I noticed that this morning, and it seems to be the norm with the Devils unfortunately. I could see a few seats here and there, but not bulk blocks of inventory.
Around 11pm last night, I took note of the seats available in these sections.
Here is what was available last night at 11pm and what is available right now at 11:40am, a huge difference of ticket inventory. I do not think it is beneficial for the Devils to keep doing this practice of holding back upper level seats until the morning of the game.
209: 15 to now 36
210: 1 to now 34
215: 18 to now 86
226: 1 to now 39
I could keep going on with the 200 level sections but you catch my drift.
I don't see the benefit of holding back that many tickets back until the morning of the game.
If they were available last night I am sure more would have been sold by now, people like to make plans ahead of time.
I noticed that this morning, and it seems to be the norm with the Devils unfortunately. I could see a few seats here and there, but not bulk blocks of inventory.
Around 11pm last night, I took note of the seats available in these sections.
Here is what was available last night at 11pm and what is available right now at 11:40am, a huge difference of ticket inventory. I do not think it is beneficial for the Devils to keep doing this practice of holding back upper level seats until the morning of the game.
209: 15 to now 36
210: 1 to now 34
215: 18 to now 86
226: 1 to now 39
I could keep going on with the 200 level sections but you catch my drift.
I don't see the benefit of holding back that many tickets back until the morning of the game.
If they were available last night I am sure more would have been sold by now, people like to make plans ahead of time.
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Originally Posted by JerseyGuy276
don't even understand the reasoning for it...why wait? Whos going to look for regular priced tickets the day of the game?!
This isn't the Devils decision/practice. This is standard practice league wide, and actually across just about any sport. All teams are required to have various holds for a number of reasons (employees, executives who have certain ticket blocks, sponsors, league mandated holds, for visiting team fans and/or employees, etc). They have no way around this as its not something that is negotiable (especially anything related to the league/visiting teams/sponsors). These tickets sit in the hold until they are confirmed to be used for the particular game, or until 24-48 hours beforehand when they are permitted to be released. It sucks for the team that they have to keep them in the holds until the last minute, but that's just the standard practice. I've interned in a ticket sales department and have worked closely with the box office at a few venues in a number of internships, so I've heard plenty about this policy in a number of organizations. This is not something you can bash the Devils on because its not their choice.
This isn't the Devils decision/practice. This is standard practice league wide, and actually across just about any sport. All teams are required to have various holds for a number of reasons (employees, executives who have certain ticket blocks, sponsors, league mandated holds, for visiting team fans and/or employees, etc). They have no way around this as its not something that is negotiable (especially anything related to the league/visiting teams/sponsors). These tickets sit in the hold until they are confirmed to be used for the particular game, or until 24-48 hours beforehand when they are permitted to be released. It sucks for the team that they have to keep them in the holds until the last minute, but that's just the standard practice. I've interned in a ticket sales department and have worked closely with the box office at a few venues in a number of internships, so I've heard plenty about this policy in a number of organizations. This is not something you can bash the Devils on because its not their choice.
I think we all fully understand that teams have to hold back some tickets, that is common knowledge.
There is no way that many upper level tickets have to be held back, this is something different and is not a good practice.
A few have been bought since my last post, so that brings it down to 402 upper level tickets available for tonight, the vast majority "held back" until this morning.
Go get em everyone....
Last edited by Devils Dominion: 02-24-2012 at 12:45 PM.
I think we all fully understand that teams have to hold back some tickets, that is common knowledge.
There is no way that many upper level tickets have to be held back, this is something different and is not a good practice.
A few have been bought since my last post, so that brings it down to 402 upper level tickets available for tonight, the vast majority "held back" until this morning.
Go get em everyone....
I'm gonna disagree with that. There is no reason why a team that has at times had attendance issues would deliberately sabotage their chances to sell out their building. There just is no reason for that to happen. There is a specific reason why those tickets were held that long. What the specific hold is, I don't know. But no team that can't guarantee a sell out any given night would deliberately sabotage themselves like that. It's just not realistic.
I have no idea what tomorrow's going to be other than I don't expect it to be as much as Doc night, though the afternoon start time will bring out the 'family' crowd. But I'll be in 120 as usual.
