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Poll: Season Tickets
Would you purchase season tickets if you were just going to turn around and sell them? You might go to one or two games a year but other than that you won't be using them?
Re: Poll: Season Tickets
I ask this because this is exactly what DH wants to do. He was able togo to exactly two Bills games this season because that was all he will have been in town for. Next year I don't foresee being able to go to any because we won't be here at all. The same goes for the year after that. And the year after that. We have zero plans to ever live in this city again.
DH has decided that he wants to keep the tickets until he dies or the team moves on the rationale that he will want to take our kids to a game some day. If my emoticons were working I would insert an eye roll here. We have no plans to have kids for the next five years, so these possible future children he wants to keep purchasing season tickets for would not be old enough to go to an NFL game for well over a decade.
No, I wouldn't buy them if I had to sell them. If this is an isolated season, then it's a different story. I know the Eagles have a HUGE waiting list, so if you get tickets, you DON'T get rid of them.
If he did get rid of them and wanted to get them again when you had children, would he be able to?
That's the thing. As of right now, yes. They don't sell out. There is also a huge possibility that the team will be moving when Ralph Wilson dies, and the man is not exactly a spring chicken.
ETA: But I can understand why he wants to hold onto them. Our section is great. The people around us have had the seats forever. We've become friends with most of them outside of games. We usually end up selling the tickets to one of them so that they can bring friends/family to a game and sit in the same general area as them.
I would probably keep them as long as the hassle is minimal - I mean, if you're selling them fairly regularly to people you know, then it's not a big deal and you can always use the tickets if you want to and it's not really like you are out money either.
But we considered going ahead and getting on the Colts waiting list even though we were moving 6 hours away and had no plans to ever move back, so I might not be the best person to ask. We figured someone in our family/friends would always want them or use them.
We eventually decided against it, but if we already had them we'd keep them, I think.
If you can afford to, go for it. I would. If we can afford it, I'm going to buy florida football tickets even though we're moving 16 hours away. I'll sell them til we move back to the southeast. And by then, maybe we'll be bumped into better seats.
Now, that being said, I believe strongly in Ticket Karma and I don't approve buying tickets just to scalp them.
If he really wants them, buy them. Any thing he sells the rest for is a bonus. I've had luck selling tickets on stubhub and ebay, so it's an option.
But personally, I have hockey season tickets and don't miss a game.
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That's exactly what we do. For us, the issue is that we want season tickets (for life!), but we simply can't afford to just eat the cost right now.
We spent 4 years on the waiting list for Colts season tickets, and just got them last spring. They're $119 apiece. That's over $2300 for the whole season, which is an expense we would rather not incur all on our own. So, we have sold most of the tickets (to friends and family, a couple pairs on StubHub), and will go to a total of two games this year.
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No. I don't know why but ethically it bothers me.
Now, if you decide every year you are going to share them with someone, then that doesn't bother me. I know tons of people that split them into half, or thirds, or even fourths. But for some reason, buying them just to sell them bothers me.
My parents are considering not renewing our OSU football tickets for next year, but I think we should all renew and go to as many games as we can. For those we can't go to, we'll just try and sell them.
I understand where you're coming from when it comes to this...I've got decent seats for our season tix, and I don't want to let them go. However, if we were to move so far away, we'd probably let go of our season tix because buying them just to sell them seems like a waste to me. That's just me though.
I'd keep them since you already have them and know the people around you.
I wouldn't purchase them if you didn't have them already.
Yes I have and yes I would.
I have my own season tickets to the Husker games and my family (mom/dad) have tickets too. We normally sit with our family and sell our season tickets. We almost never sell them for over face, so I don't feel badly about it.