[Flashpoint]

A little off topic, but here is how it works in Dallas. I've had season tickets for 2 years, and have talked extensively with my ticket guy.

The team wants paying customers. Once you are a paying customer they will do everything they can to keep you happy (and to keep you paying).

If they offer you tickets - TAKE THEM. Once you are a paying season ticket holder, you can can easily upgrade/downgrade, share, move yadda yadda yadda.

If they offer tickets to (for example) Malcolm, and he doesn't take them, he goes to the bottom of that rep's list. The rep is going to keep calling people until he finds a taker. And he doesn't care how long you've waited - he wants a buyer. So when Gomer Pile signs up, that sales rep isn't going to call back all the guys who have declined in the past - he's going to try the new guy. And boom - it worked because he has a sale.

Once you are a buyer, you can start to ask for things. They know you have outlayed cash in the past, and are likely to do so in the future.

I asked for seats in Row A. I was told no first year season ticket holder gets seats in Row A. He offered $200 in food and drink cards. Fair enough, I had Row D on the offensive blue line and a hot dog and beer to start each game. The next summer I told him I wanted Row A, or I wasn't going to renew. I got Row A. I am now very happy, and wouldn't trade my seats for any other seat in the house.

Bottom line - once you are a season ticket holder, you are much better off than anyone who isn't. Regardless of "waitlist time". You might have lesser seats for a year. In Calgary it might be a year or two. But I GUARANTEE your rep will do whatever they can to make you happy.

Just my 2c.