season ticket wait list.....

[Sammys Boombox]

Ticket rep just told me there would be one on 3/5.

[SheffieldBoy]

I think the Cubs updated the wait list again recently.

 

I signed up on October 11, 2014 and was 67018 in line

I check today on May 21, 2015 and am now 49908 in line.

 

That's pretty impressive of a jump in just seven months time! :-) Anyway, just thought it was interesting they updated recently and wanted to share.. I'm relatively new on here.

[Clem Fandango]

Yup, I'm down to 47,000 now after being at like 65,000 or something.

[Tryptamine]

38,149. Doesn't look like 2016 is going to happen. :(

[Irrelevant Dude]

How has everyone been doing on ticket resale this year?

 

I haven't noticed much increase in demand and am still selling a high majority of my tickets at a loss, including most weekend games. I'm starting to wonder whether we will ever see a return to the late 2000's attendance levels. Even with the Cubs playing well, the market is still flooded with tickets to almost every game.

 

Increased StubHub fees don't help either, but it still feels like something is off. There are plenty of tickets available to this weekend's Giants series below face value. What is everyone waiting for?

[Clem Fandango]

Yup, I'm down to 47,000 now after being at like 65,000 or something.

 

I would assume I wrote a nice round 47,000 because my number was actually something like 47,478 or something like that, but it seems they've tacked on an extra thousand and now I'm at like 48,700.

 

Neat.

[apete6]

How has everyone been doing on ticket resale this year?

 

I haven't noticed much increase in demand and am still selling a high majority of my tickets at a loss, including most weekend games. I'm starting to wonder whether we will ever see a return to the late 2000's attendance levels. Even with the Cubs playing well, the market is still flooded with tickets to almost every game.

 

Increased StubHub fees don't help either, but it still feels like something is off. There are plenty of tickets available to this weekend's Giants series below face value. What is everyone waiting for?

 

In the same boat as you. I've been trying to sell as many as possible at face value to family/friends/co-workers to avoid the StubHub fees. The only games I've made a profit on this year are Opening Day (upgraded to better seats through the presale, so it was a wash) and the White Sox series (minimal profit).

 

I think the days of using Season Tickets as an investment ended after 2008 unless you want to sell playoff games and/or the Cubs really start dominating. The team has gone to the full extreme on pricing tiers, which is probably the main culprit besides actual team performance. However, I remember that you could get any ticket you wanted for face or slightly above for basically all of 2003.

[Springfield_CUBBY]

I'm down to #20680 . . . but I feel like I've been on the list forever. Not sure when I can expect to get the call, but that's OK, because my plan is for this to happen when I hit retirement. As to the glut of tickets, I can say that - as the father of 5 - I have never taken them to a game. The cost is just too prohibitive.

[Tryptamine]

38,149. Doesn't look like 2016 is going to happen. :(

 

 

Up to 38,147, hooray.

[profisme]

How has everyone been doing on ticket resale this year?

 

I haven't noticed much increase in demand and am still selling a high majority of my tickets at a loss, including most weekend games. I'm starting to wonder whether we will ever see a return to the late 2000's attendance levels. Even with the Cubs playing well, the market is still flooded with tickets to almost every game.

 

Increased StubHub fees don't help either, but it still feels like something is off. There are plenty of tickets available to this weekend's Giants series below face value. What is everyone waiting for?

 

In the same boat as you. I've been trying to sell as many as possible at face value to family/friends/co-workers to avoid the StubHub fees. The only games I've made a profit on this year are Opening Day (upgraded to better seats through the presale, so it was a wash) and the White Sox series (minimal profit).

 

I think the days of using Season Tickets as an investment ended after 2008 unless you want to sell playoff games and/or the Cubs really start dominating. The team has gone to the full extreme on pricing tiers, which is probably the main culprit besides actual team performance. However, I remember that you could get any ticket you wanted for face or slightly above for basically all of 2003.

 

 

The biggest financial benefit I have seen so far has been from concert presale tickets. I will take a bit of a loss on my season tickets but that has been more than made up for by the profit on the concerts. I really do think that we will see the tickets at the end of September go for more than face value (if the Cubs are still competing for a playoff spot) and hopefully next year will be even better.

 

The better product on the field will help immensely with the attendance.

[jersey cubs fan]

How has everyone been doing on ticket resale this year?

 

I haven't noticed much increase in demand and am still selling a high majority of my tickets at a loss, including most weekend games. I'm starting to wonder whether we will ever see a return to the late 2000's attendance levels. Even with the Cubs playing well, the market is still flooded with tickets to almost every game.

 

Increased StubHub fees don't help either, but it still feels like something is off. There are plenty of tickets available to this weekend's Giants series below face value. What is everyone waiting for?

 

History tells us that demand does not truly reach high levels until after the team has returned to playoff caliber. You could get tickets very easily in 1998, 2003 and 2008. It was the following years where costs soared.

 

5 straight years of complete ineptitude erased the demand and that wasn't going to return this year unless they went on an epic run and looked to be division contenders. As it is now, they are on the cusp of the second wild card. And they can't score any runs. That is not going to put butts in seats.

[Sammy Sofa]

My group has sold a ton more tickets this season so far vs. what we were able to do to this point over the last couple of years.

[Burtonbell]

41,180 last year

24,264 this year.

 

Hmmm...So I guess I will get called next year? Thats too soon. I need more money!

[SouthSideRyan]

41,180 last year

24,264 this year.

