RichieRich
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posted on August 9, 2003 06:54:46 PM new
OK... I normally sell something totally different so I need some help! PLEASE.
I have ESPN sponsored bowl tickets, 4 tickets to ONE of the following football games. I have the choice of
Forth Worth Bowl, on Dec 23
Las Vegas Bowl on Dec 24
Hawaii Bowl on Dec 25
FIRST question .... Can I offer these four tickets on ebay giving the choice of which game they want?? or will ebay consider that a choice auction and kill it??
Of course I want to make as much as I can on this auction... and if I have to decide the tickets first and not offer it as a YOU GET TO CHOOSE... which bowl game is the best??
SECOND question .... I have no idea of the value of these tickets and could not find much of anything on the net.....anyone have an idea what they sell for??? or where I might find out?
Thanks for your help!
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jensmome
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posted on August 9, 2003 07:10:06 PM new
Choice is a no no on eBay. However, Bowl games do really well. To protect yourself from the scalping police, offer a t-shirt or other football trinket. Sell them close to the dates but with enough time to get a payment and send them FedEx.
The best is going to completely depend on who gets the bids. That's usually determined around Thanksgiving. If you watch the sports lines you can get a good idea of who's going to get the bid about a week ahead. The bigger the school, the better the chance of a high bid price. (I'm a Penn State Alum and getting bowl tickets is h***)
As for the value, you'd probably have to go to the Bowl sites to get that.
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RichieRich
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posted on August 9, 2003 07:18:40 PM new
I just had a thought.... am i thinking correctly???
I have 4 tickets for auction! That is not a choice... you win you get 4 tickets.
After you win you have to decide if you want to use them for the Forth Worth Bowl, the Las Vegas Bowl, or the Hawaii Bowl
So is that really a choice auction??
I am so confused!
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Twelvepole
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posted on August 9, 2003 07:35:36 PM new
First you better make sure you can transfer those tickets... sometimes winnings can't be transfered.
If you can, just offer them as 4 bowl tickets to be picked by the winner... but make sure you state that this is one time auction and that no other tickets are available.
AIN'T LIFE GRAND... 
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AuctionAce
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posted on August 9, 2003 07:57:01 PM new
Ebay may still may consider it a choice auction. The Hawaii Bowl game may be the runt of the litter. Nobody goes to Hawaii on Christmas Day to see a football bowl game and very few watch that televised game. ( except the gamblers that bet on every bowl game ). If you have to choose go with the Ft. Worth Game first, then Vegas, then Hawaii. Like 12pole said, check on the transferability of the tickets first. Many contests like to take and publish photos of the actual winners at the games.
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RichieRich
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posted on August 9, 2003 08:16:49 PM new
I did not obtain these tickets via a contest or any such thing. There were pruchased with the bowl option.
Thanks all for the great advice... and feel free to keep it coming
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fenix03
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posted on August 9, 2003 08:35:12 PM new
You are not going to get top dollare on these tickets until the week the participants are decided. What are these bowls anyway? Most opf the good ones are new years weeke, not Christmas week. Anyway, pic which bowl pics from the best division teams and then wait until the participants are decided. The real money on those types of tickets come from alumnists of the teams involved.
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If it's really Common Sense, why do so few people actually have it?
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AuctionAce
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posted on August 9, 2003 10:09:11 PM new
There were pruchased with the bowl option.
Did you buy season tickets to a college team then? These bowl tickets would only be options if the team made it to one of the bowls then.
Let's say you bought Ohio State season tickets and Ohio State had a decent win-loss record in the season. Ohio State may then earn a bowl bid to one of the three bowl games you mentioned ( there are something like 25 bowl games these days ). You will have to wait and see what kind of year the team has and maybe which bowl bid it receives. Then you can sell the tickets. 
If your team does get a bowl bid then hope for Ft. Worth, Vegas and Hawaii in that order as those will be the best to worst choices for ticket prices.
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blueyes29
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posted on August 9, 2003 10:49:35 PM new
I didn't have much luck selling bowl game tickets...Stadiums are generally MUCH larger than normal college stadiums so there are more seats/tickets. Plus, distances fans may have to travel and dates of games are important factors. I've sold bowl game tickets in the past but will avoid doing so in the future.
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