New Stadium seat relocation info

[Perseus71]

My invoice box is empty too! I hope we get some clarification on what is going on today.

[ellsworth]

What seniority dates did not get invoices..

[JimmyA]

Originally Posted by ellsworth

What seniority dates did not get invoices..

February 06 no invoice.

[dadrumma]

07 e plan, still no invoice

[Agfrom203]

Originally Posted by dadrumma

07 e plan, still no invoice

08 e plan still no invoice
I would respect them if they just told me flat out no instead of sitting by the phone and/or refreshing my yankees account every hour..

I don't expect anything at this point and coming from Connecticut its a whole lot of time and money that I can save this year by not going but sitting home watching a game when I knew I had a fighters chance of being there is not the same.

[Dustin563]

Did anyone else get through to the ticket office?

[JimmyA]

Originally Posted by Dustin563

Did anyone else get through to the ticket office?

Why bother... they are just going to give us a lot of double-talk. And every rep's answer is different.

BTW Dustin, where in Mass. are you?

[Dustin563]

Originally Posted by JimmyA

Why bother... they are just going to give us a lot of double-talk. And every rep's answer is different.

BTW Dustin, where in Mass. are you?

I'm in Cambridge.

[JimmyA]

Originally Posted by Dustin563

I'm in Cambridge.

OK you're trapped deeper into Red Sox Nation that I am. I'm near Springfield.

[yankeesrule]

The Yankees now took out a full page color ad in AM New York for the "seats between the bases"

[Perseus71]

No invoice. I won't believe the mail thing until I see it. It seems like we have heard this all before. I'm also wondering why we wouldn't be offered seats before the partial pool goes into effect.

[dadrumma]

so me, being a yankee fan, just easily picked up 4 tickets to the first baseball game at citifield. i didnt need any special password and didnt have to worry about ticketbastard. the mets did the tickets through their own special site, which worked 100x better than the yankees and ticketmaster. im thrilled to see their new ballpark for the first time, but it was so simple to get tickets. it almost makes me want to become a met fan considering the way the yankees have treated myself and many others about our plans at our place.

[Stefmara]

Originally Posted by dadrumma

so me, being a yankee fan, just easily picked up 4 tickets to the first baseball game at citifield. i didnt need any special password and didnt have to worry about ticketbastard. the mets did the tickets through their own special site, which worked 100x better than the yankees and ticketmaster. im thrilled to see their new ballpark for the first time, but it was so simple to get tickets. it almost makes me want to become a met fan considering the way the yankees have treated myself and many others about our plans at our place.

How did you get these tickets? I was just on the mets site and wouldn't find where to buy single game seats.

[4train]

Originally Posted by Stefmara

How did you get these tickets? I was just on the mets site and wouldn't find where to buy single game seats.

I was able to get a pair . . . not a painless process though. It refreshed on a 60-second countdown for about 25 minutes before I got through, then the maximum number of seats I was able to get was 2 in the upper deck. I tried to get through again but there were no more pairs available. They appear to be sold out, except possibly for some single seats. I'm not complaining, it will be cool to be there for the first game (this is the Georgetown vs. St. John's game, not the Red Sox-Mets exhibitions), but I wouldn't exalt the Mets' process here above any of the Yankees' presales.

[dadrumma]

Originally Posted by 4train

I was able to get a pair . . . not a painless process though. It refreshed on a 60-second countdown for about 25 minutes before I got through, then the maximum number of seats I was able to get was 2 in the upper deck. I tried to get through again but there were no more pairs available. They appear to be sold out, except possibly for some single seats. I'm not complaining, it will be cool to be there for the first game (this is the Georgetown vs. St. John's game, not the Red Sox-Mets exhibitions), but I wouldn't exalt the Mets' process here above any of the Yankees' presales.

oh i def would, that was easier than any big yankees game ive ever gotten tickets for. i got a pair for my uncle, 4 for myself and a pair for a friend of mine. i got through so many times and couldve gotten so many. way way way better than ticketbastard anyday

