re: Moral Question - Selling season football tickets

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If someone was going to sell their season football tickets just for this year, is it wrong for them to go to the highest bidder?

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It depends on why you are selling them.

If you need the money, then treat them as an asset and try to make a few dollars.

If you don't need the extra money, face value and feel good about allowing someone to have your usual Tiger Stadium experience for a year.

is it moral to pay someone less than face value for tickets when demand is low?

sell the tickets for the very most you can get for them...I can assure people saying sell only at face value walk around the stadium buying Middle Tennessee State tickets for $5 and don't think twice about it...

Try selling them to friends at face value. If you have no takers, sell on the open market to the highest bidder (you never know if the "true tiger fan" that you've never met that you sell them to for face is going to turn around and scalp them).

First, calling the Tradition Fund or TAF "FEE" a donation is a complete farce. It's strictly a means of getting "donors" a tax deduction for a portion of their season ticket cost. If there was no associated tax deduction, there would be no "donation" and the administration would simply add the "donation" to the cost/face value of the ticket.

Second, this isn't a moral question at all. If you want to sell any asset you own for less than it's worth, that's your prerogative. Many will say that you're just being nice. Others will say that you're a fool. It's the people who don't have tickets and didn't support the team when times were bad that try to put a guilt trip on season ticket holders to sell tickets for less than they are worth. Notice these same douchebags have no problem sitting outside Tiger Stadium against the weak OOC teams trying to "rip off" other "true Tiger fans" by offering them $5 for a ticket that they paid over $90 for. To them, that's just the "market" and they then go an brag to their friends about how they sat on the sidelines for $5. But, if someone ask for more than face for the good games, then, to these hypocrites, they are just scumbags.


So, if you want to couch this in terms of "morals" shouldn't you also ask, "is it also immoral for a 'true Tiger fan' to offer someone less than the cost of the ticket to see LSU play Troy St.?"

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If someone was going to sell their season football tickets just for this year, is it wrong for them to go to the highest bidder?

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It is definitely okay, as long as you are not defrauding anyone. There is nothing wrong with the honest pursuit of profit. Although you aren't necessarily seeking profit in this case, if someone is willing to buy the tickets for a certain price don't feel guilty for selling it to them.

Sell em to the highest bidder, go to Vegas, and make it rain.

The whole "money is everything" argument is why Tiger Stadium is:

1. 50% purple and gold blooded screaming LSU maniacs that stick through the bad times and celebrate the good times.

2. 50% companies buying large blocks of tickets that give them away to ice a business deal, impress clients, etc.

In other words, it's why people complain about the Tiger stadium crowd being so fickle and so quick to jump ship. It's why people complain of the crowd being much milder now compared to what it used to be and why people show up and don't really know the true culture of LSU games. It's why I never have the same 4 people next to me on my right and left over the years.

That's the cold hard truth.

If I sell my tickets, the winner will have gone through a screening. He will buy them at face value, but there are more important things to me than making an extra $500. Especially with LSU football which is, sadly enough, so damn important to me.

Now, if somebody wants to offer me $1,000,000 for my two tickets, we might have to talk...

It would be wrong to start off asking for more than you paid for them.

I don't see how it would be wrong if someone is willing to pay that much for them. You aren't forcing anyone to do anything.

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Now, if you're serious about this... and you really do have a problem with selling your tickets over face value, then this is kind of a strange question to ask.

Your moral compass says it's not right to sell over face value.

So don't sell over face value. The choice is entirely yours.

In asking whether it's okay or not to sell over face value, what you're really asking is whether or not your peers will think you are foolish for not making a profit on the tickets.

That shouldn't come into play here.

You have the right to do what YOU want according to YOUR standards and beliefs. Forget about what anyone else thinks.

So... just do what YOU feel is right. And you can't go wrong!

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This is the best answer. In the long run you have to make choices in life that you will like the next day/week/year when you look at yourself in the morning. It is the best way to make choices in life.