When you first posted, I went to the DCU website and just looked for season tickets. Part of the lack of information might stem from the fact that the season has begun, so any price list would be obsolete at this point. Also, the website puts you into an interactive stadium map that shows virtually all seats "sold out" as season tickets. Essentially, there are no available seats on the west side (where I sit) according to that map. I don't know if that's really true, but for anyone trying to buy tickets on line that is what they would see. Dynamic pricing isn't shady, it's just a carryover from yield management in the airline industry. An attempt to maximize revenue from something that has a "sell by" date -- an airline flight, a soccer match, etc. Think about it, you have 18000 seats to fill for a game, a seat not sold means no revenue from the sale of the ticket and, obviously, no cut of concession revenue from that unsold seat. So, it's worth it to sell that seat below "face value" to get someone in who might not pay "list price". Then you hope they drink a bunch of $12 beers and you get some revenue you wouldn't receive. Remember two can play that game. If you are willing to take your chances, don't really care where you sit, then you can wait till close to day of game and hope to grab some discounted tickets. I chose to pay "list price" for season tickets because I like the location and I don't enjoy playing that type of bargain shopping game. YMMV. But then again, I could be snarky and say such problems don't exist in Columbus when you only can get 10000 announced attendance for games played by a top of the table type team.
I do feel pretty dumb that I organized a work group to go see Wayne Rooney on Tuesday night at the lowest available price of $22/ticket. Opps.
100% not true. There are 2 seats on my row that are obstructed view, because of the higher railing at the bottom of the stairs. Those seats have only been occupied 2-3 times by someone paying for the seats, so they do sell them, just not very often for $125 or more which is what my section goes for.
I disagree. I don't like it, but it's not shady. They are quite upfront about it -- if you know those are the rules of the game, it's not shady even though you don't like them. Shady in my mind are hidden tricks where a transaction isn't transparent. In dynamic pricing, you merely are gambling that an attractive seat to you will become available for a match at a price that is lower than "list." As someone noted, the LAFC fans on Saturday lost that bet when they were told the only seats left at walkup were $225. Tomorrow night, you probably would "win" if you played the game.
I laughed every time a fan in LA gear walked up and was told " all we have are two field level seats for $255." They would get this sad look an their face and the teller would then say " we have another match on Tuesday" which they would start to walk away.
Dynamic pricing is a shady business practice (in my opinion) for a sports team (or any theater-type venue). Which sadly is exactly what I expect from this FO any more. What's really shady, and DCU is in bed with, is the after-market when you decide to sell your tickets. Apparently only Groupon tells you what a DC United ticket is actually worth these days
When I first heard of Flo and checked out what they carried, I thought: "shit, I bet Curtis already has this."
I haven't always kept the subscriptions up, but they were getting my money when it was just for FloTrack. I held out for a while after Milesplit was absorbed into FloSports because I was more interested in Milestat, but I eventually caved. I also started to watch a little more wrestling too. I've probably watched more wrestling than track and field in recent years.
I'm not sure how many home games we have, but I pay $862.86 per seat for 7 seats in section 127. That's midfield on the West side.
Really appreciating all the info guys. So, I did manage to find these two pieces of info online from last year's (2018) prices: I know the following based on what you guys have been kind enough to share: 2018 > 2019 $20 > ??? $25 > $27 $30 > ??? $35 > ??? $40 > $43 $50 > $55 Seems like a roughly 10% increase across the board. If anyone else can fill in the blanks for me for my survey I'd greatly appreciate it
Seems like a roughly 10% increase across the board. [/QUOTE] yes, but they also added more games (which I probably wont/cant attend and are cup meaningless), so my rep said I was getting a lower price than last year. (as I raise my umbrella I keep wondering my leg is getting yellow.....)
yes, but they also added more games (which I probably wont/cant attend and are cup meaningless), so my rep said I was getting a lower price than last year. (as I raise my umbrella I keep wondering my leg is getting yellow.....)[/QUOTE] no worries it is just rain...........................
you can LIST your tickets however you want - but I've had to reduce my prices to usually just $10 above cost or even at cost
I sold a ticket for the LAFC game about 20 minutes before kickoff for my season ticket price. I've sold both my tickets for the NYCFC game next weekend for $20 over my price. I probably should have set my sights higher for that one, but I'm happy they sold. Last year, I got $100 each for my seats for the Atlanta Labor Day weekend game.
Lovely of them to make the Parley jersey available to STMs in store only. Online, it was sold out (all but 3XL) in under 90 minutes. I guess the STMs who don't live/work in the District are of less value. No surprise.
What do you want them to do? They don't control the online store and they did carry some restricting them to STM so they could actually have a chance at getting them.
Package them with a bow and hand deliver them to each STM! Has ANYONE received a STM gift yet? Or did they do away with them this season?