Ticket Discounts

[Panthers to the Bone]

For those who are Alumni Association members, remember that you have access to 1/2 price tickets for most UNI athletic events. You should have received an email a couple weeks back regarding this.

For more info:

http://www.unialum.org/membership/benefits.shtml

Access to up to two half price tickets to all eligible Panther Athletic Events - code for this discount is mailed with membership package or is available by emailing [email protected]

Based on the info I found, it looks like all of the men's basketball games are still available for these discounts (with the exception of the Iowa game). If you think you are going to be making it to any game, you might want to get those tickets ordered now, b/c these specials are limited in number, and once they run out of allotment, the offer will be removed for that game.

[Panthers to the Bone]

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Just checked online, and if you order tickets, I could get 2 Siena tickets for $11 total ($5.50/ticket)...seatbacks. No handling fees/charges. I have to think this is inaccurate, right?

[run&blade]

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Last year the Denver game was free entry for kids, are they doing something like that this year? Maybe a game during Xmas break?

I hate to miss a sweet deal like that.

[Panthers to the Bone]

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Just a reminder on the ticket discounts. We need to get the McLeod packed with people this weekend, without students. Both games should be fun ones, but the Sunday game vs. MSU could allow UNI to pull away a little bit from some of the pack. There aren't that many good NFL games on Sunday with the playoffs being determined mostly.

[Panthers to the Bone]

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Did anyone else know that there are mini ticket plans online? $33/adult, $18/kid for 3 games and $69/adult, $39/kid for 6 games.

I hadn't seen anything about this. Nice ticket package.

Pick 3: http://ev12.evenue.net/cgi-bin/ncomm...pList&appCode=
Pick 6: http://ev12.evenue.net/cgi-bin/ncomm...pList&appCode=

[Newt99]

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Did anyone else know that there are mini ticket plans online? $33/adult, $18/kid for 3 games and $69/adult, $39/kid for 6 games.

I hadn't seen anything about this. Nice ticket package.

Pick 3: http://ev12.evenue.net/cgi-bin/ncomm...pList&appCode=
Pick 6: http://ev12.evenue.net/cgi-bin/ncomm...pList&appCode=

Do you know if you can buy this at the ticket office or get the 3 or 6 game pack on game day when you go to the first game? Two tickets for a 3 game pack end up being $85.00 online with a $7.00 per ticket "fee" and a $5.00 "order charge" as well. $19.00 in online fees for two ticket packs seems a bit excessive.

[UNIpanther99]

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Do you know if you can buy this at the ticket office or get the 3 or 6 game pack on game day when you go to the first game? Two tickets for a 3 game pack end up being $85.00 online with a $7.00 per ticket "fee" and a $5.00 "order charge" as well. $19.00 in online fees for two ticket packs seems a bit excessive.

Good grief, that ends up being over $14/ticket. I was going to do this as well, but I will just wait and buy them at the door individually if that is the case.

[Felis P. C. Schorgeri]

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Do you know if you can buy this at the ticket office or get the 3 or 6 game pack on game day when you go to the first game? Two tickets for a 3 game pack end up being $85.00 online with a $7.00 per ticket "fee" and a $5.00 "order charge" as well. $19.00 in online fees for two ticket packs seems a bit excessive.

Dang ticket office always screwing people over.

[Newt99]

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Good grief, that ends up being over $14/ticket. I was going to do this as well, but I will just wait and buy them at the door individually if that is the case.

Dang ticket office always screwing people over.

Exactly, 99. I would take a chance and buy the pack in advance if I could actually save a little money, but no way I'm buying three games at full price that far in advance with the weather we have around here. I live two hours from Cedar Falls and can't count on being able to make it to the game, or even being able to give away the tickets to someone else if I can't go. So far the two games that fit my schedule that I intended to go to this year were the Iowa game and the Wyoming game, and we got a blizzard and an ice storm both days. Sorry, but I'll stay home and listen to Rima and Boyle in those conditions.

Felis, I know you're just joking, but the point is, why design a ticket discount that doesn't actually save people any money? You can buy them at the gate for the same price. If you wait, some of those lower demand games may offer discounts or buy-one-get-one promos or something like that. I'd love to buy a pack, but the reward has to outweigh the risk.

