Cubs Tickets on Sale Today! (Success and Failure Thread)

[kroth1342]

Anyone else noticed the delay in regards to the release of info about the single game ticket sales? By this time, we usually have the date, new prices and the promotional schedule.

[Mark Priors Calves]

I think they go on-sale next Friday (2-19) but I don't have a link to any info.

[daske17]

Here you go

[hawkcub]

Good, if the casual fan doesn't know when tix go on sale maybe it will make it easier for me to get my 4 games this year. :D)

[Tracer Bullet]

bad timing. It's my son's birthday and I'm leaving work at noon Eastern that day. Will this be the first year I get lucky and get the call within the first hour? Not likely.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

Anybody seen this yet?

 

Link

 

Starting Monday, February 15th at 10am CT, fans will have first access to all Chicago Cubs 2010 regular season home games by going to Cubs.com and paying a 20% premium on the face value of the ticket. However, if you use a MasterCard card during this Pre-Sale promotion you will save 5% on the pre-sale price. In addition, you will receive a 20% discount on your next purchase with your MasterCard at the Cubs.com Shop when you enter this code (CHC20FEB) and use your MasterCard card.

[Jon]

I was just coming here to rant about it.

 

If they want more money, just raise the prices for the more desirable games. Don't pull crap like this. What a joke.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

Yeah, this looks like a way to raise prices while being able to claim they didn't raise prices. For the top games, many people will be willing to pay the premium, thus reducing the number of tix available for those games this year.

[SouthSideRyan]

Anybody seen this yet?

 

Link

 

Starting Monday, February 15th at 10am CT, fans will have first access to all Chicago Cubs 2010 regular season home games by going to Cubs.com and paying a 20% premium on the face value of the ticket. However, if you use a MasterCard card during this Pre-Sale promotion you will save 5% on the pre-sale price. In addition, you will receive a 20% discount on your next purchase with your MasterCard at the Cubs.com Shop when you enter this code (CHC20FEB) and use your MasterCard card.

 

They're getting really creative at getting more money without the price being attributed directly to the tickets. They also have a pre-sale for people who are premium members of the Cubs Club(or something like that) $250 membership to get like 16 tickets pre-sale.

[Jon]

The Cubs Club membership (scam) is based off of musicians who have been doing the same thing. This is taking the idea to another level.

 

If they really wanted to market it, they should call it the Virtual Waiting Room VIP pass.

[treebird]

i really think there aren't going to be many tickets when the normal first ticket day finally gets here.

[Jon]

i really think there aren't going to be many tickets when the normal first ticket day finally gets here.

I wouldn't worry too much, though it's possible people may make costly mistakes this year and won't learn their lesson until after this on-sale. Aside from maybe 2 or 3 games, the secondary market profit margin was already slim. If people use this to buy tickets to those games for resale, they're going to lose money.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

i really think there aren't going to be many tickets when the normal first ticket day finally gets here.

I wouldn't worry too much, though it's possible people may make costly mistakes this year and won't learn their lesson until after this on-sale. Aside from maybe 2 or 3 games, the secondary market profit margin was already slim. If people use this to buy tickets to those games for resale, they're going to lose money.

 

Yeah, with the already high price for premium games (or platinum) games and add 20% premnium to that, buying early to resale doesn't make much sense. Now, if there's a game you really want then paying the 20% might be better than risking getting shut out on Friday.

[big_shooter17]

Sox and opening day tickets will still net you a profit for resale, but this totally changes the secondary ebay market. One good thing about this, though is that if you are looking for pirates tickets in april or something like that, you won't have to compete with as many people on Friday. I was always annoyed when I wanted good tickets to those kinds of games and I have to sit in the VWR while other people are only going for opening day and sox tickets.

[treebird]

i think the secondary market will be awesome this year, it's just that i live far away and it's really helpful to plan this stuff further ahead. probably just risk and make some random trips this year.

[UMFan83]

i really think there aren't going to be many tickets when the normal first ticket day finally gets here.

I wouldn't worry too much, though it's possible people may make costly mistakes this year and won't learn their lesson until after this on-sale. Aside from maybe 2 or 3 games, the secondary market profit margin was already slim. If people use this to buy tickets to those games for resale, they're going to lose money.

 

Yeah, with the already high price for premium games (or platinum) games and add 20% premnium to that, buying early to resale doesn't make much sense. Now, if there's a game you really want then paying the 20% might be better than risking getting shut out on Friday.

 

It's crazy how much things have changed in 2005. I remember the hysteria of getting Red Sox/Cubs tickets, as well as White Sox and opening day and any weekend Cardinals game. If you got your hands on any of those tickets, you were going to get a nice profit. Now I don't think the demand is nearly as high. Sure if the Yankees or Red Sox come by, there will probably be some profit to be had, but other than that you can get any game during the season fairly easily. The only tickets I'm interested in February are Opening Day.

