Let's face it, this has been the easiest year to be a UConn fan. Whether is was the University murdering Spring Weekend, the NCAA fucking us over, or the diaspora into the ACC, it may seem like there is not a lot to root for this year. WRONG. Don't let the Anti-Huskys Win.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Round 2...
Another day, another list of students taking advantage of their classmates.
So, why are you unhappy? Is it the fact that it is too easy for people that don't care about the men's/women's basketball teams but still won tickets that they have no use for other than selling it for a price that other people voluntarily agree to pay? Or is it the fact that you just didn't win this year and don't want to pay the marked-up price that everyone else that lost has to pay as well? I don't know but nothing else will fix the issue that some people will just sell these tickets. If we went back to camping out, the prices would just go up even more because of the significant increase of effort to get the tickets than just some online sign-up. There will always be some people getting tickets for just the money and there will always be people that don't care the price they pay for the tickets. Go waste time being a white-knight on a chan or something.
With a camp out, there is a level of dedication it takes to get your tickets, much more so than clicking a button on your computer. Those who have the dedication to get in line early are not the people who turn around and sell their tickets, and if they do, well at least they earned it. A camp out would be nice, but that is not the solution to the problem either. Many Universities have figured this out and its time for UConn to catch up.
I'm in the stages of trying to bring about reform for the basketball lottery system through working through USG (I'm a senator) and through other methods. Feel free to send me an email (it can be anonymous too, I have no problem with that, just make a new email account if you don't want me knowing who you are, thats fine) if you want so we can try and brainstorm some positive change for this system.
1) How was this list created? Did you "jonathan" find each person or are friends ratting out friends and sending you names?
2) Some of the links to the face book pages return "page not found links" hinting that it is a code that just returns the first search result for a given name. If someone has the same name but is not scalping tickets then how do you feel about committing libel on your fellow huskies?
"If we went back to camping out, the prices would just go up even more because of the significant increase of effort to get the tickets than just some online sign-up." Uh...no. I hope for the econ department's sake that you're not Bryan the econ major.
Anyway, yes there are better ways, for instance doing away with tickets and doing first come first serve. Also some other universities distribute tickets based on a points system whereby students earn points by going to any sporting event (soccer, vollyball, etc) and those with the most points get tickets. The system we use is dumb as hell.
Oh, and thanks for being the "white knight" for the people listed on this blog, Mr. Rodrigues.
"Uh...no. I hope for the econ department's sake that you're not Bryan the econ major."
Right... because making something harder to get doesn't increase the value of finally having it. Of course... Actually, no. That was sarcasm. If you make something harder to get, the value goes up. The value is expressed through the resale price and ultimately, the people who still couldn't get tickets will pay even more than they are paying now.
There are better ways, I agree, but no proposed system can eliminate the reselling of tickets for profit and this blog essentially attacks those people that simply want to sell their extra or unneeded tickets as "anti-husky". I have a problem with that.
In the current system, you have a very very bad amount of people possessing tickets who just want to sell them. Make tickets harder to obtain, such as the points system of camping out, and mostly only those who really want the tickets will get them. This cuts out many many people who normally wouldn't bother making an effort to get tickets, but got tickets anyway because it's so easy to enter the lottery. This will lower prices since people who really want tickets pay face value to the university instead of much more to another student. Of course, some tickets will still be sold, but it is drastically reduced.
Plus, I don't see those tickets going for more just because people had to wait in line to get them. Simple supply and demand, supply is the same (x number of tickets available from the university). Demand is, if anything, the same or reduced due to hardcore fans that absolutely must get tickets and are willing to pay the most not having to buy second hand.
The point of this blog is to gain lots of attention to get more support for overturning the system. I get that these people are just acting rationally in an imperfect system and they aren't exactly "anti-husky", but it can still be considered morally wrong to buy tickets when you have no intention of going to games or selling them to your friends that need them at face value. I have a problem with _that_.
So, why are you unhappy? Is it the fact that it is too easy for people that don't care about the men's/women's basketball teams but still won tickets that they have no use for other than selling it for a price that other people voluntarily agree to pay? Or is it the fact that you just didn't win this year and don't want to pay the marked-up price that everyone else that lost has to pay as well? I don't know but nothing else will fix the issue that some people will just sell these tickets. If we went back to camping out, the prices would just go up even more because of the significant increase of effort to get the tickets than just some online sign-up. There will always be some people getting tickets for just the money and there will always be people that don't care the price they pay for the tickets. Go waste time being a white-knight on a chan or something.
ReplyDeleteWith a camp out, there is a level of dedication it takes to get your tickets, much more so than clicking a button on your computer. Those who have the dedication to get in line early are not the people who turn around and sell their tickets, and if they do, well at least they earned it. A camp out would be nice, but that is not the solution to the problem either. Many Universities have figured this out and its time for UConn to catch up.
ReplyDeleteI'm in the stages of trying to bring about reform for the basketball lottery system through working through USG (I'm a senator) and through other methods. Feel free to send me an email (it can be anonymous too, I have no problem with that, just make a new email account if you don't want me knowing who you are, thats fine) if you want so we can try and brainstorm some positive change for this system.
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ReplyDelete1) How was this list created? Did you "jonathan" find each person or are friends ratting out friends and sending you names?
ReplyDelete2) Some of the links to the face book pages return "page not found links" hinting that it is a code that just returns the first search result for a given name. If someone has the same name but is not scalping tickets then how do you feel about committing libel on your fellow huskies?
Copy and pasted names from the buy or sell uconn tickets facebook group
ReplyDelete"If we went back to camping out, the prices would just go up even more because of the significant increase of effort to get the tickets than just some online sign-up."
ReplyDeleteUh...no. I hope for the econ department's sake that you're not Bryan the econ major.
Anyway, yes there are better ways, for instance doing away with tickets and doing first come first serve. Also some other universities distribute tickets based on a points system whereby students earn points by going to any sporting event (soccer, vollyball, etc) and those with the most points get tickets. The system we use is dumb as hell.
Oh, and thanks for being the "white knight" for the people listed on this blog, Mr. Rodrigues.
"Uh...no. I hope for the econ department's sake that you're not Bryan the econ major."
ReplyDeleteRight... because making something harder to get doesn't increase the value of finally having it. Of course... Actually, no. That was sarcasm. If you make something harder to get, the value goes up. The value is expressed through the resale price and ultimately, the people who still couldn't get tickets will pay even more than they are paying now.
There are better ways, I agree, but no proposed system can eliminate the reselling of tickets for profit and this blog essentially attacks those people that simply want to sell their extra or unneeded tickets as "anti-husky". I have a problem with that.
In the current system, you have a very very bad amount of people possessing tickets who just want to sell them. Make tickets harder to obtain, such as the points system of camping out, and mostly only those who really want the tickets will get them. This cuts out many many people who normally wouldn't bother making an effort to get tickets, but got tickets anyway because it's so easy to enter the lottery. This will lower prices since people who really want tickets pay face value to the university instead of much more to another student. Of course, some tickets will still be sold, but it is drastically reduced.
ReplyDeletePlus, I don't see those tickets going for more just because people had to wait in line to get them. Simple supply and demand, supply is the same (x number of tickets available from the university). Demand is, if anything, the same or reduced due to hardcore fans that absolutely must get tickets and are willing to pay the most not having to buy second hand.
The point of this blog is to gain lots of attention to get more support for overturning the system. I get that these people are just acting rationally in an imperfect system and they aren't exactly "anti-husky", but it can still be considered morally wrong to buy tickets when you have no intention of going to games or selling them to your friends that need them at face value. I have a problem with _that_.
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