Is anyone else trying to negotiate their Tech Fund?

thwg

thwg

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I am leery of posting this here as i might lose my leverage by letting the cat out of the bag. I believe there is absolutely no demand for Tech tix this season at the inflated Tech fund prices.

So, I paid for my seasons without donating. I told them either they give me the same seats as last year or refund my money. I told them next season, if demand is greater, I'll pay the Tech Fund.

I've got to believe they're going to be selling excellent seats in the 3 game packs as there is little demand for $200-$300 per seat Tech fund seats. they have not given my seats away yet so it's not like they have others wanting to buy them.

Do you think i'll be successful?
 
wow... Im all for getting the best deal, but come on. Hell TECH fund is even tax deductable.
 
THWG,
George O'Leary was slightly off when he said we wanted to be Harvard during the week and Notre Dame on the weekends.

He should have said---they want to be Southern Cal on the field---and pay like its a high school program.

Tech fans are cheap. Even VANDY, WAKE FOREST, and BOSTON COLLEGE have similar ticket programs. Their alumni (and Wake and Vandy are much, much smaller schools) don't complain as much as Tech's fanbase. Places where winning football is not common--even by our standards---like UK---don't have fans that are as cheap as ours. This isn't about getting "bang for your buck," it's about supporting the program.

Our fans are part of the problem--many of our alumni are just as much bandwagon fans as half the U[sic]GA ones---especially the ones who make more than enough money to buy tickets (and make the donation) but don't b/c they "expect winning first." A fellow alum (who makes well over 200K a year and single) told me recently that he wouldn't buy tickets b/c it was cheaper to watch at home. Yet, he was right there with me ready to fire Gailey after the U[sic]GA game last year. HE expects to win, on someone else's dime.

This isn't a chicken and egg problem. You've got to pony up if you want to win. The only reason we are still in the game is because Tech has a small core of very loyal and generous alumni. In a couple decades, I hope I'm one of them. But I hope there will be other shoulders to bare the load.

I'll be 4,400 miles away next year. I won't buy season tickets. But I WILL make my donation. But go ahead. Sit at home and complain about how it costs money to support an athletic program.
 
Re: what a pansy!

Why don't you come to the games? Are you saying there is only so much you'll pay to watch GT football?

My firm has tickets to all three schools you mention above. We pay not one penny to have seats there.

I will pay market value and that may be worth the Tech fund one day but when I have 3 kids and can buy a handful of tickets for less than face to any game (with no Tech Fund), I will choose to pass. I will go to every home game; I just don't know why I should pay 2-3 times market value.

I gave a few thousand last year and frankly I think I got screwed. for what i gave to the Tech Fund you could have flown your 4400 miles to come to a couple of games.

If you're in Iraq, tell my brother hello and you're not a pansy.




TechSBP said:
THWG,
George O'Leary was slightly off when he said we wanted to be Harvard during the week and Notre Dame on the weekends.

He should have said---they want to be Southern Cal on the field---and pay like its a high school program.

Tech fans are cheap. Even VANDY, WAKE FOREST, and BOSTON COLLEGE have similar ticket programs. Their alumni (and Wake and Vandy are much, much smaller schools) don't complain as much as Tech's fanbase. Places where winning football is not common--even by our standards---like UK---don't have fans that are as cheap as ours. This isn't about getting "bang for your buck," it's about supporting the program.

Our fans are part of the problem--many of our alumni are just as much bandwagon fans as half the U[sic]GA ones---especially the ones who make more than enough money to buy tickets (and make the donation) but don't b/c they "expect winning first." A fellow alum (who makes well over 200K a year and single) told me recently that he wouldn't buy tickets b/c it was cheaper to watch at home. Yet, he was right there with me ready to fire Gailey after the U[sic]GA game last year. HE expects to win, on someone else's dime.

This isn't a chicken and egg problem. You've got to pony up if you want to win. The only reason we are still in the game is because Tech has a small core of very loyal and generous alumni. In a couple decades, I hope I'm one of them. But I hope there will be other shoulders to bare the load.

