Ticket Renewal

[SHOCKvalue]

The one section of club seats in the middle of the arena (section 103) are sold by IBA on yearly or longer contracts and offer right of first refusal on all IBA events. Similar to the suites.

Do you know what market is on those seats, and how to obtain them?

Just purely curious, actually.

[ShockTalk]

The one section of club seats in the middle of the arena (section 103) are sold by IBA on yearly or longer contracts and offer right of first refusal on all IBA events. Similar to the suites.

To do more than the current 1 game at IBA, they need to figure out how to exclude these (except the suites as WSU does not have any at the Chuck) or you will be pushing at a lot of big donors (and somewhat big donors) into lesser seating.

Now that I think about it, many of these seats are probably already in the hands of the big donors (some, I'm sure "newer" donors), so, they are able to double dip for seats and kick the "long time, not rich" supporters farther away.

This is my only rub for having more games at IBA. Guess I need to put on my "big boy AAC" pants, but its a kick in the teeth for those who supported WSU during the lean years (and probably made much of where we are today possible).

[ArtVandalay]

Do you know what market is on those seats, and how to obtain them?

Just purely curious, actually.

I have no idea. They come with Thunder season tickets, access to that Cox Premium lounge, and reserved parking if you have four tickets, so I'd imagine they are fairly ridiculous given you still have to pay full price for events you choose to attend.

[WuDrWu]

Do you know what market is on those seats, and how to obtain them?

Just purely curious, actually.

Last time I checked, they were about $1200/seat/year. Including the Thunder tickets. Everything else extra. Too steep for this guy.

[SHOCKvalue]

Last time I checked, they were about $1200/seat/year. Including the Thunder tickets. Everything else extra. Too steep for this guy.

Yeah that's a lot of coin for what only amounts to the opportunity to buy tickets and spend MORE money.

A friend of a friend has a loge, which I've gotten to enjoy once. I'm sure those are a level again much more painful.

[OTR Shockfan]

Season ticket talk just aggravates me to no end... well actually there prolly will be an end for us in the future. What started with a
MOM AND DAD buying season tickets back in the late 70's. Has grown to adding tickets as the family grew. now currently 8 season tickets.
Unfortunately when the last remaining original ticket holder ( MOM ) departs this world we will for all intent and purpose lose everything
accumulated SASO points wise, and no longer be able to renew. Mostly because when the parents originally set up the account it wasn't
set up as a "Family" or "farm' Or "business" name. and they won't let us change it. so we The kids will be relegated to starting over and
sitting in the upper rows, after decades of support. ,,AND THIS they tell us is because it's the 'FAIR" way of doing things!!! Trust me the $$$
spent to date,,, even when we were sitting in a 1/2 full arena in the 90's is just a thank's but what are you gonna do for us TODAY? issue.
I'm not sayin some of us wont start over,,, but it's really hard too, when at the same time you are willing to continue donating at current levels
to stay where we are.

[WuDrWu]

Season ticket talk just aggravates me to no end... well actually there prolly will be an end for us in the future. What started with a
MOM AND DAD buying season tickets back in the late 70's. Has grown to adding tickets as the family grew. now currently 8 season tickets.
Unfortunately when the last remaining original ticket holder ( MOM ) departs this world we will for all intent and purpose lose everything
accumulated SASO points wise, and no longer be able to renew. Mostly because when the parents originally set up the account it wasn't
set up as a "Family" or "farm' Or "business" name. and they won't let us change it. so we The kids will be relegated to starting over and
sitting in the upper rows, after decades of support. ,,AND THIS they tell us is because it's the 'FAIR" way of doing things!!! Trust me the $$$
spent to date,,, even when we were sitting in a 1/2 full arena in the 90's is just a thank's but what are you gonna do for us TODAY? issue.
I'm not sayin some of us wont start over,,, but it's really hard too, when at the same time you are willing to continue donating at current levels
to stay where we are.

8 Season tickets and SASO contributions.

Please ask to talk to Daron Boatright. I believe he will address your concerns.

