Over the past few years, I've either had games I've had to miss for a wedding or a game I'm bringing some extra friends to that leave me either looking to offload or pick up some tickets to home games.
Between the numerous methods of buying/selling tickets... was just wondering what everyone here usually does, and what their dream experience would be for finding extra tickets for gameday... or trying to sell them.
Thanks yall.
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I don't like it in general, but I just use StubHub because it's convenient and always gets my tickets sold when I'm not able to use them for one or two games a year.
My dream experience for picking up extra tickets to games would be - on the morning of 9/7 Halle Berry, Penelope Cruz, and Jenn Garner (who is soooo on the rebound from goofball Ben) pull up to the house in the Hummer limo to pick me up and personally deliver my OSU tickets and me to the game that night. (After some good, clean fun of course.)
You asked...
that would be nice
Dream... but a more attractive female. (Reality, stubhub and friends)
I had season tickets for a good while, but before and after, it was first, friends. Secondly, get there early, maybe three hours before the game. Go directly to the parking lot/tailgate scene. Start in the closest to the stadium, we called it the "high rollers" lot. Be dressed in your Hokie finest, be sober, and be friendly. Stop at tailgates and tell the folks you're after tickets. Be polite if they don't, be ready with cash if they do. I found that these folks aren't looking to make a killing on a ticket, generally, but rather would like to get their (or their friend's that couldn't come) money back and put Hokie butts in the seat. Not always true, some want an extra pound of flesh, but I seldom had to pay more than 10 bucks over face value, and usually got them for face. Once, a friend and I couldn't find tickets for a while so we went up to where the ticket office was and asked around there. A fellow at the "will call" window heard us asking and offered a couple of tickets to us. Free. Fifty yard line seats. Turned out, he was Bimbo Coles' high school football coach and had been given free tickets himself. Really nice guy, great seats. Been to waaaaay too many games to remember what game that was, but it was a good one with tough to get ducats. Persistence pays off, but I wouldn't go this route with guests coming to town or if you have to have more than one ticket sitting together. At that point, I'd probably go with stubhub or something.
Steal them from my father in law when he is not using them... ;)
I send an office email out if I have spare or extra tickets for a game listing the seats and just requesting cover value. They are generally gone in under 10 minutes.
I once worked with an office full of VT fans in NC, just by coincidence. I think there was a "who's got tickets?" thread in the office email for every home game.
I use stubhub. I know the cool thing to do might be to walk the parking lots or hit up friends but stubhub is damn near the most convenient online shopping site I've ever used. Whatever little extra you spend to print your tickets at home/get ripped off by a guy selling a ticket for $20 over face value you, you more than make up for in convenience.
True. You may have to pay a premium, but you can get whatever it is you want in a ticket if you're willing to pay that premium.
There is the ticket exchange thread you could always use on this site.
http://www.thekeyplay.com/content/2015/july/13/2015-ticket-exchange-thread
Craigslist has worked well for me on occasion, I've got a decent network for most games.
This one coming up.....