owns. I bumped into another buddy who has 4 seats under the visitors basket who mentioned similar added benefits. Given that the 'Cats are offering all these promotions (Ruth's Chris, buy one get one free, I think there is a gun show promo this weekend) and basically making it impossible to sell my excess tickets anywhere near face, if at all, I am becoming more and more frustrated. I think that frustration is justified. If you buy something one day and find it on major sale the next, that's pretty frustrating, right? My even bigger concern is next year. The economy and the teams play won't exactly make it easy for me to syndicate next year so the pain will be even worse.

I don't like to whine like this, but given the $[ ] hit I'm taking this year and likely bigger hit next year, I guess I'd like to fully understand my options to at least let me feel better about pissing away [x] of dollars while worrying about getting fired every day. For example, are there options for shrinking from 4 to 2 seats for the final year of my contract? Are upgrades reasonable to expect? Whatother "fun" stuff am I missing? I know that I was offered some interesting opportunities earlier this year, however, weekdays are next to impossible for most folks that work, and I am pretty sure the team knows that.