Cubs cancelled my season tickets - anyone else?

[evanstonian]

The Cubs want to be sure that someone is also investing their "TIME" in the team.

 

LOL. You think the Cubs give a sh*t about anything other than your money and their public image (which also increases money for them)?

 

You DO know that this is the billionaire Ameritrade family that supported Donald Trump, right? (http://www.si.com/mlb/2016/09/21/ricketts-family-endorses-donald-trump-campaign-chicago-cubs)

 

I'm sure it had nothing to do with favorable tax treatment.

Edited December 14, 2016 by evanstonian

[CubinNY]

When you buy season tickets you are not supposed to be making an investment for a financial return.

 

Right, because season ticket holders are not entitled to receive anything favorable for investing thousands of dollars for years, including during bad seasons.

 

They should just give the tickets at face value to you -- the guy who was sitting on his couch eating pork rinds -- rather than putting them on a marketplace that millions of people have access to and can decide what the value of the ticket is worth to them.

 

Seems fair.

I prefer bbq chips. Nobody cares how much you spent. You are not supposed to buy season tickets so you can go to the games you want for free or to make money. You are delusional. If you are giving them to me at face value they are not for free.

 

Scalpers are among the lowest forms of humanity.

[BigbadB]

The Cubs want to be sure that someone is also investing their "TIME" in the team.

 

LOL. You think the Cubs give a sh*t about anything other than your money and their public image (which also increases money for them)?

 

You DO know that this is the billionaire Ameritrade family that supported Donald Trump, right? (http://www.si.com/mlb/2016/09/21/ricketts-family-endorses-donald-trump-campaign-chicago-cubs)

 

So you didn't REALLY lose your season tickets afterall? All of this was just a big lie?

[evanstonian]

So you didn't REALLY lose your season tickets afterall? All of this was just a big lie?

 

The Ricketts are not losing money by kicking me off the season ticket list and giving my seats to another guy. That makes this stunt even more hilarious -- they knew that I and other season ticket holders were doing this for years and didn't cancel. Why not? Because nobody was going to those games then.

 

It's hilarious but sad that you guys think they care about you. They returned 108 years of loyalty and years of overpriced baseball the only way they know how: By raising ticket prices by 20% on you season ticket holders.

[CubinNY]

So you didn't REALLY lose your season tickets afterall? All of this was just a big lie?

 

The Ricketts are not losing money by kicking me off the season ticket list and giving my seats to another guy. That makes this stunt even more hilarious -- they knew that I and other season ticket holders were doing this for years and didn't cancel. Why not? Because nobody was going to those games then.

 

It's hilarious but sad that you guys think they care about you. They returned 108 years of loyalty and years of overpriced baseball the only way they know how: By raising ticket prices by 20% on you season ticket holders.

You really do not get it. Nobody thinks the Cubs are thinking about them. This is about your behavior and your expectation of the consequences of your behavior. Buying Cubs tickets is not an investment opportunity.

[Tracer Bullet]

The very fact that this dude is talking about 2009-14 in terms of 'lost money' is game, set and match.

 

You didn't lose money those years. You purchased Chicago Cubs tickets. You're pissed that you didn't get to then profit off them. Done.

 

Don't agree at all.

 

2013-14 sucked. Those of us that had them those years did so for the payoff of having them when they were good. It was money lit on fire.

 

This mentality is so stupid. No one who purchased season tickets lost money. You bought tickets and had the right to go to those games. If you didn't think the cost was worth it to attend 81 games of horsefeathers baseball, you didn't have to buy the tickets.

 

But you did because you expected the Cubs to be good and you wanted to sell those tickets for a profit. You're now getting to do that and will continue to do that. Thinking you incurred losses because you knowingly bought tickets for a crap team is just dumb. Not profiting as much as you want isn't a loss.

[evanstonian]

Nobody thinks the Cubs are thinking about them.

 

Yes you do. You think the Cubs want the "true" fans to be the ones holding season tickets as opposed to scalpers. Stop lying.

[evanstonian]

You bought tickets and had the right to go to those games.

 

Did you have the right to go to those games? The Cubs would disagree.

[Derwood]

The Cubs don't care who the horsefeathers fills the seats, they just don't want to be beaten at their own game

[Transmogrified Tiger]

You bought tickets and had the right to go to those games.

 

Did you have the right to go to those games? The Cubs would disagree.

 

is that why you went to those 9 games, to make sure the tickets still worked

[David]

The very fact that this dude is talking about 2009-14 in terms of 'lost money' is game, set and match.

 

You didn't lose money those years. You purchased Chicago Cubs tickets. You're pissed that you didn't get to then profit off them. Done.

 

Don't agree at all.

 

2013-14 sucked. Those of us that had them those years did so for the payoff of having them when they were good. It was money lit on fire.

 

This mentality is so stupid. No one who purchased season tickets lost money. You bought tickets and had the right to go to those games. If you didn't think the cost was worth it to attend 81 games of horsefeathers baseball, you didn't have to buy the tickets.

