Wonderful Brokers and maybe season ticket holders (Something Aint Right)

There are plenty of legal/moral arguments on both sides of this issue. I have a hard time accepting that somebody tells me what I can do with a product after I have purchased it. But I also understand the frustration of fans that see tickets go to websites for ridiculous markups. For instance, out legislators getting tickets to the last Sugar Bowl when many of them were not alums, not fans, and had not intention of going. Yes, the tickets get sold and yes LSU gets fans in the stadium, but there certainly seems to be abuse of the system in some cases.

$600 for a super regional baseball ticket is pretty out of line. I know the argument of "what the market can bear", but it probably would not be difficult to track tickets/buyers and set some penalties for what appears to be out of control greed and has little to do with LSU. In the end, the school gets it's $ anyway. Would the school have the moral capacity to do this? On one side yes, and on the other, no.

It is a dilemma, but unlikely to change any time soon.

 

Capitalism. Is this country great or what.

 

To Crip and all of those that really want to be able to attend the games, I feel for you. I know it is a hard pill to swallow, and is completely unfair. I wish you the best of luck and hope that the masses of TRUE TIGER fans do get the opportunity to attend these special events.

I am sure, just as many of us, the means to be a season ticket holder aren't there, so having the opportunity to go to such special events is even more special when the opportunity arises. It is sad that so many true Tiger fans get left out, and the ones who only want to be a part of the history steal the light from the TRUE Tiger fans heart. Once again I wish all of you the best of luck and hope that you get to achieve your dream.

 

The only place you can charge one guy more for specifying white meat then turn around and charge the next the same for wanting dark meat when selling fried chicken. :lol:

 

So it doesnt bother you that a broker who has joined TAF and uses their amounts of money to buy tickets to other sporting events to get their TAf points up to be in a position to TAKE YOUR TICKET, and then sell it to somebody else who HASNT payed the TAF dues?

I am no longer on the season ticket holders I understand them getting first crack at things, hell if I could afford to be one I would want first crack too.

This is about the brokers if they themselves are in place within the system to take this tickets away from the people in TAF who are paying the dues then that is wrong.

I am not 100% sure how TAF works but my understanding is you get more points when you purchase tickets for other events/sports right?

So if a broker is out there buying tickets for baseball and basketball and softball and swimming and golf and who knows what else, then they are simply racking up TAF points. And because they sell their football tickets at such a high profit they can buy these other tickets and light their cigars with them because they make the money back.

If brokers are allowed to put themselves in a better position then fans then the system is flawed.

If there were no brokers Red you would have gotten your seats.

 

I'll show you what I think to be proof tommorrow, just got back from the doctors and found out what the baby is, so I'll deal with this later wanna go celeberate!

 

I am one that has no problem at all with it.

If he was doing it at the stadium and was turning down a LSU fan for the opponent for twenty extra bucks he should have his ass kicked, but we don't know what the situations were.

For all we know he could be a poor guy that saves all of his money for season tickets to have the right to get post season tickets. Perhaps something came up...why not better his life on ebay? Or maybe he lives far away and does not know people that want them and is at least putting them online for people to buy.

With that being said it is disappointing that fans that want to attend the games can't, but it is the best system in place and without it we wouldn't even be saying goodbye to the Box this weekend -- rather just closing her down for the fall.

 

Try being a student and at the mercy of a lottery. As unwittingly biased as I think it is, even the Student Priority Point system would have been preferable to that IMO.

I get to find out if I have winning numbers tomorrow. :rolleye33: