Forcing People to Stay Home

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CFB ticket prices are already encouraging people to stay home rather than physically attend games at stadiums. The enticement of ever larger 4K & 8K TVs is adding to that encouragement. Eventually, they will price themselves out of the market. Tickets, travel costs, and whatever else fringe services get tacked on. All will force people to reconsider stadium attendance.

Another factor is the rise of streaming, undercutting satellite and cable service. Satellcables learning nothing from how their greed pushes people away, now seek a monopoly. Basically, limited customer choices and making it easier to bully customers with ever increasing fees. All with no avenue to do anything about it. But they are wrong, it will ignite defiance, and increase the birthrate of alternative access. Likely even outlaw underground, offshore, or perhaps balloon based streamers who resent the incessant greedy milking of customers. I even foresee creative hackers coming up with computerized capture and decrypting devices that hijack broadcast signals. People can be very imaginative when pushed into a corner and bullied long enough. Streamers had best be careful to not repeat the bullying of customers. Otherwise, face a similar fate.

The idea of gaining and keeping customer loyalty via fair play, pricing, superior service etc. doesn't factor in the minds of these tick-leeches. It's going to cost them long term. Just as people opt to stay home with their giant TVs, and streaming services, they will double down by cutting their Satellcable cables for alternative assess to watching CFB games.
I have to disagree as there will always be people willing to spend money on sporting events, esp after Covid.

TN has a waiting list of about 15k while other elite teams are constantly sold out. There may be “no shows” but the university already got paid.


NFL games are outrageous, too. The cheapest ticket for The Steelers @ ATL was over $300 plus fees. And that was game one of a new season.

While I may not pay $700 for a TN/ Bama game, many will. But I will pay a premium for a playoff or championship ticket as I rarely spend $$$ on myself.

Sporting events are similar to concerts as people will continue to pay for live entertainment imo.

No price was too much for the TN- Bama game. I will never forget they might!
 
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I have to disagree as there will always be people willing to spend money on sporting events, esp after Covid.

TN has a waiting list of about 15k while other elite teams are constantly sold out. There may be “no shows” but the university already got paid.


NFL games are outrageous, too. The cheapest ticket for The Steelers @ ATL was over $300 plus fees. And that was game one of a new season.

While I may not pay $700 for a TN/ Bama game, many will. But I will pay a premium for a playoff or championship ticket as I rarely spend $$$ on myself.

Sporting events are similar to concerts as people will continue to pay for live entertainment imo.

No price was too much for the TN- Bama game. I will never forget they might!
Can't argue with that, though I still say a host of folks will turn it down due to reasons stated.
 
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I see what you're doing, you're trying to drop a bread crumb grenade next to an ant hill, then scream that Betelgeuse has gone nova, and you're in danger of gamma ray poisoning. Your overblown redirecting what was actually said reaction is typical of what we see from a certain faction of people in our society today. If I bother you so much, here's a solution. There's a button called IGNORE. It works.
Your word salad is usually entertaining so I've chosen not to ignore you.

The fact is, however, that saying high ticket prices will lead to piracy isn't true. Simple dishonesty leads to piracy. We've seen that here even when the Vols were losing and tickets were easier to afford and streaming was cheaper. "Has anyone got a link to a YouTube stream" isn't a new phenomenon. Thieves are common.

But call them what they are: thieves.
 
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If there is a waiting list for 15K, why was I asked if I was interested in more tickets when I renewed mine?
I can’t answer that question but that was the number Danny White threw out a few weeks ago.

Maybe season Tikcet holders get the option to upgrade the # of Tikcets and/or seats.
 
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NFL games are outrageous, too. The cheapest ticket for The Steelers @ ATL was over $300 plus fees. And that was game one of a new season.

While I may not pay $700 for a TN/ Bama game, many will. But I will pay a premium for a playoff or championship ticket as I rarely spend $$$ on myself.

Sporting events are similar to concerts as people will continue to pay for live entertainment imo.

No price was too much for the TN- Bama game. I will never forget they might!
Prices always go up anytime the Steelers are the away team.

I went to a Steelers game in Jacksonville in 2020 and face value of my ticket was something like $150. The next home game Jacksonville had was versus Cleveland and the same seat was about $60.

Another example of supply and demand setting prices.
 
