Alumni Tickets - New 2008 Policy

[HineyBuck]

I bought 2 tickets. I received two envelopes, each with 1 ticket, one seat is 1 row directly behind the other.

Thanks, that's encouraging. Maybe the second ticket will arrive on Monday.

 

[buckeyesin07]

I bought 2 tickets. I received two envelopes, each with 1 ticket, one seat is 1 row directly behind the other.

Have a lot of people who have received alumni tickets found this to be the case (i.e., that they received two tickets that are not side-by-side)? I am pretty surprised that the ticket office is doing this. I thought it was implied (although probably not explicitly stated) that when purchasing two alumni tickets, you are buying side-by-side seats.

 

[akronbuck]

got my OSU/YSU TICKETS on the 10 yard line today and my cousin, in California got his seasonal tickets on Saturday. I know one thing , he's pissed off with OSU because, he donated more money for lousy seats. I guess, I'm not sitting at the 40's:(

 

[BuckeyeDVM2010]

Have a lot of people who have received alumni tickets found this to be the case (i.e., that they received two tickets that are not side-by-side)? I am pretty surprised that the ticket office is doing this. I thought it was implied (although probably not explicitly stated) that when purchasing two alumni tickets, you are buying side-by-side seats.

THE Ohio State University ticket office - if it's done right, it's not done here.

 

[HineyBuck]

I received my second YSU ticket in the mail today. As BB73 suggested might be the case, one is seated behind the other. Well, it's a relief that I got two, but it's still pretty weird.

 

[osugrad21]

Dispatch

Hope they enjoyed their game
In OSU's lottery, most in alumni association got tickets to early Buckeye games
Wednesday, September 24, 2008 4:41 AM
By Encarnacion Pyle and Rob Messinger


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Karl Kuntz | Dispatch
Class of 1995 applicants were the big winners in terms of the OSU-Michigan game: Eighty-two scored a coveted set of tickets.



Lady Luck was good to the Class of 2002. Those alumni were the big winners in a new ticket-lottery system, with more than 96 percent landing a pair of seats to a Buckeyes home football game this season.
But luck is a tempestuous mistress: Only 90 of the 1,098 ticket-winners from that year were assigned to a Big Ten game.
That means 92 percent of those alumni-association tickets already have been used. They were for nonconference games against minor foes Youngstown State, Ohio University and Troy.
In a way, such quirky results are the point of the new lottery.
The old system gave weight to seniority, and it assigned games based on the first letter of applicants' last names. Now, chance decides.
"Lots of people applied for tickets," said Jay Hansen, spokesman for the Ohio State University Alumni Association. "Lots of people got tickets. And the tickets really seem to be distributed fairly, with no one class getting all or none of the games."
A Dispatch analysis of the ticket distribution for this season supports that claim. Although there were variations year to year, about half the winners were from classes in the 1980s and '90s -- mirroring the percentage of applications from those classes.
The big variable was which game the winners got, because 84 percent of the tickets were for nonconference games
Cont...

 

[Brutus1]

I wonder if Karl's wife is named Olive.

 

[ScriptOhio]

Got an envelope from the ticket office in the mail today, expecting my alumni tickets. Opened the envelope to find ONE DAMN TICKET for YSU!! Anyone else have this happen to you? I know they cashed my check for two tickets. Called to find out what's the story, but will have to wait til Monday morning to talk to someone.

I can't use the tickets anyway, so I gave them to my son for his birthday. What is he going to do with ONE ticket? His wife will love the idea of driving all the way from North Carolina not to see the game.

Which is the worst customer service provider?

a) any cable company
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b) any major airline
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c) the Ohio State ticket office
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I totally agree with the first 2. I've never had a problem with the Ohio State ticket office; however, I've always gotten side by side seats.

I bought 2 tickets. I received two envelopes, each with 1 ticket, one seat is 1 row directly behind the other.

I received my second YSU ticket in the mail today. As BB73 suggested might be the case, one is seated behind the other. Well, it's a relief that I got two, but it's still pretty weird.

The tickets to alumni are sold in pairs. I'm sure some rows have an odd number of seats. I know my row does, I'm in an odd numbered seat and I'm on the aisle. I don't think that a student (a single seat customer) wants to sit in a section with a bunch of us "old farts" (i.e. alumni for over 35 years). Besides seats accross the aisle from each other, what else could the ticket office do? Occasionally getting two tickets (on behind the other) is sure better than not getting any tickets.

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