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Re: Pats ticket office: renewals at 98%, same as usual
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Originally Posted by AStack75
I tend to believe your suspicions also. I'm assuming that in previous years, the number of people you knew who gave up seats was probably zero.
That's exactly the truth! Of all the people that I know personally who have tickets, this is the FIRST year that any of them haven't renewed... and it's already up to 6 sets of tickets.
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Re: Pats ticket office: renewals at 98%, same as usual
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Originally Posted by bruschifan1
That's exactly the truth! Of all the people that I know personally who have tickets, this is the FIRST year that any of them haven't renewed... and it's already up to 6 sets of tickets.
I have the feeling that folks here "want to believe" that significant numbers of season ticket holders are dumping their tix due to the price hike. So, how many would be significant? One thousand? Two thousand? A 5-percent turnover would be somewhere around 3,400. My gut tells me that what the Patriots say is much closer to the truth than what people are reporting here as trend based on small random bits of anecdotal info.
Re: Pats ticket office: renewals at 98%, same as usual
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Originally Posted by Tunescribe
I have the feeling that folks here "want to believe" that significant numbers of season ticket holders are dumping their tix due to the price hike. So, how many would be significant? One thousand? Two thousand? A 5-percent turnover would be somewhere around 3,400. My gut tells me that what the Patriots say is much closer to the truth than what people are reporting here as trend based on small random bits of anecdotal info.
Usually a valid point, but when someone like Mrs B who knows lots of ST holders none of whom for years have ever droped out, suddenly knows 6 who this year only just gave up their tix, anecdotal though it be, that's significant.
My bet is that quietly, the VIPs are jumping in on the 100 section seats.
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Re: Pats ticket office: renewals at 98%, same as usual
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Originally Posted by Tunescribe
I have the feeling that folks here "want to believe" that significant numbers of season ticket holders are dumping their tix due to the price hike.
Want to believe? It is what it is. Whether six or six thousand other people gave up their season tickets has no bearing on my life. I gave up my tickets for my reasons. Others gave up their seats for their reasons. Not sure what the big deal is. They're tickets to professional football games....not your first born child.
Re: Pats ticket office: renewals at 98%, same as usual
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Originally Posted by PatsWickedPissah
My bet is that quietly, the VIPs are jumping in on the 100 section seats.
I keep reading this idea of "VIPs" being slipped season tickets ahead of people on the waiting list. Where are people getting this notion? Anything to back it up?
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Originally Posted by AStack75
Want to believe? It is what it is. Whether six or six thousand other people gave up their season tickets has no bearing on my life. I gave up my tickets for my reasons. Others gave up their seats for their reasons. Not sure what the big deal is. They're tickets to professional football games....not your first born child.
I wasn't making a bigger deal out of this than anyone else in the thread; it's certainly nothing to get defensive about. I just find it curious that people here doubt the Patriots' claim of a 98-percent renewal rate based on hearing about a few here or there who aren't renewing. Then there are these mysterious "VIP" folks butting to the front of the line to scarf up what's available. Weird.
Re: Pats ticket office: renewals at 98%, same as usual
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Originally Posted by Tunescribe
I keep reading this idea of "VIPs" being slipped season tickets ahead of people on the waiting list. Where are people getting this notion? Anything to back it up?
I know when my neighbors gave up their tickets a few years ago, instead of someone from the 300 section moving up or a waiting list person getting them; a cheerleader got them as comp tickets. Most staff get two comp tickets while employed with the Patriots. I guess that would be considered VIP slipping up.
Re: Pats ticket office: renewals at 98%, same as usual
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Originally Posted by Tunescribe
I keep reading this idea of "VIPs" being slipped season tickets ahead of people on the waiting list. Where are people getting this notion? Anything to back it up?
I wasn't making a bigger deal out of this than anyone else in the thread; it's certainly nothing to get defensive about. I just find it curious that people here doubt the Patriots' claim of a 98-percent renewal rate based on hearing about a few here or there who aren't renewing. Then there are these mysterious "VIP" folks butting to the front of the line to scarf up what's available. Weird.
Not wierd in that it finally came out that ST holders of 30 yrs had zero chance of geting SB tix which was NOT understood at 1st. VIP treatment has ruled for the last several years.
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This is known as "bad luck." RAH
Re: Pats ticket office: renewals at 98%, same as usual
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Originally Posted by PatsWickedPissah
Not wierd in that it finally came out that ST holders of 30 yrs had zero chance of geting SB tix which was NOT understood at 1st. VIP treatment has ruled for the last several years.
"VIP treatment" in the case of Super Bowl tickets involves club seat holders and luxury box folks. That's totally different than "VIPs" getting dibs on season tickets in the stadium proper in place of waiting-list folks. I'm still waiting for people to back up that allegation.
Re: Pats ticket office: renewals at 98%, same as usual
Not for nothing, but I got a call to that I was able to relocate my seats in the lower bowl from 127 (where visiting teams get tickets) over to 128 and 3 rows closer to the field.
Re: Pats ticket office: renewals at 98%, same as usual
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Originally Posted by Ras
Not for nothing, but I got a call to that I was able to relocate my seats in the lower bowl from 127 (where visiting teams get tickets) over to 128 and 3 rows closer to the field.
Damned VIP!!!!
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