Premium Seat Exchange

As a season ticket holder I love this idea, I'm always trying to buy my friends tickets from the ticket office before the season starts. This should help to get them the games they want.

Does this really help the problem?  People aren't bothered by EMU fans buying those games.  This program won't stop the ticket holder who is looking to make triple the face value on a big ticket game. 

Right?  Or am I understanding this wrong?

My only concern is that you have to sell them at face value ($75-95).  My concern is that people won't sell them there because the price is so low.  I would prefer the option to sell for whatever we want.  I actually own two seats in the club, but would want to buy some additonal seats and I will pay more to get the opportunity.

It's only for premium ticket holders.  It's a way for premium seat holders to buy sell tickets to each other only.  We can't buy/sell on stub hub... they don't allow us to..

Edit: this was in response to "dothepose"

I own 2 club seats and will continue to seek out alternative markets to sell the games we cannot attend. Sure the annual donation per seat allows a great game day experience and we are excited to be a part of it. But to have the athletic department deny the ability to participate in a free market is a joke.



Why would I ever sell tickets at face when they pull 3-5 times that consistently?



Dave Brandon is a capitalist and so are his season ticket holders.



Go Blue!!

Not sure you HAVE to participate in this system...I think its designed to help keep UM tickets in the hands of the university's fans...sell away on stubhub if its about the money, chief.

ED: meant to reply under mv2000's post

You'd be shocked at the number of opposing fans parking in the numbered suite parking in the Blue Lot, different people every game.  Makes you wonder just how in tune the folks sitting up there reallly are.

I like this idea, particularly for the "lesser games". It's hard to get people to pony up the face value of the tickets, no less the PSD. But I suspect other premium seat holders who can access this service would willingly pay face if they're looking for additional tickets.



I'd rather use this service for certain games rather than Craigslist.

Business opportunity for Stub Hub. Do the same thing, but for schools' respective alumni clubs. There would have to be a way to verify relatively easily.

Other premium seat holders can buy your ticket at face and then sell it on EBay for much more than face.

I sold two games last year on mgoboard and it was great that I didn't have to pay stub hub their fees.

I had premium tickets (West side chair back) last year. It was the quickest way for me to get season tickets. I had been on the waiting list for 3-4 years and I had also purchased the All In package two years in a row. I live in Ohio and I can only make it to 3 or 4 games a year. Stubhub blocked the WSCB seats from being sold on their website so I was out of luck. Between the Donation and the Ticket cost I shelled out a lot of money for those seats. I have no problem with the cost however I do have a problem with UofM not wanting me to sell the tickets to anyone. I did sell my Nebraska seats for a little profit but that's not why I was in it. I bought them to attend the games. I gave games away to friends who are Michigan Fans, and I ate a few as well.

I also did not care for the section I was sitting in. I had numerous people tell me durring the OSU game that I needed to sit down. The whole stadium was standing. I stood until I had an usher tell me I needed to sit. The lady behind me told me that she paid A Lot of money for her tickets, and that her daughter was in the band. She was older (Maybe in her 60's) but not old enough that she couldn't stand. I ended up leaving my seats to go stand by the indoor seats entrance where we could be as loud as we wanted to be, 

I did not re-purchase those tickets this year. I will only be able to attend 1-2 games this year with my work travel schedule. I will buy them on Stub Hub or scalp them at the game. One day when my kids are older I might look into the season tickets again but not now!

my folks often obtain tickets for friends of mine or theirs who want to attend individual games from other season ticket holders, and nobody ever pays anything other than face. so it's nice to have a way to do this that isn't dependent on having a friend with extra tickets. they should extend the idea, though, so that there's also an exchange to which all season ticket holders have access.