Broncos forced non renewals to season ticket holders.

[Chief Roundup]

http://www.denverpost.com/2017/05/03...ckets-weeding/

The Denver Broncos booted season-ticket holders who didn’t go to a single game last season and that led to upgraded seats for 144 accounts and about 400 seats through Monday, compared to only 14 accounts and 39 seats the previous season, the club said.

When all upgrades are made, the forced non-renewals also will allow the Broncos to make season tickets available to some fans on the 75,000-person waiting list for the first time in six years and increase its very limited single-game ticket allotment. Last season, 97 percent of the seating capacity at Mile High Stadium came from season-ticket holders, leaving just 3 percent for single games.

The Broncos said their legal “weeding out” — based on technology in the electronic ticket resale market — is putting “more tickets in the hands of Denver Broncos fans,” team spokesman Patrick Smyth said Tuesday.

But it has outraged some long-time season-ticket holders who question how the Broncos can prove what tickets were sold and why they weren’t warned of the policy.
Broncos Season Ticket Holder Upset About Losing Seats
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Aurora’s Mike Fletcher, 69, had season tickets since 1977 but was told his 2016 no-show would end his annual agreement with the team. The season-ticket policy states that every account is a revocable license issued annually.
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Fletcher appealed to the Broncos, saying a collapsed lung and lung-reduction surgery in 2016 forced him to sell his tickets last season. The team denied his appeal, and according to the Broncos’ ticket office, Fletcher’s tickets from 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 all were sold on the secondary market and used.

“I have tickets showing that I went to games, or I’d let my kids go and buy a handicap seat for myself,” Fletcher said of attending games from 2013-15.

“It’s been difficult for me to hold those tickets at times,” Fletcher said. “At times I couldn’t give those tickets away. A season-ticket holder has to give them their money in February of each year. If they’re checking anyone’s tickets, they ought to let people know that and put it in their policy.”

He added: “I guarantee you they didn’t take some of these sky-box owners’ tickets back if they didn’t go to at least one game. But how do they know that? How do we know that?”

Eric Siegler, who lives in Chicago, said he sold his seats last season to help support his cancer-stricken mother-in-law in Minnesota, who has since died. After being notified of his non-renewal, Siegler wrote an appeal letter to the Broncos, and also had his father, sister, aunt, cousin and three friends write the team. Each email was obtained by The Denver Post.


Denver just keeps on being the shit bag franchise that they have always been.

[Rain Man]

Von Miller came out strongly against the policy, saying, "If you stop trafficking of tickets, what's next? Are you going to stop trafficking drugs? Women? It's a slippery slope, people!"

[Squalor2]

Originally Posted by Eureka

Ticket cost is way to high for most games. I have Raiders season tickets and can't believe what similiar seats are selling for online.

If you have great seats in Denver you can make extra money selling them online. Sucks for those season ticket holders.

nothing personal, but can i put up a porta potty with an am radio broadcasting the game and call that an oakland season seat?

[Pasta Little Brioni]

Scumbag organization

[notorious]

Originally Posted by DaFace

Just for the record, the Broncos don't do PSL's.

Good for them. They aren't extorting money from people.

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Originally Posted by DaFace

Selling tickets to a game or two that you can't make it to every year is perfectly fine.

Selling every ticket to every game over the course of a number of years is scalping.

There's a difference.

What's wrong with scalping?

If the Broncos think their tickets are worth more, then they can charge more. What does it matter if someone wants to sell those tickets? As long as the people who are using your seats aren't doing anything nefarious, I don't see why this should be an issue.

It's bad enough that NFL teams ream their STH by making them pay full price for preseason games, which adds on 25% to their baseline cost. Now they require attendance from the person who bought the seats? What is this, 7th grade?

[Reerun_KC]

Originally Posted by DaFace

Selling tickets to a game or two that you can't make it to every year is perfectly fine.

Selling every ticket to every game over the course of a number of years is scalping.

There's a difference.

Great point.

[Reerun_KC]

Smart business move...

[DaFace]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

What's wrong with scalping?

If the Broncos think their tickets are worth more, then they can charge more. What does it matter if someone wants to sell those tickets? As long as the people who are using your seats aren't doing anything nefarious, I don't see why this should be an issue.

It's bad enough that NFL teams ream their STH by making them pay full price for preseason games, which adds on 25% to their baseline cost. Now they require attendance from the person who bought the seats? What is this, 7th grade?

I guess I just see this differently. You see it as some evil scheme by the Broncos (that profits them nothing). I see it as a way of speeding up the logjam that is their season ticket waiting list and letting some people get in who deserve it.

[Squalor2]

Originally Posted by DaFace

I guess I just see this differently. You see it as some evil scheme by the Broncos (that profits them nothing). I see it as a way of speeding up the logjam that is their season ticket waiting list and letting some people get in who deserve it.

good thing that the broncos dont have the history of a dad and his son like ten things.

[GloryDayz]

The man didn't use them for years, that's terrible. But this should not have been left to surprise.

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[Bugeater]

They deserve it for being Bronco fans.

[Eureka]

Originally Posted by Squalor2

nothing personal, but can i put up a porta potty with an am radio broadcasting the game and call that an oakland season seat?

Sounds about right. And the field is only 80 yards long and the beer don't taste like beer.

[Squalor2]

Originally Posted by Eureka

Sounds about right. And the field is only 80 yards long and the beer don't taste like beer.

call it an infield

[ChiliConCarnage]

Seems like a great policy and it seems it was handled well. If people complained with a reasonable excuse for one year they looked into the multi year history and some people were given passes.

I'd boot that Chicago guy even if he made it for one game last year. If you're making it to one game a year at best and have bought and sold all recent home playoff games I'd rather roll the dice on selling to a new person.

[Eleazar]

Seems like a good policy to me. If you only buy tickets to resell them, the team should reserve the right to make those seats available to real fans instead of allowing profiteering to drive prices up for everyone.