PSL/Season Tickets question

[o803oVaDeR]

So, after several years of dreaming about it, I am actually finally thinking of buying a couple PSLs. I think after this season i may be able to do it. I have a few questions though:

When you buy the PSL any other perks besides having the same seat every year?

When season tickets go on sale for PSL owners do you buy them all at once or is there an option to like making payments all year on season tickets?

Can you upgrade your PSLs at a future date or do you have to sell yours before you can get a better one? I know it says you can upgrade on the site but I guess my question is, if I pay $2000ea and want to upgrade to a $5000ea in 5 years do I only pay the difference?

Is it really worth it? I mean I can find season tickets all day on eBay and even this site for face or a little more. Seems like it would take years of buying season tickets at a markup off eBay to equal the cost of a PSL.

Thanks!

[Squirrel]

Do have a payment option to buy season tickets. think they have a 5month plan now.  But first payment is usually in Apr.

 

only extra perk is buying regular season tickets in presale.

 

Upgrades no clue but dont buy from Panthers can ge cheaper on the open market

 

 

Also make sure to have money stashed away in Nov incase the team has a chance to make the playoffs. You have to buy those tickets too. Usually double the regular season ticket cost.

 

[Happy Panther]

So, after several years of dreaming about it, I am actually finally thinking of buying a couple PSLs. I think after this season i may be able to do it. I have a few questions though:

When you buy the PSL any other perks besides having the same seat every year?

When season tickets go on sale for PSL owners do you buy them all at once or is there an option to like making payments all year on season tickets?

Can you upgrade your PSLs at a future date or do you have to sell yours before you can get a better one? I know it says you can upgrade on the site but I guess my question is, if I pay $2000ea and want to upgrade to a $5000ea in 5 years do I only pay the difference?

Is it really worth it? I mean I can find season tickets all day on eBay and even this site for face or a little more. Seems like it would take years of buying season tickets at a markup off eBay to equal the cost of a PSL.

Thanks!

 

1) Perks - not really. I think there is a day you can visit practice and you get first dibs at some concert tickets. Main perk for me is having a seat to the primo games and the playoffs which will happen this year. My goal for this franchise is a home playoff game.

 

2) There is a financing plan for the PSLs themselves either 18 or 48 months. I am pretty sure there is something like a 3 installment plan for the tickets themselves.

 

3) You are better off getiing PSLs off the secondary market. Don't buy from the panthers as you can get a much better deal from a current PSL owner. 

 

4) Depends on what you want. It stings a little being on the hook for meaningless rain games in December. And you get to pay full price for 2 preseason games. But knowing you have good seats for you and your kid for the important games(or whatever) is a luxury.

[o803oVaDeR]

Thanks guys. I will have to shop around a little on the black market I guess. Haven't really looked into that yet.

[toldozer]

Dont do psls, just buy season tickets. No point in buying psls at this point.

[Hawk]

might be different in Seattle...but I bought PSL's because I wanted to upgrade to the lower bowl and unless you want to be in a corner or an endzone...which are great seats too but hard to get...I had to get PSL's.  That being said, this year they moved my 4 rows lower, long story...but my seats are at the 30 yard line, row 10. 

 

perks...guaranteed those are my seats until I choose not to renew them anymore.  I bought my PSL's directly from the Seahawks and got a 20% discount and their face value was already about 1/2 of what brokers were asking.  These are real easy seats to sell at a considerable mark up, or some I'm told...my bad I always sell to friends at face value!!!

 

I get a little personalize football plaque on my seats...that has to be worth something!

[raleigh-panther]

Perks, on club level:   lot 1 parking;  wider seats;  mixed drinks, pre-sales,   This year there is a concierge to help with certain things an I appreciate that as my 82 year GodMother needs some special arrangements to help with logistics.  Still a fan, just moves a little slower now.

 

The best time to buy PSLs, If you want them is in a down time or the team.

 

If the Panthers start winning, you will it much harder to get tickets anywhere.

 

I'm one of the people that sometimes sells my tickets, have to because of work and family demands requiring travel.  When I do, I sell them to Panthers fans or I give them away if its game without much interest.

 

Many PSL holders, long time ones, after the Fox debacle and the uneven showing o Rivera, have started selling their tickets over the past 3 years...they hold no hope that this team will win a close game...and that's really sad...even ones that sat through the Seiert/Wienke debacle finally lost it...that Fox/Clausen business did them in...and Rivera well, meh.

 

Losing season(s) buyers market.  Winning seasons(s) sellers market. 

 

It is very expensive.  This may be my last year for many reasons.  Its a long drive from Raleigh to watch losing in person in Charlotte year after year after year.

[Jump Zone]

I bought my 1st PSLs directly from the Panthers. After the .4-12 '98 season I bought another set in the lower bowl and sold my old ones. Then after 2001's 1-15 debacle, I bought my current front row seats. A couple years later, I sold my other pair and made a decent profit. Each time I bought and sold PSLs after my first pair, I had good luck through the Observer's classifieds on their website. For me, it has been well worth the cost of PSLs- you don't waste time trying to get tickets and you know where you'll be each game...

[GRWatcher]

I bought 4 PSL's through the initial lottery.  Lower bowl, Panther side, near the end zone, at the visitors' tunnel.  There were many years when I couldn't get anyone to go with me and my son was away at college.  I went anyway, sold the other tickets to street vendors to at least cover the cost of parking and eating.  Sold 2 of them after the Super Bowl appearance and made a handsome profit.  My name and my children's' names are on one of the big cats at the north gate.  :)

 

You are truly on the Panthers' preferred list.  You get the Roar magazine.  There's a drawing every week for a PSL owner to be on the field pregame.  You get the 1st chance to buy single tickets for the games and other events, like the Belk Bowl.  Last year they sent me 4 free tickets to the ACC playoff game.  One year I won a training camp event that included lunch with some players.  I even got a birthday card from the Panthers this year!  The absolute best perk was sitting with the same people around me all these years.  I've made some very good friends, had some good times.

 

I typically let my son & daughter-in-law & my daughter & son-in-law pick a game each.  For sure you will get playoff tickets.  You have to pay for them long before the playoffs start.  The seat price was $50 in 1994.  This year it is $97.  I'm thinking that once the renovations are finished, it will jump.  Then I may have to give them up.  Which will make me very, very, very sad.  :(

 

 

[toldozer]

0-16 or 16-0 there will always be people selling season tickets for face value for the following year. While I appreciate the investment all the intial psl owners made to get the team here, you can not give me one reason to buy them now. I've bought season ticket the past 7 years and never paid over face. I now have what id consider the best seats in the house for the money and paid 820 bucks this year and had the same seats last year.

[SCP]

0-16 or 16-0 there will always be people selling season tickets for face value for the following year. While I appreciate the investment all the intial psl owners made to get the team here, you can not give me one reason to buy them now. I've bought season ticket the past 7 years and never paid over face. I now have what id consider the best seats in the house for the money and paid 820 bucks this year and had the same seats last year.

I get a sticker for my car every year with my invoice. Boom.

[toldozer]

I have the sticker too. The lady has given it to me the past two years. Bam.

[SCP]

I have the sticker too. The lady has given it to me the past two years. Bam.

Key ring schedule. Kabloom.

[toldozer]

Got it, i get everything including the invoice lol. Super nice couple. She even gave me some old psl owner stickers this year.