Scalping Tickets

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LT21

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With ticket prices so high on stubhub, I'm considering trying to scalp tickets outside the stadium for the Florida game. Does anyone have experience doing this and do you think it's a good or a bad idea?
 
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LT21 said:
With ticket prices so high on stubhub, I'm considering trying to scalp tickets outside the stadium for the Florida game. Does anyone have experience doing this and do you think it's a good or a bad idea?
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Stubhub is a rip off due to fees. It's going to be an expensive ticket though, but walk around before kickoff around 2 hours prior and shop around.
 
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Good idea. I do it often. Don't buy from people selling two miles from the stadium. They're usually more expensive. You get better deals closer to kickoff and closer to the stadium.
 
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LT21 said:
With ticket prices so high on stubhub, I'm considering trying to scalp tickets outside the stadium for the Florida game. Does anyone have experience doing this and do you think it's a good or a bad idea?
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Wait until about ten minutes before kickoff, you'll be able to get some tickets dirt cheap.
 
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I don't want to sound racist but... Don't even bother talking to the black guys with seating chart lanyards. Anyone who's ever scalped anywhere knows what I'm talking about.
 
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The people outside the stadium are from StubHub, they fly them in every weekend to sell tickets.
 
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I thought they are no longer permitted to sell at the stadium?

Think the strip is closest sale of tickets is allowed...
 
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ImportedVoL said:
I thought they are no longer permitted to sell at the stadium?

Think the strip is closest sale of tickets is allowed...
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I'm not sure about that but I often see them within 100 yards of the stadium. I guess there's always someone willing to chance getting a ticket (from the fuzz) to sell some tickets.
 
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We scalped tickets for 2012 Florida game. The cheapest we came across was two uppers for 145 a piece. If Tn is undefeated good luck even getting close to that price. Go to seat geek use a promo code and at least save the fee. First time users get 20 dollars back I believe.
 
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berryvol said:
I don't want to sound racist but... Don't even bother talking to the black guys with seating chart lanyards. Anyone who's ever scalped anywhere knows what I'm talking about.
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Those guys are all working for a ticket broker. They aren't dealing with their own money so they have a minimum they will drop tickets to then go no lower. Boss says "this ticket doesn't sell for less than $125" then it doesn't matter if you try to buy it in the 3rd, they have to give their boss $125 if they don't return that ticket.
 
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It varies. Ive run across some deals (really close to kickoff). I've also seen 50 people looking for as many as 4 tickets, and you could count on one hand how many were selling.

Assuming UT takes care of the first 3 games (which they definitely should) demand will be high which keeps the price high. Unless your looking for a single your gonna need some luck. IMO.
 
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I've actually picked tickets up off the ground to Bama that were lower deck. Just after kickoff or right at is the best time to find rare tickets. Also the poster above that mentioned the number of tickets is absolutely correct.
 
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LT21 said:
With ticket prices so high on stubhub, I'm considering trying to scalp tickets outside the stadium for the Florida game. Does anyone have experience doing this and do you think it's a good or a bad idea?
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Demand for this game will far exceed available tickets for this game, including outside the stadium. I've been to high demand games (many in the 90s) and tickets were very high.. Florida and Alabama games will be costly to attend.
 
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LT21 said:
With ticket prices so high on stubhub, I'm considering trying to scalp tickets outside the stadium for the Florida game. Does anyone have experience doing this and do you think it's a good or a bad idea?
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I will be there scalping as well. I did it for the 2013 Georgia game. I got lucky and found a guy right down by the stadium about 2 hours before kickoff. He said he had a bunch of season tickets and sold them on Stubhub. Whatever was leftover he sold for face value on gameday. I am hoping to find him again.
 
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LWSVOL said:
Demand for this game will far exceed available tickets for this game, including outside the stadium. I've been to high demand games (many in the 90s) and tickets were very high.. Florida and Alabama games will be costly to attend.
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Yep we have people doing a LOT of wishful thinking, but this game provided we take care of our first 3 games as we should (we could give a rats axx whether UF rolls in vanquished and down in the doldrums this year) will be off the hook expensive. Some of these folks must not have been around back in the day to see what happens when we're at the top.
 
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Remy said:
Yep we have people doing a LOT of wishful thinking, but this game provided we take care of our first 3 games as we should (we could give a rats axx whether UF rolls in vanquished and down in the doldrums this year) will be off the hook expensive. Some of these folks must not have been around back in the day to see what happens when we're at the top.
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I agree. This game will be a tough ticket. I'm not guaranteeing this, but it has all the ingredients for the most expensive ticket in UT history, honestly. SEC opener, against the team that Vol fans want to beat more than anybody else, with the Vols favored to break an 11-year losing streak, with legit national hype, as we are cresting the hill coming off of 10-15 years (depending how you count) of mediocrity or worse.

I tried to buy Vandy tix on the street in Nashville two years ago (a game in which we were fighting for a 6th win against an absolutely terrible 3-win Vandy team during Thanksgiving), and there were WAY more buyers than sellers. Tix were going for about $200 apiece, IIRC. Granted, that's a much smaller stadium, but the appeal of the game was infinitely less.
 
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allvol123 said:
No one debates that, pricing however is another story.
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There will be thousands of fans without tickets eager to see us break the streak, and the expectations for team #120 are the highest in a decade.

I'd bring two bills a seat and not be choosy.
 
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drylo said:
I agree. This game will be a tough ticket. I'm not guaranteeing this, but it has all the ingredients for the most expensive ticket in UT history, honestly. SEC opener, against the team that Vol fans want to beat more than anybody else, with the Vols favored to break an 11-year losing streak, with legit national hype, as we are cresting the hill coming off of 10-15 years (depending how you count) of mediocrity or worse.

I tried to buy Vandy tix on the street in Nashville two years ago (a game in which we were fighting for a 6th win against an absolutely terrible 3-win Vandy team during Thanksgiving), and there were WAY more buyers than sellers. Tix were going for about $200 apiece, IIRC. Granted, that's a much smaller stadium, but the appeal of the game was infinitely less.
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That's solely because most Vandy fans don't need the money and want to keep UT out. Wish we were the same way about Bama.
 
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kiddiedoc said:
There will be thousands of fans without tickets eager to see us break the streak, and the expectations for team #120 are the highest in a decade.

I'd bring two bills a seat and not be choosy.
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Exactly right.

Sounds like a lot of people weren't around in the late 90s/early 2000s.
 
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