Re: Football Seating

It's more about how much you donate than it is how long you donate. They assign the available seats based on Donation level first, then by number of priority points within that level second. So, even if you've donated for 80 years straight, if you donate $400 this year and request for your seats to be moved, anyone (brand new member or whoever) who donates $800 or more will receive priority over you for their ticket requests this season.

Basically, to get the "seats you want" it takes a little luck and a lot of money one year. First, because the season tickets are sold out, people have to give up their seats for there to be ANY season tickets available for new donors or people who want to change their seat location. Then you have to be the highest priority level donor requesting those seats to get them.

So, if you're really picky about what seats you want, you'll likely have to donate at like the Heisman level for one year, get those seats, and then meet your minimum donation each year after that to keep them. Even at that, there is no guarantee that you'll get the exact seats/section that you want because as I stated before, whoever currently has those seats has to give them up before you even have a chance at them.

There used to be a much higher turnover year to year, but the last few years have had very high renewal rates. I'd venture to say that most people who have joined Iptay since 2012 don't have the exact section/seats they really wanted, unless they dropped a lot of cash one year to get them. (just my 2 cents, take it for what it's worth)

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Re: Care to share what your donation level is?

Jun 26, 2017, 2:33 PM

If you want to sit in better seats for most games......

1. Give to Iptay what you can afford to give and then buy season tickets, expecting them to be way less than the sort of seats you'd like to have. You are supporting Clemson.

2. If your career takes off and you come into more disposable cash, up your IPTAY donation and continue to buy the best seats IPTAY and your contribution can secure for you. Plan to do steps 1 and 2 for life. In the meantime.......

3. Sell your tickets two by two or for a whole season for as much money as you can get, from whomever is willing to pay the most, which will probably be from a Stubhub buyer or some other ticket broker.

4. Go to the games you want to see with cash in your pocket and buy extras from long time IPTAY members who are holding 4,6,8,10 or 12 season tickets. The long time donors with lots of tickets VERY OFTEN have a Mom or Wife, a Son or Daughter, a Grandfather or Uncle who just could not make the game because it's 1)Not a good opponent, or 2) too hot, or 3)too late, or 4)too early or 5)just couldn't make 3 Saturday games in a row. Always buy your tickets at Clemson from an old white guy wearing orange and walking into the stadium with a couple of other people from his very nice parking spot in Lot 2 or some other space very close to the stadium. That guy is not sellling fake tickets and he's not looking to give the tickets away NOR to make his house payment on the profit he makes off of selling another Clemson fan a ticket. You'll find it's fun to sit in different spots in Death Valley.

5. Once in a blue moon, you'll watch a game on TV from your tailgate spot because you just would not fork over $500/ticket (Notre Dame, FSU, Louisville, etc). Most of the time you'll end up spending a bit more on tickets for the season than just sitting in your lousy high up upper deck tickets but you'll see most games from better seats than a new IPTAY, recent graduate is going to be able to score from Clemson.

This process works GREAT now that Clemson is recognized as a top flight program and our stadium and our games are destination, bucket list items from fans of Wake, Duke, BC, GT, FSU, Auburn, ND, Troy, Citadel and so forth. It's ok to sell tickets to such fans and so show them some Clemson hospitality, all the while getting to sit in better seats than the tickets you are selling.

CAVEAT: NEVER SELL A CLEMSON TICKET TO A SC FAN unless you are making a ton of money off of the Gamecock booster.

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I'll finally get the seats I want in 2020