FB Tix-PSU vs Indiana-anyone else po'ed?
by kingkub on Mar 6, 2010 11:54 PM EST
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PrintI got my email from the Nittany Lion Club on Thursday to inform me that I have just 2 weeks to decide if I want tix for the Indiana "away" game to be held in DC. There were numerous options ranging in price from $60 for nosebleeders to $150 for sideline with buffet. Olay, so far no problem. Here is the rub....why can Indiana fans purchase their tix for a flat $70?
http://iuhoosiers.cstv.com/auto_pdf/p_hotos/s_chools/ind/genrel/auto_pdf/IUvsPennStateApp
Something doesn't seem fair here. Either the NLC is taking a cut of the ticket price or FedEx Field is gouging the Penn State fans.
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please, someone else rec this and turn it green!
I hate that asshat
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Done and done
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Meh
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by For The Glory 1855 on Mar 7, 2010 12:59 AM EST reply actions
Just for giggles
I checked stubhub. The few tickets that are available are ridiculously gouged. Hopefully when more tickets become available, prices will drop. It’s the one game I’m hoping to get to this year.
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Isn't this an Indiana home game??
Does PSU see a chance to make som $$$, you bet. Guess what, you don’t have to go!! it will be on TV.
more questions
BMAN13, yes, I can elect to stay at home for every game, they are usually on tv. I enjoy the atmosphere of the crowds, there is no better place to be on a Saturday in the Fall than at the corner of Curtin and U Drive.
I can understand why the seats are priced diferently by PS, they actually state where the seats could be located, but Indiana (and yes, it is their home game) elects to charge the same price for any ticket. That is the part I don’t understand.
I will be po’ed if I pay $150 for a ticket and I sit next to an Indiana person who paid $70. I am not a lawyer, so I would guess that it is legal, but it doesn’t seem fair.
Hold up
As someone said, this is an Indiana home game. So PSU probably only got 5000 tickets to offer to their season ticket holders. Everyone else has to go through stub hub or something. And keep in mind, that Indiana season ticket holders probably have to make an annual donation to their version of the NLC, so their actual price is probably greater than $70.
Here’s my advice. Wait a few months until Indiana opens up their games to single game sales. Then you should be able to buy tickets off of the Indiana athletic department pretty cheap. This is what I did when PSU played Temple at the Link a few years ago.
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I don’t think IU is going to handle any ticket sales beyond their allotment. More likely, after the advance sales (to IU, PSU and Redskin season ticket holders), the remaining tickets will be sold to the general public directly from FedEx and the Redskins. I don’t think the prices would be any cheaper than what PSU is selling them for though, at least according the the ticketmaster site for the game.
what is IU's allotment, though?
since it is a home game for them
by The JuggerNitt on Mar 8, 2010 1:21 PM EST up reply actions
Which brings up another possible although not necessarily probably explanation
Indiana is stuck with a LOT more tickets than they know they can move, so they figured a lower price point meant higher volume, ect. In other words, Indiana is selling at a discount.
While PSU knows exactly what they can sell their tickets for, which is at least face value, and they’re selling the “PSU section” accordingly.
I know about your diabolical plan.
My impression is that IU’s allotment is 7000 tickets — that number was widely reported at the time of the game announcement. Even though they are the “home team”, I don’t think they were given a ton of tickets or obligated to sell a lot. Most of the ticket sales will be done by the Redskins/FedEx themselves.
Given the wide variety of types of seats that PSU is offering, I’d imagine that they have been given an allotment more akin to a bowl game rather than a typical away game and that PSU has far more tickets to sell than IU. But I would think they can return any unused tickets at no penalty to the Redskins.
"return any unused tickets"
I lol’d at that
by The JuggerNitt on Mar 9, 2010 11:45 AM EST up reply actions
I'm not a lawyer, either,
but price discrimination is illegal – falls under the Clayton Act of 1914. I would think that Indiana is subsidizing their ticket prices or that they offset the prices through their alumni club.
For the glory
uhhh
i’m pretty sure lots of groups face different prices… kids, students, seniors, government employees…
by Why did I Graduate? on Mar 10, 2010 3:27 PM EST up reply actions
I'm also not sure what constitutes price discrimination
especially if certain groups are in a “discount club” (like supermarkets, or alumni associations, etc)
by The JuggerNitt on Mar 10, 2010 8:04 PM EST up reply actions
If Penn State was playing a home game at the Super Dome
you would probably want discounted tickets too.
I am not asking for discounted tickets, I am wondering why the prices are different for PSU fans than they are for IU fans…if you can explain that to me, then i would appreciate it
Let's not jump to conclusions....
For starters, this is (technically) an Indiana home game, but they are only obligated to sell something like 7000 seats for the game — I’d bet that these $70 seats are only those 7000 seats and nothing else. There is probably some (consecutive) sections of the stadium that are just for IU ticket sales and I wouldn’t be surprised if the Redskins gave IU tickets at a discount to sell to their own fans (since they are the home team) — these $70 tickets are probably the same as the $95 tickets PSU is selling.
But that doesn’t mean that the Redskins offered the same tickets to PSU for the same prices — knowing full well that PSU fans will be buying the bulk of the tickets and since the contract for the game wasn’t directly with PSU, the Skins probably offered PSU a crapload of tickets for the NLC but at higher (but “normal”) rates — go to the ticketmaster page for this game and the prices match up to what PSU is offering them at. Well, except the Lodge Seats, which are $110 compared to the NLC $150 but the NLC deal includes all you can eat buffet. Also, one might note that there are seats cheaper than $60, some $50 seats will be available in the rows beyond the $60 seats in the upper deck.
Does the NLC make money off of the “away” tickets that they sell? I don’t think they do, but I could be wrong.
No, but this is an unusual "away" game.
not sure how these price points were set. Is IU eating some of the cost of their tickets to encourage fans to buy them?
by Tailgate Shogun on Mar 7, 2010 6:32 PM EST up reply actions
Quick thought: what if the IU tickets are some combination of $95 and $60 seats (and maybe some $50 seats) that were given to IU to sell and rather than discriminating between the price, they just averaged them out to $70? Doesn’t seem likely because it would require a bunch more upper deck seats, but maybe.
Washington vs Notre Dame
Does anyone know how the Washington ‘home’ game against Notre Dame in San Antonio worked out last year? That’s probably the closest analogy for ticket pricing and availability.
That was Washington State.
Which makes it even more laughable.
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by ReadingRambler on Mar 8, 2010 11:22 AM EST up reply actions
And Notre Dame was the “home” team, not WSU. Notre Dame is always the home team for these neutral site games — that’s why they are carried on NBC.
I got my annual season ticket solicitation from the Skins a couple weeks ago
This and the Army/Navy game are listed as “exicting additional events” you will have ticket access to. No pricing info
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