Transferring season tickets

[South Austin]

My family has had 4 pretty good season tickets since 1996 (back when Mackovic was coach and you could get good seats for much less than what you would have to pay these days). Looking back we were stupid because we put the tickets in my dad's name and not my name, and I've heard time and again that Belmont will not let season ticket holders transfer their tickets to children or other family members.

A friend at work claims that in the past year or so Belmont has changed its policy about passing on tickets to your children. I also talked to a guy a few years ago who claimed that if you just talked to the right person you could get it done (he had season tickets with a group of friends and he claims he got the tickets transferred to his name after the person who held the tickets moved to London).

Anyone have any information or experience to pass along in this regard? Although my dad's the ripe-old age of 65, I don't see him passing anytime soon, God willing. But, I wonder if it's time to get some tickets in my name.

 

[Good Old Days]

Not being a smart ***, but call LHF and ask them. There is someone who gets caught every year using tickets from a deceased parent etc. Do they catch them all, no. There is no policy change. If your sources give you a name, which they won't, then you'll have something. There was some argument that LHF would let you keep your seats but you had to up your contribution to match market for those seats. You could ask them that, too. To your last question, yes, and this is the year to do it. Too late to join LHF for 2008 season except I think you can still get chair backs if you want to spring for that.

 

[gkp]

What I understand to be the new policy is that you can retain the family seats in your name, but you have to pay the current Foundation donation for the location you are in. Depending on how your section, it could run to thousands.

 

[UTeric32]

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[South Austin]

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[LazyEngineer]

Odds are that before your dad passes, we will suck again for some period of time. I would wait until then.

 

[netslave]

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[Gardner Barnes]

We used deceased tickets for 3 years before getting caught this year. Not sure how they finally caught us, but somehow they did.

Luckily, our family was able to make the change at a reduced rate. Not the same rate, but not FMV either. My in-laws are big donors and that probably helped.

Anyway, we had a our estate lawyer call and say they were in the estate (they were). The tickets were then reset into my in-laws names at approx 30% of FMV which is significant since they are on the lower west 35.

BTW, you dont want to know what they said FMV was. It was stunning.

 

[hornpharmd]

Since you just admitted to fraudulently using tickets from a deceased relative, please tell us what FMV is. I am suprised they didn't tell you to repay those 3 years if you wanted to renew.

Must be nice to be a son of priviledge.

 

[South Austin]

I also would like to know what FMV is since my seats are roughly comparable (East side, 20 yard line, about 50 rows up). And I'll throw out my family's LHF donation that started in 1996, which is $1,000.

 

[TheFied]

My guess is FMW for those today is $2000 for 2 or $4000 for 4. You might be able to get them at $2000 for 4 if you talk to them.

 

[hookem2003]

Not to get this too far off topic, but can you set up a corporation and get tix through that? That way if stuff happens you just change who "heads" the corp, but the corp, and your tix, stays in place.

 

[LonghorninAustin]

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[shrevehorn]

ttt

 

[Gardner Barnes]

I am not going to post FMV/seat on this thread.

 

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