I just spoke with rep with the Bombers...some very interesting information. The Bombers are restructuring their entire price structure and seating map for 2015. For example, my P2 seats in section 129 are now considered P1 seats and the price is going from $814 per seat in 2014 to $1092 in 2015, an increase of almost $300 per seat! Good news is that I'm "grandfathered" in the 2014 pricing as long as I keep the seats and/or stay in the same price point. The former P1 seats are now called "Pinnacle" seats.

End zone pricing will be frozen again in 2015, so essentially those tickets are going down in price with every other section going up.

I was also told that my Grey Cup seats will be priced at $399 per seat (pending league approval so not 100% official yet), but that goes down to $299 if I commit to my season tickets for the next 3 years.

Season ticket holders will be receiving this information within the next week or two. Official Grey Cup pricing will be out in January.

 

 

The WFC are the ones who have to pay the additional expenses for the privilege of hosting, paying for the temporary stands to be installed, etc.  They can't be handicapped by a price cap determined by the league that prevents them from controlling their own profits.  Anyone who tells you the league is solely responsible for the pricing is wrong.  

 

On the note about the 3-year commitment discount, bottom line is it's a marketing play that happens all the time, everywhere.  Quite frankly, once I heard about this promotion, I knew that the prices would be inflated.   

 

Think about it.  If we have roughly in the neighbourhood of 21,000 season ticket holders and each one took advantage and renewed for 3 years, that's roughly $2,100,000 in ticket revenue that they would be losing.  There is absolutely no way the WFC would allow themselves to lose that kind of coin, when the game will be sold out one way or the other. 

I will disagree on the marketing ploy that happens everywhere bit.  No other team in the CFL has ever asked for a three year commitment from their fans to give them the discount.

 

The average price for a ticket will be the highest ever in history by the looks of things.  Don't think that's necessary when the Bombers have 1000 club seats going for who knows how much, 46 suites and 30 or so loges - three big moneymakers that are in short supply or simply do not exist in places like Edmonton, Calgary and Regina.

 

I hope the game sells out before the season begins, but I'm skeptical at those prices.  Maybe the Bombers believe it will due to stronger than usual corporate support?

 

 

Let me clarify.  I don't necessarily mean that other CFL teams do this.  I mean that artificially inflated pricing to compensate for discounting in general happens all the time.  Especially in retail.  The ever so popular BOGO deals you see everywhere is a clear example of this. 

 

What's BOGO?

sigh....Buy One, Get One.........

sigh....Buy One, Get One.........

 

Why sigh?  If people don't know, they don't know.  I had no idea what it meant either.

do you not ever watch tv or listen to the radio? Or see advertisements in the paper? BOGO is probably the most widely used advertising phrase in the world...

do you not ever watch tv or listen to the radio? Or see advertisements in the paper? BOGO is probably the most widely used advertising phrase in the world...

 

Don't usually pay attention to advertising, been conditioned to just tune out.

 

Don't remember ever hearing it on TV or radio.

For the Bombers' Grey Cup Tickets, will the tickets show the face value, or the paid value.  I don't understand how season ticket holders for the Jets have retail pricing printed on their tickets, and that Bombers season tickets print with the season ticket holders discounted price printed on the tickets.

If they really want to move tickets they should do some kind of deal involving the Winter Classic. But that would take too much leg work on the behalf of Wade "I know how to fix it, raise prices!" Miller.

The GC will sell out without the Winter Classic being involved.

The GC will sell out without the Winter Classic being involved.

 

Got my tix early in prevision of that. Vancouver is a far cry from their 2011 sellout.