Goodbye Dynamic Ticket Pricing!!
In another great move by our new AD!
"The 2015 tickets will not be dynamically priced, which is the practice of continually adjusting single-game ticket prices based on real-time market conditions with the biggest factor being fan demand and ticket scarcity. Individual tickets will go on sale in July."
http://www.mgoblue.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/033115aaa.html
Mod edit: Added ChuckieWoodson's table since it seemed like a waste to delete it. JGB.
Game | Date | End Zone | Maize/Blue | Victors/Valiant |
Oregon State | Sept. 12 | $80 | $90 | $100 |
UNLV | Sept. 19 | $55 | $65 | $75 |
Brigham Young | Sept. 26 | $80 | $90 | $100 |
Northwestern (HC) | Oct. 10 | $75 | $85 | $95 |
Michigan State | Oct. 17 | $95 | $105 | $115 |
Rutgers | Nov. 7 | $65 | $75 | $85 |
Ohio State | Nov. 28 | $95 | $105 | $115 |
you beat me to this by about 15 seconds.
Nice to see that our new AD has listened to the fanbase. He has been a breath of fresh air!
I had to deal with it. There were some games that I could barely give away club seats let alone some of my seats in the bowl.
ever happens again you just let me know. I can usually only make it to a game or two each year, and I'll gladly take those club seats off your hands.
I will gladly take that headache away for you for any games this fall. I need to get my 8 year old son down for a game before his mother turns him into a Ohio State fan. The Big Game, The Big Team, The Big Tradition, The Big House, and The Harbaugh.
....but I didn't mind dynamic pricing. Most people can't but tickets directly from the school, so going to a game likely means buying from a friend or ticket scalper. Having dynamic pricing allows for the school to reap the benefits (or pitfalls) of changing prices, not the ticket scalper. I would prefer it that way. Like I said, I can be convinced otherwise.
This is probably one of the best years in many for Michigan to reap the benefits from dynamic ticket pricing. Having a nive home slate and HARBAUGH and all means tickets are probably going to be priced higher this year. This is clearly something Brandon would not do...and I like that.
ticket sales. I am a season ticket holder, and I know I bought less extra tickets for family and friends because I wasn't sure I could get my money back if they ended up not deciding to go. I would just go to StubHub and get them for under face value.
Honestly, I'm not sure. In my experience, it was always my practice to buy extra tickets for people up front because you wanted to make sure you had them. A Michigan ticket was something of value that people wanted, not something that was a commodity that the whole risk in price change was placed on me. It is not good business when the policy is "If our team is good, we will charge you more. If our team is bad, you paid too much for your tickets but that's your problem."
Honestly, I'm not sure. In my experience, it was always my practice to buy extra tickets for people up front because you wanted to make sure you had them. A Michigan ticket was something of value that people wanted, not something that was a commodity that the whole risk in price change was placed on me. It is not good business when the policy is "If our team is good, we will charge you more. If our team is bad, you paid too much for your tickets but that's your problem."
now we can go back to the tickets being bought up by donors with priority at face value, and resold to me on stub hub for higher prices, rather than the lower dynamic price UoM would have charged me.
nananana nananana hey hey hey goodbye Brandon
It's like they care...who are these people? It's like they want us to come to games again...
Take a look at the seating chart on the MGoBlue link, it looks like the student section is back to its normal, massive size.
for running a non-profit organization. . .
I like getting rid of the dynamic pricing, but the face values in the table upsets me. With PSD, tickets and the processing fee, I pay $76.43 per ticket for seats in the endzone as a season ticket holder. The athletic department is now selling 3 of the 7 games (including homecoming) for less than that. It would only cost $10 more to buy individual tickets to all the home games than purchasing season tickets. That option would also make attending games like UNLV and Rutgers optional, which would save money. I would be even more upset if I were in the Victors sections, as those season tickets cost $151.43 each (substantially more than all of the individual tickets).
If the athletic department wants to keep season ticket holders, and not rely on individual sales to fill all of the games (let alone the lower tier ones), they need to take a long hard look at what, if any, benefit the fan receives from purchasing season tickets. I was likely not going to renew this year had the coaching situation not played out as it did, and am now not certain about next year. The opportunity to save $10 per year (if you WANT to attend every game) does not seem worth it, when one could save over $500 and still go to home opener, MSU and OSU...
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Well, the press release does tout how you would save over $90 by buying season tickets over buying each game individually, so I'd say they're at least trying to make it about saving money.
You cannot claim the full PSD.
...and that's nitpicking anyway -- the point the OP made is valid.
and happens anyway on the secondary market (stub hub, scalpers...) The University might as well make the money.
With true dynamic pricing, i.e. the secondary market, the price goes up and down. Brandon's prices only ever went up.
The Maryland game last year should have gone for like $10.
Can't help but notice how Domino's stock rose after DB left. Hmmmmm..
Compare it to an index, maybe S&P 500 or restaurant based index to see how he performed against his peers.
The very last thing Brandon launched at Domino's was one of the things that brought it out of the market share gutter - the "new" formula, moving away from that infamous carboard sort of quality of the crust and the "are you sure this is cheese?" quality of the cheese, so there was that. The performance overall was mostly flat overall from the IPO to his actual departure. I still remember the self-depreciating ads which gave you the impression that perhaps they were trying. For a long time, Domino's was dead last in its market in just about every category.
Every stock rose after he left Domino's. He left at the nadir of the Financial-crash bear market.
GETS IT
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"And then I told her 'you're gonna need a friend if you're gonna try to carry 'em like this.'"
March 31st, 2015 at 10:48 PM ^
that was funny.
I wonder if he got DB's approval on this move....
/s
March 31st, 2015 at 10:49 PM ^
but i guess he did...
I have no idea what Hackett's political affiliations are, and I don't want to know. But were he to run for Governor in 2018, not only would I vote for him, I would campaign for him too.
He seems to be turning the river of shit left by DB into a beautiful clear stream pretty damn quickly.
I'm surprised they're even listing MSU and OSU for the public sale.
Demand has been down. After two years of JH, interest level will be very high again.
The funny thing is, wouldn't this be the year for dynamic pricing to work? In the past it was a terrible idea because interest dropped as the season went along, so prices (theoretically) dropped as well. But this year, with the Harbaugh factor and schedule, I'd guess that interest should go up, meaning ticket prices would go up and either the university makes more money, or tickets sell out earlier. WIn/win either way.
I actually thought "dynamic pricing" was about having different ticket prices based on the opponent. Didn't all tickets used to be the same price? When I saw the press release, I thought dynamic pricing was alive and well. I guess this is better?
Does dynamic pricing ever go in the other direction - does it ever lead to reduced ticket prices?