NLCS Tickets

[MrTPlush]

The true backbone are all the people dishing out money for full year plans. The terrace level 20 game holders? Hardly...not much sacrifice there even in a non-playoff year. Those tickets are easily worth the price you pay if you value any of the benefits. You get to pick your games and can pretty much make all 20 pretty good games. In a playoff year? Highway robbery of a deal.

 

I think their system is broken. For the NLDS a SSH with two seats could get their two seats, plus 4 in the presale, plus 4 in the Wisconsin only sale, and then 4 more when it went general public. 14 tickets? I definitely think one should get the ability to add onto their SSH seats in a presale, but why are they allowed to do it 3 times? All of those seats are going to be in 4 separate places. Heck if they had another account that wasn't their SSH one they could have gotten another 4 through the insider sale.

 

The amount of tickets that were bought purely to go on Stubhub a second later is a travesty. I don't blame people for turning around to make $1,000+ with a few clicks...that is the Brewers fault for allowing. So don't take this as I am telling people what to do with there tickets (set the ban hammer down)...I blame the Brewers for allowing it to happen.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

The true backbone are all the people dishing out money for full year plans. The terrace level 20 game holders? Hardly...not much sacrifice there even in a non-playoff year. Those tickets are easily worth the price you pay if you value any of the benefits. You get to pick your games and can pretty much make all 20 pretty good games. In a playoff year? Highway robbery of a deal.

 

Except they outnumber the full-season ticket holders about 20-1, so yeah, they are the backbone.

 

Also, you cannot pick any 20 games. The games are placed into buckets and you can only pick so many from each bucket.

[MrTPlush]

The true backbone are all the people dishing out money for full year plans. The terrace level 20 game holders? Hardly...not much sacrifice there even in a non-playoff year. Those tickets are easily worth the price you pay if you value any of the benefits. You get to pick your games and can pretty much make all 20 pretty good games. In a playoff year? Highway robbery of a deal.

 

Except they outnumber the full-season ticket holders about 20-1, so yeah, they are the backbone.

 

Also, you cannot pick any 20 games. The games are placed into buckets and you can only pick so many from each bucket.

 

I realize that, but you have so many options you can get 20 good games easily. Don't even need a single April weekday game. When I was considering it I could have loaded up on Cubs games, weekends, giveaway days...etc.

[hawing]

Which is absolutely stupid. There is no reason they should be able to do that and then double dip in all the other presales just to flip them for profit.

 

Take that away and they will lose about half their accounts. The way you are awarded your playoff strip doesn't really seem fair to SSH anyway, to be honest. My seats are in the terrace, 421 basically all year. They stick me in 414 for the playoffs. Yet when I go into the presale or even the WI sale, suddenly the best available terrace seats are where I was sitting all year.

 

SSH willingly overpay on regular season tickets to get their privileges. I had a bunch of games with $18 face value ticket that were $6.32 on StubHub. Non-SSH are never complaining about that, only when it works in reverse.

The only SSHs who get their regular seat in a postseason are full season ticket holders, because 20 pack customers share each seat they have with up to three other SSHs. That's when they take SSH longevity into account (and it has to be consecutive years; we'd go back to 1993, but we sat out 1995 because of the strike, so the Brewers consider our "rookie season" to be 1996).

 

Why some of those seats are then available is a puzzler, though. I'd guess it's SSHs who were ahead of you in longevity but then didn't buy the strip? Or seats they set aside for possible new SSHs? Maybe assigning those directly to new SSHs is more efficient than checking back with existing SSHs to see if they want to upgrade. I don't know.

