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Originally Posted by jayswin
I can't speak for other markets but when the Flames took over they really ran it like it was an NHL team - Maximizing revenue. This is not how to run a football franchise in Canada and they immediately emptied out the corner sections with their "Well it's actually better if we get 2000 people at $33 in the crappy sections than 7000 at X dollars".
Cool, but it is a second rate sport and you needed to keep younger fans coming and families bringing their kids so that those kids one day buy the $60-$120 tickets as adults. Yes, they would have promos through local vendors, but I maintain that that isn't good enough as people aren't actively looking for or noticing those.
It's the family with 3 potential young fans for the future that just goes on ticketmaster and says "wow, $200 to bring my family to the nosebleeds or $500 to sit in a nice area. Nope!" and moves on to the next idea.
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I don’t disagree that the Stamps can and should be doing more to market the game to kids and youth. However, I’ve posted before that if you can’t find affordable tickets to a Stamps game you’re not looking hard enough. They’ve had $20 tickets in section A from Safeway for as long as I can remember. I’ve personally had season tickets in the family section almost every year since 2012. Started at $200 for the whole year for a pair of tickets, I think it’s still around $275 now. For the whole season! If you only want one game, I’m pretty sure it’ll only cost you $40 for the pair.
Now, if you want a premium 55 yard line seat it’ll cost more, but to say they jacked up the price of the endzones at the expense of kids just isn’t true from my experience. I agree maybe the problem is that they’re not advertising and promoting it enough, so people think $70 tickets are all that’s available.
As an aside, unless you’re looking for Labor Day tickets, you can often find them for $10-15 on stubhub.