 

Hmmm...So I guess I will get called next year? Thats too soon. I need more money!

 

There's no way you get called next year. I'd be surprised if you were called within 5.

[Derwood]

41,180 last year

24,264 this year.

 

Hmmm...So I guess I will get called next year? Thats too soon. I need more money!

 

There's no way you get called next year. I'd be surprised if you were called within 5.

 

Yep, that jump from 41k to 24k probably has more to do with people giving up/dropping from the wait list than from tickets becoming available. The closer you get to the top of the list, the slower you'll move

[Old Style]

I've been disappointed with tickets sales so far this season. Of course the monster chunk StubHub takes out of every sale doesn't help matters much. It amazes mw how much more Saturday tickets sell for than Sunday against the same opponent. It's not uncommon for the one day differential to cause a 50% drop in prices. Hopefully we can make it to the playoffs. Maybe then we can make up for some of these losses. Being across the country, I probably won't make a trip back to Wrigley until the World Series whereas I assume many of you will use playoff tickets yourselves.

[Smack]

I've been disappointed with tickets sales so far this season. Of course the monster chunk StubHub takes out of every sale doesn't help matters much. It amazes mw how much more Saturday tickets sell for than Sunday against the same opponent. It's not uncommon for the one day differential to cause a 50% drop in prices. Hopefully we can make it to the playoffs. Maybe then we can make up for some of these losses. Being across the country, I probably won't make a trip back to Wrigley until the World Series whereas I assume many of you will use playoff tickets yourselves.

 

Saturday games are way better for those looking to party. Which I assume are a lot of people going to Cub games....

[jersey cubs fan]

I've been disappointed with tickets sales so far this season. Of course the monster chunk StubHub takes out of every sale doesn't help matters much. It amazes mw how much more Saturday tickets sell for than Sunday against the same opponent. It's not uncommon for the one day differential to cause a 50% drop in prices. Hopefully we can make it to the playoffs. Maybe then we can make up for some of these losses. Being across the country, I probably won't make a trip back to Wrigley until the World Series whereas I assume many of you will use playoff tickets yourselves.

 

Saturday games are way better for those looking to party. Which I assume are a lot of people going to Cub games....

Also for people visiting from out of town. Fly in Friday night, game and stuff Saturday, fly home Sunday.

[sontensei]

getting season tickets to resell for a sports team besides the blackhawks in chicago is a really bad idea.

[Thed Hoyerstein]

uh.... the bears?

[apete6]

getting season tickets to resell for a sports team besides the blackhawks in chicago is a really bad idea.

 

Well, actually. The Bears, Blackhawks, and Bulls are always at or near 100% capacity and when the Cubs are good, it's actually a decent return as well. You can ALWAYS sell tickets for at least face value for every team in the city besides the White Sox and weekday/weeknight games when the Cubs are awful.

[Old Style]

getting season tickets to resell for a sports team besides the blackhawks in chicago is a really bad idea.

That wasn't my original intention when I signed up on the waiting list. I figured my name would get called maybe when I was closer to retirement. My number was called a good 15-20 years before I expected. With the wait list as huge as it was a few years ago and the promise of a very bright future I opted to get the tickets mainly so if/when the Cubs make the World Series I can attend the games. I would never be able to afford the astronomical scalper prices WS tickets would surely command. I expected short term losses and hoped for little more than break even on good years. Any profit from playoff seasons would be a little bonus. I never expected to get rich off this.

[apete6]

getting season tickets to resell for a sports team besides the blackhawks in chicago is a really bad idea.

That wasn't my original intention when I signed up on the waiting list. I figured my name would get called maybe when I was closer to retirement. My number was called a good 15-20 years before I expected. With the wait list as huge as it was a few years ago and the promise of a very bright future I opted to get the tickets mainly so if/when the Cubs make the World Series I can attend the games. I would never be able to afford the astronomical scalper prices WS tickets would surely command. I expected short term losses and hoped for little more than break even on good years. Any profit from playoff seasons would be a little bonus. I never expected to get rich off this.

 

Nor should you expect to get rich off of it, but the resale market is a major draw when you have season tickets for anything, but especially with the Cubs. Besides the couple of family days per year, limited pre-sale for additional tickets, and alleged ticket pre-sale codes for concerts (that also go to anyone in the neighborhood or on the waiting list, so it's basically useless), they have little extra benefit of having season tickets besides the games (and especially potential playoff games). Teams that have crummy attendance have all sorts of perks with season tickets (free/reduced parking, big time discounts on food/bev, generous ticket trade policies, etc..) and the Cubs offer very little of that. Hell, PTR thinks it's a huge bonus to offer a Castro signed ball if you pay in cash/check up front rather than just the deposit in October then the balance in January.

[Irrelevant Dude]

I just received my postseason ticket invoice. Yikes! Those are some jacked up prices. The postseason invoice is almost as much as my full 81 game regular season package.

[Sammys Boombox]

I just received my postseason ticket invoice. Yikes! Those are some jacked up prices. The postseason invoice is almost as much as my full 81 game regular season package.

 

Um, the prices are really, really low in terms of what they will be selling for on the secondary market.

 

Also, FYI, I just learned a couple of weeks ago that we can buy single game tickets from our reps for the same price as a the season ticket price with no additional fees! This is awesome since dynamic pricing is used.

 

I bought a whole bunch of tickets for my dad's 50th birthday at less than half of what it would have cost me on StubHub or Cubs.com.