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April 11th, 2011 at 2:09 PM
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mxair23
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selling free tickets for money?!?

I have noticed recently, while searching for UM season tickets on the secondary market, that people are selling their FREE spring game tickets for money! I have seen some as high as $30 a ticket for section 1 row 51. This guy in GR was selling some on craigslist for $25. I cannot even begin to describe my disgust for people that are doing this. If you don't plan on going to the game and have seats on the sideline why not give them away to someone that would actually use them and enjoy the experience.

 

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http://grandrapids.craigslist.org/tix/2320719249.html

 

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April 11th, 2011 at 2:13 PM | Inevitable (Score:1)
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Knew that was a bad idea on the part of the AD.

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April 11th, 2011 at 4:35 PM | I can't believe somebody (Score:1)
skone82
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I can't believe somebody would take advantage of college athetlics in order to make a quick buck.

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April 11th, 2011 at 2:15 PM | Have you seen... (Score:1)
bigmc6000
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The financial situation in Michigan?  Call me whatever you want but if I was unable to go and didn't have a close friend who wanted to go I'd totally sell them if someone was willing to buy them...

April 11th, 2011 at 2:18 PM | Wow. (Score:1)
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Wow.

April 11th, 2011 at 2:18 PM | Right. (Score:1)
notYOURmom
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Which is why it should be free, no-tickets, open to everyone.

1) So people negatively effected by said lousy economy can attend the game.

2) So that scalpers will not make money INTENDED FOR A CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL.

April 11th, 2011 at 11:20 PM | um.... (Score:1)
Mr Miggle
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You do realize it is free, open to everyone and you don't need a ticket.

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April 11th, 2011 at 2:21 PM | Consider yourself lucky (Score:1)
profitgoblue
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If points were accumulating, I would order a negbang on you right here and now and send your sorry a-- right to Bolivian.  Selling free tickets is bush-league.

 

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April 11th, 2011 at 2:23 PM | Ah, but would you then jump (Score:1)
Hoke and Mirrors
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Ah, but would you then jump to represent the newest Bolivian resident?

If so, it would appear that you are attempting to drum up business for yourself...

/s

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April 11th, 2011 at 2:59 PM | This was a very good post, (Score:1)
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This was a very good post, but the "/s" at the end pretty much killed it.

April 11th, 2011 at 6:03 PM | Fucking lawyers, man, buncha (Score:1)
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Fucking lawyers, man, buncha ambulance-chasers.  Or whatever you ride in when you're deported to Bolivia.

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April 11th, 2011 at 10:35 PM | agreed. (Score:1)
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Selling free tickets is bush league. 

How about just donating them to a school, as a door prize for charity, to a co-worker who has a kid interested in football...list pretty endless.

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April 11th, 2011 at 2:21 PM | no I live under a rock (Score:1)
mxair23
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The economy sucks and you want to charge somebody for free seats. Why not give them to somebody sitting in the endzone with his 2 kids and make their day. Could be the only game they see all year!

April 11th, 2011 at 2:24 PM | posted from iPhone (Score:1)
OMG Shirtless
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Or they could just show up and walk in for free. The spring game is never going to sell out.

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April 11th, 2011 at 3:20 PM | You are right (Score:1)
Bosch
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It is a reasonable assumption that one will be able to move from the endzone to a better seat.

That doesn't make the ticket idea any less asinine.

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April 11th, 2011 at 4:33 PM | Here is the weather forecast (Score:1)
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Here is the weather forecast for Ann Arbor for Saturday:

(from weather.com) 

Rain / Snow Showers
Rain / Snow Showers

 

42°
34°

That, above all else, will tell you how many people will come out to this game.  I think anybody that wants a good seat is going to have one.  Anybody that sells tickets that are free for an event that is mostly designed to support the team and to benefit a charity should get their priorities straightened out - whether the economy is good or not.

 
 
April 11th, 2011 at 6:31 PM | Yes, the Athletic Department is going to look stupid (Score:1)
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Keeping people out of the empty "premium seats" when the Stadium is over half empty due to weather. It was a stupid idea from the start, especially when you're trying to raise money for charity.

