Why aren't the Chiefs selling more Season Tickets?
 

Have they just become to expensive? Reason I am asking is that I received this email from the Chiefs today for season tickets and I thought they had a 20-yr waiting list.

There hasn't been a waiting list for at least three years,being in the marketing business myself I will give them major props though as they've done a helluva job selling the idea that it still exists.

I had no idea that it didn't. I also received an email saying that had alot of tickets left for the last 2 home games against the Chargers and the Bengals.

If a waiting list developed, Carl would raise the prices until it vanished. It's his job.

They always have late season tix available.

This is for next year though.

I am curious why the waiting list dryed up. Is Skip right that they are just more expensive now or is it that people like to watch on TV now.

Here's my take.


Creating urgency,this is a once in a forever chance.



Guranteed is always a great word.

But shouldn't we be asking if there is/was a waiting list and '06 is the first time in years then how in the hell can they gurantee play-off tickets for '05?


Again urgency.

What we don't see is the fine print,send $200 now to reserve 2 seats and even if the team doesn't make the post-season and you decide not to follow through with '06 seats you do not get a refund.


Sorry to sound so negative,it's just my 2 cents.

I would rather spend 40bucks at home with beer and food with my buds then go to the game and spend 300-500 dollars... I miss the crowd, but the prices are outrageous for my pay...

anyone sit in Club and enjoy it? How is the crowd?

Sure. I have many times. Crowd? Who cares? I never even noticed the rest of the crowd.

The new owner of the A's wants a new ballpark, which is not strange for a new owner in an old ballpark. What is strange, is he only wants a seating capacity of about 32K. Why? Just as you say, they want URGENCY to be perceived as real, and therefore create the shortage of quality seats to the average fan. Fear of missing out will force fence sitters to commit to season tickets a lot earlier than they otherwise would. It is absolutely the opposite at the Coliseum now, the fans have the A's over the barrel, knowing that the 50K seating capacity will rarely if ever sell out and therefore have the luxury of waiting until an hour before game time to decide if they want to go to games, and many times saying, f it, I have something better to do. The reverse effect of urgency is a sense of complacency, that the A's cannot overcome in their current venue. This is so bad, that with a contending team, they have 2 dollar view level seats, dollar hot dog Wednesdays, just to get the fans to the park.

Face it, the window is closing on King Carl's 5 year super bowl plan. Missouri is the show me state, and it is high time that the Chiefs showed you ticket holders something.

Club level sucks. Seriously, if you sit there, don't plan on standing up. Or if you do stand a lot, expect to get bitched at.

I had a friend who bought some season tickets, and he asked about a parking pass. THey said "There isn't even a waiting list for those." They don't sell em anymore.

yep ... well at least part of his job



the GM part comes in a distant second... that's why from a fan perspective have a GM/VPres/CEO combination is a bad thing. A major conflict of interest.

GM = win games

VPres = make money

CEO = Bottomline/maintain image/consistency blah,blah,blah

Why?

Mediocrity.