Who Says You Can't Sell Season Tickets at Discount!!!

This is what I'm talking about. Click the image to go to the pricing page.

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The Utah Jazz, a perennial playoff team in their twilight, is selling tickets at half price.

Would you buy NOW if Rockets tickets were selling at $5/gm?

The best seats in the upper bowl are $25 at Utah!!! I would absolutely be all over that! I would buy 4 tickets!!!

Would someone mind giving me Les's email address so I could send him this link?

 

seriously,

Post if you would buy $5 tickets! That is only $200 for an entire season. I'm definitely calling my Sales Rep, right now.

Call and ask: "Why is Utah selling tickets at 50%, but we are not." Now that is some fan appreciation for ya! Utah understands the importance of sell outs despite lower ticket prices. I love my Sells Reps, and they have been very kind to us this year, and the new head of Marketing seems like a keeper. But really, Les!!! let them sale your team at a lower price. The team deserves more fans. I'm convinced we make it to the playoffs last year had Les not raised ticket prices. Our homecourt win/loss sucked, and it was directly caused by Francis liking to play in front of crowds. He said that, didn't he??

I sent this Utah discount to my ticket buddies around me: they each said that this makes them want to never buy a Rockets ticket again. Both go to EVERY game. One is a 3yr vet, and the other is a 10yr vet.

 

btw Darkhorse...Looks like the playoff games are around 60% off in the upper bowl. $19 for best upper bowl...usually $55, I think.

And ah man,,,<a href="http://www.nba.com/media/sonics/YOURTEAM.PDF">Seattle is doing a 2 for 1 discount, as well.</a> including a ticket swapping policy, and 0% interest payments for 6 mos.

Jeff, is that the kind of ticket-swapping you were talking about at Kenneally's. That's pretty cool.

Fran Blinebury and Dale both rip the Rockets Team and Management, but neither of them bother to research things enough to see that Utah dropped prices by 50% after 19 playoff in a row with Stockton near retirement; Seattle is giving a 50% discount as Payton's time gets short....and what did we do? Raised prices after our first playoff miss when Barkley retires.

Come on, Houston journalists....Show us some of your Fan Appreciation and help us get this discount...write a useful column about ticket prices with some quotes. I want to know what Rudy, Francis and Les think about these Utah/Seattle discounts to keep fans in their seats! Can't 610 do some talk radio about this. I want the whole city to know Utah/Seattle dropped prices, and Les raised them.

 

here's a snapshot of the Seattle deal if you don't want to click my other links. Incredible.

<img src="http://www.flashlings.com/images/seattle.jpg">

 

davo,

let's assume they are totally excluded from concessions. Economics still proves that discounts can produce more profit on the tickets alone, considering how many season ticket holders they lost. Not to mention the benefits of not taking for granted that people will come back to a new stadium. It just does not pay to lose season ticket holders in droves.

But most importantly, we make the playoffs in 2001 if it wasn't for our miserable home court record vs the league. We came out lackadasical at home many times, because Les Alexander screwed up and didn't fill the arena enough. Francis even said how he liked playing on the road in arenas with more fans.

imo, Les Alexander is directly to blame for us missing the playoffs by 2 games, due to him losing all those season ticket holders for raising prices on us after Barkley retired.