PromoTheRobot Posted February 11 Report Posted February 11 (edited) I don't have a subscription to the Buffalo News. So here's the Reddit post. Edited February 12 by PromoTheRobot 2 Quote
Taro T Posted February 11 Report Posted February 11 3 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said: I don't have a subscription to teh Buffalo News. So here's the Reddit post. If they REALLY want to keep opposing fans out of our barn; continue to play winning hockey. Demand for ST's will increase and that will significantly reduce the direct single game purchases from the Sabres directly. We all thought that the Canes restricting ticket sales from certain zip codes was bush league 20 years ago. It still is today. 4 2 1 Quote
PromoTheRobot Posted February 11 Author Report Posted February 11 8 minutes ago, #freejame said: This is lame, loser behavior. Is it? Or is it responding to fans who complained about the sea of red? Really it puts the onus of local fans to step up 1 1 1 2 1 Quote
shrader Posted February 11 Report Posted February 11 I absolutely hate it and that's before even considering that I'd be out of luck since I'm not in market. I've never understood how something like this would be legal. 2 1 1 1 Quote
tom webster Posted February 11 Report Posted February 11 Interesting. I was trading emails with my rep yesterday regarding adding to our account next year and at one point she said to me, “remember, you can do only have six season tickets in your name.” I had never heard this before. I wonder if this is part of their plan to limit brokers from buying tickets. 1 Quote
Sidc3000 Posted February 11 Report Posted February 11 (edited) 1 minute ago, tom webster said: Interesting. I was trading emails with my rep yesterday regarding adding to our account next year and at one point she said to me, “remember, you can do only have six season tickets in your name.” I had never heard this before. I wonder if this is part of their plan to limit brokers from buying tickets. Yeah I’m guessing this more related to brokers buying everything up Edited February 11 by Sidc3000 Quote
#freejame Posted February 11 Report Posted February 11 (edited) 42 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said: Is it? Or is it responding to fans who complained about the sea of red? Really it puts the onus of local fans to step up I bought a 5 pack a couple weeks ago (and was given a bonus game) and put in my deposit for seasons tickets next year (and was given a free game for this, too.) It’s loser behavior. Win hockey games. If you win them, they will come. Edited February 11 by #freejame 3 Quote
#freejame Posted February 11 Report Posted February 11 In news related to season tickets, they recently took the pricing off of the website. Methinks a price-hike is in the future. 1 Quote
Taro T Posted February 11 Report Posted February 11 2 minutes ago, #freejame said: In news related to season tickets, they recently took the pricing off of the website. Methinks a price-hike is in the future. Maybe it's related to them getting ready to add playoff pricing? (Am really looking forward to playoffs; am not remotely looking forward to seeing how much they're going to jack the prices up to.) But expecting it's due to what you said. 1 Quote
bob_sauve28 Posted February 11 Report Posted February 11 We can have ICE agents inspecting people's papers to make sure they are true Western New Yorkers Make Buffalo Great Again! 3 1 6 Quote
Eleven Posted February 11 Report Posted February 11 Bush league when Carolina did it 20 years ago and bush league now. 2 1 Quote
PromoTheRobot Posted February 11 Author Report Posted February 11 (edited) 50 minutes ago, #freejame said: I bought a 5 pack a couple weeks ago (and was given a bonus game) and put in my deposit for seasons tickets next year (and was given a free game for this, too.) It’s loser behavior. Win hockey games. If you win them, they will come. This has yet to be proven this year. 1 hour ago, PromoTheRobot said: Is it? Or is it responding to fans who complained about the sea of red? Really it puts the onus of local fans to step up Hey @mjd1001 and @LGR4GM, you disagree with me so are you saying locals don't need to buy tickets? What exactly are you disagreeing with? Edited February 11 by PromoTheRobot Quote
Taro T Posted February 11 Report Posted February 11 29 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said: This has yet to be proven this year. Hey @mjd1001 and @LGR4GM, you disagree with me so are you saying locals don't need to buy tickets? What exactly are you disagreeing with? To a degree, perhaps. But they've started selling out games pretty consistently the last 2 or 3 weeks. Yes, there was the Saturday Sea of Red in the stands vs Moe-ray-all, but pretty sure most of the Habs fans had bought their tix months ago. The weeknight game the previous week had less than 1/2 the Habs fans that the Saturday Habs game had. The Pens game had a lot of Pens fans but not even as many as there'd been Habs fans on the weeknight game. So, Sabres fans ARE buying tickets now that the team is playing well. Would they buy more, probably, but, you can't readily buy tix already sold to fans of visiting teams after those tix have been sold. Remember, back in '05-'06, the year started out regularly with only a 1/2 full building and by the time the RS came to a close there was a waiting list for tix. Quote
