Tickets

[pitchleague]

Oh, so this is for new buyers?  I saw a tweet about this earlier today and though, "well, guess I'm done with season tickets if I have to do a pre-sale for all the playoffs and WS as a 20-game SSH."  I was quite defeated and sad.

If they are taking that privilege away from long-time 20-game SSH, they're going to have a lot of angry SSH.

[owbc]

I get it, those strips are sold at so much of a discount that you could buy the 20 game pack living out of state, not go to any of the regular season games, and still come out ahead if they make another WS appearance. The was also the issue of STH reselling those watch party tickets at a huge markup, which was not a good look. 

My warning to the Brewers would just be that loyalty is a two-way street and someday in the future you'll need to sell tickets after a 70-win season. And you don't have to look far to see what can happen when you don't reward loyalty -- which team is currently 30th out of 30 in NBA attendance? 

[michaeldwilson]

Does anyone know when spring season tickets will go on sale? I imagine they'll be in demand after our great World Series win. 

Thanks!

[hawing]

 

I know this is a social media post and lacks full context, but when I saw this earlier today I reacted similarly to pitchleague.  I'll be sending this to "our" ticket rep (the pitch and hawing households have the same rep) asking for some context.  

I realize this year's success is a generational opportunity for the Brewers to make some coin.  They're also experiencing a generational peak of fan/civic goodwill, which could take quite a hit if they cut off 20-pack customers.  (They already withhold some season seat perks for single-ticket customers, which seems unnecessarily petty to me.)  I hope they're putting some thought into how to balance both opportunities. 

Like owbc, I wonder if they've even considered what they'd do if the next active season (2027 or whenever*) is kind of a bust.  Or maybe 2027/whatever next full season is also successful, but after that the fanbase gets all "what have you done lately."  They must be aware of how fan enthusiasm waned with the Milwaukee Braves after the mid-1950s. 

 

*Even with this year's success, a long disruption could really tank the goodwill the Brewers have built up. 

[MrTPlush]

9 hours ago, hawing said:

 

I know this is a social media post and lacks full context, but when I saw this earlier today I reacted similarly to pitchleague.  I'll be sending this to "our" ticket rep (the pitch and hawing households have the same rep) asking for some context.  

I realize this year's success is a generational opportunity for the Brewers to make some coin.  They're also experiencing a generational peak of fan/civic goodwill, which could take quite a hit if they cut off 20-pack customers.  (They already withhold some season seat perks for single-ticket customers, which seems unnecessarily petty to me.)  I hope they're putting some thought into how to balance both opportunities. 

Like owbc, I wonder if they've even considered what they'd do if the next active season (2027 or whenever*) is kind of a bust.  Or maybe 2027/whatever next full season is also successful, but after that the fanbase gets all "what have you done lately."  They must be aware of how fan enthusiasm waned with the Milwaukee Braves after the mid-1950s. 

 

*Even with this year's success, a long disruption could really tank the goodwill the Brewers have built up. 

It is only for new SSM’s starting the 12th. Everyone else is grandfathered in. I specifically asked beyond this year (2027) and that is the answer I got.

I actually canceled mine after they barred single game accounts from rewards. They told me as long as I didn’t sell the majority of the game then it was fine. Proceeded to sell zero tickets and got locked out of rewards. Kinda ridiculous considering I held the season seat account pre-2018.

Sigh, anyway, time to sign up.

[hawing]

2 hours ago, MrTPlush said:

I actually canceled mine after they barred single game accounts from rewards. 

If I happen to outlive my partner and the Brewers walk back my perks after 30+ years of SSM-ship, they will have one angry widow to contend with.   I'm sure they have crunched their numbers in a way where it makes financial sense to them to rip off singletons, but for me it gives off an unflattering "cracker factory from The Simpsons" vibe.  "Maybe single people like supporting the Brewers, we don't know.  Frankly, we don't want to know.  It's a market we can do without."