they have a few issues going on
1) loss of inventory
2) letting people buy multiple passes
3) not letting people auto renew anymore
4) rewarding of recent money vs longevity in how the levels work is skewed a bit
when you have people who have had tickets/passes for 30+ yrs get jumped over because someone buys 5-6 nice seats or donates a few hundred the system is kinda broken. They are not really rewarding people who stuck around during the down years at all.
They should have just auto renewed people using the pt system for parking and not allowed all the newbies to jump to the front so easily. then you figure out the spots lost and how to deal with that.
The way its working now it sounds like anyone below the top 2-3 tiers is going to be lucky to find any spots at all.
I wonder if they even considered the fact that having tickets for x number of years and not buying parking that those people would be crushing so many long time parkers if those people suddenly decided to buy
If nothing else they should have saved some passes for people who lost out in a lottery or something,
Its the perk of donating I guess, I dont see at my level that paying a thousand to jump levels makes sense to get a parking pass that may not exist when my number is called anyway.
It wouldn't surprise me that going digital is a big cause of the issue going forward. Why not buy 2 when selling is so easy now. Still that doesn't explain the West lot going so fast. But if you have the means to buy nice seats you go up the pecking order, then you can buy additional passes and people in those same lots get locked out and raise the value of your own passes. Even if 10% of people who can, now by their 2 passes that's a ton of inventory gone. But what if it's even higher than that doing it?