The prices are just crazy. 45, 50, 60 dollars for UL-L tickets plus 33 dollars to upgrade. I just had to shell out a crap load of money for 3 student tickets for my girlfriend, her sister and boyfriend to sit with me. I didn't even pay those prices for Georgia and Bama tickets last season. I thought two years ago the ticket office was cracking down on this.
They can't really crack down on how they sell the student tickets to each other. What they cracked down on was people buying and selling all their tickets to people so they could upgrade them and sit in the student section. They were trying keep students in the student section. They had problems with people buying tickets solely to make a profit and that was taking tickets away from students (mainly freshman) who wanted to go to the games but couldn't because there were no more student tickets left. What they did was make it where there are only so many upgrades per game and some games have 0 upgrades available. So even if they sell their tickets, it will have to be to a student instead of selling it to a non-student.
You probably should have at least waited until tomorrow morning because students that had no intention of going at all will sell them for fitty cent when they know that nobody is biting and the game has just about arrived. I know you have to upgrade the day before now which sucks for the buyer because I guarantee you that you'd be able to find student tickets out there Saturday for face value or less for ULL. So the ticket office is basically helping the scalpers out. It should be a good crowd and everything, but ULL isn't exactly a hot ticket.
Didn't the head of the ticket office Broussard i think thats his name, say that they were going to have workers monitor facebook market place, craigslist and other similar sites? He said Students caught selling tickets over face would have them revoked and could not buy tickets from LSU in the future. I know in 2007 the ticket office sent out emails telling students they were going to do this. Guess not.
Want to know why they are selling them for that much? Because people are willing to pay that much, as much as that pains me. I freaking hate that students do this. I know at least 15-20 students who buy tickets to make a profit off them. Each of them said they made between $300 and $500 last year. I want to punch each of them in the face because there are incoming freshman who want to go to the games and won't get tickets because of them. If I did not already have a ticket for this game I would not pay more than $15 for one. And I wouldn't even accept an upper deck ticket.
LSU may want to consider the system that Penn State is now using. Ticketmaster finds another way to cut out scalpers by AP: Yahoo! Tech
The easiest way to crack down on this is to make student tickets non-transferrable and require the names on both the tickets and student ID's to match at the student gates. The problem is the AD would have to come up with some new class of tickets just for upgrading. Whether the AD would be willing to go to that much trouble is another matter altogether.
I'll be hanging out in the upper deck. You know why? Cause I'm stupid and bought mine a loooong time ago.