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I will say though the going price for the Bama game this year has me thinking about the fact that I could pay for next years tickets if I just stay at home for that game. :)
 
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Used to attend many games in the 80s, 90’s & early 2000’s………… prices skyrocketed and I go no more! Pretty simple process……….. I refuse to pay outrageous money for an SEC game, but I still love the Vols! Just watch from my living room couch now and listen to the radio call. I like Pat Ryan analysis and getting the stats. Beat the Hogs! By the way I was at the game of the Stoener fumble in the rain, the stadium actually shook that day!
 
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Looking into plastic flasks
May I suggest a Binocular flask?

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Plus, the remaining games are sold out except maybe UTEP (which will still likely happen).
I always preferred to grab tickets to those type of games and take kids…a 6-10 year old doesn’t care if it’s UTEP or Bama - it’s just a super cool experience. A Bama gave us no place for children!
 
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CFB ticket prices are already encouraging people to stay home rather than physically attend games at stadiums. The enticement of ever larger 4K & 8K TVs is adding to that encouragement. Eventually, they will price themselves out of the market. Tickets, travel costs, and whatever else fringe services get tacked on. All will force people to reconsider stadium attendance.

Another factor is the rise of streaming, undercutting satellite and cable service. Satellcables learning nothing from how their greed pushes people away, now seek a monopoly. Basically, limited customer choices and making it easier to bully customers with ever increasing fees. All with no avenue to do anything about it. But they are wrong, it will ignite defiance, and increase the birthrate of alternative access. Likely even outlaw underground, offshore, or perhaps balloon based streamers who resent the incessant greedy milking of customers. I even foresee creative hackers coming up with computerized capture and decrypting devices that hijack broadcast signals. People can be very imaginative when pushed into a corner and bullied long enough. Streamers had best be careful to not repeat the bullying of customers. Otherwise, face a similar fate.

The idea of gaining and keeping customer loyalty via fair play, pricing, superior service etc. doesn't factor in the minds of these tick-leeches. It's going to cost them long term. Just as people opt to stay home with their giant TVs, and streaming services, they will double down by cutting their Satellcable cables for alternative assess to watching CFB games.
I heard this argument 30 years ago when all the schools started requiring donations just for the privilege of buying season tickets. I know several who gave up their season tickets because couldn’t keep their great seats they’d had for years unless they wanted to donate several thousand dollars. I believe the minimum donation was set at $1000 and that only got you into the upper decks…

But we continued to sell out…and I think we will for the foreseeable future.
 
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Your word salad is usually entertaining so I've chosen not to ignore you.

The fact is, however, that saying high ticket prices will lead to piracy isn't true. Simple dishonesty leads to piracy. We've seen that here even when the Vols were losing and tickets were easier to afford and streaming was cheaper. "Has anyone got a link to a YouTube stream" isn't a new phenomenon. Thieves are common.

But call them what they are: thieves.
The only thing you're interested in is this:
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So just continue. Over and out.
 
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I heard this argument 30 years ago when all the schools started requiring donations just for the privilege of buying season tickets. I know several who gave up their season tickets because couldn’t keep their great seats they’d had for years unless they wanted to donate several thousand dollars. I believe the minimum donation was set at $1000 and that only got you into the upper decks…

But we continued to sell out…and I think we will for the foreseeable future.
May the orange be with you.
 
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Prices always go up anytime the Steelers are the away team.

I went to a Steelers game in Jacksonville in 2020 and face value of my ticket was something like $150. The next home game Jacksonville had was versus Cleveland and the same seat was about $60.

Another example of supply and demand setting prices.
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I will say though the going price for the Bama game this year has me thinking about the fact that I could pay for next years tickets if I just stay at home for that game. :)
I’ve been offered $800 but refuse to sell to a single to a Bama fan. So I’m gonna see if I can sell for $600 to a Vols’ fan. If not, I’ll consider the alternative or post on secondary market. Hotels are over $500 a night, and that’s for a 3 star.
 
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I’ve been offered $800 but refuse to sell to a single to a Bama fan. So I’m gonna see if I can sell for $600 to a Vols’ fan. If not, I’ll consider the alternative or post on secondary market. Hotels are over $500 a night, and that’s for a 3 star.

I live close enough that I don't need a hotel - thank goodness! I too don't want to sell to a Bama fan. As of now I plan to be there - but that re-sale value right now is crazy. And if both continue to win, it will be even more so.
 

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