Ten Club Tickets could be worse!
To all those who bitch about Ten Club tickets it could be worse you could be a New York Yankees season ticket holder. I am not writing this post so people can jump on Yankees fans. The point of this post is to show how good Ten Club members have it. Even though everyone bitches when Ten Club tickets are released (myself included), it could be worse.
I am pasting the New York Newsday article below but I will try my best to sum it up in a few sentences. The Yankees say all their seats for the new stadium is based on seniority. But if you have been a season ticket holder like myself since 1998 and had season tickets at lets say $55 a ticket they now offer you seats at the new stadium for $100 a ticket. If you chose to decline because it is to expensive or whatever other logical reason they then put you in a pool in the back of the line behind someone who has been a season ticket holder for a year! The other thing they did is if you had a Saturday plan (tickets to 20 Saturday games throughout the season) the previous year now they only offer most people week night seats in worse seats. Most people work and can’t go to these games.
Amid anger and frustration from fans with limited season-ticket plans, a Yankees executive said the team has been "overwhelmed" by demand, limiting availability for such packages in its new stadium.
"As it turned out, we had an unexpected number of fans who wanted the full season, not dropping down because of the economy but going up," chief operating officer Lonn Trost said.
After selling 18,000 full season plans in 2008, he said the figure rose to 23,500 for '09.
Trost added that the team has sold 32,000 non-premium, "full-season equivalents," a measure of seats taken out of the inventory through full plans or in multiple partial plans.
That, combined with the fact that there are several thousand fewer seats in the new stadium than the old one, has pushed some longtime purchasers of weekend-only packages either to lesser seats or weekday plans - or both.
The reaction of Tony Vitale, 61, of Babylon was typical. He said after more than two decades of buying Sunday games, he has been offered less attractive bleacher seats.
" George Steinbrenner at least gave the appearance he cared about the fans," Vitale said. "Now you have a bunch of empty suits who don't care. It's just about the bottom line."
Joe Lopes, 54, of Glen Head said his Saturday-only seats down the leftfield line for the past decade were downgraded to bleacher seats, some of which have obstructed views in the new stadium.
"I stared at it for five minutes; it was incomprehensible," he said. "This isn't remotely like what I had ... I've been kidding my buddies, saying Bernie Madoff invented this scheme. Everyone got pushed back, pushed back, and those of us with partial plans got pushed all the way out to the bleachers."
Anthony LaMirata of Oceanside said his Sunday seats in the second row of the upper deck became seats two rows from the top of the stadium - on weekdays.
"They still have 81- and 41-game plans available because Bear Stearns and Salomon Brothers can't buy up these seats anymore," he said.
The only 81- 41- or 20-game packages offered for non-premium seats on the Yankees' Web site yesterday were for those at $325 per game for a full plan and $350 for a half- or quarter-season plan, suggesting some returning season-ticket holders opted for less expensive options.
There are another 4,000 seats designated "premium" at prices from $350 to $2,500 per game; Trost said about 70 percent of those have sold.
Many fans with partial plans indicated in phone interviews, e-mails and message-board posts the problem was not price; in many cases they requested seats more expensive than those they had last season.
Their irritation was over what they were offered, and the take-it-or-leave-it nature of the offers.
Trost said many potential concerns were addressed in a relocation guide sent in September.
"If they had read that, they would have understood," he said. "The reason partial plans aren't getting what they wanted is because we don't have the inventory."
Preferences were accommodated based on seniority, he said. "We didn't expect there would be such a demand for fulls," he said, "and we have to salvage 6,000 or 7,000 seats a game for general sale," to allow for fans who only want to attend an occasional game.
None of that was consolation to partial-plan fans who got their assignments Friday and tried to reach the ticket office Monday, only to discover it was relocating that day, making it difficult to reach people.
Most fans said they plan to renew and hope to upgrade in the future.
Lopes said one of his favorite things about going to games is taking pictures from the stands. "I'm going to need a bigger lens, I guess," he said.
Two of the many Yankees fans who had Saturday or Sunday ticket packages in the old stadium and were dissapointed with take-it-or-leave-it offers for less attractive seats in the new stadium:
I am pasting the New York Newsday article below but I will try my best to sum it up in a few sentences. The Yankees say all their seats for the new stadium is based on seniority. But if you have been a season ticket holder like myself since 1998 and had season tickets at lets say $55 a ticket they now offer you seats at the new stadium for $100 a ticket. If you chose to decline because it is to expensive or whatever other logical reason they then put you in a pool in the back of the line behind someone who has been a season ticket holder for a year! The other thing they did is if you had a Saturday plan (tickets to 20 Saturday games throughout the season) the previous year now they only offer most people week night seats in worse seats. Most people work and can’t go to these games.
Amid anger and frustration from fans with limited season-ticket plans, a Yankees executive said the team has been "overwhelmed" by demand, limiting availability for such packages in its new stadium.
"As it turned out, we had an unexpected number of fans who wanted the full season, not dropping down because of the economy but going up," chief operating officer Lonn Trost said.
After selling 18,000 full season plans in 2008, he said the figure rose to 23,500 for '09.
Trost added that the team has sold 32,000 non-premium, "full-season equivalents," a measure of seats taken out of the inventory through full plans or in multiple partial plans.
That, combined with the fact that there are several thousand fewer seats in the new stadium than the old one, has pushed some longtime purchasers of weekend-only packages either to lesser seats or weekday plans - or both.