[Jon]

It's also a shift in how tickets are sold. Listings on eBay have declined dramatically while StubHub is now the place to buy and sell. It creates a very different dynamic when you're dealing with fixed price listings that are sorted from least to most expensive.

 

I think there will be a lot of tickets slightly above face value, but not enough to cover convenience charges for buying them and the fees for selling them. So you'll basically end up with a lot of people who are paying a little more than face and a lot of people who aren't making a profit. And a few companies (tickets.com, stubhub, ebay) that are making a ton.

[sethuel1]

I'll come out and say it: the organization is a bunch of [expletive] assholes

[Jon]

Also, MLB owns tickets.com and has a nice deal with StubHub.

 

So to be fair, there aren't many new ways left for the Cubs or MLB to make money outside of increasing ticket prices.

[seminarad]

I got this email today too and it turned my stomach. They already raised prices 10% according to ESPN, and now they are trying to get an additional 20% for games that will be in high demand. The only silver lining is that this will make it harder for brokers to profit. Still, this move will likely make it impossible to buy any good seats for weekend games in the summer at face value. By friday, all that will be left will be weekday games and april, may, september dates. Price increases are a fact of life, but this is so slippery.

[jersey cubs fan]

i really think there aren't going to be many tickets when the normal first ticket day finally gets here.

I wouldn't worry too much, though it's possible people may make costly mistakes this year and won't learn their lesson until after this on-sale. Aside from maybe 2 or 3 games, the secondary market profit margin was already slim. If people use this to buy tickets to those games for resale, they're going to lose money.

 

Yeah, with the already high price for premium games (or platinum) games and add 20% premnium to that, buying early to resale doesn't make much sense. Now, if there's a game you really want then paying the 20% might be better than risking getting shut out on Friday.

 

It's crazy how much things have changed in 2005. I remember the hysteria of getting Red Sox/Cubs tickets, as well as White Sox and opening day and any weekend Cardinals game. If you got your hands on any of those tickets, you were going to get a nice profit. Now I don't think the demand is nearly as high. Sure if the Yankees or Red Sox come by, there will probably be some profit to be had, but other than that you can get any game during the season fairly easily. The only tickets I'm interested in February are Opening Day.

 

I don't think it's that crazy, rather it's more of a return to normal. It's not like we spent decades in a situation where tickets were sold out in February and people could make huge profits sellign just a handful of games. Demand went through the roof and the Cubs kept prices articicially low for a couple years.

[hawkcub]

I got this email today too and it turned my stomach. They already raised prices 10% according to ESPN, and now they are trying to get an additional 20% for games that will be in high demand. The only silver lining is that this will make it harder for brokers to profit. Still, this move will likely make it impossible to buy any good seats for weekend games in the summer at face value. By friday, all that will be left will be weekday games and april, may, september dates. Price increases are a fact of life, but this is so slippery.

 

I think you are being a bit extreme here. I see this thing as kind of what they did last year in with their pay a boat load of money for the right to buy tickets early. They even say there is a limited amount of tickets they are selling early. Outside of Whitesox and Opening day I see very few people doing this. Shoot I'm going for St. Louis tickets on Memorial day weekend and I never even thought about doing this.

[seminarad]

I got this email today too and it turned my stomach. They already raised prices 10% according to ESPN, and now they are trying to get an additional 20% for games that will be in high demand. The only silver lining is that this will make it harder for brokers to profit. Still, this move will likely make it impossible to buy any good seats for weekend games in the summer at face value. By friday, all that will be left will be weekday games and april, may, september dates. Price increases are a fact of life, but this is so slippery.

 

I think you are being a bit extreme here. I see this thing as kind of what they did last year in with their pay a boat load of money for the right to buy tickets early. They even say there is a limited amount of tickets they are selling early. Outside of Whitesox and Opening day I see very few people doing this. Shoot I'm going for St. Louis tickets on Memorial day weekend and I never even thought about doing this.

 

Time will tell. I hope you are right, and I will be online friday morning trying to get tickets myself. Let's see what happens. My guess is that all the cards, sox, and most of the saturday games in july/august will be gone.

[Jon]

I took a look on Cubs.com for this year's pricing and it stated that all tickets will be subject to an additional 12% amusement tax. Previously, the amusement tax was factored into the ticket price. So consider that before you proceed to checkout.

[Tracer Bullet]

Any idea what the amusement tax rate was last year? Did they jack that up 3-4 percentage points to further dick over their fans?