[Felis P. C. Schorgeri]

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Exactly, 99. I would take a chance and buy the pack in advance if I could actually save a little money, but no way I'm buying three games at full price that far in advance with the weather we have around here. I live two hours from Cedar Falls and can't count on being able to make it to the game, or even being able to give away the tickets to someone else if I can't go. So far the two games that fit my schedule that I intended to go to this year were the Iowa game and the Wyoming game, and we got a blizzard and an ice storm both days. Sorry, but I'll stay home and listen to Rima and Boyle in those conditions.

Felis, I know you're just joking, but the point is, why design a ticket discount that doesn't actually save people any money? You can buy them at the gate for the same price. If you wait, some of those lower demand games may offer discounts or buy-one-get-one promos or something like that. I'd love to buy a pack, but the reward has to outweigh the risk.

I don't think it was designed to save money or be a big discount. I could be wrong though. I know there were people that didn't want to do season tickets because they couldn't make enough games to warrant the season tickets, so the athletic department and ticket office decided to put out a shorter package. Could they have made the price lower....probably. But again, I don't know if it was designed to be promoted as a big discount, but rather a "short season ticket order".


Again I could be wrong, I'm just guessing and going off of what I could infer from my conversations with the ticket office

[BCPanther]

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Maybe we should realize that we have a top 25 caliber basketball program, and stop b!tching about having to pay some fees to see them play...

If your going to be a big time program, you have to act like one. I don't believe in ANY ticket discounts. Call the ticket office at Duke, Carolina, Gonzaga, Indiana, UConn, etc and see if you can get a ticket discount...

[Felis P. C. Schorgeri]

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FWIW I checked the Iowa tickets and fees they charge $7 in fees

Creighton is $5.05 per order online

UCONN is $4.50

I also looked at about 15 other schools from NAIA through Texas and Kansas and they all ranged between 4-8 dollars. UNI was right in the middle on fees.

[UNIpanther99]

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I don't really care too much about the price, but I just don't understand the point of this promotion. It's not like these are mini-season tickets that you can carry over to next year or anything. I would rather walk up and pay UNI full price than pay basically the same price ahead of time and have some of that money go to UNI's online vendor. I think that's the point we were trying to make.

[Newt99]

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I don't really care too much about the price, but I just don't understand the point of this promotion. It's not like these are mini-season tickets that you can carry over to next year or anything. I would rather walk up and pay UNI full price than pay basically the same price ahead of time and have some of that money go to UNI's online vendor. I think that's the point we were trying to make.

THIS.

I won't buy these packages at full price for the same reason I won't buy season tickets. It isn't because I don't want to, it's because it isn't realistic for me. I'd love to go to every basketball game but time, distance, and weather make that impossible. Apparently some of you live in the old Rocky Rococo's Pizza building or in a box in the tunnel at 23rd and Hudson and don't have to worry about getting stuck with tickets you can't use. I'd be willing to risk that if there was some advantage over walk-up, but there isn't. I'd even do it if it were a flexible package where I got vouchers to use at any game the rest of the season, but you have to lock in all the dates right now. That's just not realistic for everyone.

Just because our online fees are close to the same as other schools doesn't mean they aren't too high. Like 99 said, if I'm paying full price, I'd rather all the money went to UNI rather than the website operator.

Brett, go ahead and call all those ticket offices you listed and see if you can buy ANY ticket at ANY price. When you have a waiting list for season tickets as long as the Green Bay Packers do, you don't have to have ticket promotions. Until we get to that point, we need deals like that every once in a while to get new faces in the stands, which hopefully leads to them coming back and paying full price for a future game.

[Panther-Sheik]

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THIS.



Brett, go ahead and call all those ticket offices you listed and see if you can buy ANY ticket at ANY price. When you have a waiting list for season tickets as long as the Green Bay Packers do, you don't have to have ticket promotions. Until we get to that point, we need deals like that every once in a while to get new faces in the stands, which hopefully leads to them coming back and paying full price for a future game.

Or...this just makes everyone sit on their hands and not order in advance because they are waiting for the inevitable ticket discount. UNI needs to change the culture of the freebie and treat their product like it should be treated...a great value for a great product. Until they re-train people to quit waiting for the inevitable discount, we will always be having this "discussion".