Cavs Season Ticket Renewals/Pricing

[westsidebob]

Here's another data point as I've received my renewal pricing as well. My three seats (in S133 R11) went up just $150 for our 10-game plan. That's a 6.25% increase over last year (or $5 per seat, per game).

You do realize you made me break out the calculator and remember algebra to figure out that your tickets went from $80 to $85 per game for a ten game plan, right?

Do you help develop the SAT?

 

[Cavsfan1985]

What I think had a WAY more negative effect was the Cavs acting like Nazi Germany early on.

They were threatening season ticket holders left and right about being a ticket "broker" i.e. trying to sell tickets for an arbitrary price they deemed to be too high.

This caused a larger majority of people to list tickets way too close to face value. Why does that matter? Flash Seats is just a cesspool of people trying to pay WAY less than face value for seats. So when the Cavs threats caused the average ticket price on there to go down, it also really undercut bids. Instead of listing tickets at lets says twice face and accepting a bid at 100-120%, many games you face eating the seats or taking a loss because people are too paranoid to list their tickets at market prices.

I've been lucky to avoid that in almost every game but the majority of bids I get on the site are WAYYYY below the face value of my seats. When I had tickets in 2009-2010, there honestly was 1/10th the number of low bids there are now. For that reason, it's unlikely I'll renew my tickets.

The Cavs hardline stance has made it a lot less economical to buy tickets, even for someone who's going to use them. The playoff guarantee is nice but with the current system, you open yourself up to a lot more financial exposure than a traditional contending team. I'm sure it's great for all the people in the organization on the take but season tickets should be about rewarding fans willing to invest in the team, not squeezing every last penny out of them for the betterment of the casual fan (buying single game tickets).

/endrant

I cannot agree more. The part that would help FlashSeats is if you could counter with those making bids, It would be nice to counter and see if a deal could be made.

 

[Redzone]

Really? How many seats do you have? 2? 4?

Ok, I take back what I said in my last post my tickets went up by twice that amount I had originally said. My math was off.

According to the monthly payment amount that they gave me today (based on 11 months since there was no January charge... they said they would adjust future payments to make up the difference) I calculated that my seats went up by $12 per seat per game, or $528 on the year.

Still not bad, but I'm shocked by your number. My seats went up by 19%. How did your seats go up by $64 per seat? Were you paying $320 per seat last year?

I corrected my last post as my math was also off: my seats (s) went up "only" $28 each; I'm being increased about 18% overall for both full season tickets and parking. Sounds like the increase is in line with your increase of 19%.

 

[theSTEREO.]

I corrected my last post as my math was also off: my seats (s) went up "only" $28 each; I'm being increased about 18% overall for both full season tickets and parking. Sounds like the increase is in line with your increase of 19%.

Yeah, I saw Darren Rovell tweeted that the Cavs increased prices approx. 10-20% overall depending on your seat location. He seemed to think that was really low.

I'm just basically looking at it like they raised it 10% last year and 9% this year on me.

I mean, I wish it didn't increase cause I was gonna upgrade, but now I'm just gonna stick with my regular seats. I like the view there.

Kinda dreading what playoff pricing is gonna be though...

 

[bgabbard1]

I am considering not renewing because of the increase in prices. Does anyone know if this effects my rights to playoff tickets this year? I've heard both yes and no. For season tickets for every other team I've had, you don't have to buy tickets for the next year to have priority to buy playoff tickets for the current year.

 

[theSTEREO.]

I corrected my last post as my math was also off: my seats (s) went up "only" $28 each; I'm being increased about 18% overall for both full season tickets and parking. Sounds like the increase is in line with your increase of 19%.

Also, just curious... What is the cost of a parking pass? I don't even know that they are available to half season members, but I'm getting tired of the East Garage being full over an hour before game time.

 

[theSTEREO.]

I am considering not renewing because of the increase in prices. Does anyone know if this effects my rights to playoff tickets this year? I've heard both yes and no. For season tickets for every other team I've had, you don't have to buy tickets for the next year to have priority to buy playoff tickets for the current year.

Good question. Years ago when I had partial season tickets, you had to renew in order to qualify for current year playoffs. However that was just for 10 game packages. Hopefully they'll treat you better for full season.

I'm guessing if you don't renew you'll get priority, but not a guarantee of your same exact seats or general location.

 

[Redzone]

Also, just curious... What is the cost of a parking pass? I don't even know that they are available to half season members, but I'm getting tired of the East Garage being full over an hour before game time.

In the past, full season ticketholders got half a season included and the other half cost $300+. I couldn't even tell you the breakdown this year, other than I have parking for the year, since there is no breakdown: just, basically, here's your price (really not even that: it's here's your perpetual monthly payment). I had to do math to figure out the total payments.

 

[LuNcHBoX]

By my rough math without breaking it down finely went up over $500. I was already leaning toward not renewing because of how easy it is to get cheap tickets off Flashseats so this pretty much cements my decision.

 

[Hutch316]

My seats went up 60 percent from this season....go fuck yourself Dan

 

[theSTEREO.]

My seats went up 60 percent from this season....go fuck yourself Dan

Um... what? I thought it was reported most everywhere that the increase was 10-20%. Where are your seats?

 

[Hutch316]

Um... what? I thought it was reported most everywhere that the increase was 10-20%. Where are your seats?

From $12 to $19. Ya it is only $7. But adds $1000 to my bill for the year......i am legend status yet I get a 60 percent increase.....Dan can eat a dick

 

[theSTEREO.]

Yikes

 

[Hutch316]

Yikes

Ya that is shit......been at $10 to $12 for years.

 

[Redzone]

I thought we'd get more intel on ticket pricing in this thread. Anyone else care to share what their increases, etc. are?