 

At the risk of rubbing anything in, which is not my intent, I'm going to echo Patrick425 on the overall benefits of SSH longevity. I've always felt reasonably valued as a Brewers customer, despite not being a top-dollar spender. The perks of recent years are pretty cool (we went down Bernie's slide in April and last year did a Family Play Day that got us access to interesting parts of the park). But last week's NLDS games were literally the first time I found myself thinking "man, all these years of support are paying off." I like our postseason seats that much. They're in the center of the loge within about 15 feet of the TMJ radio booth, so we're about as centered behind home plate as Bob and Jeff are.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

Hawing, doing Fan's Choice also basically assures your playoff seats are worse. I'm not complaining, because the team told me my seat would be worse in April, if they made it. But if you buy a fixed package you are much more likely to get your playoff seats in the same spot.

 

But anyway, I don't know some expect. The secondary market will exist no matter what and there are more than 44,000 people who want to get into the stadium. The Brewers put forth a decent effort to limit resale. There is only so much they can do.

 

Even in a utopia where the Brewer somehow limit each person to buying 2 seats, there will be people who decide they want to make a couple hundred dollars and watch the game in their basement. I think there would be just as many of them selling, no matter what.

 

To be frank, as this continues going in circles, it just sounds like people are simply frustrated that they can't go, and are venting spleen at SSH. The Brewers marketing is very transparent about buying a package to secure playoff seats. That is their bolded point 1A they use to sell them. If you didn't take advantage of that at any point you don't really have a leg to stand on when feeling entitled to attending those games.

[KeithStone53151]

Which is absolutely stupid. There is no reason they should be able to do that and then double dip in all the other presales just to flip them for profit.

 

Take that away and they will lose about half their accounts. The way you are awarded your playoff strip doesn't really seem fair to SSH anyway, to be honest. My seats are in the terrace, 421 basically all year. They stick me in 414 for the playoffs. Yet when I go into the presale or even the WI sale, suddenly the best available terrace seats are where I was sitting all year.

 

SSH willingly overpay on regular season tickets to get their privileges. I had a bunch of games with $18 face value ticket that were $6.32 on StubHub. Non-SSH are never complaining about that, only when it works in reverse.

The only SSHs who get their regular seat in a postseason are full season ticket holders, because 20 pack customers share each seat they have with up to three other SSHs. That's when they take SSH longevity into account (and it has to be consecutive years; we'd go back to 1993, but we sat out 1995 because of the strike, so the Brewers consider our "rookie season" to be 1996).

 

Why some of those seats are then available is a puzzler, though. I'd guess it's SSHs who were ahead of you in longevity but then didn't buy the strip? Or seats they set aside for possible new SSHs? Maybe assigning those directly to new SSHs is more efficient than checking back with existing SSHs to see if they want to upgrade. I don't know.

 

At the risk of rubbing anything in, which is not my intent, I'm going to echo Patrick425 on the overall benefits of SSH longevity. I've always felt reasonably valued as a Brewers customer, despite not being a top-dollar spender. The perks of recent years are pretty cool (we went down Bernie's slide in April and last year did a Family Play Day that got us access to interesting parts of the park). But last week's NLDS games were literally the first time I found myself thinking "man, all these years of support are paying off." I like our postseason seats that much. They're in the center of the loge within about 15 feet of the TMJ radio booth, so we're about as centered behind home plate as Bob and Jeff are.

 

I'm very jealous of those playoff seats. I get my 20 pack seats in the loge infield and have for 8 or 9 years now. My playoff strip seats are in the very last row of loge infield. I haven't been able to make a game yet due to the game times and work, but being that far back and basically in the concourse near all the standing room only is a bit of a rough draw. I would have rather been further down the 1st or 3rd base line and in the middle rows than at the very back end. I took advantage of the early buy option to get better seats, and will either sell my 20 pack seats to family and friends at cost or on SH if nobody wants them. It's been about 50/50 so far.

 

I guess I'm trying to point out another situation that could come up where it is beneficial for a SSH to have the early access. And again, I'll remind that SH resale isn't going anywhere. If SSH didn't have early access, 50 different joe schmo ticket brokers would utilize software to buy up tickets like crazy and probably gouge even worse than the SSH are currently. If my only 2 options are for Joe Schmo ticket broker to profit, or SSH that actually support the team to profit...easy decision.

