I bought 3 extra tickets for Saturday... but the athletic department is messing this up
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For this game and only this game, they'd probably sell an extra 10K tickets if uppers were $10. For anyone else, they might sell a few dozen.
Part of the issue which you’re ignoring is that if you just price to sell and fill - which I somewhat support - you risk alienating your season ticket holders - and those are the people you need to keep happy.
Why buy season tickets if you can get tickets to the Clemson game for $20 by just waiting til Thursday or Friday.
What Pitt is doing is what literally every big time school and every pro team in America does.
And most fanbases would LOVE to be able to get tickets for $65 to their team’s biggest game of the season.
If we had a 45k seat stadium, the secondary market prices would be $100 minimum.
i'll give you this: i don't know how they do pricing but in my head, $35-40 seems about the right price for those seats.
I'm a season ticket holder - and I pay the donations necessary for club seats.
I would be THRILLED if they sold the upper deck end zone and corners for $20 each if it resulted in a packed house on Saturday. I'm not saying to sell the lower bowl or club seats cheaper - those are largely sold out anyway. It doesn't diminish my experience at all if some young, or none-as-well-off finanically, fans are getting into the stadium cheaply.
When Heinz opened in 2001... I got a season ticket package for an entire season in the upper deck for $99. Now that I'm better off financially, I buy the expensive seats. That's how you grow a fan base.
If they're worried about keeping people like me happy, they should be trying to fill the stadium to make the experience electric.
What they really should do is e-mail season ticket holders an offer to buy upper deck seats for say $20.
That way you get more fans and keep STH happy.
I get what you’re saying and agree with most of it, but what Pitt is doing is standard operating procedure.
I agree whole heartedly with your first sentence. I might've bought 10 extra instead of 3 extra if they were $20 each instead of $70. I would've found people to use them.
As for your last sentence.... "S.O.P." is fine when you have a large enough fan base and no perception problem concerning fan support. When you are trying to build that fan base, you have to go beyond S.O.P.
SOP for others does not mean that it should be for Pitt. If Pitt can sell an extra 10,000 tickets for $20 each, they are missing out on a nice piece of revenue by not doing so. Not to mention the chance to have a larger crowd.
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Just for the record, Pitt ticket office is also driving the StubHub market. They sell tickets through there too. Why people buy them from there rather than directly from the Pitt ticket office, I have no idea. But they list tickets on there at higher price points and it inflates the StubHub market.
Exactly. So why should upper deck end zone seats be $65-70? That's nuts. Way too high priced for those seats.
That will be coming later in the week. Has to. Too many unsold seats. Might as well make them free to season ticket holders like they've done in the past.
Again, the issue is too many seats. Clemson and Pitt could both be ranked in the top 10 and a sellout is still questionable.
We have 4 home games left which are all dynamite given the team we have this year. Pitt should be pushing the 4 game package for $100. Maybe retain some as new season ticket holders next year. Also, Thursday they should email recent graduates (last 5 years) and offer them $10 tickets in the barren upper deck end zone.
We have 4 home games left which are all dynamite given the team we have this year....
We have 2 days until we dock in New York which we can make in 1 1/2 given the ship we have this trip....Edward Smith, Captain, RMS Titanic.
Younger Pitt fans, God love em
Agree. I wouldn't want to see the Athletic Department making a habit of slashing ticket prices ahead of a game to move tickets; but the prices for this game were clearly set with the expectation that Clemson would be coming to town as a top 5 team in the country, not an unranked(AP) or barely ranked(Coaches) team. Pricing corrective action should have been considered the moment N.C. State handed Clemson their 2nd loss.
I'm still disappointed in how bad the crowd was for WMU. I was naive enough to think the win in Knoxville had maybe generated enough excitement around the program that the crowd for the game would equal what was there for the opener vs. UMass. Instead it was one of the most poorly attended games I can recall at Heinz and I'd bet that was incredibly deflating for the players after the packed and raucous visitors section that was at the Tennessee game. We're coming off a season where there were no/few fans in the stadium for the entire home slate and because of circumstances that were in place that year many people's habits for traveling and entertainment may well have shifted permanently. Perhaps ticket prices this year should be more "Welcome back" type pricing and not "I forgot how expensive this is. Is it worth it?" type pricing.
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What's interesting is there were probably 3K fans in Knoxville but you come home and there's only about 15K. Not a huge difference between a game 7 hours away and 20 minutes away
