Smart to do this after the crowds from the PSU game. Will make it a better experience for everyone involved.
VB - 10/25 Louisville Game Tickets
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Smart to do this after the crowds from the PSU game. Will make it a better experience for everyone involved.
This seems rather petty. Back when Pitt basketball still played at Fitzgerald, tickets for the few games at the Civic Arena were reserved and in the same general area as our normal season tickets. No extra charge for any seats.
The price of success. Have to pay Fish's salary somehow. Here's hoping ticket prices continue to increase.
This isn't something you do after tickets have already been sold. So I'm not going to be able to choose my seats and they just going to randomly assign them? Implementing this next year would have been fine. I was at the PSU match and it didn't seem like a problem.
Well, this thread proves that you can't satisfy everyone. Lots of bitching about the lack of preferred seating for ticket season holders at the Penn State game. Now others are unhappy because they are trying to solve the problem. Also, the season tickets are so cheap that I feel like I am stealing them relative to the quality of the product, so I really can't feel bad for anyone complaining about paying an extra $20.
This x 1,000,000. I have 2 seats 9 rows off the court, directly across from the Pitt bench. My cost for everything? $198. I feel like I should be arrested for theft.
I understand there’s a lot of Johnny come lately. That’s natural, but, tickets are so inexpensive, there’s no way that anybody can complain. Not one iota. you want to see them next year in the new arena? Get tickets now. By the rest of the season. That’s the main reason I got seasons this year. In previous years, I would attend a few matches, and all the NCAA matches. I knew it was going to be a ticket, so I called my rep , and she said there was actually a waiting list. I lucked out. I would suggest everybody do that. My God, for that price? We are seeing true greatness.
People aren't unhappy that they tried to solve a problem. People are unhappy because they CAUSED the problem, and it was obvious to anyone with a semi-functioning brain that it was going to be a problem. And then they tried to fix that problem by causing a completely different problem.
You simply cannot sell someone a ticket to an event, and then come back later and tell them that if they actually want what they paid for they have to double or triple the amount that they already paid you to get it.
The Pitt ticket office has a long history of doing dumb things. This is at, or at least very close to, the top of the list.
Seriously- can’t have it both ways . Want a reserved seat in a premium section? Pay for it . Want volleyball to earn more revenue? Pay more for tickets.
You don’t have to pay any extra to have a seat . This isn’t that hard .
The ticket office could have also just reserved the sections behind the benches (or across) for current season ticket holders. Everything else would just be general admission. Not opposed if they wanted to do this in the future but would rather have the ability to pick my seats rather than have them randomly assigned.
Also, what happens if enough people don't upgrade to the more expensive tickets? Will the lower bowl have empty seats? The PSU match was awesome because every seat was filled down there.
They're selling them for $30 each to the general public after giving season ticket holders a chance to buy them first.
This relates to the title of the thread, so not toooo much hijacking of the thread.....
Does anyone want my two tickets to the Louisville and Notre Dame games? I will be out of town. Notre Dame is in the Fieldhouse, the Sunday after Louisville. Second row a bit off the 10' line. For Louisville, we can try to coordinate buying an upgrade if you like.
Does anyone want my two tickets to the Louisville and Notre Dame games? I will be out of town. Notre Dame is in the Fieldhouse, the Sunday after Louisville. Second row a bit off the 10' line. For Louisville, we can try to coordinate buying an upgrade if you like.
Exactly. I am sure that almost no one would have objected if these tickets and PSU tickets had been priced higher than the other games to begin with. That happens with football and men's basketball all of the time, doesn't it? It is the concept that I am being asked to pay again for a seat that I already bought, that is the issue.
I have to pay extra for the seat that I already bought. This isn't that hard.
Or at least it shouldn't have been, until the Pitt ticket office made it so.
It was also dumb for all the seats not to be reserved in the first place.
If you are going to put a near sellout crowd into an arena then you can't make it all general admission. Because if you do that you can't sell as many tickets. Because no matter how many times you put it on the video board, there are going to be open seats all over the arena. Just like there were for the Penn State game.
I’m guessing that the ticket office/athletic department had absolutely no idea that almost 12,000 people were going to show up for the PSU match. Yes Fisher mentioned in his weekly Fish Report that, “we’ve already sold 8,000 tickets”. I wonder if that was just a way to hype people into buying tickets, and they really hadn’t sold that many. Unfortunately, I think some people in the ticket office aren’t really sports fans, or fans of the teams of the University. Maybe not so much not fans, they just don’t follow it. So, they really don’t have a pulse as to the popularity of a team. Shame on them for that. But, to be honest, I’m a volleyball season-ticket holder, I never expected 12,000 people at that Penn State match. I would have loved to have seen 9,000, because that would have set a new record.
Dan, you oughta see the Pitt volleyball page over on Facebook. People are losing their minds. “Why can’t they move all their games to the Pete? I guarantee they would all sell out!“.
Easier solution....move basketball back to the Fitz.....all VB games to the Pete. Then there is no conflict!
Season ticket holders were given 1st dibs to select seats and I think that window closed yesterday. Today is the day all the other fans will have their seat selection picks taken into account. My guess is....and it's only a guess....that seat assignments for all reserved seats will be squared away by October 18th at the latest. Others....chime in to correct me.
I've been wondering the same. I filled out the online form the same day that I received the email to season ticket holders. I will call the ticket office.
best bet is to call the ticket office. They’ve screwed me over by forgetting to call in the past so worth reaching out
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