re: Chicken Bowl face values?

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15 dollar s/h fee for skips pocket

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I had to share some knowledge from an old job that helps to understand what these fees are for. Eveytime I see people say stuff about added charges it reminds me of all the nice people I used to speak with on the phone all the time.

Handling fees in the ticket business only help subsidize the cost of shipping tickets and other work that goes along with processing orders. Most schools/professional teams lose money yearly in processing costs and are only trying to get some of it back.

For example, the thermal ticket stock or souvenir tickets that most season ticket strips, or especially bowl tickets are printed on is expensive as hell. Most ticket offices use a mail house or the ticket vendor/print house to process their mail merge files, make shipping labels, separate each order by hand, stuff the envelopes with the correct tickets, and send them out. They charge the hell out of you for that. Then, the school/team have to pay the UPS charge to send out your tickets.

The cost of the ticket, or face value, does not have any of that built in. All that money goes to the team/venue, county, or who ever else is involved with hosting and operating the event.