The reaction of Tony Vitale, 61, of Babylon was typical. He said after more than two decades of buying Sunday games, he has been offered less attractive bleacher seats.
" George Steinbrenner at least gave the appearance he cared about the fans," Vitale said. "Now you have a bunch of empty suits who don't care. It's just about the bottom line."
Joe Lopes, 54, of Glen Head said his Saturday-only seats down the leftfield line for the past decade were downgraded to bleacher seats, some of which have obstructed views in the new stadium.
"I stared at it for five minutes; it was incomprehensible," he said. "This isn't remotely like what I had ... I've been kidding my buddies, saying Bernie Madoff invented this scheme. Everyone got pushed back, pushed back, and those of us with partial plans got pushed all the way out to the bleachers."
Anthony LaMirata of Oceanside said his Sunday seats in the second row of the upper deck became seats two rows from the top of the stadium - on weekdays.
"They still have 81- and 41-game plans available because Bear Stearns and Salomon Brothers can't buy up these seats anymore," he said.
The only 81- 41- or 20-game packages offered for non-premium seats on the Yankees' Web site yesterday were for those at $325 per game for a full plan and $350 for a half- or quarter-season plan, suggesting some returning season-ticket holders opted for less expensive options.
There are another 4,000 seats designated "premium" at prices from $350 to $2,500 per game; Trost said about 70 percent of those have sold.
Many fans with partial plans indicated in phone interviews, e-mails and message-board posts the problem was not price; in many cases they requested seats more expensive than those they had last season.
Their irritation was over what they were offered, and the take-it-or-leave-it nature of the offers.
Trost said many potential concerns were addressed in a relocation guide sent in September.
"If they had read that, they would have understood," he said. "The reason partial plans aren't getting what they wanted is because we don't have the inventory."
Preferences were accommodated based on seniority, he said. "We didn't expect there would be such a demand for fulls," he said, "and we have to salvage 6,000 or 7,000 seats a game for general sale," to allow for fans who only want to attend an occasional game.
None of that was consolation to partial-plan fans who got their assignments Friday and tried to reach the ticket office Monday, only to discover it was relocating that day, making it difficult to reach people.
Most fans said they plan to renew and hope to upgrade in the future.
Lopes said one of his favorite things about going to games is taking pictures from the stands. "I'm going to need a bigger lens, I guess," he said.
Two of the many Yankees fans who had Saturday or Sunday ticket packages in the old stadium and were dissapointed with take-it-or-leave-it offers for less attractive seats in the new stadium:
98: East Rutherford
00: Saratoga Springs
03: Albany, Uniondale, DC, MSG I & II, Holmdel
04: Boston I
05: Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Pittsburgh
06: Toronto I & II, Hartford, Chicago I, Cleveland, Boston I & II, Philly I & II, DC, Milwaukee I, Vegas
07: Lollapalooza
08: Philly I, DC, MSG I & II
09: Chicago I & II, LA III & IV, Philly I, II & IV
10: St. Louis, Columbus, Buffalo, DC, Hartford, Boston
11: PJ20 I & II, Montreal, Toronto I & II, Ottawa, Hamilton, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Sao Paulo I & II, Rio, Costa Rica, Mexico City
12: Berlin I & II, Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen, Philly, Pensacola
13: Chicago, Worcester I & II, Brooklyn II, Philly I & II, Hartford, Baltimore, Charlotte, Phoenix, San Diego, LA II, Oakland, Vancouver
14: Milan, Trieste, Cincinnati, Austin I, Memphis, St Paul, Denver, Bridge School II
15: NYC, Bogota, Mexico City
00: Saratoga Springs
03: Albany, Uniondale, DC, MSG I & II, Holmdel
04: Boston I
05: Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Pittsburgh
06: Toronto I & II, Hartford, Chicago I, Cleveland, Boston I & II, Philly I & II, DC, Milwaukee I, Vegas
07: Lollapalooza
08: Philly I, DC, MSG I & II
09: Chicago I & II, LA III & IV, Philly I, II & IV
10: St. Louis, Columbus, Buffalo, DC, Hartford, Boston
11: PJ20 I & II, Montreal, Toronto I & II, Ottawa, Hamilton, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Sao Paulo I & II, Rio, Costa Rica, Mexico City
12: Berlin I & II, Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen, Philly, Pensacola
13: Chicago, Worcester I & II, Brooklyn II, Philly I & II, Hartford, Baltimore, Charlotte, Phoenix, San Diego, LA II, Oakland, Vancouver
14: Milan, Trieste, Cincinnati, Austin I, Memphis, St Paul, Denver, Bridge School II
15: NYC, Bogota, Mexico City
16: Miami, Tampa, Hampton, NYC I & II, Quebec, Toronto I, Fenway II, Wrigley II
18: Barcelona, Madrid, Seattle I, Boston I & II
22: Glendale, Oakland I, Sacramento, Toronto, Quebec, Hamilton, MSG, Camden, Nashville, Denver, Amsterdam I, Zurich, Vienna, Prague
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Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
EV- 08/09,10/2008.06/08,09/2009
10c always gets (well 99 percent of the time) the closest seats to the stage. Only reason anyone ever gets mediocre tickets is because some shows are jam full with 10c members and there's only so many stellar tickets. I've always been impressed at how the 10c pulls this off and how they evade TM's 10% percent fan club ticket policy.
they get the 8% for direct tenclub sales-those are what you want
then they have a 10C pre sale through TM-and hardly the best seats
RED SOX RULE!!!!!!
fuck da yank$
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