I'm sure you have all heard the hullabaloo that demand for tickets to the game has caused. Brought on by the loyalty of the Auburn family, demand for tickets have surpassed previous Superbowl and World Series tickets. It has been projected that of the 72,200 seats, close to 40,000 would be filled with Orange and Blue. Even Bill Newton (linebacker that blocked the two punts in the 'Punt, Bama, Punt' game) can't find tickets to the game.
Here are some links to interesting articles:
http://blog.al.com/breaking/2011/01/tickets_to_the_bcs_national_ch.html
http://www.cnbc.com/id/40943011
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2011/01/05/20110105bcs-national-championship-game-tickets-prices.html
And some quotes:
"Right now, it's unprecedented," StubHub founder Dan Rubendall told the Portland Oregonian. "It's absolutely the craziest scene we've ever seen. I mean, this is bigger than any Super Bowl we've seen in 20 years."
“There’s been such a rabid following, that it has driven prices sky-high,” Lehrman said. “So for the first time in a very long time, you’re seeing demand outpace supply.”
Actually, it is impossible for demand to outpace supply, as Lehrman said. Can anyone figure out why?
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm pretty much resigned to the fact that I will be watching this game from a bar, either in Glendale or in Las Vegas.
ReplyDeleteWas that rhetorical or did Dr. Hankins just come out?
ReplyDeleteBecause the tickets are still there, they just aren't being sold because the price is too high.
ReplyDeleteWhat pisses me off is that the one mother fucker who has free tickets is the one posting this shit and rubbing it in my. Fuck you! not really, but I am jealous. I guess it is impossible for demand to outpace supply because there is a certain point where roach and constance would say, "okay its stupid for us to keep these tickets when we can get $5,000 a piece for them." So, along the same lines as what roach is saying. am i right? or am i right? amiright amiright amiright?
ReplyDeletemy face*
ReplyDeleteThe reason is that demand and supply are schedules. Theoretically, there is always someone willing to buy or sell a good or a service. Thinking of this graphically with a downward sloping demand curve and an upward sloping supply curve (with price on the vertical axis and quantity on the horizontal axis) makes this easier. In its simplest form demand and supply cross somewhere at an equilibrium. To say that demand is greater than supply means the supply curve stops at some quantity and the demand curve begins after that point. In other words, there would be a high price where no one was willing to sell but plenty of people were willing to buy. Even if the supply curve becomes perfectly inelastic (vertical) at a certain quantity, which is realistic in the case of tickets to sporting events, it is still impossible for demand to be greater than supply because the demand schedule would have to begin at a greater quantity than where the supply is stifled.
ReplyDeleteReally, this is just a textbook case of scarcity: a limited number of tickets and a lot of people who want to see this game.
People are stupid if they are paying that much. My prediction is that the prices will plumit or the stadium will be full of retarded fans who deserve to spend thousands of dollars on a ticket. <--- insert joke about every auburn game is full of retarded fans. Lololololroflmaolol
ReplyDeleteBilly, you stink and so does your quiz.
Actually, I've heard a few national ticket brokers and analysts say they expect the asking price outside of the stadium to remain around $2,000. Me, I'm going to slip a security guard $300 and then give someone in a wheelchair $200 to say I'm pushing them around. Then I can stand on the concourse and watch the game. And wolves don't even bathe so you probably stink worse than I do.
ReplyDelete/\ You should listen your friend Billy Hankins, he's a cool dude.
ReplyDeletePaying off a worker is probably your best bet at a cheap entrance. The key is picking out the right one. Preferably a baby's momma looking type, on the plump side, with at least one gold tooth and a weave. And you must wait until after the game starts, but not so late that no one is going in and you have no cover to hide the interaction, at which time ticket prices outside of the stadium should begin to fall also.
Another tactic I might try, ask to see someone from the SEC over a ticket dispute, and if that actually works, tell them you bought counterfeit tickets and see if they have any extras, which they would be forced to sell at face value. I was told by someone who went to Pasadena last year that he saw this work, but as everyone knows, you can't trust a Bama fan.
As a last resort, start practicing making counterfeit money and/or pocket picking.
My plan all depends on a hot streak in Vegas.
ReplyDeleteBTW...the blog has really livened-up in the last couple weeks. I like it.
ReplyDeleteAnother option I just thought of:
ReplyDeleteWhen I was in 7th grade, at the foo fighters show at oak mt, some mean looking dude snatched my ticket and threatened me with a knife when I chased after him, and I had to buy another ticket as he drove off to another entrance. So, y'all could try that guy's method.