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April 11th, 2011 at 3:27 PM | Boo... (Score:1)
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you suck

April 11th, 2011 at 2:16 PM | Free Tickets (Score:1)
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That always happens with free tickets.  Honestly, there are some assholes in the world.  I think they should have made a $5 donation to Motts mandatory with each ticket.  That way, you don't get these people just collecting free ones and trying to resell, and it raises some money but is still affordable for families. 

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April 11th, 2011 at 4:24 PM | Making the tickets $5 instead (Score:1)
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Making the tickets $5 instead of $0 would not have prevented scalping. It would have raised more money for Motts, as you said, but how would that stop people from taking more than they need and selling the rest for profit?

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April 11th, 2011 at 5:01 PM | Because (Score:1)
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Who wants to take the chance that they're going to spend money on tickets that they may or may not be able to sell?

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April 11th, 2011 at 6:04 PM | Hang out outside of Comerica (Score:1)
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Hang out outside of Comerica Park on any given home game night and you'll find out.

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April 11th, 2011 at 2:17 PM | i took the max of 10 after (Score:1)
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i took the max of 10 after asking some friends if they wanted to go. Now they have all backed out because of potential weather....i have great seats in section 1 but would never consider selling them. but ill will tell people where they are if they need better seats.

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April 11th, 2011 at 2:22 PM | with that being said i have (Score:1)
ryanfourmayor
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with that being said i have between 5 and 8 seats that have potentional to be offerend to anyone that may want them.

 

lower rows section 1

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April 11th, 2011 at 2:47 PM | Me plz (Score:1)
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Myself, gf, brother, mother, and father are going to the game. We have crumby seats in section 18. Hook a brother up?

April 11th, 2011 at 3:14 PM | email me at ryanc AT (Score:1)
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April 11th, 2011 at 2:46 PM | Tickets (Score:1)
smitty1233
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Hey bringing my 8 year old son down to the Big house for the first time. Before I could get tickets they were all sold or I guess given out. If you had any extras I'd be happy to take them off your hands.

April 11th, 2011 at 3:15 PM | email me (look up), i dont (Score:1)
ryanfourmayor
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email me (look up), i dont want to have a free for all for the seats

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April 11th, 2011 at 3:25 PM | I'll give you $20 each for (Score:1)
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I'll give you $20 each for them!

Whew, not that I've got tickets taken care of, I should see what's going on in the rest of this thread.

In seriousness, though, I'm bummed to not be in town this year, it was a lot of fun to go last year, especially to catch a glimpse of what Denard could do!

April 11th, 2011 at 4:42 PM | Very nice! How much? (Score:1)
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Very nice! How much?

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April 11th, 2011 at 2:19 PM | Two of my favorite things (Score:1)
profitgoblue
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Free tickets and money are two of my favorite things.  I try to get both as often as possible.  However, I would definitely not take free tickets and sell them, ESPECIALLY not to a fellow Michigan fan!  That's ridiculous and those people should be brought to MGoJustice.  I sure hope we don't have any MGoMembers doing sh-t like that . . .

 

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April 11th, 2011 at 2:20 PM | posted from iPhone (Score:1)
OMG Shirtless
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It may just be that I'm a scumbag, but I don't see much difference in marking up a $0 ticket to $25 or $30 and marking up a $85 OSU ticket to $200. It's the nature of the scalpers market. If some morons are really willing to pay $25 for a ticket they could have gotten themselves for $0 or could just show up and walk in for free, so be it.

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April 11th, 2011 at 2:28 PM | there are other costs (Score:1)
mxair23
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I feel the same way towards ticket brokers that eat up available season tickets just to sell on the secondary market. Check out ebay right now. It is ridiculous the prices they are charging right now. $300 plus per seat for UM/ND.

I don't have an issue with someone that sells their seat and is just recouping their investment. A season ticket has a face value but they also pay a PSD or a renewal every year.

April 11th, 2011 at 4:37 PM | I think the biggest problem (Score:1)
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I think the biggest problem that people have is that the spring game is an annual fund raiser for the Mott Children's Hospital.  Selling a free ticket for cash ultimately puts money in your pocket that could have been given as a donation to a good cause.

