Hypothetically selling your undefeated 9-0 Iowa vs Michigan night game tickets.

[hawkfanmb]

I have 4 48 yard line seats, 30 rows up. If someone offered me $1000 a seat I'd be watching on TV!

 

[hawkeyeguy69]

Enough to recoup the Rose bowl gouging

I wouldn't have called it gouging, as much as suckering. Tickets sold for $15 before kickoff. Almost the cost of the service fee. Good-to-great seats sold for around $150... The Rose Bowl holds 97k people. Standford's 4 trip in a row, coupled with nobody from Southern California goes to games, and you knew there would be a ton of cheap tickets....

 

[Pepperman]

I wouldn't have called it gouging, as much as suckering. Tickets sold for $15 before kickoff. Almost the cost of the service fee. Good-to-great seats sold for around $150... The Rose Bowl holds 97k people. Standford's 4 trip in a row, coupled with nobody from Southern California goes to games, and you knew there would be a ton of cheap tickets....

It wasn't that really. I mean, those facts are true, but the Rose Bowl stuff happened for a few reasons:

1) airline tickets were outrageous. People were terrified to book airfare and not have a ticket already in hand.

2) the ticket office made it sound impossible for many people to get allocations so all of the fringe donors went out scrambling for tickets on stubhub and elsewhere.

3) it was THE EVENT in Iowa. Facebook statuses everywhere were bragging about having tickets and packages purchased for a "once in a lifetime" event.

Then we learned that many fans DID receive an allocation and the prices collapsed as nobody could afford airfare any longer.

It was a good lesson in how these things work. Get your airfare ASAP and tickets will always be available in time.

 

[hawkeyeguy69]

It was a good lesson in how these things work. Get your airfare ASAP and tickets will always be available in time.

This. I have never been to a bowl game where there were not plenty of tickets. Great seats for great prices.

I remember the 2003 Orange Bowl where a scalper had tickets for $5. And they were decent seats. As good as our privileged season ticket holders, university supplied tickets.

The football playoffs might be a different story. For the lucky fans of just 4 schools.

 

[Banks Fan]

I'll let you suckers throw your money down the drain, I'll watch from home with a case of beer, a few friends and my dog. I'm not willing to pay more than $80 per ticket to any Iowa game.

Note when I say throw your money down the drain, it's not that I think Iowa would lose and it would be a waste of your money. I can just think of a hell of a lot more I'd like to do with $300 - $500 than sit outside for 3 hours.

I think you do not understand what a "fan" is. That's ok, but not correct to call us suckers. Being there is worth more to me than a dog and case of beer. I tailgate with friends so the being-with-friends part is a wash.

 

[IaHawk41]

How about we flip it around? Let's say both teams are 9-0 and you're like me, without a ticket to that game?

What would you pay?

I already realize I wouldn't get hit on this offer, but I'd probably pay $200 and that's as high as I'd go. Would rather save the money for the B1G championship.

You can have my pair for 375 if this scenario is alive come November...

 

[IaHawk41]

Not for sale. I missed the '85 game. Mom made me go to Saturday night mass. Was 11 years old and there was no negotiating. God forbid we go to church on Sunday.

Ouch! sorry about that.
A terrible memory that you must carry with you for a lifetime.
I was a Junior at Iowa for that game and its the greatest Iowa game I've ever attended. And I was at the Capital One Bowl in Orlando for the Holloway catch.

 

[Pepperman]

You can have my pair for 375 if this scenario is alive come November...

I'm honored - 4 posts in a decade's time and one is an offer for me to buy tickets!

 

[IaHawk41]

I'm honored - 4 posts in a decade's time and one is an offer for me to buy tickets!

Yeah, not sure why it's showing I've only made 4 posts in 10 years.
It's probably closer to 400 than any number and I haven't signed on since the new forum came online.
Nice to see my original start date got carried over in the move...

 

[markfromj]

Enough to recoup the Rose bowl gouging

There's no such thing as price gouging.

 

[GarryO37]

We'll see. Undefeated season last year, Minnesota, rival, in town, enormous wrestling meet in morning, gorgeous weather.

Sure, this year is different, but you overestimate the Iowa ticket market. Unless you are thinking outside people are buying the tickets, is Michigan going to come flooding in?

I agree with you on this. Although a Michigan game has more appeal/hype around it than Minnesota, I think under the OP's scenario they will sell in the $250-$300 range to an Iowa fan.

I could see a Michigan fan paying more. To which I say gouge those jerks for everything you can get out of them.

Personally, I would never sell to an opposing fan. I would give the tickets away before selling to an opposing fan. But I try not to hold it against anyone who does, just so long as they charge twice as much as they would an Iowa fan and they couldn't find an Iowa fan to sell the tickets to.

 

[Hawkeye Kev]

Nope, the opportunity to see a Hawk win over the Wolverines is priceless.

How about $1 Septillion?

 

[hawkeyeharv]

I wouldn't have called it gouging, as much as suckering. Tickets sold for $15 before kickoff. Almost the cost of the service fee. Good-to-great seats sold for around $150... The Rose Bowl holds 97k people. Standford's 4 trip in a row, coupled with nobody from Southern California goes to games, and you knew there would be a ton of cheap tickets....

Gouging as in all the Hawk fans that got their tickets through the University and immediately started to try and sell for $700 per ticket as they had no intention of going. ( I did not even come close to "suckering" for that, but my hesitation did cost me in Airfare)

Yeah I just knew there would be a ton of cheap tickets.............hindsight 20/20... it was my first ever bowl game so lessons were learned. I definitely learned that lesson though. Airfare first and the rest is just easy. But thanks for your awesome assumptions....

 

[hawkeyeharv]

There's no such thing as price gouging.

FALSE: Price gouging is a pejorative term referring to when a seller spikes the prices of goods, services or commodities to a level much higher than is considered reasonable or fair, and is considered exploitative, potentially to an unethical extent.

 

[H4wkfan4life]

I don't think I would. It would take ~$5,000 for me, and I don't think anyone would be offering up that much for seats on the 5 yard line.

Hmmmm.... A regular season game OR....airfare/hotel/partying money to the Tourney Rematch and the bowl game?
Tough call