2020 Game Picking - What if you know you want to trade while we're picking?

We can take advantage of ticket trade ins throughout the season.  There are some procedures and rules that we'll go over later.  There are some advantages:

• You can get more than 2 seats to a game
• You can get seats to a game that is already off the board on our picking
• You can upgrade to other seating locations and just pay the difference in price

You are only able to trade for games of the same price level or lower, so:

• Premium games can be traded in for: Premium, Select, Value
• Select games can be traded in for: Select, Value
• Value games can only be traded in for other Value games

There is no refund if you trade in seats from a higher level game to a lower level game (although you can upgrade your seating to take advantage of the original cost of the tickets).

Legends Club trading - our experience is that the trade ins don't work for the seats behind home plate, regardless if there are seats open.  I can't remember off hand, but something like Sections E-K are blocked off.  You can still get into Club, but they'll be more down the base lines.

Diamond Box trading - Season ticket holders take up most of the seating in the rows closest to the field.  When you trade, it's going to be tougher to get back into those first 10 rows and it's very possible that you'll end up further back from the field so that you're back into a different price level of seats.  Again, the Twins do not refund if your new seats are less expensive that what you started with.  If you do the actual trade of the seats a little bit later in the season, it's possible that some of the closer tickets will open up as other season ticket holders make trades.

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What to do if you know during picking that you want to trade in for 4 seats or for another game?

If you want, for example, 4 tickets to the game on Mothers Day vs. KC - tell me that when it's your turn to pick.  I'll reserve enough tickets of the same section and price range.  Then at the end of the game-picking process, I'll give you 4 tickets from other games that were not selected.  In this way, if someone else wants 2 tickets in our normal seats for the same day, they can still get them.

Because the Value and Premium games have smaller inventories - only 16 games of each - we'll need to watch that.  I need to make sure that we have enough tickets left over.  So at some point, even though there still may be calendar spots open, I'll have to block off those games for any more selection.  If you know that you want 4 tickets for any Value or Premium games on the schedule, you should watch the inventory and think about taking those games somewhat earlier in the process.

2019 Game Picking - What if you know you want to trade while we're picking?

We can take advantage of ticket trade ins throughout the season.  There are some procedures and rules that we'll go over later.  There are some advantages:

• You can get more than 2 seats to a game
• You can get seats to a game that is already off the board on our picking
• You can upgrade to other seating locations and just pay the difference in price

You are only able to trade for games of the same price level or lower, so:

• Premium games can be traded in for: Premium, Select, Value
• Select games can be traded in for: Select, Value
• Value games can only be traded in for other Value games

There is no refund if you trade in seats from a higher level game to a lower level game (although you can upgrade your seating to take advantage of the original cost of the tickets).

Legends Club trading - our experience is that the trade ins don't work for the seats behind home plate, regardless if there are seats open.  I can't remember off hand, but something like Sections E-K are blocked off.  You can still get into Club, but they'll be more down the base lines.

Diamond Box trading - Season ticket holders take up most of the seating in the rows closest to the field.  When you trade, it's going to be tougher to get back into those first 10 rows and it's very possible that you'll end up further back from the field so that you're back into a different price level of seats.  Again, the Twins do not refund if your new seats are less expensive that what you started with.  If you do the actual trade of the seats a little bit later in the season, it's possible that some of the closer tickets will open up as other season ticket holders make trades.

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What to do if you know during picking that you want to trade in for 4 seats or for another game?

If you want, for example, 4 tickets to the game on Fathers Day vs. KC - tell me that when it's your turn to pick.  I'll reserve enough tickets of the same section and price range.  Then at the end of the game-picking process, I'll give you 4 tickets from other games that were not selected.  In this way, if someone else wants 2 tickets in our normal seats for the same day, they can still get them.

Because the Value and Premium games have smaller inventories - only 16 games of each - we'll need to watch that.  I need to make sure that we have enough tickets left over.  So at some point, even though there still may be calendar spots open, I'll have to block off those games for any more selection.  If you know that you want 4 tickets for any Value or Premium games on the schedule, you should watch the inventory and think about taking those games somewhat earlier in the process.

Ticket Exchange - 2015

We're sold out this year - and that's going to lead to more possibility that as we near the end of ticket picking - you may find the available dates don't work for you.  Or maybe not for your section.

There are some options.  We may still have a few seats left over in the end.  We may be able to do some trading within the group.  But we can also take advantage of an enhanced ticket exchange program from the Twins.

The basics:

• We can exchange as many as 20 games (up from 8 in 2014) - And this is actually 20 games from the Field Box seats, 20 games from Andy A.'s two Club seats and 20 games from Ray's two Club seats.
• Exchange any upcoming game in the package for a same or lesser tier game (example: Exchange a "select" game for any future "select, value or extra value" game)
• Exchange must be requested at least one week prior to the game date being exchanged and game being requested
• Tickets for selected games will be in similar or lower priced seating areas based on ticket availability.
• When we figure out the variable-pricing balances, your cost for the tickets will be the price for the original seats before the exchange.
• April 13 not available
• Tickets will come to the account via email to be printed out and cannot be exchanged again
• Once exchanged, the original tickets are void (you can't change your mind) 
• As far as I know currently, only the season ticket holder can make the exchange request and it must be done via an online form.  You'll need to do this well in advance.

Some examples from 2014

• I traded in a couple of games from Section 103, Row 6 and ended up with tickets still in Section 103, but up in about rows 22-27.
• I traded in a game for Section 121 (we no longer have) and got seats in Section 122.

Because of the nature of the Legends Club ticket accounts (2 different people have accounts of 2 seats each), I don't yet know if I can do 4 Legends Club trade ins to get 4 together....To be determined.

You can also think about this if a series you want is closed out.  Say that you want to see the Cubs, but all the games are taken for June 19-21.  You could pick tickets for a game of similar value (Elite pricing for all 3) and eventually trade in those tickets for the Cubs game you'd prefer.  Not a lot of Elite tickets in this season...but it's a limited option.

Or, perhaps use one of those tickets you need to take for April or September and trade it in for a warmer choice in June-August