I never was a Cosmos season ticket holder so I trust in what you say, but if you look at any of the other season ticket holder packages of the other sports (Yankees, Mets, Giants, Jets, Knicks, Rangers, etc.), I challenge you to see if they have anything close to what we get which include- free playoff tickets, ability to purchase additional seats at a discount with no fee, exclusive window with a discount also to purchase tickets at an event at the stadium, etc... I don't think so or am I mistaken.
The two situations are probably not that analogous since I'm guessing the season ticket holders own a much greater percentage of premium seating in RBA and these tickets are probably going to get packaged into something a lot more pricey than what they are asking us to pay. I personally don't care that much but if I had dead center of the field season tickets and was forced to a corner, I'm sure I'd be more bummed. I'm just glad we aren't playing this game in Giant's Stadium, which could probably easily sell out this game. Packed Red Bull Arena is going to be fun.
Not mad about us not being garanteed our same seats but this could have been set up a lot better. By the time I got through I got a few of the remaining lower bowl tickets. Im in 102 row 17.
I would have preferred my regular seats for the All Star game. I thought certain seats were promised to VIPs by MLS. That pushed a number of Season Ticket holders out of their normal seats. Red Bull management decided that rather than deal with relocating only those dislocated ST holders, they went with a compromise.
Huh? My $150.00 per ticket is the same as a non-season-ticket-holder's $150.00. I should get first crack to pay the $150.00. But this is besides the point. This is not a money issue. It is a "license" issue. By building the building and owning the building, Red Bull controls "exclusive" rights to what happens in the building. They are not beholden to any other organization, so far as I know. At MSG, the Knicks need to coordinate with the Rangers. At the Meadowlands, the Giants need to coordinate with the Jets. Season ticket holders -- for example -- for the Knicks can't get first crack at tickets to other Garden events because there are 18,200 hockey ticket holders who would want the same right in the same building. But there is no other team at Red Bull Arena. And the stadium is not owned by a municipality, right? So contractually speaking, Red Bull is beholden to no one, it would seem. They own the building exclusively. They alone are in a position to issue licenses for people to use those seats.
And MLS is alone in a position to offer the All-Star game to another stadium if Red Bulls decided to follow your advice and cut out corporate sponsors from getting tickets (and make a LOT more money in the process).
The real question is: did you get enough tickets to attend the match AND pay for your season tickets?
I left a message (after calling every 5 seconds for the first 10 minutes) and then thought that they would actually adhere to their queue (like they did for season ticket renewals) instead of just taking the first person who came along...by the time they got back to me there there were no lower bowl tickets left, specifically because they had people attending first-come, first-serve after putting that message up. (Someone in the ticket office told me this.) Basically they put the message up to lower the call volume and then started answering. I understand that your current seat wasn't guaranteed because of the multiple tix policy, but as a lower bowl season ticket holder there should have been some preference to give us seats "somewhat near" our seats. I like the idea of saving your seats for a day and then allowing you to buy extras. It would have been better to not even ask you to leave a message, then I would have kept calling. Handled horribly by the front office.
However, here's the thing.... Logically speaking, this game would have been much better suited to the Meadowlands. An 80,000-seat sellout would have been nearly guaranteed. So why didn't MLS want to put this game in the Meadowlands? Because the league wanted to showcase its new building to show the world the first class facilities that are now *owned* by MLS -- not rented. If the league was terribly worried about getting corporate sponsors the best seats in the house, then renting the Meadowlands for the night would have been the smart thing to do. It would have been easy to control. Reserve 5000-some-odd seats for corporate folk in the best lower tier and club seat locations. And then sell the rest to the general public. But the decision was made to show off Red Bull Arena. That said, the 8000 core audience that helped build the place should be given first crack at tickets. It would be polite...and respectful.
I'm not happy about not gettting the chance to purchase my regular season seats, but I'm really not happy about seeing them on Stubhub by noon selling for $350 each. So, now I have to sit somewhere else while a Eurosnob comes for 1 game only to see ManU.
Well, that would be one of your fellow season ticket holders making that possible. We can thank them.