Comments on: Seattle Mariners Safeco Field ticket guide

By: Dreams of October

Dreams of October — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 23:40:32 +0000

“Terrace Club seats have generated a lot of controversy in discussions here. They’re a ripoff at $60 for the infield seats (which run from 217-243 and include a lot of seats even the most charitable soul wouldn’t call infield) and $45 for the remainder. The seats are nicer, the bathrooms are nicer, and there are those cool bar-type seating behind the last row where you can sit, but it’s not worth it.”

I wasn’t around when the controversy in discussion took place, so forgive me if this has been covered ad nauseum, but I must offer up a different opinion on the club seats. I used to have season tickets in the lower box level (Section 135) and switched to infield club (Section 221) a couple of years ago. I find the slightly elevated view of the field beneficial for tracking the ball. When sitting in lower box, I would often lose line drives in the background of the crowd. I don’t know, maybe it’s just my poor eyesight. Also, if you’re planning on eating at the ballpark, the food is vastly superior on the club level. The lines are also shorter, the concourse much less crowded, the seats wider, all in all a much more comfortable ballpark experience, and one I consider a bargain for only five more dollars (seven more for outfield club over field level).

By: mariners23

mariners23 — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 20:26:52 +0000

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By: Arkinese

Arkinese — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 09:19:34 +0000

Regarding scalpers and pseudo-scalpers: If you want to get good seats from them down at the ballpark, it helps to know the single-ticket and season-ticket holder prices of the seating areas (as DMZ has outlined here). Since very few games have been sold out this year, this strategy works better than it would other years.

For instance: Last year, the guy showed us the seating chart and said, “These tickets cost $55 a piece, in section 136. I’ll give them to you for $40 each.” Dad looked at the chart and said, “$35 each,” prepared to haggle.

I looked at the chart and said, “You kidding me? We could get two tickets from a section 109 season ticket holder for 40 bucks total. I don’t think 136 is worth thirty more dollars.”

Guy sold us the tickets for $25 each. Having a partner to play “good ticket buyer/bad ticket buyer” also helps.

By: juustabitoutside

juustabitoutside — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 02:50:00 +0000

Great info, DMZ. Thanks a lot.

By: Replacement level poster

Replacement level poster — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 06:45:58 +0000

Wow, I was really tired when I made that post. I’d like to think I’m better than that, and I apologize for all the errors.

By: Replacement level Poster

Replacement level Poster — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 23:59:06 +0000

I have two email accounts specifically for when I need to use an email account to validate myself online. So, yea my spam email box is filled to the brim. But my legitate email box is trully only real messages.

I actually used one of the 3rd party online brokers to get tickets for opening day this year once I found out about the meetup. If I’m going to drive 4 hours to go to a game I want good tickets, and none were available from the Mariners at the time. I ended up using stubhub.com in the end I paid about $65 for $55 tickets. I went browsing today just to see what was avaiblable on stubhub for games in less demand, and it seems like you can get some good deals.

For example, currently avaible box seats behind home plate on Saturdays game against the tigers are only 38 bucks, which would run 57 at the M’s site. I suspect its kind of like Mariner Marketplace, where season ticketholders are off-loading their extra tickets.

Anyways, since DMZ didn’t have any experience with online brokers, and I just used one thought I’d chime in with my experiences.

By: DMZ

DMZ — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 19:43:58 +0000

Ticketmaster's Privacy Policy is a skin-crawling read and one of the more consumer-hostile ones I've ever come across.

By: Steve T

Steve T — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 19:31:23 +0000

One more thrill from the Ticketbastard experience: they pass your email on to third parties, including the team (both of them), the venue, and the promoter if any. This allows those third parties to get around any spam restrictions imposed by Ticketbastard itself. You’re guaranteed to get spam from Ticketbastard, which you can opt out of (though it’s probably already blocked or filtered out), but the third-party recipients have no obligations at all. They will sell your address on, and you are now part of the vast “opt in” pool of people who “have elected to receive exciting third-party offers”.

You can never opt out of this, because you’ll only have contact with individual spamming companies, not the brokers who control your address. So: world of spam, all of it legal mainsleaze. I’m still getting spam from Manchester United because I used Ticketbastard to book tickets for a game at Qwest like four years ago.

Welcome to the modern world of universal legally-protected spam, infinite and forevermore. 90% of all email, by some counts. It certainly is at my company’s mail server.