No Marlies Tickets For TFC Fans - Kudos on not selling Marlies tickets to TFC fans
No Marlies Tickets For TFC Fans
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Kudos to TFC for realizing that most TFC fans do not want minor league hockey tickets. Thoughts on the public sale of half season ticket packages that this season do not include anymore tickets to the Toronto Marlies.
they tried to force them on us for 4 years, and got nothing but negative feedback.
good for them, for only taking 4 years to see what everyone else could see (the Marlies are not Toronto FC)
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They're still making phone calls about selling half season packs. I think they're not selling Marlies with TFC games because they're having a tough time just selling TFC. No idea though.
agreed with adding TFC academy games. big time!
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Thank Zombie Jesus!!!
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Anyone know how the Marlies are doing attendance wise these days?
Maybe they're actually filling the stands so theres no need to force TFC fans to go anymore.... i'm honestly just guessing though because I don't really follow hockey.
They're not including Marlies tickets because they are having a hard enough time selling TFC tickets as is. Giving "kudos" to MLSE is a big crock of shit.
As Tom Anselmi would say, it's "supply and demand".
Last edited by Nestease; 01-20-2011 at 02:49 PM.
Thank you.Originally Posted by Nestease
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Kudos to them?
I say kudos to the fans for telling them where they can put their marlie tickets.
LOL. The Marlies continue to have shit attendance.
This is it.
Giving them credit for doing the obvious is hilarious.
Last edited by menefreghista; 01-20-2011 at 03:59 PM.
This is not new information.
This has been going about the board for some time.
When they announced the changes to the season tickets packages, after Don Garber got involved and they had the town halls, they announced no Marlie "ransom packs" at the same time.
Also...
Please don't give them any ideas on how to charge us more!!!If Toronto FC were ever to include any additional tickets in its packages going forward I think they should include the Academy games that the club plays in the Canadian Soccer League.
Last edited by Oldtimer; 01-20-2011 at 04:34 PM.
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I understand you're looking for tickets to the Sex Pistols reunion concert?
I'd be happy to sell you a ticket, provided you also buy 20 tickets to my niece's tap dance recital.
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All I can say is...
FINALLY
wasn't this decided ages ago?
i was talking to paul about this at one of the townhalls. At first he went with "no-one's forced to buy them", before he then decided to go with "if it was up to me, we'd get rid of them, I don't give a shit about the other teams"
Either way, I got the impression they were going to still go ahead, so it was surprising when they didn't.
don't get too excited though, tweeted this december 10th
paul replied to me with this
so as soon as we get popular again, they'll be back.
Good! That means that I won't be the last sucker to buy them!
I know I might take some heat from this, but I actually enjoyed going to the Marlies games. I found them a little more enjoyable than a leaf game, cause these guys are actually still trying to earn a spot in the NHL. They gave me front row seats, so I am not complaining further. I actually will miss going to marlies games...but w/e..I just bought tickets to couple games..cheaper than going to leaf game and almost same quality.
I had a blast that the few Marlies games I went to but there plenty of Marlies tix available if anyone wants them. Walk up game day and get front row seats. No need to bundle 6 games into a package for footy tickets
I get the marketing behind it, but it was poorly thought out. Case in point - I have not been back to a game since I was forced to buy them. If I wanted Marlies tix I'd but Marlies tix.
finally got time to actually read the post.
don't agree that they've listened to fans and se the light at all, it's all supply and demand.
when the demand was there, rather than nurture it, they decided to exploit it. with the marlie packs and many other things, they went too far, now the demand isn't there, so they're having to back off the exploiting and go back to nurturing.
I'll give them kudos if we get successful and popular, and then at that point they don't bring back this sort of thing. until then, nope.
They haven't given up completely. I got an e-mail a while back trying to get me to pony up for the Marlie tickets. Might have been some pre-christmas blitz.
I guess they didn't keep my comment of "bought em to get TFC ... don't want the Marlies, never did and ended up trying to give em away. If you try to force me again... well we may part company" to refer to when they sent me that e-mail.
Kudos for realizing we weren't gonna get taken by that scam anymore. Thumbs down to us for letting them get away with it for as long as they did.
so you're the guy i've seen in that arena some times
Yes that thing you shouldn't have done in the first place, kudos for not doing that.
In other news, man who is threatened with jail time agrees to stop stealing from kensington market.
Last edited by ag futbol; 01-20-2011 at 06:26 PM.
Yeah really. Giving kudos to an organization for finally, AFTER 4 YEARS, ceasing it's clumsy and overt extortion tactics in the face of declining renewal rates is just fucking silly.
It's akin to congratulating and praising your neighbour for finally putting a stop to his dog crapping all over your lawn every day for the past 4 years.
That's one serious case of MLSE Stockholm Syndrome right there from the OP.
Precisely.
Move the Marlies back up to Newmarket and play at Ray Twinney! Those were the DAYS!
Yea I think Paul Beine tweeted it wasn;t happening...
Regardless, they had to cut it considering last season.
It is called "tied selling" and the competition act frowns upon it heavily. I am astonished that no one ever brought suit against it.
J
Given that they they sold the packs both with and without the Marlies tickets, I doubt there was anything that broke any laws. If I recall correctly, there were more packs sold without Marlies tickets than with. Problem was, by the time they got down to the bottom of the list, not surprisingly all the without tickets had sold.
An era best quickly forgotten.
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This is how capitalism works. MLSE tried to push a product that wasn't popular, people didn't buy it, and now MLSE have responded to the market by offering something people are more likely to want.
I don't get the cynicism about it. This is how the market works, people. Vote with your wallet.
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There's just to much hockey in Canada, it's okay sometimes but the amount of coverage it gets is just overwhelming.
Bahahahah! That's exactly it.
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