[long ball]

I don't think any complaints about not being able to buy NLCS games at face value are legitimate. 10 pack holders were able to buy up to 4 tickets for each NLCS game. 10 packs are like a $160 commitment for each ticket of the TR.

[StearnsFTW]

Had a friend send me 4 for Friday night. It is almost unfathomable how terrible the Ballpark app and Brewers.com are. It's absolutely ridiculous how impossible both are to navigate. I just want to print my tickets, but I can't because Brewers.com refuses to recognize any of the passwords that I've gotten from them.

 

Just a horrendous experience. I've been on hold for 10 minutes now trying to get an explanation.

 

I should've just driven to Chicago to physically pick them up from my buddy. Would've been easier.

[homer]

Had a friend send me 4 for Friday night. It is almost unfathomable how terrible the Ballpark app and Brewers.com are. It's absolutely ridiculous how impossible both are to navigate. I just want to print my tickets, but I can't because Brewers.com refuses to recognize any of the passwords that I've gotten from them.

 

Just a horrendous experience. I've been on hold for 10 minutes now trying to get an explanation.

 

I should've just driven to Chicago to physically pick them up from my buddy. Would've been easier.

 

I could be wrong but I feel like the tix don't show up until 24 hours before the game on the Ballpark app. I've used it a few times this year and I seem to recall getting anxious about finding my tix and then all of a sudden they'd show up the day before the game.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

48 hours, but the barcodes are already there if part of postseason strip. Only the presale tickets follow the 48 hour rule.

[EagleSteve]

its less than 48 hours till game one & still no bar codes. Very frustrating.

[MrTPlush]

its less than 48 hours till game one & still no bar codes. Very frustrating.

 

Give it time. They don’t all release at once. Complain to them if you don’t see them tomorrow morning.

[B-Train]

Tickets are still available for Friday night's game 1 on the brewers.com site. Just out of curiosity I checked and found 2 Terrace Reserve seats and a Field outfield box stand alone ticket.

 

Game 2: I was not able to see any tickets on the site.

 

I purchased 2 tix in Terrace Reserve for Game 2 from stub hub this am for $50 over face value (including the fees) row 12 3rd base side. Thought about waiting until Friday as prices should drop, but those 2 seats were hard to let go. Most Terrace Reserve seats in sets of 2 or more are going for well over 200 including fees currently. And they are in rows 18-20 in many instances. Most of those tix would have to drop by at least $75 to match what I purchased today.

[PlayerHader]

its less than 48 hours till game one & still no bar codes. Very frustrating.

 

I got mine for game 1 tonight. Give it a bit if you haven’t received them already.

[dlk9s]

I'd be curious to see how ticket prices look on Thursday (I'm not buying, so I haven't been checking). As others have mentioned, prices might come down as people start worrying about being able to get rid of tickets. Then again, I would imagine the first two games right now are in really high demand, so prices might stay up.

 

I bought two full strips of tickets for the NCAA tourney Atlanta regional this year, anticipating Virginia being in it (ugh, I just reminded myself). Paid something like $630 combined (can't remember exactly, but it was in the $600's). It was a huge splurge for me. Of course, when Virginia bombed out early, I didn't want to go to the games, nor did my brother, who was on the hook for the other seat. I put them up for sale to try to make a small profit, but nobody was biting. I kept lowering the price, willing to take a small loss.

 

Fortunately, early in the week of the Sweet 16, my wife found a buyer on a local moms Facebook group - someone's boyfriend. He was a Kentucky fan and they were playing. I quickly called him. I was asking $750 (wishful thinking), he offered $700, and I immediately agreed. I told him I could meet him within the hour, but there was bad weather on the way, so he didn't want to venture out. Afraid of losing a sale as prices dropped, I told him I'd come to his house. I did, he gave me $700 cash, and I immediately took it to the bank, relieved.

