I was looking at getting a ticket to the game this weekend. What's with the required seat donation of
$40? Is that a NIL tack on?

Demand>Supply.

Seat donation for a single game tickeg? Thats crazy.

Seet geek has tix as well

Yeah but not for open market tickets . If you buy from the athletic department that may be the case but not say … stub hub.

I know I tried to sell mine on Seat geek for TSU game as we were out of state for that game. I had them listed for $2 and no takers

we're not talking about secondary market, we're talking about the seats for sale by A&M

Maybe that's what you are talking about but some people reading the thread perhaps just want tickets to the game and don't care about the source.

no that's what the OP was talking about

May be true but other people read the thread as well.

All I was trying to say is there are multiple sources of tickets and some may require a 12th man donation and others not. Perhaps the prices are close to the same both ways for this game but certainly not for all games.

My question is there a back end reason the "donation" isn't just baked into the ticket price? Like I get it for season tickets because maybe you can write off the donation and it's a big amount or whatever. But what's the point of breaking it out for a single game ticket?

My conspiracy brain immediately assumed it was a way to get more people to technically become members of the 12MF but no clue.

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They started adding single game donations (I think it was last year they started this) to encourage season ticket buying (there are plenty of basketball season tickets available) rather than selectively choosing the biggest games of the year because it comes out to be much cheaper if you are only having to pay for the ticket.

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This is kind of what I'm saying, wouldn't just making the ticket more expensive be the same difference?

part of it is people complain on here when people don't sell their tickets under "face" value, when the real value is ticket cost + donation.

Also people where buying individual game seats for jus the good games and paying less than season ticket holder. You must have missed this, it was a Hop rant on Premium I guess

Maybe I'm just not understanding because both of those would seem to make the idea of just making the face value of the ticket more expensive be the better idea, no? Take this game, if the face value of the ticket is, say, $75 instead of $40+$35 (just randomly made up numbers), then the resale price for face value is higher for sellers and makes more sense for buyers. And it would make the single game ticket more in line with what season ticket holders paid, even if technically their face value was lower because they also kicked in a donation.

The more I think about it, the more my A&M brain starts to kick in and now I assume it's because some other organization that isn't the 12MF gets a cut of the ticket price but doesn't get a cut of the donation so they're splitting it up to increase their cut of the deal.

don't remember I know season ticket holders where mad for some reason.

it's when they stopped doing any deal for MBB.

My guess is jus for accounting, the donation goes into a different pot so they can track it better.

Have to ask Trev I guess.

$50 ticket + $50 donation gets you priority points.

$100 ticket does not.

Do we think people buying single game basketball tickets care about priority points? Like is that an incentive to buy them over secondary market?

This doesn't really matter at all I'm just curious, for the record.

Related, I think people talk about "marketing" in a vague sense too much like it's some kind of magic pill, but it is a little weird that I haven't seen any kind of push today for like "limited seats are still available for the first place showdown…" or anything on social media.

Paying a donation allows to virtue signal that you support our athletics personally.

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GoodAg Paulie said:

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Seat donation for a single game tickeg? Thats crazy.

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We are playing the defending national champions and have a dang good team ourselves. Biggest home game thus far this season.

And people are of course complaining that it is going to cost more money than they expected. Never fail TexAgs.

FYI season ticket holders have to pay a donation for seats. Sorry you can't skirt by with single game tickets anymore. The reason we have a very good basketball team this year is because of donations.

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Ok, then dont complain if Reed is not fully packed because the common man is not willing or financially able to fork over seat license fees for some of the cheap seats. At some point you might start pricing the casual fan out of wanting to go.

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Ag13 said:

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GoodAg Paulie said:

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Seat donation for a single game tickeg? Thats crazy.

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We are playing the defending national champions and have a dang good team ourselves. Biggest home game thus far this season.

And people are of course complaining that it is going to cost more money than they expected. Never fail TexAgs.

FYI season ticket holders have to pay a donation for seats. Sorry you can't skirt by with single game tickets anymore. The reason we have a very good basketball team this year is because of donations.

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Ok, then dont complain if Reed is not fully packed because the common man is not willing or financially able to fork over seat license fees for some of the cheap seats. At some point you might start pricing the casual fan out of wanting to go.

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Game is about to be 100% sold out tonight.

The seat donation cost more than the ticket I was looking at. I got two little kids and can't make every game. I went to Stubhub and got two tickets for what the one I was looking at cost me through TMF and it's the same seat quality. I don't care about priority points. I just want to go to a game. But **** the guys who can go only get to the occasional game amirite?

Yes the raising of prices via donation is being done in part so that the 12th Man Foundation can capture more of the margin that resellers were making. Result may occasionally be that stubhub ends up cheaper than what the 12th Man is offering. In which case whomever is selling you tickets on stubhub is likely losing money on the transaction which is ironic given the mass complaining that always happens regarding "ticket brokers" at least in regards to football tickets.

The system that results in raised ticket prices only is bad if big games start having significant unsold seats because they are too expensive. The very important game tonight vs the defending national champions is going to be a sold out game with a great atmosphere. Seems like pricing was just fine to me.

Why not allocate a donation cost for single game tix?

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And you can't complain about pricing while also wanting to be Top 20 in NIL. You want big time athletics, it's going to price some common fans out for the big games.

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I can understand that if we are talking Kansas or Duke. More expensive tickets will not pack Reed for Aggie Basketball. Affordable tickets could potentially get folks out to see a game that they never would have with higher prices.

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Proposition Joe said:

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And you can't complain about pricing while also wanting to be Top 20 in NIL. You want big time athletics, it's going to price some common fans out for the big games.

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I can understand that if we are talking Kansas or Duke. More expensive tickets will not pack Reed for Aggie Basketball. Affordable tickets could potentially get folks out to see a game that they never would have with higher prices.

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I'm not saying ticket prices are irrelevant to demand, but packing out Reed involves one or more of these factors to be happening:

1) A Saturday game (and not at 11am typically)
2) A conference game vs a top tier "name" opponent (Kentucky, Texas, Florida, etc)
3) A top 25 game matchup
4) Not winter break

When those factors come together we routinely get a sell out. When we are playing an unranked Missouri team on a Wednesday night it's not a sell out. Is the case this year and was the case in prior years before the ticket donation was added as a requirement.

If your solution is that we should lower the ticket prices for the Missouri game - well there's plenty of cheap tickets available on Seatgeek and Stubhub for that game coming up on Wednesday. And they will still be available on Wednesday night.

Please come. We need fan support. Pleeeeeease come and show support. Pleeeeeeease support basketball. Oh, you want to come support? It's $100 with a donation plus the price of the ticket. Wait, come back - we need to show support!!