[Elvis]

Here are a few interesting tidbits from the FAQ:

Can I purchase my tickets on my tablet or mobile device?
At this time tablets and mobile devices are not supported for purchasing your 2016 Los Angeles Rams season tickets. You may click on the “Virtual Venue” to view seat views, however seats are unable to be purchased. Please make sure to log in on your computer to make your purchase.

Will I own these seats for the 2017 and 2018 seasons at the Coliseum?
Due to planned construction at the Coliseum, or for other reasons solely in the discretion of the Los Angeles Rams, purchase of 2016 season tickets does not provide the purchaser rights to purchase 2017 season tickets, or to remain in the same seat location, for the 2017 season or beyond.

Will the Los Angeles Rams have a new logo or uniforms?
Our logo and uniforms will remain the same.

Why are the Rams playing in Europe as a regular season game?
NFL bylaws require teams playing in temporary stadiums to be eligible for selection for the International Series as the home team. As part of the NFL
International Series, the Rams will be hosting the New York Giants in Twickenham for a regular season home game on October 23, 2016. The season ticket pricing is based on the 9 games in 2016. To purchase tickets to this game you may log onto http://www.nfl.com/international for additional information.

[NoCheesePlease]

Good morning. I am in GA46 from 11:16 am 1/18/16. I'm having trouble with the math here. The media reports from January said that the Rams received 8000 deposits in the first hour, but 5000 of those were in the first 5 minutes. That data would say that wave one and two would have included about 5000 people, or 2500 per wave or so. And I know they are not announcing how many people are in each wave, but it seems that wave three should go well past the 10:15 deposits, and also wave four should cover a larger period of time. I must have a fact wrong somewhere. You know where this is going: I am wondering what are my chances of getting a season ticket offer, when I am 76 minutes back in the pack. Anybody else wondering about the numbers? Wondering how many people have bought tickets so far? I'm dying to know.

And comment number two: why did the Rams allow any one person to buy 8 tickets? Other then corporations, almost no one needs 8 tickets. That is what is going to encourage reselling and keep so many fans from actually getting their own season tickets.

Welcome Cmmmmm! List has been updated to include you.

Elvis pretty much already covered everything we know. The only trend I've been able to see is that the Rams do appear to be going in order. That's it.

Based on the numbers (8000 deposits in the first hour, 5000 in the first 5 minutes) and how far we've gotten with time stamps in the third wave, my best guesstimate is that we are only up to about the first 6-7000 deposit holders. We still have a long way to go. We should (hopefully) start flying with time stamps in the upcoming fourth wave. Keep your fingers crossed.

Rest assured, we have been hearing from other RFU members that have already purchased season tickets that the middle and upper levels are pretty much "wide open" in terms of availability.

I think the numbers in each wave are much lower. Don't forget to factor in the # of resellers, duplicates, and drop-outs. From my discussion with the rams ticket services, there were somewhere around 2000-3000 deposits returned to resellers. It would make sense that these guys are pretty savvy about ticket releases and would be at the front of the pack. My guess is that there were maybe 6000 legitimate deposits in the first hour. Also, the rams have received calls from people asking for their deposits back. This is likely a very low number compared to the resellers though. They also eliminated duplicate orders as some people placed multiple deposits. I was told the duplicates were removed in addition to the reseller group.

I think this is going to be a long process. I can't seem to find the reference, but I read that this selection process is supposed to last through july. That's around 10 weeks + or - from the start. With 75,000 seats to sell, that's an average target of 7,500 seats per week. Assuming an average of say 5 seats per deposit holder, that's 1500 deposit holders per wave. The first wave was a pilot wave and probably only a fraction of 1500.

My guess is that we're probably only at 4000 deposit holders through wave 3. By end of this week, there should be around 20,000 seats taken and 55,000 remaining.

Guessing is fun.

[BuiltRamTough]

I was one of the duplicate buyers.

I thought each deposit was for 1 ticket. So I made 2 deposits so I could buy 2 seats. I got a refund for my second deposit.

[BuiltRamTough]

[rneuman19]

Good update - but still a lot of questions for those of us further on down the list. We now know the following:

- 3 waves have been contacted
- 8,000 total depositors - through likely the first fifteen minutes - previous articles said 8,000 were taken in the first 45 minutes
- first wave was 1,000 or so depositors
- next two waves averaged 3,500 / wave
- wave four will be more telling - time stamps should start to spread out

Got some updated information after chatting with the ticket office
- 14,000 deposits were accepted in the first hour
- 32,000 taken on day 1
- 45,000 taken through 1/20 so 13,000 taken on 1/19 and 1/20
- gold section tickets are pretty much gone
- "good percentage" of stadium is open

Since I am in the bottom 13,000 holders - seems unlikely that I will have an opportunity to purchase tickets - if anyone is looking for someone to partner with a take 2 tickets - let me know - looking to spend about $800 per ticket.

[BuiltRamTough]

I get the sense that plenty of good seats are still available.

[Elvis]

:roll: Also just realized that they only allow you in with windows 10...gotta install it

This isn't true, just asked ticket services to confirm.

You don't have to have Windows 10 but they do recommend either Firefox or Chrome as your browser. They said they had some problems with Internet Explorer...

[BuiltRamTough]

:roll: Also just realized that they only allow you in with windows 10...gotta install it

This isn't true, just asked ticket services to confirm.

You don't have to have Windows 10 but they do recommend either Firefox or Chrome as your browser. They said they had some problems with Internet Explorer...

I did it with Mac (Safari).

[Elvis]

http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow ... story.html

Rams say they won't rush season-ticket process

by Sam Farmer

Back in January, after they got approval to return to Los Angeles, the Rams launched a season-ticket campaign, and in two weeks received 56,000 deposits from people interested in securing seats for the 2016 season at the Coliseum.