[4train]

Originally Posted by dadrumma

oh i def would, that was easier than any big yankees game ive ever gotten tickets for. i got a pair for my uncle, 4 for myself and a pair for a friend of mine. i got through so many times and couldve gotten so many. way way way better than ticketbastard anyday

Not sure what you did right and I did wrong then. This speaks to the weakness of the process . . . you got through three times and got 8 seats while I got through once for a max of 2. Immediately after I bought those seats (way upstairs), the website posted that tickets were sold out. Congratulations on all the seats you got, but the Mets' online process seems exactly as effective/ineffective as the one the Yankees have used for their presales . . . both of them turn out different results for different users trying to do the same thing. It's the nature of the beast, I guess.

The only difference is that with the Mets we didn't have to pay the TM piper. The piper at the Mets' ticket office is far more reasonable.

[ymike673]

Originally Posted by dadrumma

so me, being a yankee fan, just easily picked up 4 tickets to the first baseball game at citifield. i didnt need any special password and didnt have to worry about ticketbastard. the mets did the tickets through their own special site, which worked 100x better than the yankees and ticketmaster. im thrilled to see their new ballpark for the first time, but it was so simple to get tickets. it almost makes me want to become a met fan considering the way the yankees have treated myself and many others about our plans at our place.

If that's for March 29 be aware that its a College game between St. Johns and Georgetown.

[yankeesrule]

Yankees may of found a way to stop this ridiculous scalping/stubhub/craigslist issue!

But that won't stop scalpers, said Happel. The only way to do that, he says, is through what economists call a "Dutch auction." This is the reverse of a regular auction. Instead of rising, prices drop. A ticket that starts at perhaps $400 might drop $10 a day until all are sold. Scalpers won't invest in a product that is declining in value, Happel said.

No one has tried this yet, said Happel. But the first such experiment may now be underway courtesy of the man they call "the Boss." Not Bruce Springsteen -- George Steinbrenner.

http://blog.nj.com/njv_paul_mulshine..._freemark.html

[Ram Man]

Originally Posted by yankeesrule

Yankees may of found a way to stop this ridiculous scalping/stubhub/craigslist issue!

The Dutch auction is the absolute best way for a team or performer to (1) maximize their revenue and (2) eliminate scalpers. For the Yankees to do this, all they would need to do is to list every seat in NYS for $5000 each per game and then start reducing the price by $10 every day. At some point, someone decides that they are willing to pay that day's price for a given seat. As the price declines day by day, more and more people find a price that they are willing to pay for a particular seat. Eventually, the price falls to $10 for the remaining seats and then just about everyone could afford a ticket.

The problem comes in when you have a very high demand and limited seats. Let's say there are 100,000 people willing to pay $100 each for a ticket to a particular game. Given the roughly 50,000 seats available, it follows that all available tickets will sell before the price falls below $100. Obviously that means that people who can't afford $100/seat would never get a ticket to that game.

While a Dutch auction solves two "problems," it doesn't address the issue of providing "affordable" tickets. Unless the Yankees, Springsteen, etc. want to completely dismiss the notion of making affordable tickets available, the Dutch auction will never be used.

[mm1956]

Originally Posted by Ram Man

The problem comes in when you have a very high demand and limited seats. Let's say there are 100,000 people willing to pay $100 each for a ticket to a particular game. Given the roughly 50,000 seats available, it follows that all available tickets will sell before the price falls below $100. Obviously that means that people who can't afford $100/seat would never get a ticket to that game.

While a Dutch auction solves two "problems," it doesn't address the issue of providing "affordable" tickets. Unless the Yankees, Springsteen, etc. want to completely dismiss the notion of making affordable tickets available, the Dutch auction will never be used.

How about just limiting the number of seats one could buy in a season package to 4 or even 8? But's ridiculous when someone has 20 sequential seats to offer on Stubhub.