waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa "the game is at 6"...........waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa "there's traffic".....dear Lord people! [cheers]
MSU game was listed with 458 tickets left on Monday; now sold out - RAC is gonna rock on Friday!!.
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If this game sells out it shows how hungry hoops fans (and this school) is for a winner.
Yes I know the RAC seats only 8K and there will probably be a lot of MSU fans, but not bad for a November game.
Yes I know the RAC seats only 8K and there will probably be a lot of MSU fans, but not bad for a November game.
Friday’s Men’s Basketball Game against Michigan State Sold Out
Rutgers Athletics announced today that the men's basketball game versus No. 9/8 Michigan State on Friday, Nov. 30, at 6 p.m. is sold out to the general public. It marks the first November sell-out at the RAC for men's basketball since the Scarlet Knights hosted Princeton before 8,524 fans on Nov. 22, 1997.
https://scarletknights.com/news/201...all-game-against-michigan-state-sold-out.aspx
Rutgers Athletics announced today that the men's basketball game versus No. 9/8 Michigan State on Friday, Nov. 30, at 6 p.m. is sold out to the general public. It marks the first November sell-out at the RAC for men's basketball since the Scarlet Knights hosted Princeton before 8,524 fans on Nov. 22, 1997.
https://scarletknights.com/news/201...all-game-against-michigan-state-sold-out.aspx
Sparty struggling so far vs an average team defensively in Louisville. No major additions to that team this year and lost two lottery picks yet we played them well twice last year.
Rutgers ticket office has sold all their tickets. That’s a sellout and doesn’t matter how many are for sale on Facebook, stibhub, eBay, etc.
If there were 1000 tickets available on StubHub an hour ago, they are selling very quickly, because there are less than 450 left now.
I love when people who cannot be bothered to donate whine about the way the school chooses to sell its tickets. Honestly, what do you care? If the place is empty on Friday, call Hobbs. I suspect it won't be.
People complain about the weirdest stuff.
It’s pretty simple...Rutgers has sold the tickets they planned on selling through their ticket office, they announce a selllout, and now there’s just a few hundred tickets left and Rutgers is selling them through Stubhub.
Hate to break it to people but pretty soon you may not be able to buy single game tickets through Rutgers and will have to go straight through Stubhub and buy what’s in their marketplace. That’s what a lot of Pro teams who partner with Stubhub have done.
And you KNOW Rutgers itself is selling them through Stub Hub? How do you know this. Love to know. Oy vey.
There aren’t 500 season ticket holders/scalpers selling them right now.
This is what teams and organizations that partner with stubhub do.
It’s okay if you don’t want to believe it.
Rutgers has some great fans but I swear most of them are stuck in the 1960s. Teams now go through third party to maximize revenue.
Correct Janoeski - The Yankees do the same thing. Usually happens a couple days before the event.
Packed RAC shakes up Izzo crew... I couldn’t imagine a better holiday present for team, coaches and fans!! Go RU!!!
Agree that it probably isn't season ticket holders selling all the tickets on StubHub, especially since there are some listings of entire rows in the 300 sections and upper 200 corners. But that doesn't mean that Rutgers is selling them. It could be that Rutgers gave away seats to some organizations (the game is First Responders Day and there is a Grad Student promotion) and it could be those organizations selling their tickets.
it's fun when he gets angry
few years back at the rac was about tied at the half (Sanders was taking it to Valentine) , i was in front row of 206 screaming at him on his way into locker room, he actually just stopped and stared for a second. really made me laugh.
Lol. I love how wrong all the people belly aching that they couldnt get last minute tickets from Rutgers for $10 were. Its almost like the people whose job it is to sell tickets knew what they were doing.
For those still looking for tickets, there appear to be 230 left on TicketsNow, 241 left on SeatGeek, and 276 left on VividSeats. Don't know if people are able to list on multiple sites at once, though, and if those numbers overlap.
Sure there are. Not season ticket holders but guys who do this for a living can tell when a ticket will be hot and will buy entire rows of cheap tickets thinking they can make 5-10 per ticket.
There are tons of tickets selling between the $20-$25 range on Stubhub right now.
Scalpers aren’t making money off this game selling at that price, especially when they would have to pay a 15% sellers fee to stubhub.
You can list on multiple sites. But you have to be careful to monitor sales, so if they sell on one site you delete the listing on the other sites before the tickets sell again.
Did you know if you buy in bulk Rutgers will lower the price of a ticket in the 300s to 15 per game with no fee?
Buy for $15...sell for $25...you make over 5 bucks a ticket after fees. If you buy 100 tickets that's real money.
A buddy of mine is a full time broker and does stuff like this all the time. He sits by his CPU all day and looks for stuff like this. It's a GRIND but he does pretty well for himself at the end of the year. And he's his own boss, etc. Not for me but hey...he likes it.
I’m well aware, but that grind is getting harder and harder these days. It’s not like it was 10 + years ago. You’re also taking a big risk doing this for a Rutgers basketball game in November.
Did you know that teams and organizations that partner with Stubhub also put tickets directly into the marketplace?
I agree that professional scalpers seem unlikely here. But you could have some grad students buying tickets at $15 each and turning around to sell them for $25 and still make a profit. More likely are first responder groups that got tickets for free, and are selling them to make any profit. (They could have even done this with the best intentions. They get 20 tickets for free, and discover they can only use 5 because of the 6 pm start, so they put the remainder on StubHub.)
Possibly.
Or more likely these tickets were placed onto Stubhub by Rutgers through their partnership.
There’s a reason when they announced the sellout they directed fans to Stubhub.
Just fyi I have been buying tickets from vivid seats (yankees, knicks, etc) and always get a better price from Vivid vs stubhub and seatgeek. Stubhub always the most expensive. Obviously looking at total cost with fees. You can also get them to knock down pricing few bucks (depending on price level) while on phone. And never buy them too early in week prior to game.
The reason I think it is unlikely that the tickets on StubHub are placed there directly by Rutgers is because Rutgers' ticket office operations aren't sophisticated enough to actually execute that.
The "directing fans to StubHub" is just putting a banner on a webpage. StubHub pays Rutgers to do that.
Is it that big of a risk? You see a game is closing in on a sell out. You check the secondary market and see that tickets are going above face. You buy and turn them around pretty quickly. Also possible that people are reselling their free tickets I agree.
And I agree with Upstream, there is no way that Rutgers ticket office isn't smart enough to do this themselves.
