NY Jets take fleecing of the fans/consumers to a new low

[Jeff]

$50 a year to be on a godamn waiting list? WTF!

http://www.nypost.com/sports/jets/38968.htm

As if stadium taxes weren't bad enough. I can't stand the Jets but this makes me want to puke. Being a pro sports fan becomes harder by the day.

[PSU92]

:eek:

Wow!!

Doesn't make ol' Leon Hess seem quite as bad as he once did.

[Sykotyk]

At first I was amazed. But, when you think how many people are on the list 'just because' rather than truly going after tickets, you can understand that the team wants to know who the true fans are, and those that might be looking at buying season tickets just to sell them or so.

For $50 you get all the benefits a season ticket holder recieves. Discounts on merchandise, the yearly program and several other things that the season ticket holders get. If you think it's 'just' to be in the line, you're wrong.

But you're lying to yourself if you think each person in that line is seriously going to pay $1,000-plus for season tickets (PSLs and all). Most probably never can and just put their name on the list, hoping maybe when their name comes up they'll somehow have the money. And if you really have the thousands for season tickets, $50 a year is not going to even dent your income if you plan to, eventually one day, pay $1,000-plus a year.

Sykotyk

[Jeff]

I understand your points, but asking wait list people to pay to stay on it is fleecing customers before they are even customers ticketwise. I suppose you could buy enough merchandise to save more than the $50, but it doesn't make what they're doing any less pathetic.

[Sykotyk]

Here's what you get:

The 'yearbook'. Which is, at cheapest, $10, I'd guess. You get the 'mini' program for each game (I'm assuming home games only), 25% off merchandise bought online, and exclusive access to StubHub, which is NYJ's in house ticket reissuing service.

If a season ticket holder can't use their tickets, they can sell the tickets back to the Jets and the Jets will reissue them to StubHub to other ticket holders. By paying $50, you also get a chance to buy the unused tickets, something you can't do if you're not on the waiting list (as of this year, StubHub's no longer open to the public). Probably because it's an expensive prospect given the fact the Jets can't charge over face value for the tickets, even on the reissuance.

Sykotyk