 

Prices plummeted right after that. A couple days later, I would've only been able to get $200+.

[MrTPlush]

Ticket prices really started to fall tonight for Game 1. That may have to do with Stubhubs system where you can opt in to have your price start falling when Gametime gets closer. I will wait it out tomorrow and see if any nice deals show up. If not I will snag some terrace Friday morning.

 

Minimum cost has gone from about $115 before fees to $82 now.

[Cirilloing]

I've got two extras for game 2 in Terrace Reserve 410, Row 17. Next to each other of course. Face value. Message me if interested!

 

Edit: They gone!

[bm1090]

I've got two extras in Terrace Reserve 410, Row 17. Next to each other of course. Face value. Message me if interested!

 

Sent you one

[OldSchoolSnapper]

Ticket prices really started to fall tonight for Game 1. That may have to do with Stubhubs system where you can opt in to have your price start falling when Gametime gets closer. I will wait it out tomorrow and see if any nice deals show up. If not I will snag some terrace Friday morning.

 

Minimum cost has gone from about $115 before fees to $82 now.

 

Yeah. If you have to sell some, it is best to price them well below market a few days out. You will undercut the people really trying to take advantage but still make more than those selling day of and day before.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

Also, as far as the barcodes, I've noticed in ballpark app that I have to manually refresh it a lot. Even if I have just opened the app, it is sometimes caching from hours ago or the day before.

[ThisIsMyCrew]

Anyone know why you aren’t able to forward the parking passes along with tickets? Mine is showing an X right to the left of the description...

[KeithStone53151]

Anyone know why you aren’t able to forward the parking passes along with tickets? Mine is showing an X right to the left of the description...

 

I only got parking for Saturday and mine is showing the same. I would assume you could forward it the same as tickets once the barcode becomes available.

[StearnsFTW]

Had a friend send me 4 for Friday night. It is almost unfathomable how terrible the Ballpark app and Brewers.com are. It's absolutely ridiculous how impossible both are to navigate. I just want to print my tickets, but I can't because Brewers.com refuses to recognize any of the passwords that I've gotten from them.

 

Just a horrendous experience. I've been on hold for 10 minutes now trying to get an explanation.

 

I should've just driven to Chicago to physically pick them up from my buddy. Would've been easier.

 

I could be wrong but I feel like the tix don't show up until 24 hours before the game on the Ballpark app. I've used it a few times this year and I seem to recall getting anxious about finding my tix and then all of a sudden they'd show up the day before the game.

 

I have them. It took 90 minutes of changing passwords and refreshing the app, but I have them. I'm sure the Ballpark app works wonderfully under normal circumstances, but these tickets were transferred to me by an MLB official so it was a complete disaster for whatever reason.

 

Brewers.com had nothing to do with this, so I slandered them for no reason. Mea culpa.

[MrTPlush]

Anyone still looking for tickets keep an eye on Stubhub often. Some solid deals have popped up all day. Finally pulled the trigger on some RF front row seats when the price dropped a ton...though now the price is back up to almost $240 with fees which I found interesting.

[KeithStone53151]

Anyone still looking for tickets keep an eye on Stubhub often. Some solid deals have popped up all day. Finally pulled the trigger on some RF front row seats when the price dropped a ton...though now the price is back up to almost $240 with fees which I found interesting.

 

I think a lot of people are waiting and hoping prices drop. It will be especially interesting for any potential game 6 and 7s and world series games, I wouldn't be surprised if prices started dropping a day or 2 before the game...but then dramatically spiked day of game as the supply would be so low but demand still sky high.

 

I'm anticipating terrace seats and SRO going as low as 60-70 bucks for Friday and 80 for Saturday. I'm no expert by any stretch and make no promises, that would be a similar pattern to both NLDS games though. There are still 3400 tickets listed for Friday and 4300 for Saturday.