I'll be 4,400 miles away next year. I won't buy season tickets. But I WILL make my donation. But go ahead. Sit at home and complain about how it costs money to support an athletic program.
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Its the same mentality as the season ticket arseholes on my row, the row in front of me and the row behind me who sold their seats to UGA fans to make a lousy $25 profit. My son and i were the only GT fans in the three rows at the ugag game. Well guess what, that type of mentality is exactly why this 21 year season ticket holder said F$%^ it and is no longer a season ticket holder. I will go to a few games but will no longer go to "big" games as the GT fanbase makes me want to puke.
 
I am fortunate enough at the present time to be able to pay the fees but I do sympathize. I think you have to look at the entire fee (tx + Tech Fund) as $$$ supporting GT.

I have an 11 month old and since I am out of town it is going to be VERY difficult. When I feel like I can get face value from a GT fan on Thursday night games I am happy to make that deal.

The problem I see is that currently ANYONE can purchase GT tx to ALMOST any game AND MOST games are on TV or streaming net video. Season tx use to be the only vehicle to see GT football and that is no longer the case.

I think what THWG is saying is that the product is overpriced. While some can afford overpriced goods others cannot.

GT deserves the blame for some of the problems that lessen the product. There have been NUMEROUS instances where GT has "hawked" premium tx or tailgating spots to OPPOSING TEAMS.

Supply is always going to effect demand and after that it is how much you value the experience at the game.

When they added the TF I was able to move the 50 but I can tell you that dealing w/ hassles from GT makes every year a close decision.
 
It's supply and demand. I'm sorry, the demand isn't there for the cost of the seats to be as high as they are. It's not "donating" when that's what you have to give to get a seat. That's a cost. If you can get a lower price for a ticket, then do it. How much do you think the games would cost if we won a NC? You're damn right they'd jack the cost of tickets up. We should be considered consumers, too. Get a better product, and we'll pay for it. It's that simple. It's ass-backwards to expect us to keep paying higher ticket prices, yet nothing improves on the field. Tech has now hired a new coach to help produce a better product. I think we will, and I'll except paying higher prices for championships and beating UGA.
 
You're a bunch of cheap bastards.

I gave up my good seats (2nd row, 30 yd line) because I couldn't afford the Tech fund, and instead got cheap ones in the Jackets Nest, upper north. I trust my old seats went to someone willing to pay for them. Never would I attempt to extort GT, no matter what I project the demand for seats might be.
 
Re: what a pansy!

thwg said:
Why don't you come to the games? Are you saying there is only so much you'll pay to watch GT football?

I will pay market value and that may be worth the Tech fund one day but when I have 3 kids and can buy a handful of tickets for less than face to any game (with no Tech Fund), I will choose to pass. I will go to every home game; I just don't know why I should pay 2-3 times market value.
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1. I will live 4400 miles away and will have an 80 hour a week job. It takes well over a day to travel to atlanta and it's about $1500 per flight. That's why I won't come to games next year. If that makes me a pansy, then so be it. You've already told the entire board you wouldn't spend $10,000 a year to go to games so I guess you're a pansy too.

I make a donation equivalent to the tickets I would normally buy + tech fund. I think that's more than fair

There is only so much I can afford to pay to watch tech football. Now, see #2:

2. I understand if you have kids, but there are cheap seats (150 a pop). You can get those instead of trying to pull one over on tech.

3. Yes, I know there is supply and demand. But what others have tried to tell you before--if that is what you go by, you are lucky tech football is even mediocre. with that type of fan support we won't be mediocre for long. It is about supporting the team, not getting the best price. Until you get that, our fan support will continue to suck.
 
I guess that I am in the dark. I expected interest to pick up this season with Paul Johnson. Maybe you have some inside information that says ticket sales are weak, but I haven't heard that.

