Tickets now $121 each on StubHub ($99 + $22 in fees)
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I'm not sure how you're coming to that conclusion. Every resale site I've perused has a ton of tix for sale in the Stanford sections and very few in the Iowa or neutral sections. I personally don't know anyone who bought tix through the U that had no intention of using them. I realize there are some out there, but I wouldn't call it "a lot," relatively speaking.
Please explain who the "Scum" are.
If I read your post correctly you were trying to buy early and jack up the price to sell to Iowa fans. Excuse me if I don't cry myself to sleep feeling sorry for you.
Not sure I would assume that tickets on the ground in Pasadena will continue to drop below current Stubhub prices. Given the 24-48 hrs required to ship tickets via UPS on Stubhub much of that inventory is about to go bad.
Will be really interesting to see what happens to prices onsite.
Looking at StubHub, you see several sellers who have more than 2 tickets for sale.
There is one seller who has 18 tickets for sale!
There must have been a ton of ticket purchases prior to the teams being announced.
i wonder why you can't print them out from home or use your smart phone for entry to the stadium? instead, all tickets have to be shipped via UPS/FedEx
Yeah, guys like NashvilleHawk bought tickets to make a profit and now are taking a bath.
i'm driving up from the OC w/o tix - pretty sure i get in the gate for less than 50 bucks (sans the parking)
Coming from somebody that has been to the Rose Bowl be careful what seats you are buying. Their is a huge difference between ok seats and bad seats. In the stadium their are seats where you will miss large sections of the game just because you cant see.. Take some time before you buy cheap tickets. It would be well worth it to spend $50 more on a better ticket.
I think the biggest reason there is a huge price drop on tickets is the fact that many people can't afford or are not willing to spend days traveling to watch the game. If it was within an 8 hour drive you would see all the tickets being bought up and the prices staying as high as they were day one. It's takes a different level of dedication to make it to the Rose Bowl right now and I can't justify spending that much money for a couple days in LA to watch football.
Since I've accepted the fact that I will not be going I'm really looking forward to watching the game with all my friends and knowing I can walk home when the festivities are over.
Since I've accepted the fact that I will not be going I'm really looking forward to watching the game with all my friends and knowing I can walk home when the festivities are over.
Wonder how many of these tickets make it to Pasadena for sale on the street? I'm guessing that after today, you won't be able to order a ticket off of Stubhub and get the tickets in time before you travel for the game.
People had to know the ticket prices would come down. They always do -- especially when 2/3 or more of the tix to the Rose Bowl weren't even out on the market yet because Stanford and Iowa hadn't given out their allotments yet (55-60k seats). There was a ton of immediate demand and not much out there on the market - that's a perfect recipe for crazy prices. Not surprisingly, as supply increased, prices dropped.
There's a lot of truth here. I'm not going to the Rose Bowl because of the cross-country flight, hotel costs and all that when I have some home projects coming up this year. I had a hotel room booked in ATL on the off-chance they wound up in the Peach Bowl. I would have gone to that, because it's only a 4 hour drive and would have only cost a fraction of what a RB trip would have cost me. I'm not mad about the prices, I just can't swing it right now with some other stuff I have planned for 2016. Another year, I'd be looking forward to the trip.
One thing that would have helped a lot of Hawk fans... and I'm not sure why this didn't happen, is more charter flights from Iowa direct to California. You could easily get gate / runway access from Des Moines and Cedar Rapids, and I'd think it wouldn't be that hard to get access to a secondary airport in the LA area.
If you charter a plane with 180 seats and it cost you $100,000 total to do it, that's a direct flight to and from for about $555 per person. I think a ton more Hawk fans would make their way to the Rose Bowl if that type of option were available. A friend and I were discussing trying to do this in the future and hopefully filling it at cost with friends of ours (and some new friends of course).
If you charter a plane with 180 seats and it cost you $100,000 total to do it, that's a direct flight to and from for about $555 per person. I think a ton more Hawk fans would make their way to the Rose Bowl if that type of option were available. A friend and I were discussing trying to do this in the future and hopefully filling it at cost with friends of ours (and some new friends of course).
For my situation my wife's aunt ordered tickets for my sister-in-law and her husband. They had planned on going all all season if Iowa made it. Her aunt ordered 4 instead of 2 through the university figuring someone would be able to use them. She knew that we wanted to go and offered them to us. We were not expecting to have tickets available to us so we had not made any arrangements to go. By the time we were offered the tickets the prices to fly out there were just too must and not worth it for us to go.
We offered the tickets to others but they had either bought theirs already or couldn't afford the trip like us. I'm guessing there we a lot of people who ordered tickets just like this in the hopes they could help others out.
That would be great until you had 8 cancel on you (5%). How many would book if $555 was not refundable?
The airlines could charge $1000 and include a game ticket and leave out the middle man. But they probably don't want to get in that business. But I think they would get a lot of business.
I was also surprised that there weren't more charters arranged. Do you know what the cost of such a trip would really be? Is the $100k figure accurate? I would have guessed it to be lower than that actually.
Simple, just make it non-refundable or charge a cancellation fee and resell the open ticket(s)...win-win. Most airline tickets bought nowadays are that way.
It's easy to throw around numbers like that, but it doesn't make any sense for a charter service or airline to hold a plane for events like this. If one has a plane that's unused, they're certainly not going to fly it empty to Iowa to pick up passengers and then fly it empty to Los Angeles after the game to bring them back
I'd be willing to bet that the reason why ticket prices are taking a nosedive is because the UI ticket office dragged ass on determining who would get tickets. By the time they filled the orders, capacity was gone for air travel.
If any competent business was filling those ticket orders, the process would have literally taken under an hour. An intern should be able to figure it out and email notice in 10 minutes. The UI should be embarrassed by how long it took to fill those orders
I not totally sure. It is perhaps cheaper at current fuel prices. I'm fairly sure round trip would be in the 80-100k range for a charter.
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