twk said:
Ag13 said:
12th Man Ag said:
Or maybe they need to add a required donation for bleacher seats too?
There is a required donation now for bleacher seats. Should probably be higher.
But as evidenced by the responses to my original suggestion of raising prices to eliminate scalping - that is not a popular idea amongst season ticket holders.
If you raise season ticket prices high enough, you'll end up running off the folks who have been attending games for years and replace them with folks who simply can spend enough to pay that level. I'm not sure that the result would be less scalping; in fact, I can almost guarantee that the result would be more.
Why would scalping go up if the margins on doing so approach $0? The screenshot of the guy selling for $1,000/ticket is on tickets that cost $420/ticket with donation.
The OP wants season tickets but there are virtually none available from the 12th Man Foundation. With the current way too small stadium setup, attrition in season tickets will only be created by raising the prices or if the baseball team stops being a CWS contender.
I guess monitoring and cancelling people's season tickets if they sell all of them would also be a step toward opening up inventory, but if we are cancelling maybe a couple hundred season tickets, the newly opened up tickets are not going to make it very far down the priority point list.