I will say that the PSL implementation was horrible and that from that time on, season ticket holders were just another number to the AA. Accordingly, and I posted it at that time, I think you have every right to use supply/demand theories to your advantage. I would doubt that the AA would be that stupid to let them work the way you mapped it out, but I fully believe you to have every right to play whatever game you want.

The days of ad free football games and a simple ticket to attend are long gone (the flow of the game was the best). The days of free t.v. and a few commercials and a simple ticket are long gone. The days of free t.v. and lots of commercials and a simple ticket are long gone. The days of constant advertising bombardment, pay for view, Seat licenses so you can then purchase tickets, are here and it's only going to get worse.
 
Man, it would have been sweet if everyone did that last year. We wouldn’t have had enough money to even consider firing Gailey. Then demand for tickets would be even lower, so we could negotiate an even better deal.

I try and look at the Tech Fund as investing in the team. Honestly, I didn't give a dime to the A-T fund, so the Tech Fund was a way of forcing my hand.
 
MacDaddy2 said:
I will go to a few games but will no longer go to "big" games as the GT fanbase makes me want to puke.
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Umm... So you're going to get back at the people who don't go to games by... not going to games? I don't get it.
 
Face it thwg, you're cheap! Probably if Tech gave you free tickets you would bitch that the seats were in the east and not west. You are like alot of other Tech fans that I know, they want a winning program but don't want to pony up any money to support the programs. Some fans would rather sit at home and watch the game on TV, then bitch when a game is not televised. THWG, you are just like many other Tech fans- you want it all for nothing!
 
PROOF that Tech fans do not support the sports program like real fans should
 
THWG,

I am sorry that you don't feel that you got your money's worth last year. But I bought 3 3-game packs from you last year. I don't know how many you got stuck with but that is your bad. Also, are you holding tech over the barrel for Amy's tickets as well. I am sure that some of the UGA fans that sat around me bought them off of your wifes website, www.amystickets.com

The tech fund is an investment in the team and the institute. I am not sure what your motives are but I can assure you that most on here are motivated by having the best for our team and our school. It appears to me you are out for profit and what is best for you. If you want a good seat buy one from Amy or sit on your sofa and watch it on T.V., they get the best angles anyway.
 
Not sure about the lack of demand for tickets. For the past couple of years, I had only been buying tickets to games from a colleague--as call and young children interfered significantly with many Saturdays. However, this year I bought season tickets for the family (5 in all)--ordered them in February. The only section that had 5 seats together in any section was 103/105 (the 200 Tech Fund seats). And despite me wishing better seats, (with the higher TECH fund contributions) there still is nothing better at this time. So not so sure there is no demand for seats/season tickets.
 
Even before reading the last post in this thread

I was trying to compose a reasonable response to thwg. After all, free enterprise is applauded in the good ole US of A. So go for it, thwg, and find out if the GTAA sees things solely in terms of supply and demand as you do. But please don't waste one more minute of my time or the time of anyone else on Stingtalk trying to convince me that you are a fan of the Yellow Jackets. You are a business man who expects to get what he pays for--never mind that included in the cost of your tickets is support for the entire athletics program and the student-athletes in it.

Seriously, you would be much better served to buy tickets (maybe from your wife?) for pro sports which exist solely to entertain demanding fans like you.

Good luck.
 
The Tech Fund is not payment for services rendered. It's a charitable donation to something you love, to support it and make it better.
 
sounds like you're the cheap bastard, I'm trying to be a shrewd bastad.

I will buy season tickets but I'm trying to negotiate a price closer to market value.

If someone is willing to pay their prices and split them with me, let me know. i'm on the 35 YL about the 10th row lower west.

beej67 said:
You're a bunch of cheap bastards.

I gave up my good seats (2nd row, 30 yd line) because I couldn't afford the Tech fund, and instead got cheap ones in the Jackets Nest, upper north. I trust my old seats went to someone willing to pay for them. Never would I attempt to extort GT, no matter what I project the demand for seats might be.
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