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Alan Swank
2/5/2016 4:01 PM
This was somewhere is some topic recently but just saw on SeatGeaks where someone in Section 115 row A is unloading four tickets to multiple games. For those of you who routinely engage in seating buying from third party sites, what's the best way in your opinion to do this? I'm not trying to unload seats but I would be curious as to how this works best.
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shabamon
2/5/2016 4:06 PM
Do you want to make back some money on your seats? If so, sell them online. If not, find a friend and leave yours at will call. Though there are several third party options, Stubhub is still the big dog and my first go-to for ticket resale. From there, it's simple economics as you set the price. Price high for the big games, price low for the midweek SWAC non-con games.
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BillyTheCat
2/5/2016 4:14 PM
I am an avid buyer and seller on Stub Hub.
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catfan28
2/5/2016 8:44 PM
We have 1-2 scalpers outside for every men's basketball game and more than that for football. If you would have told me that 15 years ago, I would have laughed you out of Peden.
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Alan Swank
2/6/2016 9:06 AM
catfan28 wrote:expand_more
We have 1-2 scalpers outside for every men's basketball game and more than that for football. If you would have told me that 15 years ago, I would have laughed you out of Peden.
That's not such a hard thing to understand. With individual game tickets for football and basketball now starting at $20 and going as high as $35 and ridiculously cheap season tickets, it's a no brainer. The one guy buys lower bowl seats for $10 and sells them for $15. Easy money. It really has nothing to do with supply and demand. It's the pricing structure that we have.
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TWT
2/6/2016 4:40 PM
I thought I'd start a thread on the football board for this but with the topic popping up here I will weigh in. I'm a seller and to sell with an online site you'll be much more effective if you can deliver instant pdf tickets to the buyer. That eliminates risk and some costs through the mail. Requires less lead time before an event to complete a sale. To get pdf tickets what you have to do is ticket transfer pdf versions the tickets to yourself from your season ticket account. Then once you agree to ticket transfer and transaction fee you'll be able to upload them to Stubhub or another site. Stubhub will also take a percentage of your sale. Last year I had a football premium family pack I bought for 180. I sold tickets for 4 games for 250 (3 Saturday and 1 MACtion) which covered the cost. An FYI, this year I checked ticket renewal and they've increased the premium family packs from 180 to 240 dollars a 33% increase. Marshall last year was $40 base price. We may see $50 dollar tickets for Homecoming this year based on those family pack increases.
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TWT
2/6/2016 4:57 PM
Alan Swank wrote:expand_more
We have 1-2 scalpers outside for every men's basketball game and more than that for football. If you would have told me that 15 years ago, I would have laughed you out of Peden.
That's not such a hard thing to understand. With individual game tickets for football and basketball now starting at $20 and going as high as $35 and ridiculously cheap season tickets, it's a no brainer. The one guy buys lower bowl seats for $10 and sells them for $15. Easy money. It really has nothing to do with supply and demand. It's the pricing structure that we have.
I wouldn't say its "easy" money but what it does Alan is economically justify season tickets when you can recoup a portion of your season ticket investment for games you can't attend. I made a 75 dollar profit after fees from selling 4 games on my family pack at heavily discounted prices. If the tickets were better seats, I could have charged a lot more for them. Back when the football tickets were 12 dollars, the market for discounted tickets was so small. Sell them for 6 dollars and after fees your only making 20 on the sale.
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Scott Woods
2/9/2016 2:51 PM
Uncle Wes wrote:expand_more
I thought I'd start a thread on the football board for this but with the topic popping up here I will weigh in. I'm a seller and to sell with an online site you'll be much more effective if you can deliver instant pdf tickets to the buyer. That eliminates risk and some costs through the mail. Requires less lead time before an event to complete a sale. To get pdf tickets what you have to do is ticket transfer pdf versions the tickets to yourself from your season ticket account. Then once you agree to ticket transfer and transaction fee you'll be able to upload them to Stubhub or another site. Stubhub will also take a percentage of your sale. Last year I had a football premium family pack I bought for 180. I sold tickets for 4 games for 250 (3 Saturday and 1 MACtion) which covered the cost. An FYI, this year I checked ticket renewal and they've increased the premium family packs from 180 to 240 dollars a 33% increase. Marshall last year was $40 base price. We may see $50 dollar tickets for Homecoming this year based on those family pack increases. [/QUOTE]Looking at renewing football tickets and there is an option for print at home tickets now.

[QUOTE=Ohio Bobcats Season Tickets Football Renewal Site] Season tickets will be delivered electronically after August 15th. Print-at-Home tickets will be delivered to you as a pdf attachment via email. It will be sent to the email address you have indicated on this account. Upon receiving the email, please print out the attachment(s) and bring those with you to the game for entry. We recommend you use the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader
Looks like the process to resell will be easier now?
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TWT
2/9/2016 8:23 PM
That's correct. Print at home tickets were not ready for last season without a 5 dollar ticket transfer per game fee. With the new system tickets can be transferred directly to yourself for distribution or upload on a 3rd party site. To get paid through a 3rd party site usually needs a pay pal account linked by using the same email and bank account. By no means is it an efficient way way to make money but it can be done.
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RPO R6V
2/9/2016 9:10 PM
It puzzles me a bit to see so many empty seats in the lower bowl of the Convo for so many games, yet almost none for sale on StubHub etc. I live in Michigan and usually make it to Athens for only one game per season, but though I'd gladly pay a good price for good seats if they were available I always end up in the nosebleed section. I guess most season ticket holders don't want to bother with selling their unused tickets online.
Last Edited: 2/9/2016 9:13:08 PM by RPO R6V
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RSBobcat
2/9/2016 9:12 PM
RPO R6V wrote:expand_more
It puzzles me a bit to see so many empty seats in the lower bowl of the Convo for so many games, yet almost none for sale on StubHub etc. I live in Michigan and usually make it to Athens for only one game per season, but tbough I'd gladly pay a good price for good seats if they were available, but I always end up in the nosebleed section. I guess most season ticket holders don't want to bother with selling their unused tickets online.
And/or they do not make the effort to if nothing else just give them to someone else
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