So Where Did The Extra 55K Tickets Go?

[Tom Anderson]

Sorry if someone has already unwrapped this riddle. I know several thousand go to the Rose Bowl Parade Committee, and several thousand thousand go to CIti and sponsors. But if someone has a real specific breakdown of this, I'll buy them a fried pie, or something.

 

[4Horns]

That's why the price is coming down. Lots of tickets in California. Smart and poor Bama fans not going to spend a lot.

 

[Dogbert]

Why do people in Green Bay get BCS Title game tickets?

 

[JohnnyYuma]

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[accuratehorn]

I would like to know who gets the 55k tickets. Is there a breakdown anyplace?
Surely the Rose Bowl Parade group doesn't get any, as the parade is for the Rose Bowl game, not the NC game.

 

[hornlong]

Rick Perry and the rest of his aggie staff get 300 of them.

 

[orangecat]

are you serious? Rose Bowl gets tickets? Newsflash, this is not the Rose Bowl! When will the BCS figure that out?

 

[Santafe]

Well, here is how the Rose Bowl is allocating tickets to the 2010 Pac-10/Big-10 football game:

Rose Bowl Capacity: 92,542
25,235 Ohio State ticket allocation
25,235 Oregon ticket allocation
7,015 Big-10 Conference ticket allocation
7,015 Pac-10 Conference ticket allocation
28,042 To Tournament of Roses members, sponsors, City of Pasadena residents (via Pasadena Civic Center Box Office), and the general public (via Ticketmaster.com).

Ticketmaster: There is a maximum of two tickets per call and maximum of four tickets per person.

Pasadena Resident Sale: Residents must show picture ID with Pasadena address or valid California picture ID with document that establishes residence in Pasadena (i.e. phone bill, electric bill, etc.). Residents may each purchase no more than two tickets per event.

Ticket Brokers like Barrys Tickets have been selling Rose Bowl Tickets for over 25 years. They have 5 officies in Los Angeles and are memebers of the NATB and BBB.

Face value for the 2010 Rose Bowl Game is $155 per ticket.

Face value for the 2010 BCS National Championship game is $275 per ticket.

NOTE: Fan2Fan Ticket Exchanges

If you are looking to buy or sell 2010 Citi BCS National Championship Game tickets, please visit the Pasadena Tournament of Roses 2010 National Championship Fan2Fan Ticket Exchange.

 

[Pericles]

NO!

Like StubHub, with RazorGator (the outfit that does the Fan2Fan Ticket Exchange) the seller pays 15% and the buyer pays 10%:

The Link

If the seller increases his price to include the 15% fee, then the total fees are 26.5% of the ticket price (do the math). That is an amazing premium to pay.

Instead, go to Craigslist and see if you can find people who live in your area who have tickets you want. No fees at all, and you can deal face to face with them for the exchange.

Or failing that, find a 100% positive feedback seller with at least a year's worth of history on eBay and buy tickets through him/her.

Use your credit card, not your bank account to pay through Paypal on eBay. And buy soon enough so that the seller has ample time to ship the tickets to you. Give yourself a few days margin, just in case.

Or a poor third, find a reputable broker in your area (not one like the one mentioned that charges an outrageous 22% fee), and buy your tickets from them.

I would NEVER buy tickets through StubHub or RazorGator.

 

[accuratehorn]

Yes, we all know how the Rose Bowl tickets are distributed. What we would like to know is who got all the BCS championship game tickets. 19k went to each school. Where are the rest? The citizens of Pasadena get Rose Bowl tickets, they put up with the parade and all that, but what about this extra game, who got 55k tickets?

 

[TumpTheWagon]

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[TheFied]

The Rose Bowl committee and Pasadena get no more tickets for the BCS game than they do the Rose Bowl game.

So the rest goes to the BCS. And I'm sure they are dolling out more to sponsors and perhaps some to scalpers.

 

[emears]

Mine came through ticketreserve.com. Next to Texas sections but not part of the school allotment. Don't know where Ticket Reserve gets them.

 

[2 Hats on 290]

The Rose Bowl and BCS Title game this year are intertwined. I have a friend who's daughter's company sponsors the Rose Bowl (not the BCS), and she had options for four tickets, it could have been four to one game or the other, or two to each. She opted for two to each. They were not free tickets, she had to pay $275 for the BCS ones, and whatever for the Rose but the option to buy was there for either or both per the Rose Bowl sponsorship.

It's a perk of being a sponsor of one of the four BCS games...when the BCS title game comes to town, you get ticket options. In fact, if there are "N" tickets allotted to the Rose, then for the BCS game, you probably get the same "N" tickets allotted plus several thousand more to additional "BCS but not Rose" sponsors, hence the fewer tickets to the schools.

Actually not too dissimilar to the way Astros season ticket holders had first options on 2004 All Star Game tickets.