This from the Florida Gators website: [
floridagators.com]
Florida sells a 3-game 'Stadium Mini Pass' - either Tennessee, Vanderbilt, and McNeese or Arkansas, Vanderbilt, and Charlotte - for a total of $180. That's $60 a game.
They also have a traditional 3-game Mini Plan: Tennessee or Arkansas, Vanderbilt, and McNeese or Charlotte for a total of $200, ... or $67 a game.
They also sell a Stadium Pass for all six games, different seat each game, for $300. That's $50 a game.
And finally, their season tickets, same seat every game, start at $390. $65 a game.
(They also put single game tickets on sale on June 22, and it looks like you could opt in to a pre-sale opportunity from their site prior to that date.)
Why do I mention all this? To point out that it isn't the Florida Gators, or the SEC, or the NCAA who are behind the prices on Ticketmaster. It's the people who buy the tickets for $50 or $60 or $65 or $67 a game and then sell them for $150. Then Ticketmaster adds on a 23% Service Fee ($34.50) and another $2.95 Order Processing Fee. So those tickets with a face value of $50 end up costing the Ticketmaster customer $187.45.
So who's to blame for the high cost of attending a Gators game? Well, not the Gators. Or the SEC. Or the NCAA.
Is it the person willing to shell out $50 a game and flip them for $135? (It's $135, not $150, cuz Ticketmaster dings them 10%, too)
Is it Ticketmaster, who makes $49.50 on a $150 sale. ($15 from the seller and another $34.50 from the buyer.)
Or is it the person who thinks it's OK spend $374.90 for a pair of tickets to a Gator game. Because without them, the first two suspects are out of business.
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FYI, Tickpick has Gators/Vols tickets for as low as $142 and Gators/Razorbacks tickets as low as $74. They don't charge service fees or order processing fees so that's what a buyer would pay. [
www.tickpick.com]
AlbaNY_Ram
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 08/07/2023 03:56AM by AlbaNY_Ram.