 

But you did because you expected the Cubs to be good and you wanted to sell those tickets for a profit. You're now getting to do that and will continue to do that. Thinking you incurred losses because you knowingly bought tickets for a crap team is just dumb. Not profiting as much as you want isn't a loss.

 

Never said it wasn't worth it. I said 2013-14 sucked. The price wasn't worth it to attend 81 games of horrifically shitty baseball, but that wasn't the only thing we were buying, as you pointed out. We also didn't buy them to profit, unless you're referring to the ability to go to a bunch of games at a reduced cost vs. the Cubs' dynamic pricing or the secondary market (by way of the ones we do sell) as the profit. Sure, then yeah. And it's much easier to do that now.

 

EDIT - or let me put it another way...I wish we had been one of the very lucky ones who got the call after 2014 instead of after 2012, but beggars can't be choosers.

Edited December 15, 2016 by David

[David]

So you didn't REALLY lose your season tickets afterall? All of this was just a big lie?

 

The Ricketts are not losing money by kicking me off the season ticket list and giving my seats to another guy. That makes this stunt even more hilarious -- they knew that I and other season ticket holders were doing this for years and didn't cancel. Why not? Because nobody was going to those games then.

 

It's hilarious but sad that you guys think they care about you. They returned 108 years of loyalty and years of overpriced baseball the only way they know how: By raising ticket prices by 20% on you season ticket holders.

 

I want to see the imaginary posts you are replying to.

[Clem Fandango]

You bought tickets and had the right to go to those games.

 

Did you have the right to go to those games? The Cubs would disagree.

 

is that why you went to those 9 games, to make sure the tickets still worked

 

I'm now picturing a guy begrudgingly taking 9 sets of tickets to Wrigley throughout the year and having them scanned at the gate, entering the turn style, and then walking right back out to go home Grandpa Simpson style.

[evanstonian]

I want to see the imaginary posts you are replying to.

 

The Cubs want to be sure that someone is also investing their "TIME" in the team.

 

Does that help?

[Donzo]

Does that help?

 

Dang, you really do love your victim status.

 

:banghead:

[Liam Neeson]

At least were still making money off those Blackhawks tickets

[cl smooth]

[jersey cubs fan]

When you buy season tickets you are not supposed to be making an investment for a financial return.

 

Right, because season ticket holders are not entitled to receive anything favorable for investing thousands of dollars for years, including during bad seasons.

 

They should just give the tickets at face value to you -- the guy who was sitting on his couch eating pork rinds -- rather than putting them on a marketplace that millions of people have access to and can decide what the value of the ticket is worth to them.

 

Seems fair.

Entitled.

 

Good word choice.

[Sammy Sofa]

This seems pretty obviously just a troll rampage at this point. Once he started ranting about Trump and making up nonsense about how we think the Cubs "care for us" and ticket prices and shitty baseball it became pretty clear.

[wvcbxl]

You think the Cubs give a sh*t about anything other than your money and their public image (which also increases money for them)?

 

Anybody's money and butts in seats, actually.

 

Look, the Cubs determined through data analysis that you were a scalper (rightly or wrongly) and recinded your season tickets because they could.

Coming here with the message that the Cubs actually do that nowadays is ok, even appreciated.

But there's no point in trying to scare other STH in to thinking they're next; that depends on their selling history. In that respect, I think most other STH here on NSB are quite safe.

[NonProfitCow]

When you buy season tickets you are not supposed to be making an investment for a financial return.

 

Right, because season ticket holders are not entitled to receive anything favorable for investing thousands of dollars for years, including during bad seasons.

 

They should just give the tickets at face value to you -- the guy who was sitting on his couch eating pork rinds -- rather than putting them on a marketplace that millions of people have access to and can decide what the value of the ticket is worth to them.

 

Seems fair.

Jesus horsefeathering christ.

 

Do you just not horsefeathering understand what season tickets are for? They're for guaranteeing you'll be able to attend games you horsefeathering dip horsefeathers. I'd say that's pretty horsefeathering "favorable."

[bcl412]

This is going to be a fun thread to revisit in 5 years provided sports message boards aren't 100% dead by then.

[biittner77]

This seems pretty obviously just a troll rampage at this point. Once he started ranting about Trump and making up nonsense about how we think the Cubs "care for us" and ticket prices and horsefeathers baseball it became pretty clear.

 

The Cubs do love me. They drafted Kris Bryant and won the world series. If that's not love I don't know what is. Of course they'd like me to go to more games but I live 850 miles away. But they're going to come out to Baltimore (The poor man's Indianapolis) just to see me. I'm so excited.

 

Does this help you?

[Banedon]

I'm 48,221 on the wait list now. I'm pretty sure my number gets higher every time I check

 

Thank you for checking your place on the Cubs Season Ticket Waiting List.

 

Your current place on the Wait List is 87875.

[CubinNY]

But they're going to come out to Baltimore(The poor man's Indianapolis) just to see me. I'm so excited.

That's awesome.