August 6th Supporters Tickets Sales?

Aero · 08-03-2005, 03:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Soccerchick

Sounds like an excellent idea,
but my question is , Are we going to have tickets accessible on hand, so that we could actually sell them on game day to people? Or are tickets not sold through the Loyalists going to have to be returned to the office before game day??

That would be the $64,000 question. Hopefully, Dysko will just get all the tickets to pass out and we will just have to return all the ones we didn't sell. But I'm sure that this can be worked out.

Aero · 08-03-2005, 03:19 PM

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Originally Posted by bordelais7

This may be a dumb question, but what motivation would the FO have for selling $13 tickets at the gate to people who are already there with the intention of buying more expensive tickets? I think it's a great idea as far as helping to meet the ticket-selling goal, but I'm not sure the FO would be all that excited about basically handing money out...

Let's say that all of the people that were going to buy a ticket were going to buy a $25 ticket (which probably isn't accurate because many of them would probably buy $14 and some might buy more expensive ones but this just makes it easy for my example). Let's also assume that it is all 750 people walking up, even though we know that isn't true also. If those 750 people buy $13 instead of $25 tickets that is a loss of $9000 (750 X 12). I would guess that the FO would consider that a bargain to have their fans represented in the official MLS advertising for next season and be able to make the claim that RSL has the best fans. This would be a veritable marketing bargain for them.

Aerick · 08-03-2005, 03:47 PM

Problem: I think that Dave/Glenn take the money from Paypal and then purchase all the necessary tickets BEFORE the game and pass them out accordingly. I don't believe they've been given all 750 tickets up front to sell. So, essentially, the FO has given the Loyalists the OPTION to buy tickets at $13 a piece, rather than giving us 750 tickets to sell at $13 a piece. Which makes sense, to a degree, because a) they couldn't really track how many we actually sold, because/and b) we may decide to try and turn a profit on the tickets.

If the above ISN'T true, then I would suggest putting up a couple of placards on the grass near the tailgate that say something like this: "Tons of Half-Price Tickets" with an arrow pointing to the tailgate.

bordelais7 · 08-03-2005, 04:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Aero

I would guess that the FO would consider that a bargain to have their fans represented in the official MLS advertising for next season and be able to make the claim that RSL has the best fans. This would be a veritable marketing bargain for them.

So if it's such a bargain, why am I not sensing more of a push from them? Maybe I'm just not "in the loop" enough to notice if they are, but it just doesn't seem to be a priority.

Aero · 08-03-2005, 04:07 PM

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Originally Posted by bordelais7

So if it's such a bargain, why am I not sensing more of a push from them? Maybe I'm just not "in the loop" enough to notice if they are, but it just doesn't seem to be a priority.

From some of the feedback I'm getting, it does seem to be a pretty big priority with them. Of course, I'm not totally in the loop either so I don't know everything. A lot of this is just me trying think like I imagine they would actually think so I could be very wrong.

bordelais7 · 08-03-2005, 04:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Aero

From some of the feedback I'm getting, it does seem to be a pretty big priority with them. Of course, I'm not totally in the loop either so I don't know everything. A lot of this is just me trying think like I imagine they would actually think so I could be very wrong.

Well, if it is a big priority with them, then there's a communication breakdown somewhere, because until I started reading these posts yesterday and today, I never really felt that this was much more than a fun girl-scout-cookie-selling-type contest where the winner gets a sticker on their forehead and then everyone forgets about it by the next day. As far as I was concerned, winning or being well-represented in this contest was about as important as showing well in the latest mlsnet.com "Which team rules the most?" poll-stuffing affair. I'm not sure I want to point fingers or hurt feelings (although I'm generally not opposed to either of those activities), especially since my own ignorance might be partly to blame, but I think that if the FO has felt from the beginning that this is a big deal (and we've known about this contest thing for what, half a year?) then that sentiment should have been more quickly and more efficiently communicated to me, as a supporter. If I'm going to be expected to act as a proxy RSL employee via the selling of their product, then I'm going to want to feel like I have a great reason to do so.

Anyway, I'll shut up now and continue inviting people to the game, but I'm only going to do so with 9/10ths of a smile on my face.

Aerick · 08-03-2005, 04:36 PM

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Originally Posted by bordelais7

Well, if it is a big priority with them, then there's a communication breakdown somewhere, because until I started reading these posts yesterday and today, I never really felt that this was much more than a fun girl-scout-cookie-selling-type contest where the winner gets a sticker on their forehead and then everyone forgets about it by the next day. As far as I was concerned, winning or being well-represented in this contest was about as important as showing well in the latest mlsnet.com "Which team rules the most?" poll-stuffing affair. I'm not sure I want to point fingers or hurt feelings (although I'm generally not opposed to either of those activities), especially since my own ignorance might be partly to blame, but I think that if the FO has felt from the beginning that this is a big deal (and we've known about this contest thing for what, half a year?) then that sentiment should have been more quickly and more efficiently communicated to me, as a supporter. If I'm going to be expected to act as a proxy RSL employee via the selling of their product, then I'm going to want to feel like I have a great reason to do so.

Anyway, I'll shut up now and continue inviting people to the game, but I'm only going to do so with 9/10ths of a smile on my face.

I can buy you a sticker for your forehead if you want. If it'll sell more tickets, I'll buy you a whole pack!!

Which brings me to a point. Perhaps we can have some sort of prize for the person who sells the most tickets - some sort of RSL gear, or a date with DJ or something. 😉

RCB did something similar by offering a RSL hat to the person who sold the most tickets. Maybe it's too late for this go around, but may be a great idea for the next go around.... if there's another go around after this debacle...

Stucki · 08-03-2005, 04:52 PM

I'm thinking we just need to relax here. I know of at least two people who waited to put in orders until they knew how many they were selling. We still have a couple of days.

Everyone step back from the ledge and take a deep breath.

Deuce · 08-03-2005, 04:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Stucki

Everyone step back from the ledge and take a deep breath.

Yes ... walk past that open window!

bordelais7 · 08-03-2005, 05:21 PM

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Everyone step back from the ledge and take a deep breath.

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Yes ... walk past that open window!

So I was right in my initial assumption that this ISN'T a big deal and that there's nothing to worry about?