- September 16th, 2018, 10:54 pm
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I do know it’s a common practice still in other venues and practice isn’t without risk, especially if your event has reserved seating and isn’t General Admission.
BuryYourDuke wrote:Yeah, it bothers me too. I have no idea if they do it and I haven’t been involved in the sports side of ticketing software for 15-20 years.Yacht Rock wrote:If true, that borders on an unethical business practice.willflop wrote:I noticed this more than a week ago, but reserved ticket sales are way ahead for both UNT and Troy vs. ODU. Section 214 is already sold out, and there were quite a few seats available in the same section on ODU Saturday game day. Looks like 213 and 215 have less than 100 available. That's a good sign. Early forecasts look like we'll be fighting thunderstorms yet again though, getting tired of the weather.I don’t know if LU does this but I’ve spent time working in designing ticketing software for large sports venues. My clients were larger venues like Staples Center in Los Angeles and Pepsi Center and Mike High Stadium in Denver and several other smaller venues and hundreds of movie theaters around the world. It’s not an uncommon practice to give the appearance of scarcity to an event in order to encourage more advance sales. When you are able to convince your customer that they must purchase in advance, you don’t have to worry about a same day decision and tickets at the door, which can be fickle depending on things like weather.
With that, it’s tough to gauge availability online sometimes.
I do know it’s a common practice still in other venues and practice isn’t without risk, especially if your event has reserved seating and isn’t General Admission.