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Ticket Prices
Oct 12, 2013, 10:58 PM
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After scrolling through the Ticket Marketplace, it blows my mind how important paying "face value" is to people. (It seemingly is much less important when buying for less than "face value" though...)
Asking for "face value" for a football ticket is as stupid as it would be to ask for "par value" for a stock on a stock exchange. "Face value"/"par value" just shows how much money Clemson/a company is receiving. How much you pay out in the marketplace is completely unrelated.
Case in point, I sold 2 tickets to the BC game for $10 each today and sold the same seats to the FSU game for $200 each. Welcome to the (relatively) free market.
In summary, unless you got season tickets from Clemson/got in on an IPO, "face value"/"par value" have nothing to do with your tickets/stocks.
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And so it begins.....the economy/free market experts
Oct 12, 2013, 11:04 PM
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always seem to show up leading up to a big game. I hope your big money seats went to Clemson fans, but in the end, I guess that really doesn't matter. It is about that chedda. The ticket "marketplace".....lol.
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Re: I'm no expert
Oct 12, 2013, 11:09 PM
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I never claimed to be an expert, but I do think the analogy I used is appropriate.
Yes, my tickets did go to Clemson fans.
And TNet calls it a marketplace. Just used their title.
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Just busting your gonads, CU. This will be the first of
Oct 12, 2013, 11:17 PM
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many threads leading up to the game that gets into this touchy topic of scalping the crap out of Tiger tickets in the name of the free market. Some do it. Some don't.
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Re: Ticket Prices
Oct 12, 2013, 11:05 PM
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Yeah I really wanted FSU tickets but couldnt afford them. But those are the breaks and if 150,000 people want tickets to a 85000 seat game, the price of tickets will go up. Just economics. So i am not going to get upset about it. I will wait my turn or go to a game I can afford. I got seats to the GTech game, which is a night game and should be fun.
Go Tigers.
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Why is it stupid to ask for face value?
Oct 12, 2013, 11:15 PM
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If that is all someone is willing to pay that's what they should put. Football tickets are not worth over $100 to me personally and I refuse to pay more. So that is what I list in my ads. I have never missed a game b/c of ticket prices. Earlier in the year the UGA game I paid $100 per ticket for great lower level seats. So you see the reason people ask to only pay face value is because there are sellers willing to sell for these prices. You should think before you call someones actions stupid lol.
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He is a "free market" guy that can't imagine that someone
Oct 12, 2013, 11:19 PM
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wouldn't capitalize on this great opportunity to make some money off their tickets. He can't fathom the idea. It is foreign to him, thus why he believe people are stupid for asking face value. And of course we get the obligatory,"I only could get 10 bucks for the crap games!" story. It is always a touching one.
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I don't think
Oct 12, 2013, 11:24 PM
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I'm a "free market" guy. I'm just explaining how (I believe) it works.
And no I'm not saying people shouldn't say they're only willing to pay "x" amount for tickets. That's their prerogative and the only way a budget-conscious person should go about it.
I just find it odd that people often pick "face value" as that "x" amount when it is really just a number Clemson set to justify the season ticket price they asked for.
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Oh yes.....the "face value" doesn't exist mantra. That is
Oct 12, 2013, 11:28 PM
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another gem that will show up considerably this week. Sorry, CU, but your post reeked of "why in the hell would someone ask face value for this game???" Well, the gentleman above us explained it very succinctly.......because not everyone is looking to make hundreds off a FACE VALUE of 75 dollar ticket. They do exist.
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So I'm guessing
Oct 12, 2013, 11:36 PM
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You disagree with my analogy in the original post. To each his own.
The way I see it is selling for less than market value (or buying for more than market value) is charity. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for charity, but I prefer to give my charity money to people I view as doing good for people less fortunate than myself rather than people who want to watch a football game.
Just one man's opinion.
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CU Guru [1952]
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you have a very warped view of selling and buying tickets...
Oct 12, 2013, 11:47 PM
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Charity? You can demand the high prices but it will take you some time to sell the tickets and you take the risk that they don't sell and you eat it. You have to take the risk into account. You also may miss some of the game standing out front trying to sell. Selling the ticket close to face value has advantages... ie they will sell fast and you can choose who you sit beside. I wouldn't want to sit beside someone willing to pay $500 per ticket. So first you call me stupid and now you are saying that I am taking charity... get the f off your high horse.
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Yes, the goofball force is strong with this one. I just
Oct 12, 2013, 11:53 PM
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decided to leave that last comment alone.
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In accounting
Oct 13, 2013, 12:03 AM
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The term would actually be "goodwill", not charity, if you really want to split hairs.
And I don't think I've done any more than regurgitate (probably in a poor fashion) generally accepted economic and finance theory. But, hey, I get that people have different opinions about things. Nbd. No need for people to take things too personally though, as that is not intended.
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I like the idea that you believe people are asking face
Oct 13, 2013, 12:05 AM
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value for "budgeting" reasons. There is also the very real prospect they are not going to pay 500 bucks to see a game, whether they have 5 bucks or 5 million bucks in the bank. Interesting theories you have...
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No, my original point
Oct 13, 2013, 12:12 AM
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Was that "face value" is just an unrelated number. It makes much more sense to me when people say they will pay $100 or any other number.
And like I said. To each his own. Have a good night and go tigers! Beat FSU!
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Good night to you, and keep trying to rewrite a term
Oct 13, 2013, 12:15 AM
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that has been used for literally the entire life of sports ticket sales, or really any ticket sales, the term FACE VALUE. It is a real number. It is on the ticket.
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If it's a free market they're free to pay what they're
Oct 12, 2013, 11:41 PM
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willing to pay. I, on the other hand, got my FSU tickets for free. I'll repay in other ways...no not THAT way.
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What size bit coin fragment to buy the whole stadium?***
Oct 12, 2013, 11:57 PM
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CU Guru [1952]
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lol***
Oct 13, 2013, 12:00 AM
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