Re: Fake Tickets for the Auburn Game!

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Sep 12, 2017, 8:55 AM

Hi all, thanks for the add to the group. I didn't mean to write an essay, but I just wanted to share my unfortunate experience this past weekend in Clemson.

I am an Auburn grad living in Asheville, NC. I took my son to Death Valley when we played back in 2011 and was treated very well and was looking forward to a return this weekend with my family of 4. We also had a large contingent of AU fans that made the trip and stayed with us at Lake Keowee.

I didn't want to pay $300 a ticket, so I waited for the prices to drop closer to game day while searching stubhub, ebay, craigslist, etc. I made arrangements to drive down Friday evening after work to meet a guy with 6 lowers in section D, only to have the guy stand me up. Not cool. I kept searching for tickets and connected with a guy Sat morning through CL who had 4 tickets together in section N. He claimed to be from Greenville and met me at the Ingles in Seneca. He had on full Clemson gear and we talked about how the CU schedule was downhill if you could get past AU.

Fast forward to kick off after my tickets were scanned successfully at the gate and we tried to find our seats. Odd numbers on one side, even on the other I was told. Mine were numbered 5-8, so now I just think that they are not all together and that we will be sitting 2 and 2. I went to seats 5 and 7 and someone had tickets identical to mine. The guy suggested that I talk to an usher. The usher sent me to gate 9 where some sort of official looked at them. At first, he said they were legit, but then noticed something else and said they were fake. He said we were in the stadium and he wasn't going to kick us out, so we went back and stood with 4 or 5 others in the section N portal. The usher that I had talked to previously told us that we could not stand there because of a fire code. I politely told him that we would move when the other 5 people moved. He tried to get them to move, but no one was really paying him any attention. He then told me and my family that he was calling his supervisor and that if we didn't leave, he would be calling the police to have us escorted out of the stadium. At this point, my youngest son is about in tears.

Finally, a young woman showed up to help sort out the situation. I wish I could remember her name because she was truly upset that my family was having to deal with this and told us that she wanted to help make our experience at Clemson a positive one. She offered to try and find us vacated seats after halftime, but explained that we may have to move again if someone came back to the seats. Another option was to stand in the endzone behind a white line which is what we did. We got there just before halftime, and stayed for part of the halftime show before my wife and kids decided to call it a night. Needless to say, things did not quite go as planned.

I took the wife and kids back to the house and came back to lot 10 to pick up the rest of our crew.
Another bad mistake! 2 hours just to get out of the parking lot is not acceptable. How do you not have someone directing traffic out of the lots? No one would let anyone out onto Williamson or Perimeter Rd. Hopefully this was a result of the reduced number of police due to the hurricane.

I still had the phone number of the guy that sold me fake tickets and reached out Sunday morning. He claimed that they weren't fake. I asked him where he got them and he stated that they came from a co-worker. I told him that I hoped he was telling the truth because I was going to report the incident to the Clemson PD. I reported the incident online and was supposed to receive some sort of email confirmation from the Clemson PD, but I never received anything. Doubt they will pursue it, but I just wanted to try and prevent someone else from getting screwed.

I know that the 2 guys that screwed me over are not representative of the majority of Clemson fans and that these things happen everywhere. I just saw this post and wanted to let as many people as possible know to beware of these crooks. Good luck on the rest of your season!

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I am also sorry for your experience and echo TigerLink's view that we go out of our way to try to make the visitor experience better than any other school. Just a few other thoughts.

First, when you said you didn't want to pay $300 per ticket, I assume you mean for lower level, as upper deck tickets were well under $200 during the week, even on Stubhub with the fees. Second, thanks for not attributing the actions of these few to the rest of the Clemson community, but from what you wrote, it sounds like the usher was treating your family differently from other standing patrons, which is not right. Third, I agree you should take action against the guy who sold you the tickets. Fourth, we all wish that it was easier to leave after the game, but even if there had been more police, Clemson is a relatively small town with limited roads for exit. It has always taken a long time and probably always will.

For the list, what is the point of these bar codes if they don't seem to prevent fake tickets from entry? I was a beneficiary of this apparent gap at the Natty, so I've been curious for a while. (I bought a scalped ticket but had said I wouldn't pay unless my son was able to get into the gate. He did, but then found the seat taken by a Bama fan who had been a victim of theft and reported the theft and received a replacement ticket.)

Last year we attended the Auburn game and I thought the fans were amazing. Many went out of their way to welcome us and there was never a cross word before, during or after the game - and we sat in the upper deck with almost no other Clemson fans. Best of luck for the rest of your season!

Fake Tickets for the Auburn Game!

Assuming you were in the lower deck,

Re: Assuming you were in the lower deck,

I saw 2 fake tickets when I went to the IPTAY office before

4 guys in front of me at the gate were turned away b/c they

How do you know these guys weren't the thieves?