Auctioning off seats does NOT mean loyal supporters would be left out. Quite the contrary. Those loyal supporters with the BIG bucks would bid up the ticket prices to whatever the market will bare. It's obvious that the current ticket prices are below market because there is not a ticket to be had. So guess what happens? You guessed it.......season ticket holders scalp the tickets and pocket the difference. SDSU gets left out in the cold.
Take 200 seats and auction them off and see what happens. You might be amazed.
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Re: Season Tickets for Basketball Sold Out « Reply #61 on May 28, 2012, 5:47pm »
You don't need an auction, if you want tickets, make a rather large donation to the Aztec Club and you'll get them...
Re: Season Tickets for Basketball Sold Out « Reply #63 on May 28, 2012, 6:20pm »
This whole discussion is ridiculous. Aztec basketball tickets are the hottest tickets on the planet. $50/$100/$200 per ticket.....take your pick. Oh you might piss off some SDSU alum if you charge $200 per ticket....feel free to move to Tehran if you disagree.
There's a reason why we're in the stands and they're on the field/court.
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Re: Season Tickets for Basketball Sold Out « Reply #65 on May 28, 2012, 8:30pm »
It was a mere decade ago when the clique of cool kids would log on calling those who bought tickets to watch such an awful team "suckers" and chastising them for being the "typical" San Diego fan who doesn't demand success in return for your investment like "real" fans in big cities would do.
It was a mere decade ago when the clique of cool kids would log on calling those who bought tickets to watch such an awful team "suckers" and chastising them for being the "typical" San Diego fan who doesn't demand success in return for your investment like "real" fans in big cities would do.
Do not look in the rear view mirror...it serves no purpose. We are on the map. Let's stay there.
Point being, it's hard to have sympathy for many of those who may get shut-out. Hell, you could have bought-in as recently as 365 days ago on the heels of back-to-back NCAA appearances and still got seats.
Of course, there are always a handful with extenuating circumstances, but the vast majority just wanted to wait for a premier team and then saunter into a mid-court seat five minutes before tip like it was December 2005.
Next time, get in early and be a part of building the tradition, or don't complain if there's only crumbs left when you get there.
How is that losing money? We still have to add an additional donation per seat to the Aztecs.
Because they are going by the point system. Current season ticket have priority based upon years they have owned tickets. A new person has to make an ADDITIONAL donation just to get the opportunity to pay the donation per seat. Really it is not that difficult to see that the Aztecs are losing in this scenario.
This is what really bothers me about the current situation. The Aztecs are LOSING money because they are allowing season ticket holders to basically get tickets for their friends to circumvent the system. The season tickets holders can do it out of friendship or just pocket some extra money that would have gone to the Aztecs.
And I am ticked off because I was going to buy season tickets two years ago, but I travel out of town frequently so I would not have been able to go to the games. I am retiring this year and now they are selling out.
Not picking you you specifically, but those who waited have only themselves to blame. I bought in when Viejas opened because I KNEW we'd be big time.
Congratulations you're a GENIUS! Like I said I would have purchased them 3 or 4 years ago when I knew they were going to be good, but I am out of town over 50% of the time. I can work my schedule to make most of the football games (I own season tickets for football) but basketball is impossible. BTW I have been a season ticket holder for over 20 years in football so I am not just some band wagon fan.
Re: Season Tickets for Basketball Sold Out « Reply #72 on May 28, 2012, 9:07pm »
A One Time Donation gets you to the Top of the List! You don't have to make a Big Donation every year, just "This Year". A One Time Donation of $4,300 gets you ahead of a 15 year season ticket holder who has been making a $500 donations for 15 years. He's in it for $7,500 over 15 years, plus the season tickets and you just blew by him. After you get your tickets go back to donating your $500 to keep your tickets. Think of it as a Personal Seat License. There are only 10,000 seats for the general public, this ain't Qualcomm or Petco. Time to get serious and use your head and wallet. Borrow, beg or use matching gifts!
A One Time Donation gets you to the Top of the List! You don't have to make a Big Donation every year, just "This Year". A One Time Donation of $4,300 gets you ahead of a 15 year season ticket holder who has been making a $500 donations for 15 years. He's in it for $7,500 over 15 years, plus the season tickets and you just blew by him. After you get your tickets go back to donating your $500 to keep your tickets. Think of it as a Personal Seat License. There are only 10,000 seats for the general public, this ain't Qualcomm or Petco. Time to get serious and use your head and wallet. Borrow, beg or use matching gifts!
Or you can find some season ticket holder to buy your tickets and the Aztecs are out $4300.00 which is my point.
A One Time Donation gets you to the Top of the List! You don't have to make a Big Donation every year, just "This Year". A One Time Donation of $4,300 gets you ahead of a 15 year season ticket holder who has been making a $500 donations for 15 years. He's in it for $7,500 over 15 years, plus the season tickets and you just blew by him. After you get your tickets go back to donating your $500 to keep your tickets. Think of it as a Personal Seat License. There are only 10,000 seats for the general public, this ain't Qualcomm or Petco. Time to get serious and use your head and wallet. Borrow, beg or use matching gifts!
You can't bump current season tix holders out of their current seats with a larger donation...all you can do is bump their seat expansion requests...just for clarification.
Re: Season Tickets for Basketball Sold Out « Reply #78 on May 29, 2012, 5:25pm »
There may be a defacto price increase for MBB season tickets. For instance, last year $99 got your butt into 20 games, if I recall. This year that same $99 might get you into 17.
Given our current and committed home MMB games for 2012-13, I have to LOL a little bit at the concept of folks just foaming at the mouth for tickets.
Trust me, there is a reason ticket prices did not skyrocket.
2013-14 may be a different story but even then, you are still going to be paying for 8 Big West home games plus another 3-4 Nov/Dec tomato cans.
Agreed. As of right now, there is NO ONE noteworthy on our home schedule. Of course, SDSU-UNLV tickets mid-January or February when we are both ranked in the top 15 will be worth well over $100. And F camping out. I'll gladly pay $100 a seat for that game alone.
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