I've been looking at the Nats email for my 2017 renewal and they offered me the right to purchase tickets to the "All-Star Game" for re-upping my plan in 2017 and 2018. Compare that to the 2018 renewal which offers the opportunity to purchase a strip of tickets for the All-Star Week. So my renewal in 2017 really should have required that I renew for both years, plus purchase tickets to the futures game and home run derby in order to get access to the ASG.
I don't want tickets to the futures game or the home run derby, I signed up in 2017 expecting to be able to buy tickets for just the ASG itself. This appears to be a classic bait and switch, a changing of the terms after I agreed to the initial purchase. Anyone else reading this the same way I am?
From the renewal email signed by Valerie Camillo on August 5, 2016:
Finally, we recently received information on our 2018 All-Star Game ticket allocations and, for the first time, we are able to guarantee NATS PLUS Members who renew for the 2017 season (and stay with us through 2018) the right to purchase tickets to the All-Star Game at Nationals Park.
From the most recent renewal web page:
2018 Renewing Full of Half Season NATS PLUS Members:
Will be guaranteed the exclusive opportunity to purchase one Full 2018 All-Star Week STRIP for each 2018 Full Season Plan purchased. A Full Strip consists of...
Definition of "bait and switch" from Wikipedia:
First, customers are "baited" by merchants's advertising products or services at a low price, but when customers visit the store, they discover that the advertised goods either are not available or are not as good as expected, or the customers are pressured by sales people to consider similar, but higher-priced, items ("switching").