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re: These prices are ridiculous
Posted on 12/22/11 at 12:08 pm to Golfer
Posted on 12/22/11 at 12:08 pm to Golfer
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$100 gets you 3.10 points.
$600 gets you 3.60 points.
Learn to play the game right & your donation works twice as hard.
I give my $100 in January - 3.1 points
I give my $50 a month (%600 a year), but I give to a Philanthropic Program instead of the gneral fund. You get 2-for-1 points for directed donations. I have my money go to the UC Golf Course Renovations, so that $600 donation is the same as a $1200 donaiton - 1.2 points
So if I just cut them a check for $600, you are right, I would only get 3.6 points, but because I don't do that, I get 4.3 points.
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Posted on 12/22/11 at 12:48 pm to LeagueCityTiger
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This shite is insane.
Welcome to Alabama football.
Posted on 12/22/11 at 1:07 pm to Meathead
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LSU gets 25,000
More bad information.......both schools received 17,000.
Posted on 12/22/11 at 1:08 pm to deaux68
Purchased reserves in June, $135.00 a piece, guaranteed me a ticket per reserve. Got 2 tix in section 155, 2 sections over from band in the endzone. Couldn't have been easier.
Posted on 12/22/11 at 1:14 pm to deaux68
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Welcome to Alabama football.
Yeah damn gumps will get a 2nd mortgage to go to a football game.
Posted on 12/22/11 at 1:19 pm to nycajun
Not sure posters here understand how the ticket brokers like Stub Hub and others work. They never buy the tickets but instead only provide a mechanism for ticket owners to advertise and sell to ticket buyers and charge both sides a fee for that service.
If the prices are high, it is only because the sellers want more and the buyers are willing to pay it. If the ticket broker fee is too high, then there are dozens of other brokers offering the exact same tickets for sale and buyers and sellers should shop around.
So online ticket brokers are not ticket buyers.
If the prices are high, it is only because the sellers want more and the buyers are willing to pay it. If the ticket broker fee is too high, then there are dozens of other brokers offering the exact same tickets for sale and buyers and sellers should shop around.
So online ticket brokers are not ticket buyers.
Posted on 12/22/11 at 1:23 pm to thetruth2006
I also believe that many of the people selling on sites like Stubhub are putting up a "dream price" and if someone is willing to pay that inflated price they will sell if not they'll go to the game. If I am able to get a 500% return on an investment in just a few weeks time I'd be hard pressed not to take it. The $300-$350 that I would have spent on a ticket will be applied to my bar tab that weekend.
Posted on 12/22/11 at 1:26 pm to BayouBengal
Got four tickets for free to the Sugar Bowl. Thinking about living in the Superdome for a week to be there for the Championship game! 
Posted on 12/22/11 at 1:48 pm to LeagueCityTiger
Actually, the free market that allows ticket holders to ask whatever they want for their tickets and the prices to go higher when demand is higher is the ONLY way you could possibly have an opportunity to take a family of 4 to a game like this. Otherwise, the tickets would be taken by people affiliated with the school and government and sponsors and highest TAF ranking LSU season ticket holders only. But because we live in mostly a free market society, you have the ability to access tickets to this event. You just have to be willing to pay the market price.
If you didn't have an opportunity to go shop for tickets being resold for more than their original face value, where and how do you think that you would you ever come by 4 tickets?
Free Enterprise and Capitalism do most certainly include price gouging. And its not gouging if buyers aren't forced to buy it. Being forced to buy expensive government programs that you may not want but are forced to do so or go to jail thru legally required higher taxes so the system can be deemed "fair" and so "we can have a level playing field" - now THOSE are price gouging.
Sorry you aren't willing or able to pay the market price for your family to go to the game. But deprived of going to a game because you are are unwilling to pay the market rate for tickets is not a deprivation of your constitutional rights. No more than your being "deprived" of living in a $5 million home or driving a $100,000 car because you can't afford it or won't pay that much for a house or a car. Or in this case, tickets.
Sorry comrade.
If you didn't have an opportunity to go shop for tickets being resold for more than their original face value, where and how do you think that you would you ever come by 4 tickets?
Free Enterprise and Capitalism do most certainly include price gouging. And its not gouging if buyers aren't forced to buy it. Being forced to buy expensive government programs that you may not want but are forced to do so or go to jail thru legally required higher taxes so the system can be deemed "fair" and so "we can have a level playing field" - now THOSE are price gouging.
Sorry you aren't willing or able to pay the market price for your family to go to the game. But deprived of going to a game because you are are unwilling to pay the market rate for tickets is not a deprivation of your constitutional rights. No more than your being "deprived" of living in a $5 million home or driving a $100,000 car because you can't afford it or won't pay that much for a house or a car. Or in this case, tickets.
Sorry comrade.
Posted on 12/22/11 at 1:50 pm to thetruth2006
Not ALWAYS the case...smaller ticket sellers OFTEN buy many tickets directly from ticket holders...usually to fill specific orders from their own client base. This client base is built up after years of transactions between the two and there's a certain level of trust. It's a find me such and such a ticket in THIS area and I'll agree to BUY at this price or price range. MANY ticket "orders are filled in this matter ! Stubhub and Ticketmaster do NOT operate in this manner...they're simply marketing Joe Blows ticket for a fee and selling it to John Smith for the guaranteee ! Pretty simple really !
Hotel-Travel groups/Restaurants, either individually or by association own the "rights" to large numbers of tickets due to their association/contributions with the various bowls and they "package" them to create value added packages. I believe there are a couple of restaurant owners in the N.O. area that control a couple hundred tickets by themselves ! That's just the way big business works...there's nothing dark and sinister about it ! CONTRIBUTE/DONATE/PARTICIPATE and one will find a way to secure tickets...but one way or another it will COST you ! If you want tickets ...put on your big boy pants...you are owed NOTHING, going in !
Hotel-Travel groups/Restaurants, either individually or by association own the "rights" to large numbers of tickets due to their association/contributions with the various bowls and they "package" them to create value added packages. I believe there are a couple of restaurant owners in the N.O. area that control a couple hundred tickets by themselves ! That's just the way big business works...there's nothing dark and sinister about it ! CONTRIBUTE/DONATE/PARTICIPATE and one will find a way to secure tickets...but one way or another it will COST you ! If you want tickets ...put on your big boy pants...you are owed NOTHING, going in !
Posted on 12/22/11 at 1:52 pm to tickfawtiger
If you thought I was complaining about ticket brokers or price gouging, nothing could be less true. I support free market capitalism because I know that it means I have equal access to buy as long as I am willing to pay.
Other systems would require you be part of some "club" to have access to what you wanted but was in high demand.
Other systems would require you be part of some "club" to have access to what you wanted but was in high demand.
Posted on 12/24/11 at 11:12 am to thetruth2006
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