11% is more than our regular season increase, but we're in the balcony - where are yours? Also - did your playoff strip have a HUGE spike? Ours went way, way up.
I'm Loge 9 and my regular season tickets went from $90 per game to $100. I know people in Loge 6 who went from $75 to $85. Same $10 difference, but worse for them on a percentage basis.
Playoffs: My first round tickets are $115 each, versus the $90 regular season. Second round are $156 each.
Last year, my base tickets were $85 each and the first round of the playoffs was $95.
I don't remember what the year before was, but I do know that the first round (when we were wiped out by Cleveland) tickets were the same as the regular season tickets.
I can't complain about the first round's $25 premium. That seems fair. The second round is getting steep.
As for the season tickets, as I mentioned above, I'm still paying less than I did five years ago. That didn't stop me from calling my rep, however, and letting her know that I am displeased with the increase. If nobody says anything, they'll keep raising prices.
I have a good relationship with my rep and I think she does an excellent job, so I don't blame her. Still, they could have had better talking points ("It's a better product," "We're investing for the future," "We have a new training facility," etc.). She's obviously in a tough spot, since she has no choice but to defend the increase on behalf of the team. Still, I'd rather they just said, "Look, you got years of price decreases and still pay a significant discount to face. We would love to keep the price the same every year, but that just isn't realistic."
Having said that, as I've mentioned before, I think the STH reps do an excellent job and typically bend over backwards for me. We get a lot of cool "soft" benefits and they do have a good product. But I hope that the goodies continue when we start to win playoff series.
Mike