Poor scalpers, no more cheating
I've fallen victim to both kinds of scalpers--student and non-student--at Penn State games over the years. It's upset me personally and as a college football fan overall. While I'm not going to be naive on this subject, but when Penn State instituted ID-based student tickets, it was a step in the right direction.
Now we have some substantive evidence that the new procedure is working.
"What we're doing is making some great strides in eliminating the scalping of student tickets," [Penn State Associate Athletic Director Greg Myford] said. "What we're most pleased with is the students who were buying tickets and trying to post them on eBay 15 minutes later, that part of the population has been eliminated from the student ticket process."
Full story HERE.
In years past, there were postings on the site of students putting their tickets for sale with large markups just moments after ticket sales closed. Through the first two days of student sales, there was not one entry on eBay for Penn State student season football tickets.
...Last year, it took the senior class eight hours to purchase all the tickets, while the junior tickets sold out about 90 seconds after the sale opened.
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Ahem. I only wish this was around my last year at Penn State. I managed to buy my season tickets when they sold out in under a minute, though I had to purchase another set off ebay because someone I knew wasn't so lucky. Unfortunately I purchased them for 800 bucks off ebay. Nice to see Greg Myford finally taking the athletic department in the right direction.
Look, I just bought my tickets this morning, but I'm going to defend scalpers, because, well, I was one last year. Twice.
I had to come home for the Temple game last year, and my family had a trip planned to Puerto Rico that forced me to leave State College the Thursday before the Michigan State game. Now, rather than let those tickets go to waste, I was able to recuperate a good amount of money for those tickets.
Look, it's inherently a not fair system: I know people who were on Ticketmaster hitting refresh at 6:55 AM who didn't get tickets last year. But as someone who couldn't get to the games, that wasn't my problem. I couldn't care less who got my ticket as long as I sold it, and got good money for it. Am I supposed to care that it's above "market value?" I got 80 bucks for my MSU ticket, that was almost half the entire cost of season tickets. That shows the dedication, willing to spend good money to see the team.
But for people who buy a full season ONLY to sell it? Good riddance.
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