I find this difficult to believe. It's inconsistant with the message we've been receiving from Viola and co. Babich is going to be contrary and rude in an email to a SSO? My boss is no where near the level of a CEO for a multimillion company like SSE and easily gets 1000 emails a day. Not to mention Babich has his hands in a lot of pots. He is going to take the time out of his day to say "what do you expect for $7/seat." I don't buy it.
Either the fan is disgruntled and misquoting the email (probably sent from "the office of Rory Babich and not Babich himself"). Or... they're just lying. Or... I don't know.
Don't you work for the previous ownership? I know you've been pretty down/skeptical of new ownership from day 1.
Either way, this was that fan's comments, not my own. I dont see what the reason would be she would lie to me. She was standing there next to me while she was trying to move her seats just like I was doing. I never met her or knew her before so there was no bias from me or anything of my opinion in her comments. And if it was from "the office of..." instead of Babich himself, it doesnt matter as its still representing the organization. It was clear to that fan that the new regime doesnt really care about the STH's that its displacing based on her comments. And I remember now the 2nd email reply, she said it was something to the effect that her seats weren't desirable so thats why they were doing it. She told me, I guess they didnt care that they were desirable to ME, the paying customer. Again, not my bias in that at all...just sharing what another fan said.
actually we are saying the same thing.
Where do you think the ticket broker get the inventory of unsold tickets from for these large blocks? from the org. As I said in my post "What i understand is the org. won't put unsold seats on the secondary market so yes they'll be less inventory."
so what's my misunderstanding?
And im fine with the org. leaving the tickets for sale on the primary market. If there's high demand they will get sold thru box office / ticket master. If there is low demand then the sth's will undercut the "face value" the panthers attempt to sell them for, using their season's discount "vig".
Bottom line if they put a good product out there for once in a freaking lifetime, good on them; and if they don't they will eat thousands of primary tickets each game.
Oh the misunderstanding is that the ticket brokers are not going to be allowed to purchase blocks of season tickets like they were previously allowed to. Thats different from unsold inventory. Many of these ticket brokers would buyout entire rows as season tickets to get the reduced price and still resell them. I guess its also a combination of both of what we're saying. I just heard that they will prevent any ticket broker's from buying season tickets.
But yes the STH's will be able to undercut the price that the team is attempting to sell them for but the attendance figures will most likely be much lower. I guess thats why it made a lot of sense then to tarp off those seats in the upper deck. With the new seating capacity to be at something around 17,000, I think we're going to be lucky to show 12,000 in attendance for most games now myself.