I had my meeting about the season tix this morning. I was fully expecting a gasp-inducing PSL fee. I wasn't necessarily disappointed as it could have been a lot worse, but it was a chunk.
The part that gave me the biggest pause was the per-seat ticket cost, though. $375 feels like a LOT for a ticket to a football game. It might just be because I've been paying $82.50 per seat a game for the last 3 years, but that number jars me. My rep started talking about how courtside seats to the Lakers are like 4 grand as some sort of comparison point, but it didn't take me much to tear that argument apart. THese seats also don't come with any sort of guarantee to be able to get Super Bowl tickets, even if we're the ones in the game, etc. Hell, not even the food in the executive lounge is free.
What are your thoughts on this? I can't make it to every game, so I'd want to get my money back on games I didn't attend. I'm having a hard time believing that there are going to be a lot of people out there willing to pay $500 per seat last for football (having to account for ticket agency fees). And they force us to buy the 2 preseason games at full price, so that's basically $1,500 a year that will get thrown into a pit and lit on fire, as you can barely give those away.
The PSL fees, I mean, whatever, that's a 0% interest inheritance line-item for my kids, but those per-game costs are really giving me second doubts about going through with it. If you finance the PSL's over 10 years (and since it all comes back, you should), that means we're being asked to sink $1,000 a month over the course of a calendar year just for these tickets.
The part that gave me the biggest pause was the per-seat ticket cost, though. $375 feels like a LOT for a ticket to a football game. It might just be because I've been paying $82.50 per seat a game for the last 3 years, but that number jars me. My rep started talking about how courtside seats to the Lakers are like 4 grand as some sort of comparison point, but it didn't take me much to tear that argument apart. THese seats also don't come with any sort of guarantee to be able to get Super Bowl tickets, even if we're the ones in the game, etc. Hell, not even the food in the executive lounge is free.
What are your thoughts on this? I can't make it to every game, so I'd want to get my money back on games I didn't attend. I'm having a hard time believing that there are going to be a lot of people out there willing to pay $500 per seat last for football (having to account for ticket agency fees). And they force us to buy the 2 preseason games at full price, so that's basically $1,500 a year that will get thrown into a pit and lit on fire, as you can barely give those away.
The PSL fees, I mean, whatever, that's a 0% interest inheritance line-item for my kids, but those per-game costs are really giving me second doubts about going through with it. If you finance the PSL's over 10 years (and since it all comes back, you should), that means we're being asked to sink $1,000 a month over the course of a calendar year just for these tickets.
