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Post by aztec619 on Apr 2, 2015 6:40:07 GMT -8
Ah remember the days when you could walk up to the ticket office and buy the cheapest seat and sit courtside. Them were the days!
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Post by longtimesdsufan on Apr 2, 2015 6:41:26 GMT -8
There's always stubhub..............its only a 5000% mark up........... Not sure who is buying the tickets next to me but they are always empty for out of conference games and bad games. When they do show up they are never the same people so I guess either a company is buying them and giving them to different people or someone like stub hub is buying the season seats. Do brokers buy tickets direct or do they just get tickets from others who don't use them and then resell them? If brokers are buying them direct, then the Aztecs should definitely not be selling to them and sell them to real fans. I know for sure that they do not.
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Post by adammclane on Apr 2, 2015 6:55:10 GMT -8
The ticket office has computer files with email addresses of season ticket holders and files with tickets that weren't used. Those two files can be used to create an email to ticket holders whose tickets weren't used. The email can detail the method to donate future tickets that won't be used and the reasons why that's a good idea. The application can remember who got emails so they aren't spammed every game. I suspect a lot of tickets are business tickets that aren't used unless someone in that office claims them or old people who just use to buy them as a donation. So there are a couple options, one of which SDSU is doing, one they just haven't turned on. 1. (They do this) Allow their Ticketmaster account owners to sell tickets via the ticket exchange. I really don't understand why more people don't do this... people go to goaztecs looking for individual game tickets but they are "sold out." If more people listed their unused tickets via the ticket exchange more fans could get to the game. The ticket office did a better job of advertising this in 2014-2015, but it'd be really cool if they could specifically target their outbound emails to go to people who haven't been showing up, but hold season tickets. Really... it's better for everyone if those tickets are re-sold. 2. (They don't do this) Allow their Ticketmaster account owners to donate tickets via their ticket account. I'm able to do this, right now, via my Seattle Sounders account. Tickets that don't sell on Stubhub within a couple days of the event, I'm able to donate to a local charity, from a pool of charitable orgs on their site. I don't know if there's an extra fee from Ticketmaster for this, but it's a really nice option for folks who buy tickets for business purposes. Kind of a double write off, if you will.
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Post by AztecBill on Apr 2, 2015 7:07:11 GMT -8
The ticket office has computer files with email addresses of season ticket holders and files with tickets that weren't used. Those two files can be used to create an email to ticket holders whose tickets weren't used. The email can detail the method to donate future tickets that won't be used and the reasons why that's a good idea. The application can remember who got emails so they aren't spammed every game. I suspect a lot of tickets are business tickets that aren't used unless someone in that office claims them or old people who just use to buy them as a donation. So there are a couple options, one of which SDSU is doing, one they just haven't turned on. 1. (They do this) Allow their Ticketmaster account owners to sell tickets via the ticket exchange. I really don't understand why more people don't do this... people go to goaztecs looking for individual game tickets but they are "sold out." If more people listed their unused tickets via the ticket exchange more fans could get to the game. The ticket office did a better job of advertising this in 2014-2015, but it'd be really cool if they could specifically target their outbound emails to go to people who haven't been showing up, but hold season tickets. Really... it's better for everyone if those tickets are re-sold. 2. (They don't do this) Allow their Ticketmaster account owners to donate tickets via their ticket account. I'm able to do this, right now, via my Seattle Sounders account. Tickets that don't sell on Stubhub within a couple days of the event, I'm able to donate to a local charity, from a pool of charitable orgs on their site. I don't know if there's an extra fee from Ticketmaster for this, but it's a really nice option for folks who buy tickets for business purposes. Kind of a double write off, if you will. Nice synopsis. The donations should be to the Aztecs only. Those poor people and animals can fend for themselves Sometimes tickets are donated to institutions that make the tickets available and they still go unused. Having the ticket office resell them is the best method to insure the tickets are used and that the value of them goes to a good cause (Aztecs).
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Post by Fisher Fanatic on Apr 2, 2015 8:10:59 GMT -8
Why not just give (or sell) extra tickets to a friend. if I can't make a game due to the tip off time, my friend knows in advance and uses my pair. Very simple. Most sports fans probably know other sports fans. Even if they aren't aztec fans they can enjoy a game and help expand the brand.
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Post by adammclane on Apr 2, 2015 10:03:27 GMT -8
So there are a couple options, one of which SDSU is doing, one they just haven't turned on. 1. (They do this) Allow their Ticketmaster account owners to sell tickets via the ticket exchange. I really don't understand why more people don't do this... people go to goaztecs looking for individual game tickets but they are "sold out." If more people listed their unused tickets via the ticket exchange more fans could get to the game. The ticket office did a better job of advertising this in 2014-2015, but it'd be really cool if they could specifically target their outbound emails to go to people who haven't been showing up, but hold season tickets. Really... it's better for everyone if those tickets are re-sold. 2. (They don't do this) Allow their Ticketmaster account owners to donate tickets via their ticket account. I'm able to do this, right now, via my Seattle Sounders account. Tickets that don't sell on Stubhub within a couple days of the event, I'm able to donate to a local charity, from a pool of charitable orgs on their site. I don't know if there's an extra fee from Ticketmaster for this, but it's a really nice option for folks who buy tickets for business purposes. Kind of a double write off, if you will. Nice synopsis. The donations should be to the Aztecs only. Those poor people and animals can fend for themselves Sometimes tickets are donated to institutions that make the tickets available and they still go unused. Having the ticket office resell them is the best method to insure the tickets are used and that the value of them goes to a good cause (Aztecs). I see what you're saying. Sounds like you would want to donate them to the Aztec Club to use however they see fit. (Comp guests/donors/vendors, whatever) Certainly an interesting question.
