ONE GOAL: Retain it! (with half the talent) Hawks Offseason Thread

[sycked]

You ST holders are really gonna fuck with the market. All these people are happy to get $50 for the Canucks game. Hopefully they come up so I can more for these SRO's. Or maybe I'll just drive home and go.

I just saw that after dropping $72 for my single ticket in section 311.

[Team Speed]

Conspiracy theorist in me says cocksucking McDonough used today to sell out all the SRO tix while people are panicking and maybe some others will slowly trickle out in the next few days. Otherwise I'll just buck up and pay brokers - they shouldn't be too terrible. I'd have to guess most of today's sales were to people looking to flip them - secondary market should be flooded.

[chops]

You ST holders are really gonna fuck with the market. All these people are happy to get $50 for the Canucks game. Hopefully they come up so I can more for these SRO's. Or maybe I'll just drive home and go.

:evillaugh:

[whitesox901]

Islanders game (1/9) has decent seats available

[IWMB]

Well not anymore, retard. It did a half hour ago.

Ended up with 3 pairs. Jan 5th vs Dallas, Jan 9th vs the Isle, both seated, and SRO Dec 3rd vs the Nucks.

[whitesox901]

Well not anymore, retard.

Eat dick.

[IWMB]

[sycked]

I wonder how many people ended up purchasing tickets to the first preseason match up vs Detroit. I know that I had initially opened the window for the game until I thought for a second and realized that Sept. 25 was WAY too early for a regular season game.

[LuvSox]

All the new fans can die of AIDS

[skottyj]

St. Louis Blues tickets go on sale Saturday. I'm gonna try and get the October 22nd game.

[IWMB]

Sycked, my buddy just called me and said he did. I guess he called TM, though, and they gave him all but $5 refunded.

[StockdaleForVeep]

Fucking bullshit vendors and brokers

I went on a site(forget which but it lists all avail from ebay, tm, hub, etc)
Yes high demand game but for the oct 9th hawks v wings game, there is a listing for row 13, 300 lvl, 15 fucking tickets for 243 each. How the fuck do they even get that amount and just to fucking flip them?

[chops]

243/piece for the wings tickets?

:damn:

[StockdaleForVeep]

243/piece for the wings tickets?

:damn:

[IWMB]

How the fuck do they even get that amount and just to fucking flip them?

Buy group tickets, I guess?

[Team Speed]

I think a lot of brokers bought huge blocks of seats as season tix anticipating the uptick in demand a couple years back. A lot did the same with the Bulls this summer and probably got burned a little bit.

From the Hawks perspective it is good business, as those tickets are sold to a company that is less likely to welch than an individual. Plus, less account maintenance/relationship required.

[IWMB]

I think a lot of brokers bought huge blocks of seats as season tix anticipating the uptick in demand a couple years back. A lot did the same with the Bulls this summer and probably got burned a little bit.

That works, too. I just have a tough time believing what many people do, that McD is selling to the brokers first and that they weren't selling the full 6000 they have left per game after STHs today.

[Team Speed]

I wouldn't put that past the Hawks. They're leaving a lot of money on the table to selling to dudes like chips and other longer term ST holders at a small price hike, so they can probably recoup some of that by contracting to brokers at, who knows what, but probably somewhere above face. Cuts ticketmaster and their cut out of the equation, too.

[StockdaleForVeep]

I think a lot of brokers bought huge blocks of seats as season tix anticipating the uptick in demand a couple years back. A lot did the same with the Bulls this summer and probably got burned a little bit.

From the Hawks perspective it is good business, as those tickets are sold to a company that is less likely to welch than an individual. Plus, less account maintenance/relationship required.

But the hawks only see the base price off that ticket. Yes its tickets sold but the brokers make more money than the team

Im researching going to canada feb 9 for edm vs hawks

[chops]

I wouldn't put that past the Hawks. They're leaving a lot of money on the table to selling to dudes like chips and other longer term ST holders at a small price hike, so they can probably recoup some of that by contracting to brokers at, who knows what, but probably somewhere above face. Cuts ticketmaster and their cut out of the equation, too.

I don't think they really want to piss off a lot of us with a 100% increase, etc. A 33% hike isn't exactly nominal, but based on actual dollars it is nominal, but I'm not sure what other section saw in terms on price hikes, if 100 and 200 level holders saw a 33% increase, that's some serious cash. Shit even some 300 level holders had $40 seats for last season, if those go up to 50+, that's a fairly large increase for the course of the season.

I'm surprised they don't have the season tickets tiered as well like the Sox do. $20 for the Wings game?
They'll enjoy their 25% though when I sell them for a nice buck.

[Team Speed]

True; it isn't really fair for me to call it a small price hike. I was just more alluding to the fact that the Hawks are still leaving money on the table relative to the market value, so it would make sense that they may try to recoup some of that by selling to brokers. IF they did that, McDonough has most certainly learned the lesson from the Cubs scalping operation to keep this quiet.

[StockdaleForVeep]

Just ordered my tickets. Goin to Canada Feb 9 for Hawks V Edmonton

Any tips for Canada travel?

[Jackie Treehorn]

Just ordered my tickets. Goin to Canada Feb 9 for Hawks V Edmonton

Any tips for Canada travel?

Stay there.

[StockdaleForVeep]

Stay there.

Representin the Sox in Canada?