Texas Athletics Ticket Resale Policy

FWHORN said:
This just means any sales by grandfathered people will have to be private to friends, family etc. How the hell do they prove anything in those cases. Just a bunch of greedy ********.

Those of us who were season ticket holders during the McWilliams and Mackovick eras who paid money for season ticket packages when they couldnt give away tickets (anyone remember the Randalls end zone tickets for 5 bucks) have earned the right to sell those games we cant attend, the University gets the same amount of money either way. this just stinks of greed and eventually greed will kill this golden goose.
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It might not be the right thing to do, but they will make a lot more by running off grandfathered season ticket holders. Lets say they run off someone in section 4 or 5, with four seats, who is making a $150 donation. The new donation on those four seats will be $3,500 x 4 or $14,000 for $13,850 in new profit.
 
BCB,

There is NOBODY getting by with a $150 donation. As for the math, they are going to move out the $500 older donors, replace them with people sitting in Sections 8-10 or 107-109, then Patterson won't be able to sell those seats at any price.

Anyone old enough to remember the "knothole section"? Kids seats for $0.25 or free of you asked an Austin policeman for one?
I guess Patterson thinks he can raise the ticket prices with such outstanding games as Rice, Berzerkley, and Kansas at home. At least the Rice band is worth part of the admission.
 
BananaChipBettor said:
It might not be the right thing to do, but they will make a lot more by running off grandfathered season ticket holders. Lets say they run off someone in section 4 or 5, with four seats, who is making a $150 donation. The new donation on those four seats will be $3,500 x 4 or $14,000 for $13,850 in new profit.
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Besides that, if grandfathered and discount season ticket holders follow policy, then UT is limiting the supply of donation free season tickets.
SabreHorn said:
There is NOBODY getting by with a $150 donation.
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I know at least one longtime LHF member that is, but they're not in section 4 or 5
 
Is he sitting in Section 3, 4, 5, or 6?

As the first check to LF from Houston in 1986, I'd like to know how/
 
So how do you tell if you are grandfathered? I see grandfathered per seat contributions in several places on my application. How is grandfathering defined? I'm going to be pissed if I have to go to a wedding again (WTF with the fall weddings) and can't sell my tickets for that game.
 
Dogbert said:
So how do you tell if you are grandfathered? I see grandfathered per seat contributions in several places on my application. How is grandfathering defined? I'm going to be pissed if I have to go to a wedding again (WTF with the fall weddings) and can't sell my tickets for that game.
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If the Grandfathered per seat Contribution amount listed to the right is lower than the Regular Seat Contribution: (amount in red), you are grandfathered.
 
I just looked at last years purchase and if my math is correct, the grandfathered purchase this year is a 30.9% increase over last year.
Tier 2 discounted season ticket price goes up from from $420.00 to $525.00. The 2015 regular tier 2 price per season ticket is $550.00, so there is only a $25.00 discount. There is now an additional $100.00 parking pass cost. I get four season tickets, so my season ticket cost is now $550.00 which means there was no discount. $420.00 to $550.00 = 30.9% increase and they tell us we better not resell our tickets ???
 
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Texas Taps said:
If the Grandfathered per seat Contribution amount listed to the right is lower than the Regular Seat Contribution: (amount in red), you are grandfathered.
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Ah, so I'm grandfathered by a slight amount. I've had four weddings to go to over the past two years on game days. This sort of sucks and vastly complicates getting rid of tickets. And in some of these cases I used to donate them to cancer patient fundraisers and non-profits doing fundraisers. Can't do that anymore either.
 
Anybody have an answer for this one. What if you hold a certain number of tix and wish to reduce them in half? In my case I have held a rather decent amount of tix since prior to Mack's arrival. Yes I sat through some very painful seasons in DKR, and have several fond memories of those game day events that trump some of the top seasons.

Moving on, without the ability to sell a pair here and there for various reasons and recoup face value, it's now too costly to keep the same total amount. So what happens if I reduce my number of seats in half? Shouldn't be a problem with half already located in a different row.

Are they then gonna jack up my donation rate per seat to the same as new buyers? Would they really have the nerve to toss aside the discount prices I've earned over 21 years of loyalty (financial and personal)? How would they even justify that if the remaining seats I'm keeping are being renewed just like every year?

This is all very disturbingly as they're leaving me no choice here other than to reduce my seats in half and disappoint some huge UT fans/family members that have gone with me for years, or just release all of my tix. Needless to say I'd be dropping my handful of baseball season tix too (I've had since Gus), if I get shoved out of all the football seats because of cold shouldered greed over loyalty. I love my live UT sports, but I also enjoy my pocket not getting fleeced, and loyalty not being spit on after so many years of faithful devotion.
 
