I expect all seats to require donations in the future. It is easy for the AD to identify the scalpers, but so far nothing has been done. Requiring a donation will probably help some.
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I expect all seats to require donations in the future. It is easy for the AD to identify the scalpers, but so far nothing has been done. Requiring a donation will probably help some.
CycloneErik
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I'd expect that the corners require $100 donation next year. That doesn't seem out of line at all, and maybe shuts out a scalper or two somewhere from their valuable service.
I think the AD has to balance too many sales to scalpers vs wanting every seat sold. It would be logical to error on the side of allowing a few too many sales to the scalpers. Next Year I hope to purchase another pair of donor seats for a good friend. May not be able to get them if the $5000 donation pushes too many people upstairs. I know $5000 donation is more than we care to donate.
Is there really enough $5000+ donors to surpass the the lower level availability?
Selling every seat isn't an issue anymore. We should sell every seat via ebay style auction to fully get the value. Start with season tickets to start the auction ( you could restrict areas by donor level still) and then proceed to single game auctions. This will fully sell every seat and maximizero the ability of the ad to extract full value. If a game seat isn't attractive seats will go cheap but they will get sold. Scalpers are taking money away from the AD and they are leaVing that money on the table.
For all the complaining, I am guessing the number of tickets actually being scalped is minimal (less than 5%? 10%?). If they do decide to re-seat Hilton, I would hope they at least give everyone a chance to keep their current seats with the new levels (or however they do it).
Sort of, but they aren't doing a full re-seat that some are clamoring for. If they ever try this, I would hope everyone still gets a shot to keep their seats.
Point is someone can sell their $8 a seat corner seat for 15x face value for marquee games and 3x for crap games. I paid a person the full season ticket cost for one game last year for a ticket. I would rather have the AD make that money than some fans. I feel for ticket holders that have a sweet deal but the market is going to force more and more to sell. I'd just rather see that money that Fred generated go to pay for his post NC championship salary or our new luxury dorms etc. And not some lucky fans who bought in at the right time.
Exactly. That is money that could be pumped back into the program. Obviously JP needs to know the elasticity before any increase is made, but increases need to happen, as well as some variable pricing IMO.
