Mets Opening Day Tickets Cost More Than Regular Games? Duh…

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• DontEscrowTaxes November 19, 2012 at 5:31 pm

  People are not pissed about the comparative price of tickets versus other 2013 regular season dates. They are pissed about the price increase. It’s not hard to figure out man. This blog is cute but it is talking about a different issue. May want to re-write it.
  • Joe D November 19, 2012 at 5:37 pm

    How can you compare Opening Day single game tickets to last year or the year before, when they were never available unless you purchased a plan?

    What are you comparing this increase to?

    I say this was all just a drummed up story on a slow news day, which is okay if you want to do that. I’m just floored at the real outrage I’m seeing over it. It’s an overreaction that is unnecessary and baseless.

    But I sincerely appreciate your comment and respect your side of it.
• this is stupid November 19, 2012 at 5:38 pm

  wow she’s hot. any idea who that is?
• Kranepool7 November 19, 2012 at 5:42 pm

  I don’t disagree with you, but damn you always seem to be defending these cruddy owners.
• Metsie November 19, 2012 at 6:38 pm

  Funny how they don’t want to pay to see them but they are right there blaming the Wilpons when it comes time to spend money to make a good team….

  They can blame the Wilpons for the financial problems all they want but the truth is all that Payroll the folks here complained about WAS SPENT and the same folks who bitched about it are the ones who didn’t go to pay for it when they DID put the money out there on the line!

  You want to know why the Mets have financial problems here is what you do….

  Stand in front of a mirror and count the number of Met tickets you have….

  If there are none or enough to hold in just one hand you found the person who is REALLY GUILTY of killing the Met Finances and causing all the losing that will ensue because we could not afford to keep all the players who could help us win games if we were not so focused on balancing the checkbook.
• TruthsaboutMurphy November 19, 2012 at 6:51 pm

  I agree Joe… The fans who are left that will actually buy a ticket are dwindling. Fred needs those extra clams to pay for all those AAAA players Sandy is going to sign.

  Remember, his plan is a build from within and wait for contracts to be gone. Problem is, they don’t even have enough cash to fund a proper draft.

  Ticket prices? There’s much more dire subjects to piss and moan about!!!
• Joey D. November 19, 2012 at 7:27 pm

  Hi Joe,

  I hope you weren’t thinking of me because I mentioned that an opening day ticket would cost more than a night game against the Marlins in mid April.

  I was trying to make a point about the price of a ticket for the Champion’s Club plummeting is an indication of how much trouble the Mets are indeed having selling tickets. I used the $189 season ticket price as a reference point only because it was a price I could confirm through direct knowledge and then the reference to the Fish only to make it clear that I understood the $189 price in the Champion’s Club did not apply to other games.

  For games against the Giants, Cardinals and Tigers I said considering this day and age, that food and beverage is included and one sits in fully cushioned leather seats with a tremendous view of the field, $85 was indeed not a bad price for those who had the money.
  But that it was also less than half what I believe a ticket for the same games against world, league and division champions would have gone for two years, based on the high cost of that opening day ticket just for season ticket holders (individual game price was about $225 each).

  What I was attempting to convey was with the Mets being forced to make deep cuts in their more expensive ticket prices was going to have an adverse effect on their budgetary constraints and fielding both a moderately expensive roster and maintaining a top class organization for according to their own projections in 2009 they needed an average 38,200 paying 2009 prices in order to break even. Dynamic pricing won’t be the solution for just like share of stock, the price can only go so high before people stop buying.
• taskmaster4450 November 19, 2012 at 8:55 pm

  On a bright note, the union and management agreed to a mediator so Twinkies might not be gone.
  • Bayonne Mets Fan November 19, 2012 at 9:04 pm

    Actually Hostess is liquidating it’s assets so other companies are in line to buy some of their products which is something I thought should’ve happened in the first place and not surprising at all. Would you please get something right here for once
    • Joey D. November 19, 2012 at 9:33 pm

      Actually a judge ordered both sides back to the bargaining table before allowing the company to file for bankruptcy.

      BTW – my first love is the hostess snowball with the cup cakes and twinkies tying for a close second. Not to proud to say I would even go one of their thrift shops to get two-day expired sell by date snowballs for a really cheap price.

      http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2012/11/19/hostess-not-going-out-of-business.html
    • taskmaster4450 November 19, 2012 at 10:18 pm

      Hey Genius. Why dont you read the latest news.

      http://www.marketwatch.com/story/hostess-union-go-to-mediation-to-avert-shutdown-2012-11-19

      Seems you are the ignorant one…like Ron White says, you cant fix stupid.
• Larry Kaplan November 20, 2012 at 10:08 am

  For the record, I bought Opening day tickets last year, and the year before, and the year before, as individual game tickets. Your facts are wrong. I will also point out that there is no way that “Dynamic pricing” will come into effect. They will not sell out at this price. They didn’t sell out last year, when tickets were 50 percent cheaper.

  The bottom line is this. The Mets are trying to eliminate the secondary market. They think those are the cheapest the seats will go for on stubhub, so why not eliminate the middle man. Here is the problem with that. Whether they are right that people will pay it or not (they are not right), they risk alienating the last few loyal fans they have. I go to Opening Day every year, and after seeing those prices, I was so disgusted by the principle of it that I did not buy tickets. Even if tickets do go down, and I end up buying some, I probably won’t go to any other games for awhile.

  You could argue that I’m only one person, but I think I’m closer to the norm than to the exception.
  • Joey D. November 20, 2012 at 11:35 am

    Hi Larry,

    No, you are not alone. In fact, last year somebody called up FAN and said how disgusted he was to find that somebody sitting next to him paid $15 less for his opening day ticket due to Dynamic Pricing.

    Though Dynamic Pricing is not limited to the Mets, it is indeed unfair. As we know, the company line is that one can save money by purchasing tickets early for a game expected to be in high demand or save money by purchasing tickets at the last minute for a game expected to be of low demand.

    Tickets should not be sold on auction with the price going up and down like shares being traded on the stock market. You are right, it is simply to out-stub Stub Hub.

    And do you know that the same seats at the same ticket prices could be acquired through Stub Hub cheaper because the total processing, mark-up and shipping costs are less than they are through Mets.Com.

    Which I also find insulting. Tickets start as low as ten dollars? Well, with all the processing fees added to the cost of the seat alone – and that is not including the shipping or printing fees that are also added, the cost is much higher. We had our tickets for a game two years shipped to us. They were $19 each. Total cost: $63! The Mets added $25 for a computer printing out the tickets and the four or five dollars it cost them (getting the corporate rate) for second day delivery. So the cost of the tickets (without the shipping) was really $29 as far as I was concerned.

    All teams add on these costs – the reason for it is because the visiting team gets a certain portion of the ticket price only. All additinal charges go completely to the home club. But then, the Mets are one of the highest of all 30 clubs when it comes to those additional costs.
    • srt November 20, 2012 at 11:38 am

      As a fan that hasn’t seen Citi field yet…from everything I’ve read it’s less expensive to purchase tickets on Stub Hub. If that’s true, why would anyone go directly through the Mets to purchase them? Do you get something extra for buying tickets of mets.com?

      I’m truly curious…not faulting anyone.
      • Metsie November 20, 2012 at 12:07 pm

        The Mets probably have better seats available than StubHub does.

        Most Ticket Vendors get a block of Tickets to sell and usually not the prime seats that are available.

        As for the Rise in Opening Day single ticket the whole reason for doing this is to try and get you to buy a plan where the price is probably the same as a normal game and whatever rise might be included is amortized over the price of several tickets.