re: Price of Tickets

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How is the demand artificial? People are willing to pay for those tickers.

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I can only speak for Alabama's ticketing system - Tide Pride. You have to pay an annual Tide Pride fee before even buying tickets. There is a waiting list for the lowest levels of Tide Pride. Once in Tide Pride, you have to buy a season package. Obviously, everyone wants tickets to the Auburn, LSU, and Tennessee games. But the secondary market is so flooded with tickets to the OOC games, and the less competitive SEC games, ticket prices often fall below face value.

Further, you have some Tide Pride members that buy a couple of extra seats with the sole intention of selling those extra seats to the LSU, Auburn, and Tennessee games to try and re-coup some of their Tide Pride and tickets prices. Would the secondary market prices be as steep to those games without that? Probably close, but who knows.