No ticket price increase

So merciful! Obviously he isn't going to increase tickets. They are already exoribitantly high; significantly more expensive than the next most expensive.

The Patriots already have the highest ticket prices in the NFL, BY FAR, but it is still shocking they didn't jack the prices up once again.

thanks krafty

There are 60,000+ people on the season ticket waiting list. Based on the concept of supply and demand, Patritots tickets are not expensive enough.

I received my bill today and if i saw no increase if you have season tickets way krafts operate is every 3 years theres increase from opening of gillette in 2002 until last years huge increase being in super bowl made my seats jump from $125 to $169 and minus Tom Brady and in tough times a year of no increases and hope parking stays at $40

Kaft just raised them last over 30% from the year before
How painful was that after losing the super bowl
been a season ticket holder since 1983

not to worry...they will jack the price for beer, food, parking...

I'll take slightly higher prices over PSL's. Ask Jets fans about the PSL's they will be paying

Like the Kraft's are doing us a favor by not raising prices.

Not worth over $100- that place is QUIET....If you want to spend $40 on parking, $117 on the ticket, and $8 for each beer only to have all the other "fans" tell you to sit down when you stand up and cheer, knock yourselves out!

I wonder if the Krafts taking their own money to build this stadium, instead of tax payers money, has anything to do with the slightly higher ticket prices........You think????????

Last year the Krafts raised my season ticket price by 30%. They should receive no praise for not further gouging their customers.
The Krafts are by far the greediest owners in all of sports and have done nothing for the fans as they continuously claim.
Every move they make is made for the singular goal of further lining their pockets with cash. I am happy Patriot Place is failing and hope it bankrupts this shameless family.

Actually,I was hoping for a reduction in ticket prices.That won't happen until the salary cap is stabalized or actually decreased.I had the right to DREAM,didn't I??

Ticket prices may be high but that's what happens when the owner has to build his own stadium. We must not forget that Kraft built that place on his own coin. Definitely the right thing to do in this economic environment. I know things are tough and some people are struggling with the way things are in the economy but if any season ticket holder doesn't renew I'm quite sure someone on the 50,000+ waiting list will scoop those seats right up.

How about the parking price! Is that going up instead?

I am sure the Krafts make a very nice profit as well as the Red Sox owners & limited partners, without any ticket increase!!

Thank GOD.

Oh stop complainin...ya want the lowest prices...root for the Lions, Cardinals, Raiders, Bengals, ...et al.

You want perenial contenders....? And btw Fernando, if it wasnt for our current owenership, we would be seeing the Harford Patriots, St. Louis Patriots, or the Carolina Patriots, you idiot.

before we flame the Kraft's over ticket prices, let's remember that they used their own private funds to build the stadium and they did NOT charge for seat licenses. by comparison NY and Dallas fans are paying $1,000's for seat licenses, above and beyond the ticket prices. I'm guessing if you pro-rate that money per ticket, you'd find the Pats are NOT the highest priced ticket.

that said, all sports are pricing out the individual fan and the families, in favor of the business investor. hopefully a positive to the current economic downturn is that teams will start to have to appeal to individuals as the corporate money dries up.

I was at Patriots Place Yesterday. It was a ghost town. Bad idea Mr. Kraft. Season Ticket holders will pay for that mistake. I hear you can get a big store down there on the cheap. I believe Circuit City is chapter 11.

can't blame someone for trying to make money with their company. however, what exactly are guys supposed to make of pats place? a man mall? really? last time i checked, the only store that guys flock to are best buy. they should replace pats place with a home depot, an l.l. bean and a liquor store. oh wait, that's exactly what mansfield has the next town over.

As a season ticket holder since 1988, the price increases have traditionally come every three years, the last being the huge jump last year. The right thing to do this year would have been a token ( $2-5) drop in ticket prices to demonstrate some concerns for the people who will be strapped to pay for the seats this year.
Bob / Jonathan, what do you say? It's the right thing to do.
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What a JOKE!
..."bragging" about not increasing ticket prices this year?!?!?!
Why dont you decrease prices! Tickets started off at 99.00 in the new stadium for sideline seats. The old place and new place hasn't had an unsold seat for the past 10+ years and they feel the need to raise them 25% after 3 years in the new stadium, then 3 years later (after winning 2 more Superbowls) they raise the prices AGAIN!!!..."Why the hell not, these lemmings will pay it"
Last year they increased prices 35% in most cases....THIRTY FIVE PERCENT!!!!
Are you friggin' kidding me?
Bleed the fans for as much as you can Krafty...NICE!!!
By the way, 60k plus on the waiting list is B.S.!!!

Hi Joseph. In fairness to this situation, I was the one who brought this up after seeing the renewal forms to season-ticket holders. The Patriots did not announce this. I thought it was noteworthy that the team did not raise ticket prices.
--Mike

Mike,

Thanks for the clarification but it is still disingenuous of the Patriots to try to gain some PR by not "raising" ticket prices when they have traditionally raised them every three years in the past. Economy or not, they were not going to raise them this year anyway - that 35% increase last year wiped out half of my tailgate crew; and we've all been season ticket holders in excess of 15 years. The right thing to do was a token drop in price to recognize the times and the fan loyalty.
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BTW, I just got my Bruins playoff notice and the Bruins have decided not to impose the price increase for next year and will be dropping the price for some of the upper 300 section seats, based on the economic conditions, this at a time when they are hot again and selling out.
THAT's how to treat your loyal fans.
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I'll pay it, just get me tickets!

Please. The people who are saying there are 50,000+ on the waiting list that would gladly take them are fools. 1.) Do you not believe that is a ridiculously inflated number? 2.) Next in line will be able to afford the tickets for, what, 3 years? Then move on?

I guess things are just changing. This will be my 30th season as a season ticket holder. There are 21 tickets in my account. The days at Foxboro Stadium, although there were rough times, were better. It was more of a community; it was a football environment. Fans were actually allowed to stand and cheer. The stadium had a uniqueness to it that did not carry over into Gillette. Obviously Gillette is a better venu but this ownership has killed alot of the fun of going to the games.
Parking sucks and is worse than ever, ticket prices (despite a "50,000+" waiting list) are disgusting, the atmosphere inside the stadium is a shell of its former self.

I'm really trying not to complain here. I LOVE the Patriots; anybody that knows my family and I associate us with the Pats. But it might be time for all 21 of my family members and friends to call it quits. It's been great watching a winning team and I've been to every Super Bowl they have played in (even '85), but the only thing that has gotten better is the team. Everything else is significantly worse.

The best years as a season ticket holder in my opinion were the days of Parcells and then early days of Belichick. After that it all became very, very corporate.

I have been on the ticket waiting list since the beginning of the 2001 season. I was told today they are now only giving tickets to people that joined in 1998. If any of you think the prices are too high, please turn them in so I will not have to wait another 8 years for tickets.