I thought we sold out our allotment.
Less than reliable information. There are still tickets to be bought, so spread the word.
I thought we sold out our allotment.
That's interesting, but it's not like the fans of the other teams in BCS who have sold out their allotment don't use StubHub also. Maybe VT and Clemson have a few more who use StubHub, but this is still an extremely poor showing for two fan bases who have a reputation for being some of the best travelers in the entire country.
Yeah but VT and Clemson have links to StubHub right on their sites. Alternatively schools like BC and UVA have their own secondary ticketing sites right on their own website, so they're taking market share from places like StubHub, not giving market share away by partnering with them. It's weird, if you want BC tickets in Boston StubHub is a terrible place to look because BC basically has their own secondary tickets market locked down via their school sponsored marketplace. So if you want good seats you need to go to the school website. Granted the bigger the school the bigger the secondary ticket market, so pieces of the pie will be on eBay, Craigslist, StubHub, and other sites.... and those places will continue to exist regardless of what a school does. But the BC and UVA models show that you can take back more of the control over secondary sales just by having your own university sponsored, direct fan to fan option, as opposed to sending fans elsewhere, which gives away control, hurts sales, and hurts the traditional donations for seat rights model.
FSU has partnered with StubHub as well and they sold all 13,500 Champs Sports Bowl tickets through the school in 2 days, requested 2,400 more and sold them in the next two days. I don't think it's so much a StubHub v. school owned secondary market thing, but a question of what the market is like (supply and demand). For the Champs Sports bowl, it was way cheaper to buy seats through the schools than on the secondary market - look at StubHub or any of the other secondary marketplaces and you'll see that there is very little under $100/ticket (plus all the fees), even for upper deck outside of the 20s. It was $67/ticket through the school with upper deck seats between the 30s.
Love to see that we have sold our allotment. If we can get that number up to about 15,000 it would go a long ways towards establishing a positive reputation regarding our fan travel for bowls. Great job Deacs.
I wish the ticket office would just come out and say how many tickets we have sold.