Thoughts on scalpers prices for Sugar Bowl Tix

LSUBud...Perhaps you don't quite live in the same economic reality as the rest of us, but to be honest, but we can't afford to fart in New Orleans after shelling out $800.

If you think we paid $400 a ticket because that seemed like a deal, you're dreaming...

My father and I both agreed the night of the SEC Championship game that-as in 2001, we were not going to pay outrageous sums of money, and that if worst came to worst, we would sit in section "La-Z-Boy". We ended up buying tix from DMI travel and got a "party pack"...We paid $150 for the tickets, and those were jacked up above retail...

I think perhaps you've been disconnected so long from what working class people can afford and what working class people are willing to do to attend a sporting event involving a team they emotionally support.

We will struggle until I can begin to help my dad out paying for our newly DOUBLED season tickets (from $750 bucks for three to $1,400 for three) starting next year...It won't be just "Something we do lightly"...

Working class people don't just sh!t anywhere from $1,000.00-$1,500.00 like you might be capable of...

Seems like a level headed guy like you would remember the times before you became a "parent of privilege"...

I live the middle class lifestyle-and have for every day of my almost 25 years. We won't be held hostage by some dynamic sliding scale of price extortion...There comes a point where the middle class and those of a working-class background will just stop speaking with their mouths, and begin to speak with their pocketbooks and their asses-when they don't pay for tickets and they don't attend football games.

 

I would be willing to pay $400 or $500 for a ticket to the Sugar Bowl only because of the magnitude of the event - LSU playing for its first National Championship in 45 years. I wouldn't pay that much for a ticket in the nosebleed section just so I could say I was there but I would pay that much for seats with a decent view. Of course the good tickets are going for a lot more than that. Recently on eBay 6 tickets on the 50 yard line were going for $14000. For $14000 I could buy the best plasma screen TV on the market and still have money left over for all the food and drinks to throw a big Sugar Bowl party at my house and when the game was over I would still have the TV.

There will be lots of people outside of the Superdome selling tickets on gameday. I am going to gamble that when gametime starts getting close some of those ticket sellers will be getting pretty anxious to at least get something for the tickets they had hoped to make a killing on. If I haven't scored a ticket in a great location for $300 to $400 or a nosebleed ticket for no more than $150 by 15 or 20 minutes before gametime I'll just go to a nearby bar and watch the Sugar Bowl with a bunch of other Tiger fans who don't have tickets and hit the streets for the victory party when the game is over.

 

Prices are starting to drop on EBAY. If my ticket broker does not come through with the tickets he promised, I will be looking for tickets like LSU Bud around the dome. I am two for two on Super Bowls, but I do think this event will be tougher but not impossible to get tickets. 10 minutes before gametime, I should be handing my money over for slightly over face value tickets.