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Swapping Tickets @ WF's Joel Coliseum

I get the desire to not want people outside on private property selling tickets, even if it is for face value or below face. They don't want to have to deal with the person that bought a counterfeit ticket whether they paid $10 or $100 for it. It's ridiculous that you aren't allowed to give them away though.
 
I have been to 127 other college basketball home arenas. None agree with your logic.
 
qcdeac said:
I get the desire to not want people outside on private property selling tickets, even if it is for face value or below face. They don't want to have to deal with the person that bought a counterfeit ticket whether they paid $10 or $100 for it.
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Yeah, but they're only eliminating the secondary market on their property. It still exists elsewhere.

Let's be honest...who is counterfeiting tickets for Wake basketball right now anyway?
 
donaldross said:
I have been to 127 other college basketball home arenas. None agree with your logic.
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Not so humble brag #2.

The other 127 arenas would probably prefer the walk-up fan to buy their ticket from the ticket office, but they aren't stupid enough to enforce like Wake apparently did. Then again, you may have just run into some overzealous officer that didn't like gingers and fell back on "sorry sir, those are my instructions" when you questioned him.

I agree Racer, no one in probably counterfeiting WF tickets, even to Duke & Carolina this year.
Re: the secondary market, if you got duped on craigslist days before the game, you are obviously SOL. If you get duped at the arena, you are more likely to involve arena personnel/security/police.
 
Wake has done this for years at Groves.

Penny wise, pound foolish
 
I don't pretend to be humble. We're past that. Let's go win.
 
I assume you called someone at the Deacon Club and discussed this with them before posting it on the internet? What was their response? Seems quite possible this was a misunderstanding by the cop.
 
It's probably a consumer protection rule. The FTC knows no one with the capacity to contract would pay $10 to watch WFU basketball.
 
Dillon Fence said:
I assume you called someone at the Deacon Club and discussed this with them before posting it on the internet? What was their response? Seems quite possible this was a misunderstanding by the cop.
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I've heard similar accounts from roughly half a dozen others as well.
 
Dillon Fence said:
I assume you called someone at the Deacon Club and discussed this with them before posting it on the internet? What was their response? Seems quite possible this was a misunderstanding by the cop.
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They have been restricting reselling at Groves for years. This isn't a new thing on WF property.
 
huh, i have never had an issue buying or selling right in front of groves the last few years, on wake property. usually two dozen folks walking around holding tickets or holding fingers in the air.
 
Donald Ross, you're the attorney and I am not. However, it would seem that your contract with the University is stated on the ticket. Does it state on the ticket that resale or redistribution is not allowed on University property? If not so stated, why couldn't one logically argue that the University is seeking to amend its contract with the ticketholder in a way that is contrary to state law and that the University must give advance notice if it wishes to amend that contract?
 
Suing them doesn't promote change here. This thread has a better chance & it had no $200 filing fee.
 
donaldross said:
Suing them doesn't promote change here. This thread has a better chance & it had no $200 filing fee.
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So has the AD contacted you and profusely apologized while stating they're going to do away with this incredibly stupid and counterproductive policy?
 
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