[shoxxfmr]

Don't change the name on the SASO account, set up a simple trust and transfer the 'asset' and open a bank account with additional signers under "Moms trust account". Then just send them the check every year with her name on it.

[martymoose]

Season ticket talk just aggravates me to no end... well actually there prolly will be an end for us in the future. What started with a
MOM AND DAD buying season tickets back in the late 70's. Has grown to adding tickets as the family grew. now currently 8 season tickets.
Unfortunately when the last remaining original ticket holder ( MOM ) departs this world we will for all intent and purpose lose everything
accumulated SASO points wise, and no longer be able to renew. Mostly because when the parents originally set up the account it wasn't
set up as a "Family" or "farm' Or "business" name. and they won't let us change it. so we The kids will be relegated to starting over and
sitting in the upper rows, after decades of support. ,,AND THIS they tell us is because it's the 'FAIR" way of doing things!!! Trust me the $$$
spent to date,,, even when we were sitting in a 1/2 full arena in the 90's is just a thank's but what are you gonna do for us TODAY? issue.
I'm not sayin some of us wont start over,,, but it's really hard too, when at the same time you are willing to continue donating at current levels
to stay where we are.

You do realize they don't care where the payment is coming from, right? Just keep paying the SASO dues every year and you'll be fine. I'd really hate it if you had to move up to the upper level with me. I wish my mom and dad bought my tickets... :(

[shockmonster]

This may not apply to you but at one time, long time ticket buyers who were older, were grandfathered under a lesser SASO fee.

[pogo]

This may not apply to you but at one time, long time ticket buyers who were older, were grandfathered under a lesser SASO fee.

I think most of those have gone the route of the grandfathers

[pogo]

Tickets and other avenues of revenue ebb and flow as with most items. My brother in law used to live in Oregon and he was a big fan of the Ducks when they were really bad in football and other sports. He and one of his best friends would buy season tickets for themselves and their wives. Would take the friends RV to the game and park at a cost of 500 dollars a year. As the years went on and the Ducks became more successful in football the ticket prices escalated as did everything else associated with just going to the game. It eventually got to the point of parking the RV was 500 a game. Needless to say they did not keep up with that part of the equation and would buy tickets on a game to game basis. Now after a couple of sub par years tickets are starting to be more affordable as is the cost of parking the RV, Ebb and flow.

[WstateU]

Tickets and other avenues of revenue ebb and flow as with most items. My brother in law used to live in Oregon and he was a big fan of the Ducks when they were really bad in football and other sports. He and one of his best friends would buy season tickets for themselves and their wives. Would take the friends RV to the game and park at a cost of 500 dollars a year. As the years went on and the Ducks became more successful in football the ticket prices escalated as did everything else associated with just going to the game. It eventually got to the point of parking the RV was 500 a game. Needless to say they did not keep up with that part of the equation and would buy tickets on a game to game basis. Now after a couple of sub par years tickets are starting to be more affordable as is the cost of parking the RV, Ebb and flow.

[BostonWu]

I think this thread illustrates the difficulty in ever supporting football on top of nationally prominent basketball program. Could you imagine paying for both?

[OTR Shockfan]

Ya'll don't get it ,, It don't matter wich one of us writes the check now, the saso points still go to the account holder,
Yes the tax deductible contribution can be put in anyone's name , but the Saso points still go to the account holder.
We can't accumulate any points as a new Saso account holder and still purchase the existing tickets.
(we don't have the points to get the seats.) and we can't purchase the existing tickets without payin the existing accounts Saso dues.
won't help us when she's gone
The just pay it and they won't know or care is fine until the next time there is a reseat, and the existing Saso member isn't there to pick the seats.
Also case in point , we have 8 season tickets , when the NCAA games come up ..like last yr we were allowed 4 seats. That's fine untill
we were told the saso named account holder had to be present to pick up the tickets.
I'm sure that's to prevent scalping ,,understandable, but she couldn't even designate another person to get her tickets
my 80yr plus mom did not want to go to the game sites
because she can watch ALL THE GAMES on TV without leaving here house. So if we were to buy them though the WSU ticket office
She HAD to be the one to pick them up on site.