$290 a ticket for 1 baseball game.

johnson86-1

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I’m not buying season tickets to a sport that has 30 home games when I go to 8 games a year max. I’m not dealing with the hassle of trying to make sure someone gets in the seats when I’m not there and all that comes with it. My personal situation has nothing to do with the overall point, which is the demand is way higher than the price and it’s ridiculous that people are able to buy tickets from the university that cheap when the sport is losing money. It makes no walking around sense.
What is the season ticket price per ticket, including the license fees? You keep saying they're underpriced, but have not indicated what the price is.
So are they supposed to change the ticket price if they think the team is good? What about the last two years when they sucked? Those grapes are extra sour.
Yes. Everybody does this to one extent or another. Football doesn't officially drop the price because we suck, but seems like there have bene some steals offered on mini packages the last few years. I also assume our seat license fees would be higher in football if we were coming off three really successful years instead of three years of shittiness.

To be clear, I'm not bitching about baseball ticket prices because I assume they are somewhere close to market price, or to the extent they are nto, it's because people made a significant 10 year commitment and the current prices would be high if we sucked and only look like a bargain because we are good.

ETA: Actually, if I was a betting person, I would bet we are underpricing tickets by any measure because we didn'dt properly hedge against inflation. We've basically had an extra 25-30% inflation beyond what was likely expected since building the stadium that wasn't accounted for in the pricing. I bet instead of indexing to CPI or something, they used a 2% or 3% assumption for inflation, and got screwed by the moneypress getting ramped up.
 
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What is the season ticket price per ticket, including the license fees? You keep saying they're underpriced, but have not indicated what the price is.

Yes. Everybody does this to one extent or another. Football doesn't officially drop the price because we suck, but seems like there have bene some steals offered on mini packages the last few years. I also assume our seat license fees would be higher in football if we were coming off three really successful years instead of three years of shittiness.

To be clear, I'm not bitching about baseball ticket prices because I assume they are somewhere close to market price, or to the extent they are nto, it's because people made a significant 10 year commitment and the current prices would be high if we sucked and only look like a bargain because we are good.

ETA: Actually, if I was a betting person, I would bet we are underpricing tickets by any measure because we didn'dt properly hedge against inflation. We've basically had an extra 25-30% inflation beyond what was likely expected since building the stadium that wasn't accounted for in the pricing. I bet instead of indexing to CPI or something, they used a 2% or 3% assumption for inflation, and got screwed by the moneypress getting ramped up.
Teams don’t change pricing that drastically from one year to another especially when you’ve come off two bad seasons in a row. If they go to the CWS this year it’s perfectly acceptable to bump up prices next year.
 
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paindonthurt

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My guess is that those folks charging $100+ for tickets are people that fully plan on attending the game, but if someone wants to pay out the asś for their tickets, they’ll let em go.
Probably a bit of both. But definitely plenty of tickets available for a lot less than $290.
 

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The original point was that tickets are too high on secondary markets because tickets are too low for season ticket holders. That makes absolutely no sense. And that’s coming from someone who does think ticket prices should meet demand and go up.
It makes perfect sense. It irritates people that fans that are already paying way too little for seats in high demand are personally making money on the tickets instead of the university. How do you not understand this?
 

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What is the season ticket price per ticket, including the license fees? You keep saying they're underpriced, but have not indicated what the price is.

Yes. Everybody does this to one extent or another. Football doesn't officially drop the price because we suck, but seems like there have bene some steals offered on mini packages the last few years. I also assume our seat license fees would be higher in football if we were coming off three really successful years instead of three years of shittiness.

To be clear, I'm not bitching about baseball ticket prices because I assume they are somewhere close to market price, or to the extent they are nto, it's because people made a significant 10 year commitment and the current prices would be high if we sucked and only look like a bargain because we are good.

ETA: Actually, if I was a betting person, I would bet we are underpricing tickets by any measure because we didn'dt properly hedge against inflation. We've basically had an extra 25-30% inflation beyond what was likely expected since building the stadium that wasn't accounted for in the pricing. I bet instead of indexing to CPI or something, they used a 2% or 3% assumption for inflation, and got screwed by the moneypress getting ramped up.
We have a lengthy waiting list for season tickets. The prices are not high enough. Any time you have a waiting list for something as long as we have you are not charging enough money. It does not matter if we are charging 5 million dollars per ticket. If we have a long waiting list then the price is not high enough. That’s how economics works.
 

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You aren't right.
I am right. No one with an iq above frozen yogurt thinks we are charging enough money for baseball tickets when we have a waiting list the size we do. You are mad at the delivery of the message. You’re not mad at what the message is. Or you’re just an idiot.
 

paindonthurt

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I am right. No one with an iq above frozen yogurt thinks we are charging enough money for baseball tickets when we have a waiting list the size we do. You are mad at the delivery of the message. You’re not mad at what the message is. Or you’re just an idiot.
You are ignoring a key point.

People signed contracts years ago. You can't just void the contract you dumb $h1t.
 

