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Originally Posted by 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.
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I agree with this from a business point of view. Heck I would agree with this if this is how the Flames handled their seats in the lower 2 bowls. But I would seriously rather not even go to Flames games than to sit in anything above the bottom 3 rows in the 'Press Level Seating.' HD TV is better than sitting where TV cameras obstruct your vision of some of the ice, there is constantly people walking in the walkway between rows 3 and 4 in your views of the ice during play, and you can't even see the jumbotron. Any arena built past 1990 doesn't have seats as poor as these and I rufuse to have to shell out for 45 home dates in those POS seats to have to be part of a 'club' to be able to move into the second bowl.
On the other hand I would gladly accept and pay for white seats ahead of all the people who are turning down whites in order to get Orange, and greens.