shrader Posted February 11 Report Posted February 11 1 hour ago, tom webster said: Interesting. I was trading emails with my rep yesterday regarding adding to our account next year and at one point she said to me, “remember, you can do only have six season tickets in your name.” I had never heard this before. I wonder if this is part of their plan to limit brokers from buying tickets. I just assumed the brokers getting so much was in the contract. The league is in bed with them. Quote
tom webster Posted February 11 Report Posted February 11 Just now, shrader said: I just assumed the brokers getting so much was in the contract. The league is in bed with them. I meant the middle brokers, not the big brokers. Guys that buy between ten and twenty seasons. The league is definitely in bed with Ticketmaster and StubHub and the like. 1 Quote
shrader Posted February 11 Report Posted February 11 11 minutes ago, tom webster said: I meant the middle brokers, not the big brokers. Guys that buy between ten and twenty seasons. The league is definitely in bed with Ticketmaster and StubHub and the like. I just assumed they're the only game in town at this point. Quote
pastajoe Posted February 11 Report Posted February 11 How does that prevent season ticket holders from reselling to fans of visiting teams? 2 Quote
Taro T Posted February 11 Report Posted February 11 2 minutes ago, pastajoe said: How does that prevent season ticket holders from reselling to fans of visiting teams? The Sabres sell through TicketMaster and MOST people sell through that app too because it's easy and it's where most of the people looking to buy go. If Ticketmaster won't let people from Canada buy tix to the Habs or Loafs games, they don't care whether the seats people are looking to buy are the blue (team direct sale) or pink (resale), they can block them from purchasing either. Quote
Taro T Posted February 11 Report Posted February 11 2 hours ago, tom webster said: Interesting. I was trading emails with my rep yesterday regarding adding to our account next year and at one point she said to me, “remember, you can do only have six season tickets in your name.” I had never heard this before. I wonder if this is part of their plan to limit brokers from buying tickets. Interesting that they're limiting people to 6 seats. Wonder if that means the big blocks inside the zones down in the 100's aren't going to be as noticable as they used to be. Back before the drought, there were always 2 and sometimes up to 4 areas inside the bluelines that had up to about 8 rows running nearly the entire row that would routinely be filled with visitng fans. Maybe those were the tix the home team alloted to the visitors, but it seemed there were way more people sitting there wearing the wrong colors to be accounted for just by ticket requests from the visitors. Always thought those were from ticket brokers looking to sell travel packages (transport, lodging, and game tix). Quote
tom webster Posted February 11 Report Posted February 11 32 minutes ago, shrader said: I just assumed they're the only game in town at this point. There’s still a few little guys. Quote
Sidc3000 Posted February 11 Report Posted February 11 21 minutes ago, pastajoe said: How does that prevent season ticket holders from reselling to fans of visiting teams? the Sabres can put in the terms that STH’s cannot sell tickets to certain games. Quote
Taro T Posted February 11 Report Posted February 11 4 minutes ago, Sidc3000 said: the Sabres can put in the terms that STH’s cannot sell tickets to certain games. So, you're saying if we go out of town during the season, there are going to be tix that we will have to necessarily let go unused? If there are games that we can't sell, are you also going to keep us from giving them away? What if I give them to my kid and he takes his buddy that's a fan of _____? How are you planning on regulating that? Quote
mjd1001 Posted February 11 Report Posted February 11 1 hour ago, PromoTheRobot said: This has yet to be proven this year. Hey @mjd1001 and @LGR4GM, you disagree with me so are you saying locals don't need to buy tickets? What exactly are you disagreeing with? I'm disagreeing with your counterpoint to it being 'loser behavior'. Sell tickets to whoever wants to buy them. If your fans want to be there bad enough, they will step up and by them (or at least not sell them to out-of-town fans or allow brokers to have them). If out of town fans or brokers get their hands on them, so be it. 1 1 Quote
Demoted Posted February 12 Report Posted February 12 Do whatever they want but they also need to KEEP WINNING. That is the only thing that puts home fans in the seats. 3 Quote
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