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Originally Posted by freddyg12
The article makes what I think is a valid point about this "waiting list" for season tickets. The whole thing is a marketing sham. There was a list for years, I really don't believe there's much of one now. I know that there's a big difference between the high end boxes & avg. seats. Supposedly they will concede that boxes are easy to get, if you have $.
But the marketing they've been doing for tickets doesn't look it's simply aimed at selling boxes, it's to the avg. fan. I entered a free ticket drawing online & the next day got a call from a friendly woman from redskins ticket office saying that seats were available.
Your logic I think is the same logic that DS has relied upon; that there is always someone to fill the seats. Well in this economy, that hasn't been the case. In one case on monday night we saw that there were plenty of people filling the seats, just so happened that they were in black & gold.
When I look at Snyder's ownership tenure, from a biz standpoint I see a product that is living off it's brand name, not its substance. At some point consumers associate the brand name negatively, that's what's been happening the last few years. I know that winning will change a lot, but Snyder's problem is that he has exhausted all his political capital w/the fan base to the extent that he now HAS to win.
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Interesting post, and certainly one that I don't completely disagree on. I do think Snyder is making a living off of the name, because it is obviously still making money. The team is located near an area where the average income is far greater than what it would be if the team was located in Southern VA. But you know, this team has been losing, more than winning, on a consistent basis since 1993, yet the team is still very popular and still considered one of the top storied franchises in the league.
Now, as far as marketing, I do find it interesting that the tickets are supposedly sold out, but yet I have been getting calls about tickets and stuff mailed to me. The only way I would ever buy season tickets is if A) I could afford to do so and the seats were decent, and B) I knew that I could easily sell a game or two and recoup my loss. But that's just me saying this, because I don't make six figures a year or even close to it.
But one other thing I would say....winning changes everything! Cowboys fans don't like Jerry Jones, but they can really care less how he runs the team so as long as the team is winning. I would say the same about the Redskins.