Really?

Makes sense why you’re so upset. I hope the Maloofs really re-committ to Sacramento and the fans. All of us deserve better treatment after what we’ve been through.

This is your opportunity to move into row B C D E or F for the price you paid last year, although I grant the price will start rising once the arena is full and the team improves. My rep said they want you guys to move down.
Another perk is that I suspect the scoreboard prevents you from actually being able to see me in 203. I realize I am sensitive but after 10 complaints, it begins to sink in.

I think you should e-mail back that post in its entirety. They need to know how you, and probably a lot of other season ticket holders, feel.

I’m sure it wouldn’t take much (restore the parking passes, $100 off the package, same terms as before) for MS&E to keep from losing season ticket holders.

After the way they’ve treated Kings fans, a little show of good faith would go a long way. I would even suggest that it’s necessary at this point, given the looming labor issues.

I usually don’t listen to grant’s show, but tuned in today. And felt like I needed to call in. I just got a busy signal, but I wanted to make a point.

That point is that the Kings are not just the Maloofs. Buying tickets is not just putting money in the Maloofs pockets. It is supporting the franchise and the brand. It is supporting the team. This is easy to understand from an analytical perspective, but this is not about that. This is about how we feel.

The Maloofs have damaged the franchise and the brand. What is worse for each of us personally is that they hurt us and our fandom. Their very presence as owners put the future of this team at risk because many people can’t and won’t get past the trauma of just the possibility of losing this team to Anaheim.

I am committing to go to more games this year. Despite the Maloofs. Because I am going to have more commitment to the team. Not the Maloofs. And partially because they want the team to fail. They want tickets to drop off and corporate sponsors to go elsewhere so they can leave. Screw them.

I am not going to let them sabotage how I feel about this team. I can hate them and love the team. They can’t take that away from me. To me being less committed means they win.

Discounting some non-renewal setas 40% or more, but not discounting renewals that happen to be in a more desirable location? Puh-lease. I’m sure you’ll still go to 10+ games, so I don’t doubt your fanhood… Or intelligence.

This is why people have complained about them (after hearing complaints in the better years of the franchise here; it was mostly drowned out because there were plenty of people wishing for tickets) recently. They simply do not understand that you have to adjust prices to demand, and still treat your customers well.

The Kings are charging a high price for a poor product, and wonder why they aren’t selling out? This is one area, for people just like you Rob, where the NBA steps in and says: Whoa? Why? Get people in than worry about prices. Hello?

Again, they like to believe they treat customers with respect. That holds with the Maloofs edge. However, if you talk to actual customers, they don’t feel the same way. Not all customers are right necessarily; but none of your complaints are beyond the realm of customer complaint. While I understand the idiom “The Customer is always Right”, customers are not always right. Product demand = Consumer

Standard Economics. I know, I go through this in my class almost every day. The Maloofs just don’t seem to know it.

I would second LPA’s motion to send this postl back to the Kings ticket staff. If the NBA is to get a handle on what the issue’s here are, I think one way is to recognize that the Maloof’s are treating their customers badly by simply neglecting them. It’s not that they are mean are anything; it’s just that they are too desperate to lower prices because it cuts into any profit margin they do have. They can’t afford anything different.

Like everyone else, I’m glad you didn’t reup for your reasons Rob. But, at the same time, I’m saddened that a long time season ticket holder had to resort to such things when not really wishing to. It’s quite the conundrum that faces this market (and others) as the NBA is so determined to face a lockout.

as others have said, separating the Kings from the Maloofs. The Kings are Sacramento’s team, but they almost became Anaheim’s and could be Kansas City’s next year. Don’t let it happen.

Red’c

I dont blame you Section. Not one bit.

of addressing the elephant in the room, instead of ignoring it. I didn’t take it as extortion.

This letter is just another bad move by the Maloofs.
It should be them kowtowing to you season ticket holders (by offering discounts and incentives) — not the other way around.

At least mention the additional throw ins your received last season. I bet they come down and meet you.

It’s not about the Maloofs for me.

it’s totally understandable. But if it’s about the Maloofs greediness, it wouldn’t bother me. The whole system is crazy, we have 19 year olds paid millions for bouncing a ball when the majority of the planet is starving. I’d just buy the season ticket and have a fun year as much as my payroll allows and put my justified small egos against the Maloofs aside. Other than that, this post is a great analysis of the Maloofs’ lack of understanding.

It has always been a dream of mine to be a season ticket holder. The cost and the distance have always been prohibitive. Even Nuggets season tickets would require me to drive an hour to and from each game. If that was for the Kings, absolutely, but not the Nuggets. And if I lived in Sacramento, I’m sure I would have already been a season ticket holder by now.

All of that being said, I don’t blame you at all, Section. Not one bit. As the Here We Stay, Here We Build, and Here We Purple movements demonstrated, there are many ways to support a team even if you do not attend every game. Even if you don’t attend any games.

Season tickets have been a dream of mine, but the Maloofs have put us through a nightmare. To buckle to the NBA and stay in Sacramento only to, essentially, increase prices to season tickets holders, is absurd.

This is some of the fallout that the Maloofs will have to deal with. They completely botched everything last season when it came to us Sacramento fans. All they care about was getting to Anaheim, ASAP. They didn’t do the necessary maintenance on the arena. They didn’t show up to Fan Appreciation Night. Usually in the past, the FAN night is a giveaway night, but this year, nothing.

They’re going to have to realize how badly they burned the fan base. We all love our Kings. I think it’s safe to say we ALL lost a ton of respect for the Maloofs. That being said, I haven’t been to a game for about 2 years now, but that ends next year. I’m going to as many as I can go to. Not to put money into the Maloofs pockets, but to support the team I love.

I don’t take this as anything negative, honestly. I take it as being smart.

It’s a pretty plain-vanilla season ticket re-up request. All of the common verbiage is there, the props to the “valued Season Ticket Holder,” the request to be part of the team at “this very pivotal and exciting time” for the team, it’s just Season Tix Reup Boilerplate language.

It’s paragraph #4 (“Over the next year…”) that doesn’t fit in, and this note probably would have been fine for you if that paragraph hadn’t been included. However, in a typical Maloofian over-reach, they figured that the good feelings from yesterday would help cascade people into lining up to get those season tix.

Once again, by including that paragraph, they made yesterday’s decision about them, rather than about us as a fan base. I don’t see it so much as an extortion, as much as it is the Maloofs trying to turn yesterday’s good feelings into something that was their idea all along.

And then trying to profit by it.