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tOSU Ticket Prices (merged)

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gbearbuck said:
"Yes, but supply was reduced when student ticket rules started being enforced. If you take 5000 tickets off of the market to the general public, demand goes up. Therefore, so does price."

Scooter,

you're on the correct track... I think you are getting supply and demand confused. If tickets are removed from the general public, supply is reduced (demand does not change) and prices can increase.

However one can argue that supply is actually shifted to the large population, thus filling a portion of demand. If 5,000 student no longer have tickets, those tickets can be sold to those who want them. In effect supply didn't change (there's still 105k tickets with fanies in each seat), it shifted from the students (or who ever is using their tickets) to other fans who purchased the tickets from the university.

The ID rule has been around for a long time. IMO it's about time they start to check for ID's... If a student isn't going to use his/her ticket, let an alumni use it (paying a higher price to the school)...
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Sort of. As it sits, the student tickets that are returned are being made available to alumni only first. Many of the students didn't return them, which is a good thing. But the ones that were returned are not yet available to the general public.

I'm not confused by supply and demand, I've been awake for 27 hours and I'm tired.
 
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gbearbuck said:
long night last night... well that sounds like you either had a really good night last night, or you had a real bad one (sick and sleepless, or studying all night for something)...
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I work nights for Taxation. Yesterday being Labor Day, I spent the day with the family as opposed to sleeping. And I am officially out of steam. Holla at you guys tonight.
 
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Buckeyehead said:
So Holbrook and Geiger are responsible for what scalpers charge now? :roll2:

I pray to God none of you graduated from our Economics department, but I'll sum it up one more time. OSU graduates thousands of students a year - the official alumni association has more members than the stadium has seats, and that's not all of us.

The team is 26-2 and hasn't lost a home game in over 2 years, and the bottom line is, people are paying the scalpers' prices - otherwise, they would come down.

You may not like any of that, but Holbrook and Geiger have little to do with it. It's called supply-and-demand, and it existed long before either of them were born.
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Damning the Scalpers goes without saying.

Do you think charging $60 for a seat in row 40 of C-deck is a fair price? I sure don't.

However, not many people here will agree with my thoughts on the ticket prices and venues. Hell, I think the Schottenstein Center was a waste of money (even though it is nice).
 
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I paid a 300.00 for two tickets in 21C, so it looks like a paid the going rate. What scares me was that it did not appear to be any x-tra demand because of UC fans. I so very few UC fans there. Marshall will be bringing more people to c-bus-and ticket prices will be even higher! I have alumni tickets for this game, but the couple going to the game with my wife and I want to buy tickets there. Hopefully, they can get approved for a home equity loan before they leave :)
 
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I don't know Happy. I would guess that ticket prices will be lower. Cincinnati was a bit high for several reasons.

First game of the year
History with a team that was within one catch of beating us 2 years ago.
Dantonio coaching at UC
Both teams coming in with high expectations

Marshall will be in less demand simply because they already lost.
We have no history or rivalry with them.
To the general public they have no marquee players (Pennington, Moss, etc.)

That's what I'm hoping anyway.
 
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I got lucky and found 2 tix in 9A (row 35) for $80 each... thought I was going to have to drop a lot more than that.

Best news about it was that I found them about 10am, so plenty of time to not worry about tix and have a good time!
 
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COLLEGE NOTES
Sunday, April 08, 2007

Ohio State nudges up price of football , basketball tickets

Watching the Buckeyes play football and basketball has become more expensive.
On Friday, the Ohio State University trustees approved a $1 increase for football tickets, raising the price to $60 for the general public, $49 for faculty and staff members, and $30 for students.
Men?s basketball tickets will increase $1 for the general public for a range of $15 to $25. Personal-seat licenses also will go up $1. Student tickets will increase to $13.50, while faculty and staff tickets rise to $20, an increase of 50 cents in each case.
The price for other sporting events won?t change, except at the OSU golf courses, where membership fees for faculty and staff members will increase to $1,700 a year. Alumni and Buckeye Club membership fees will increase $100 to $2,125. Daily greens fees will remain the same.
 
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I can confirm the $60 per ticket price.

I just paid for my two alumni season tickets. It is now up to $855 for the seven games. It is $60 a ticket, and a $15 processing fee.

The good news (besides the fact that I can get the tickets) is that I saved a whooping $7 (off the $855) by paying with an electronic check. :biggrin:

:oh: :io:
 
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Bob Hunter commentary: Price is hardly right for OSU football

Tuesday, April 24, 2007 3:36 AM
By bob hunter




Joe Redd is an Ohio State football fan, but you won't find him eating quiche with a local bank president at one of those Saturday-morning tailgates outside Ohio Stadium. You won't hear him complaining because his President's Club donation got him tickets only on the 20-yard line, and you won't see him in scarlet face paint mugging for the TV cameras.
Still, he is just as big a fan as any.

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osugrad21;819668; said:
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Bob Hunter commentary: Price is hardly right for OSU football

Tuesday, April 24, 2007 3:36 AM
By bob hunter




Joe Redd is an Ohio State football fan, but you won't find him eating quiche with a local bank president at one of those Saturday-morning tailgates outside Ohio Stadium. You won't hear him complaining because his President's Club donation got him tickets only on the 20-yard line, and you won't see him in scarlet face paint mugging for the TV cameras.
Still, he is just as big a fan as any.

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As an OSU freshman who wasn't a fan until he came to Ohio State, hearing stuff like reminds me how lucky I am to get student tickets.
 
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OmahaBeef;820522; said:
As an OSU freshman who wasn't a fan until he came to Ohio State...
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Woah, wait just a sec....are you saying that you went to The Ohio State University to...get an education??? :tongue2:

(fyi, I'm very aware OSU is a fine scholastic institution with great graduate programs)

I thought that (schooling) was simply a secondary benefit to attending tOSU. (never imagined anyone who wasn't neccesarily an OSU fan would choose to attend for any other reason than student tix for football & basketball games) :wink2:

:osu: :biggrin:
 
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As for myself, ticket prices (other than those for face value), have reached the point where I will no longer pay them. I only go to a game if I can buy tickets for face. While I could afford to spend more, it seems rather dumb to pay the sky-high prices on the open market to watch a football game. I love Buckeye football as much as anybody else, but good god, it makes my head spin when I hear how much tickets cost. Plus I hate putting $$$$ into the pockets of brokers and scalpers (two groups of scum who have done as much to push up ticket prices as Jim Tressel and the team has). I would like to see tOSU actually raise the price for alumni and general public tickets thus taking some of the money out of the pockets of the brokers and the scalpers and using that to subsidize more student seating. I also applaud the school making efforts to prevent student/staff/faculty selling their tix. If these people are receiving subsidized tickets, and they don't go to the game, then they should not be able to benefit from the subsidy. Either go to the game or don't buy a ticket. Students/staff/faculty who can't use their tickets for a particular game should return the ticket for that game to the ticket office, get a partial refund, and then the ticket should be placed on sale to the general public at the unsubsidized price.
 
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