2025 GA Parking Scalpers??
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I’m a donor with a parking pass so this has no impact on me and I think it’s complete sh!t.
But they had the option to buy them in the spring. Still don't understand what you're crying about. If they sold all the season tickets and didn't have any single tickets in the fall would you complain as well. People had a chance to buy them and choose not to. Someone else bought them. If you want them buy them when they go on sale.
The fan base is struggling with the simple fact that you now have to plan ahead for things like parking, even more if you are not a donor. The days of just deciding to go to a game the week of, and rolling right in and find easy close parking for people that are not season ticket holders and donors is over. It's going to be worse next season, as young as the team is and they keep winning.
Could the university make it easier for the season ticket holders that do not donate, sure, but why would they when they want us all to donate. It's a perk of donating and when we need money that is not going away.
Could the university make it easier for the season ticket holders that do not donate, sure, but why would they when they want us all to donate. It's a perk of donating and when we need money that is not going away.
Season ticket holders have the opportunity to purchase their grass passes. The issue I have is Iowa State/Ticketmaster is allowing these passes to be gobbled up by the brokers and that is really impacting the single game folks, which is a lot of fans. Sure JP is happy that parking revenue is essentially maximized but at what cost? If Iowa State continues to sell piles of the non donor season tickets and the public parking passes to brokers it is going to impact attendance. Fun fact: JP stated season ticket sales were strong this year but he left out the fact that a ton of the non donor seats were bough up by brokers. Just go look at the resale maps, it completely obvious. "Good" season ticket sales were definitely down this year and that was reflected in the donor parking that was available this year.
While the parking thing annoys me as someone who can only get to a game or 2 every other season, and it's kind of random as to when it'll happen, I get it. Yeah it sucks, but we've had it way too good for a long time. I did my masters at Michigan St and the amount of "donating" they had to get literally anything was far far greater than what ISU requires. And this was way back in 2016. So I cant imagine it's gotten any better.
Season ticket holders that donate have that right, not those of us that do not donate. It's not a huge problem for many of us, we got an email that stated when the GA tickets were going to go on sale, and just purchase all of them on that day.
Not sure how you are going to stop non donor season tickets sales, do you really want to tell the fan base that they have to donate to be able to purchase a season ticket? Nor can they do anything about ticket brokers, that is all through Ticketmaster, and it's easier for the university to use them instead of doing it themselves.
Pollard wants tickets to the stadium and parking sold, he does not care who is buying them, nor should he. If you are a season ticket holder and did not purchase GA passes when the university told you the day and time they were going on sale, that is your fault, not the athletic department. We live in a capitalist nation, demand increases prices, that is not going to change.
We live in a capitalist nation. He should be charging what the market will bear for the passes, he is leaving a lot of money on the table. Thats why the scalpers moved in. Free money....
The GA parking passes went from $25 to $40 this season before fees, $50 bucks per game would not surprise me next season. The market will tell them when they have become overpriced, when they no longer sell out before the game.
Ticketmaster fees are absolutely insane. I sold my Cyhawk parking pass this year in C2, because I couldn't make it to the game. The purchaser paid $450 for it. I received $300 of that. So they made $150 in fees off the sale of one parking pass.
This is the reason I always try to sell on here first, so people can save some money, but obviously not everyone looking for a ticket is active on here.
This is the reason I always try to sell on here first, so people can save some money, but obviously not everyone looking for a ticket is active on here.
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Always sell here, it keeps the roaches out east away. Plus **** Ticketmaster.
Yeah I get all that but IMO telling the everyday fan that they don't matter is a slippery slope. I've been a season ticket holder since 2005 so I've been there for all of the changes the program has experienced. The GA parking pass setup is fueled by greed.
I haven't had great luck the last couple years selling tickets through here. Parking passes do sell easily though.
They also made fees on the original purchase of the pass too so what a racket that they get you twice and even make more money off it the 2nd time than the 1st time.
I agree ISU may be reaching the point of pricing the average person out of season tickets. I figure between my four tickets, seat backs on all four and the parking pass for all six games I am around $2800 in a non donating section. So around $470 dollars a game not including food and drink for tailgating or at the game. Add that in you are easily over 3 grand for the season.
Its starts to add up and I see no reason for the price not be higher next season.
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Prices won't go up next year. JP's strategy is to raise the price the year we host Iowa (6 home games) so he can turn around an say that he doesn't raise prices when we have 7 home games... This has been a consistent pattern.
We could also fill the grass lots too. If you drive by those lots they aren't even close to full. IMO that's the biggest kick in the nuts for the single game fans.
Same here. I've had to resort to facebook groups to sell mine a lot recently which sucks, because 80% of people in those groups are scammers.