April 11th, 2011 at 2:22 PM | I am in NYC and will not make (Score:1)
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I am in NYC and will not make it, but are there not plenty of good seats available?  Just get in and move and save the money for the hospital.  Is it worth it to take money from the hospital? 

April 11th, 2011 at 2:22 PM | I need two tix to the Spring Game. (Score:1)
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I'm willing to pay maybe $10 each for decent seats, say between the 20's & no more than 1/3 of the way up.  If I can get some freebies, I'll stick the money in the Mott's bucket instead. 

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April 11th, 2011 at 3:24 PM | if you looked like your (Score:1)
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if you looked like your avatar you could sit on my lap

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April 12th, 2011 at 7:38 AM | Ha ha - if I looked like my Avatar... (Score:1)
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you'd have to fight ME to get to me.  Wait, that's kinda creepy I guess.  . 

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April 11th, 2011 at 6:04 PM | May have extras (Score:1)
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will verify with those that said they were going tomorrow.  Two shouldn't be a problem and my seats are in section 44 row 30.  If everyone's not going there yours for a donation to Mott.  Email GoBlueFanSCP  at aol dot com.

April 11th, 2011 at 2:26 PM | With tickets being sold and (Score:1)
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With tickets being sold and the expectation of bad weather, I am starting to have a really hard feeling that these tickets will actually been enforced.  Of course, that will be even worse for the people who actually did buy the tickets.  This whole thing is just messy. 

April 11th, 2011 at 2:31 PM | posted from iPhone (Score:1)
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I have 6 on row 5 section 21. I may not go due to the weather so if anyone wants dibs give me your email and I'll send them to you. I'll probably decide when I get a better idea of the weather for Saturday.

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April 11th, 2011 at 4:10 PM | I need two, pls.... (Score:1)
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April 11th, 2011 at 2:37 PM | I don't understand how this (Score:1)
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I don't understand how this is such a shock to some people. Do you not remember the Free monday night game in detroit where people were going up and taking the max amount of tickets and then selling them on the street. Any time there is something free someone takes advantage of the situation and sells it.

April 11th, 2011 at 7:02 PM | I have 4 mediocre tickets, (Score:1)
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I have 4 mediocre tickets, Section 43, Row 89, Seats 17-20 that I will be unable to use.  If anybody actually wants them, I'll send them to you free of charge.  Just email my throwaway email address, ____and they're yours.

EDIT: Tickets are gone and emailed to a young MGoBlogger

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April 11th, 2011 at 2:41 PM | HOW DARE US DIVIDE MICHIGAN (Score:1)
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HOW DARE US DIVIDE MICHIGAN

April 11th, 2011 at 2:44 PM | Wait, do we actually have to (Score:1)
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Wait, do we actually have to get tickets to the Spring Game?  I thought it was just walk-in?

April 11th, 2011 at 3:02 PM | I knew there were tickets, (Score:1)
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I knew there were tickets, but are they required? I need to know this!

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April 11th, 2011 at 3:11 PM | You can walk in (Score:1)
Bosch
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but you will be directed toward the end zone sections without tickets. 

You will likely be able to move to better seats once inside........

All right Lemmings. Bring the heat.

April 11th, 2011 at 2:57 PM | Ummm... (Score:1)
4godkingandwolv...
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... welcome to capitalism.  If this offends you, I recommend moving to Cuba. 

If there is a market for the tickets, it is not wrong to receive monetary compensation for them. 

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

April 11th, 2011 at 3:07 PM | Illegal? (Score:1)
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I was under the impression scalping was illegal?

 

I would also question the morality of making money off of an event that is partially centered on charity. 

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April 11th, 2011 at 3:44 PM | I don't believe scalping is illegal... (Score:1)
4godkingandwolv...
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... otherwise stubhub and ebay would be out of business. 

Regarding the morality... I never said it was moral (or immoral), just part of capitalism.  The man has a good, other people want the good, the man and other people agree upon the right value of the good, and a transaction is made.  We can assume the person purchasing the ticket is happy, because they weren't forced into the decision, and we can assume the seller is happy. 

I guess there are just a lot bigger things to be indignant about than this.

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