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Post by missiontrails on Apr 2, 2015 10:04:02 GMT -8
Correct me if I'm wrong on this, my memory fails me more and more often these days, and I don't know if ANYBODY has ever mentioned this before, but didn't Steve Fisher used to go around campus trying to hand out basketball tickets to students? If I'm way off base here, please do let me know. Maybe it's another school I'm thinking of. Not sure I was aware of this before but thanks for bringing it to my attention. Side note: did you know that Kawhi has huge hands?? Fascinating....
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Post by AztecBill on Apr 2, 2015 10:07:37 GMT -8
Nice synopsis. The donations should be to the Aztecs only. Those poor people and animals can fend for themselves Sometimes tickets are donated to institutions that make the tickets available and they still go unused. Having the ticket office resell them is the best method to insure the tickets are used and that the value of them goes to a good cause (Aztecs). I see what you're saying. Sounds like you would want to donate them to the Aztec Club to use however they see fit. (Comp guests/donors/vendors, whatever) Certainly an interesting question. Resell
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Post by tecsonthebeach on Apr 3, 2015 0:48:57 GMT -8
I renewed as well, for the 22nd year in a row. So, I'd be interested to know, how much were your tix in 1999 and where were your seats located at that time?
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Post by Ambivalent_Fan on Apr 3, 2015 7:27:23 GMT -8
Ah remember the days when you could walk up to the ticket office and buy the cheapest seat and sit courtside. Them were the days! One day people will say the same thing about an Aztec football ticket...pining for days when you could buy a ticket and sit anywhere in the stadium... These are the days...
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Post by adammclane on Apr 3, 2015 14:49:14 GMT -8
Ah remember the days when you could walk up to the ticket office and buy the cheapest seat and sit courtside. Them were the days! One day people will say the same thing about an Aztec football ticket...pining for days when you could buy a ticket and sit anywhere in the stadium... These are the days... Hilariously, it's a tougher ticket than you might think. When it comes to season tickets there were very few, maybe a couple singles, in the field area between the goal lines. These incentives for basketball work.
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Post by junior on Apr 4, 2015 11:01:14 GMT -8
We sit at the 50 yd line - Club level.
There are always plenty of "extra seats" - in fact, the row in front of us is often vacant.
Often makes me wonder if we shouldn't just buy GAs on game day and hike over. That'd save a bundle.
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Post by Spud on Apr 4, 2015 14:48:18 GMT -8
I renewed as well, for the 22nd year in a row. So, I'd be interested to know, how much were your tix in 1999 and where were your seats located at that time? My buddy and I had season tix at the Sports Arena, shoot, it had to be in the 1996 timeframe...we had 6th row center court seats and I swear it was only like $300 for the season per seat...hell, it could have been less. I'll have to call my buddy to find out.
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Post by aztecfanatic on Apr 5, 2015 5:38:54 GMT -8
Sometime in the early Tim Vezie days myself and 2 or 3 friends would find the same scalper in the parking lot of the Sports Arena. He got to know us and would give us a good price on our tickets. We saw every home game this way, the same guy was always there. Lol, the teams were not great but we always had a good time. Now THOSE were the days.
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Post by aztech on Apr 5, 2015 11:35:56 GMT -8
Sometime in the early Tim Vezie days myself and 2 or 3 friends would find the same scalper in the parking lot of the Sports Arena. He got to know us and would give us a good price on our tickets. We saw every home game this way, the same guy was always there. Lol, the teams were not great but we always had a good time. Now THOSE were the days. Was he selling student tickets?
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Post by aztecfanatic on Apr 5, 2015 12:03:42 GMT -8
Sometime in the early Tim Vezie days myself and 2 or 3 friends would find the same scalper in the parking lot of the Sports Arena. He got to know us and would give us a good price on our tickets. We saw every home game this way, the same guy was always there. Lol, the teams were not great but we always had a good time. Now THOSE were the days. Was he selling student tickets? If I remember correctly, they were just regular tickets. (But it was a really long time ago and I could be wrong, I do remember that we would show our tickets to the ushers and there were seldom any students in our section.)
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Post by onelittleindian on Apr 5, 2015 12:48:00 GMT -8
~ 1999-2000 they had a deal where you could buy up to three tickets in certain sections and get that same number free. I liked the sound of that (not as much as my friends who tagged along for free), so I jumped in for six seats my senior year.
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