Anon1774962825

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Yeah, you are him.
I’m not. Your little bubble of idiots who jack off to baseball is too stupid to realize that there is a lot more than 1 or 2 people who feel this way. I’m campshelbydog. Deleted that entire account and tried to make a new one and like you in this conversation, was too stupid to make one with a real name and can’t get it to change.
 

She Mate Me

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I’m not. Your little bubble of idiots who jack off to baseball is too stupid to realize that there is a lot more than 1 or 2 people who feel this way. I’m campshelbydog.

It's rich calling people idiots when you can't be bothered to figure out how to give yourself a name here so we can identify you as a known pain in the azz.
 
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paindonthurt

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I’m not. Your little bubble of idiots who jack off to baseball is too stupid to realize that there is a lot more than 1 or 2 people who feel this way. I’m campshelbydog. Deleted that entire account and tried to make a new one and like you in this conversation, was too stupid to make one with a real name and can’t get it to change.
Well this explains a lot!!
 

paindonthurt

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I know that you 17ing moron. It was a stupid contract. Thats the point. GD dude are you slow?
How was it stupid? When they first went on sell they had a hard time getting people to buy them.

If your point was simply the demand has gone up and we need to fix that when the contract runs out, i could see that. But you are admitting you and others wouldn't buy tickets back then but also complaining they did what they had to to sell tickets to justify the build.

17ING MORON.
 

Trazom

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How much money do they make on the midweek games I wonder...

I'm all about the university charging market clearing prices for seating. I'm not sure an SEC game late in the season tells much about whether the university is doing that.


Also, I don't think the university did a good job of explaining to people that if they didn't sign up for a five year (or whatever it was) commitment, there would be basically no availability for seating for the length of that commitment and likely well beyond. But if part of that commitment was a max price guarantee for how many years, not much to do about it now other than wait it out.

ETA: It also gives a sport that basically doesn't make money a break on spending. We don't have a good excuse for our schedule this year, but in general, we should be able to fill an early season midweek game with a nearby team that is bad that allows the traveling team to save some money. I don't want to play Valley by a means, but it shouldn't be extremely painful to beat Valley once in a 55 game schedule.
Baseball ticket prices are not fixed. They have went up every year. The donation gave you the “right” to buy for 10 years.
 

johnson86-1

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We have a lengthy waiting list for season tickets. The prices are not high enough. Any time you have a waiting list for something as long as we have you are not charging enough money. It does not matter if we are charging 5 million dollars per ticket. If we have a long waiting list then the price is not high enough. That’s how economics works.

I think season tickets are a little different. IF you know you are going to get charged the market clearing price every year regardless, and they are essentially going to raise prices until seats are avaialble, there's not as much incentive to tough it out in the bad years. If you know that if you drop your tickets while the team is ******, that you may have to wait years to get tickets, you are less likely to drop it. I would assume that dynamic isn't strong enough that the athletic department will come out ahead in total dollars making sure there is a waiting list, but there is some real value in keeping the volatility down.
 

Trazom

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What is the season ticket price for chairbacks? I was googling and can't find it, but I am seeing stuff that says a $1,500 license fee per ticket guaranteed the right to buy tickets for 10 years? That's not correct, is it?

If it's $1,500 a year per ticket to buy season tickets, and they made a ten year commitment, that seems crazy to ***** about them having the tickets. Yes, it sucks for the younger fans that couldn't make that commitment, but that's somewhat unavoidable and that's a hell of a commitment to make when you don't know that we won't suck for a good portion of those ten years (I mean historically, that's a pretty good bet, but we do have the ability to 17 up a wet dream).

If it was really $1,500 for the entire ten years, then it really depends on what those season tickets cost. I get that getting the $1,500 up front locked in some revenue for the school and there is the time value of money, but that seems grossly underpricing it, unless the tickets themselves are pretty pricey.
Regular price was $3,000 license fee. They ran a deal for 6 weeks cutting that to $1,500, presumably because donations were not coming in as fast as they wanted.
 

Trazom

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I had seven 17ing barners around me today that had GA tickets and just took seats that folks didn’t show up for. How do I know? Because they said so. One sat down, and then called the rest. No one checks tickets for chairbacks past the dugouts. Just buy GA and come sit down. If you have to move, move, but there are plenty of no shows. Damn shame.
 
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DawgNsuds

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I had seven 17ing barners around me today that had GA tickets and just took seats that folks didn’t show up for. How do I know? Because they said so. One sat down, and then called the rest. No one checks tickets for chairbacks. Just buy GA and come sit down. If you have to move, move, but there are plenty of no shows. Damn shame.
This is a new phenomenon recently then. They in the past have always verified tickets
 

DawgNsuds

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I find it amazing that people will complain about the price we pay for season tickets and then admit that even though they are grossly underpriced, they wont buy them and can't be bothered.
 

wmb24

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I’m somewhat lost yall. By raising the price on a ticket from the athletic dept, it’s going to lower the cost of a ticket on the secondary market?