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re: Ticket Price-Gouging on StubHub, Seat Geek, etc.
Posted on 10/26/23 at 4:21 pm to zaniesmo12
Posted on 10/26/23 at 4:21 pm to zaniesmo12
Can’t tell you how much I paid in fees for baseball this year. LSU has to get a cut of that or they would just use their own site and charge fees themselves. Guessing they don’t want to come off as the bad guy 100%
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Posted on 10/26/23 at 4:22 pm to LSUfan4444
quote:What knowledge do you have of this? I'm not saying it never happens, but in one of the examples in this thread - LSU/UF in 3 weeks - why are you alleging that it's obvious that they don't have the tickets?
They're selling things they don't have and don't have rights to but rather hope to acquire.
Posted on 10/26/23 at 4:23 pm to zaniesmo12
quote:What is your definition of "price-gouge"?
Why is it legal to price-gouge buyers
Posted on 10/26/23 at 4:50 pm to Paul Allen
How would the Broker make any money by selling the ticket at face value?
Posted on 10/26/23 at 5:11 pm to Paul Allen
quote:
It’s frustrating how you see a ticket for $75 and then it becomes $130 with all of the fees.
I sold 5 to Army for $75/each. From what I see, the cost is $375 and I had to pay 10% to seat geek so I cleared $337.50. But the buyer paid well over $100 per ticket by the time it was over with. Seat geek takes 10% from the seller and then charges the shite out of the buyer.
Posted on 10/26/23 at 5:37 pm to Paul Allen
quote:and then the seller has fees too. What I don’t understand is how no ticket website has come in and undercut the fees on these ticket monopolies. How is the market not dictating this and coming up with a cheaper alternative for listing/buying?
It’s frustrating how you see a ticket for $75 and then it becomes $130 with all of the fees.
Posted on 10/26/23 at 6:19 pm to zaniesmo12
quote:When LSU first started using StubHub for a reseller I called the LSU ticket office to ask about the applicability of the scalping law if I used SH.
Why is it legal to price-gouge buyers for LSU football tickets when sellers post them on StubHub, Seat Geek, etc.?
The explanation I was given was the scalping law was a state law and didn't apply to ticket transactions through an out of state website handling selling and buying of tickets.
Posted on 10/26/23 at 6:26 pm to LanTheBuilder
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SH is refusing to give me a refund or replacement tickets, saying the seller will get them to my mailbox in Florida before game time.
Not seeing why you would expect a refund or replacements. Sounds like the tickets will still be delivered before the game.
Posted on 10/27/23 at 8:08 am to Big Scrub TX
quote:
What knowledge do you have of this? I
Go look at the link I posted. SeatGeek is selling GA tickets in Alex Box for the Savannah Bananas but those tickets don't even exist yet. Not one has been sold, distributed or allocated per their front office. Not to sponsors, not to LSU, nobody has them.
This post was edited on 10/27/23 at 8:09 am
Posted on 10/27/23 at 3:40 pm to mjax57
Up until this year, the LSU ticket reseller was Stubhub. This year it is SeatGeek. LSU has to be getting something from the sales through the site but I don't know how that end works. But season ticket holders can list straight from their ticket account onto the LSU ticket reseller, Stubhub or Seatgeek...and they handle the sending of the tickets as long as they are e-tickets.
Posted on 10/27/23 at 4:46 pm to zaniesmo12
I don’t understand how many people pay for season tickets each yr then turn around and sell them.
If you’re not gonna use them, give em up.
If you’re not gonna use them, give em up.
Posted on 10/27/23 at 4:50 pm to MSTiger33
The alternative is going to a sketchy looking gate guard, whisper through the fence I'll give you $70 to let me in.
Posted on 10/27/23 at 5:18 pm to LSUfan4444
quote:Sure, but I asked about the UF game, as the OP mentioned LSU football specifically.
Go look at the link I posted. SeatGeek is selling GA tickets in Alex Box for the Savannah Bananas but those tickets don't even exist yet. Not one has been sold, distributed or allocated per their front office. Not to sponsors, not to LSU, nobody has them.
Posted on 10/27/23 at 7:27 pm to Saunson69
I have season tickets for softball and I live near Houston. Therefore, I can't make any weeknight games and because of the superfan I didn't go at all. I always made sure that I gave my tickets away until LSU started begging us to sell our tickets. I paid for the almost the whole season last year and this year just on the Oklahoma game. When I went to put them up for sale on stubhub, the cheapest in my section were $200 each. I put mine up at $175 each and they sold in 5 minutes.
Posted on 10/27/23 at 9:47 pm to LanTheBuilder
They will get there….or stubhub will find you some replacement tickets. That’s the reason you pay all of those fees to stubhub. Purchasing from them is very safe.
Posted on 10/28/23 at 6:53 am to MSTiger33
No alternative? If nobody bought tickets with fees attached the fees would disappear. Refuse to buy and force a change.
Posted on 10/28/23 at 8:02 am to zaniesmo12
Louisiana baws gotta pay their rent. Low earning state where people who are buying these tix only to flip them are actually paying for vacations and shite with their profits. Point is, they need the $ and no one is stopping them from doing it. Stubhub doesn’t care. The higher the sale price the more they make on the deal.
Posted on 10/28/23 at 8:16 am to paulb52
I understand your point, not really the way it works today. Most don’t have paper tickets anymore/anywhere and it’s a matter of time before lsu goes fully electronic.
Until scammers go away, most won’t just send a PayPal or Venmo fee to some rando to buy expensive tickets.
Until scammers go away, most won’t just send a PayPal or Venmo fee to some rando to buy expensive tickets.
This post was edited on 10/28/23 at 8:18 am
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