The franchise began working its way through that list a few weeks ago, reaching out to fans in the order they placed their deposits. The first week, the club contacted about 1,000 of those people who plunked down $100 … and that got the Rams only through the first minute of deposits. Each deposit holder is eligible to buy as many as eight season tickets.

The Rams are now on their third wave, having contacted about 8,000 people, which represents the first 15 minutes of the deposit campaign. It’s a slow process -- particularly for those people who have yet to be contacted -- but one the Rams don’t want to rush.

“Our whole view on this is to not be hasty,” said Jake Bye, vice president of ticket sales and premium seating. “This market has waited a long time to get football back, and it’s imperative that we do it right. We have been very thorough and deliberate and giving people a reasonable window to make an educated decision on their purchase.

"We want to have a conversation and develop a relationship with our fans. So that’s why we’re going with smaller groups over longer periods of time, so we can over-deliver on the customer-service piece of this and people are completely comfortable with the process and their decision on seats. We will get through the process in plenty of time. Being hasty didn’t serve our fans. People are champing at the bit -- that’s great, we love that, but it’s not going to motivate us to speed up the process."

Bye participated in a Times Q&A two weeks ago, and this is an update, with questions posed by readers to the newspaper via email and Twitter. Bye declined to specify how many tickets have been sold so far, but he did shed more light on the ticket situation:

Question: Are there set times for this process of reaching out to deposit holders in waves?

Bye: Yes. A series of emails are generally sent out late in the week notifying the next set of accounts that their window will open the following week. Then that batch of accounts is further segmented in the order the deposits were received. That allows our representatives to handle the deposit holders in segments, as opposed to dealing with thousands of people simultaneously

Are there still good seats left?

Bye: If by good you mean the first row of the 50-yard line, well, now that we’re thousands of people in, it’s a safe assumption that those are gone. People that were there right at 10 a.m. deserve the opportunity to purchase the best seats. But there are still thousands upon thousands of great seats left. The seats closest to the field and closest to the 50-yard line are naturally the first to go.

What percentage of people contacted are buying tickets on the first day they can?

Bye: So far, what we’ve seen is over 75% of the people are responding on the first day they’re eligible to buy tickets.

Will the season tickets be paper or electronic?

Bye: They will be hard copy. When we open the Inglewood stadium in 2019, that ticketing process will be entirely state-of-the-art, but the Coliseum tickets will be hard copy. But people want those first-year tickets as keepsakes anyway. The design on them is to be determined. We’re working through that right now with an agency and with the league.

What are my options if I didn’t put down a ticket deposit? Do I have to wait for the new stadium to open?

Bye: There will be an opportunity to be on a wait list for Inglewood. More information on that is coming later this year. We’ll have a priority wait-list for Inglewood, so that’s a possibility. Depending on the results of the current ticketing process, the single-game opportunity for this season could still be a possibility.

Will there be another way to see the Rams this season?

Bye: There will be a fan-fest at the Coliseum on Saturday, Aug. 6. It will be open to the public. That will be sort of a dress rehearsal for us and for the building. The team will scrimmage. We’ll have all the concessions and everything programmed as if it’s a Rams home game. That will be a great opportunity for people who didn’t place a deposit or buy tickets to still come and be up close and personal with the team.

If the Rams were so thorough in trying to weed out scalpers, why are there so many tickets available on StubHub and other reselling sites?

Bye: The reality is that once people purchase tickets through this process, we we have no control over how they use those tickets. We were and will continue to be aggressive in our attempts to limit sales to known ticket resellers. The goal here is simple: We want as many Rams fans to have access to reasonably priced tickets as possible and we want to create a profound home-field advantage.

What’s the parking situation at the Coliseum, and who will be eligible to park there?

Bye: We have worked with the state and USC to secure as many on-site parking spaces as we can. We will permit those only for our season-ticket holders, and that process will happen later this summer. We’ll reach out to season-ticket accounts in the order in which they placed their deposits.

If you buy season tickets now, does that give you priority once the new stadium opens?

Bye: Absolutely. Our season-ticket members and the next set of priority people will be those who have deposits still on file but were unable to buy season tickets. Then there will be an additional Inglewood priority campaign that we’ll launch at a later date.

Do the quality of seats you buy at the Coliseum have any bearing on the type of seats you can buy in the Inglewood stadium?

Bye: Priority to select seats in the new stadium will be tied to the timing of the season-ticket deposit, not Coliseum seat location. For instance, even if someone early in the process picked an upper-level seat at the Coliseum, he or she is still going to be towards the front of the line for Inglewood and have the ability to purchase seats virtually anywhere in the new stadium.

When can we expect to see personal-seat-license pricing for the new stadium?

Bye: That will be 2017 at the earliest. That’s still far down the road.

With the Coliseum undergoing renovations next year, how will the Rams accommodate fans if their seats are lost?

Bye: We’ll work with USC for any seats that are impacted to replace the seat locations. Unfortunately, due to circumstances we don’t control, buying seats in certain areas might lead to not having the exact same seats in future seasons.

Will there be a season-ticket holder pre-sale to purchase additional single-game tickets before they go on sale to the public?

Bye: If available, that would be later this summer, probably in late July or early August.

Copyright © 2016, Los Angeles Times

[SpeedRacer]

RFU,

1115a GA48.

Great info posted. Thanks all.

I got caught in the 10a crush and spent the next 75 minutes watching the clock tick before finally getting success.

Thinking about Rosey, Eddie, Jack and countless other greats possibly coming out with the crowd going nuts I wanted to be at the first game back so much I decided I had to confirm that with season tickets.

The info being shared here has helped get me through the angst of not knowing.

Go Rams!