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Brad Austin said:
Anybody have an answer for this one. What if you hold a certain number of tix and wish to reduce them in half? In my case I have held a rather decent amount of tix since prior to Mack's arrival. Yes I sat through some very painful seasons in DKR, and have several fond memories of those game day events that trump some of the top seasons.

Moving on, without the ability to sell a pair here and there for various reasons and recoup face value, it's now too costly to keep the same total amount. So what happens if I reduce my number of seats in half? Shouldn't be a problem with half already located in a different row.

Are they then gonna jack up my donation rate per seat to the same as new buyers? Would they really have the nerve to toss aside the discount prices I've earned over 21 years of loyalty (financial and personal)? How would they even justify that if the remaining seats I'm keeping are being renewed just like every year?

This is all very disturbingly as they're leaving me no choice here other than to reduce my seats in half and disappoint some huge UT fans/family members that have gone with me for years, or just release all of my tix. Needless to say I'd be dropping my handful of baseball season tix too (I've had since Gus), if I get shoved out of all the football seats because of cold shouldered greed over loyalty. I love my live UT sports, but I also enjoy my pocket not getting fleeced, and loyalty not being spit on after so many years of faithful devotion.
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My understanding is you can reduce the number of seats you purchase and maintain your loyalty points level as long as you pay the minimum donation to LHF.

Likewise you can increase the number of seats but the additional seats will not be grandfathered in.

Call your rep.
 
If you log in to Texas Sports or the LHF to your account and click renewal you will see a picture of your rep with a cell phone number and an email address. My rep responds to both.

But I'm pretty sure they are busy this week.
 
Thanks! The e-mail worked (rep called me). All straightened out.
 
So I am currently NOT grandfathered. However, if they raise the "Contribution" amount each year (and I keep my current contribution); will I eventually become grandfathered? Therefore being able to resale my tickets is an incentive to contribute more each year.
 
fw_horn said:
So I am currently NOT grandfathered. However, if they raise the "Contribution" amount each year (and I keep my current contribution); will I eventually become grandfathered? Therefore being able to resale my tickets is an incentive to contribute more each year.
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Are you a member of the Longhorn Foundation?
 
fw_horn said:
So I am currently NOT grandfathered. However, if they raise the "Contribution" amount each year (and I keep my current contribution); will I eventually become grandfathered? Therefore being able to resale my tickets is an incentive to contribute more each year.
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If they raise the price for your seats each year, you will have to stay current or you'll be grandfathered. Hopefully, it won't go that far, but we'll see.
 
PecosBill said:
As long as you pay the LHF minimum each year by the deadline my understanding is that you are grandfathered for the same tickets as you had in 2014.(prior year) Is that not correct?
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As long as you pay less than the current value, you're grandfathered. However, he's asking if he is currently up to "value" what if the contributions go up each year. If there is a price increase each year, you'll have to keep up with that, to stay out of grandfathered status. If you pay less than full contribution/ticket price, its my understanding that you're grandfathered.

Edit -- Lets say your total seat price (con + seats) is $1,025 this year. You're up to value and good to go. Next year, those section 2 seats go up to $1,125 total price per seat, but you're able to keep them at $1,025. You can pay $1,025, but you're not at the current market value and you will be grandfathered.

Grandfathered might be done after this season. Who knows?
 
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I think the restriction on the resale of tickets is a cookie cutter approach to target the few that actively broker tix for resale. It has been cheaper in the past to join LHF at the minimum, upgrade to above RRS cutoff and then have six homes games, RRS, parking and maybe End Zone Club passes to sell.

These are the people selling online not someone who sells a ticket to a friend who pays face value cash when your wife is headed to a wedding.
 
When I don't make a game I give them to UT fans that I know will go or the last few years I donate them to the Wounded Warriors.
 
Okay, I just got my season ticket renewal package in the mail! What a joke. What if I didn't read blogs? Never got an e-mail either. Finally, why are the dollar amounts in the mailing for loyalty and regular prices different than what was on my web account? This whole thing is a disaster.
 
mchammer said:
Okay, I just got my season ticket renewal package in the mail! What a joke. What if I didn't read blogs? Never got an e-mail either. Finally, why are the dollar amounts in the mailing for loyalty and regular prices different than what was on my web account? This whole thing is a disaster.
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The web account numbers changed for many due to an error. Whatever numbers they have in the mailer is old info
 
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