Upgrading seats: resale consideration
Mgobloggers:
I've been buying season tickets for the last few years, but being an out of stater I only can make it to a few games a year. I justify this by the fact that I am building points and could someday have cool seats.
Turns out, good seats are within my means tomorrow, but rather than donating $200 dollars a year (manadatory 78$ per seat) I'd have to give $1000 (500 per). I've been able to just about break even on the unused seats these past years, but would something closer to the fifty, albeit near the top, justify the ~x2 price compared to a corner (also near the top) as far as resale goes?
I kind of like my corner seats, but nothing says blue blood like a 50 yard seat at the big house.
Not this season, lol
Depends on what you can afford. My favorite seats ever were on the 45 yd line 4 rows from the top. Great view of everything. IMO there are no nosebleed seats in the Big House.
This is my understanding: You can always not buy a seat. You can renew, but only renew 2 of your 3 for example. You would need to be very careful and deliberate about how you paid your seat donation in that particular year.
In my experience, the ticket office is very helpful. I would give them a call and ask. Then you'll be sure.
I have four in section 22 and have been able to sell two of them as a season package and do better than break even for the past two seasons. Haven't gotten any bites on stub hub yet this year, so it may be a tougher market. Game by game is going to be tough to recoup unless you are only selling the good ones.
I live out of state as well and attend 1 -2 games a year and sell the other games. I have found corner seats to be the best option. Seat license is reasonable and easy for resale. I have always broken even or better the last 12 years. I thought about upgrading this season but didnt think I would recoup the cost. Good luck. Go Blue!
why do you think the corner is the best? I've had corner seats forever, but I've considered upgrading into the next section over. Do you think it's just easier to recoup the PSD when reselling because it isn't so high? If that is the case, why not endzone where it is even cheaper?
I mean, if you have the money, make the move.
If you don't, then I think you will have a hard time recovering the money this year.
As stated below, you will make money next year though...
jdon
Upgrade your seats if you want a better view of the game.
FULL STOP
A stadium with over 100,000 seats is never going to command top-dollar on the resale market so for every OSU (not this year), MSU (not this year) or Notre Dame (not this year) game you might make a few bucks on you've got an SMU (this year), Western MIchigan (this year) and Indiana (this year) where you absolute will take a beating if you want to sell them.
The catch 22 in ticket reselling is the games you really want to attend are also the ones everybody really wants to attend so the prices shoot way up and the games you want to sell tickets for are the same games nobody really wants to go to so the prices plummet.
Like the old saying goes "if you have to ask how much it costs you cant afford it" the same kinda holds true for season tickets. If you've got the money I'd highly recommend upgrading cause it makes the gameday experience better but dont do it if you're thinking of it in terms of turning a profit cause that simply will not happen.
I had to make the same call. I moved out of state a few years ago and have been StubHubbing my 4 seats since then.
I had seats in the corner, Row 38. I had to decide how to upgrade this year--should I move into a higher PSD? I decided to just move one section over one Section towards the 50 (still considered corner) & up a few rows and stay in the same PSD. Last year I made somewhere between $600-800 even after StubHub fees because I was able to sell MSU and OSU for so much above face value, but this year I figure it will be a struggle to break even. But as long as the team is good, the schedule next year should allow for another killing.
For years I just sold the tickets to someone for face value but once the schedule got unbalanced, people started buying them for the good season and then bailing on me the next, and I got tired of that really quick.
Hopefully I'm wrong, but it sounds like your upgrade "window" is coming, not that you're going to have available prime seats to choose from. My window was last week and nothing was open (maybe a couple of very high up single seats) near the 50.
Thanks for the help, yall.
I chose the middle route and the maize section. 370 psd per vs 500, and only a few seats over. Closer to the 20 than the 35, but still an upgrade from my corner seats.
I really liked the interface they had for upgrades. Giant step up from old system.
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