Alamo Bowl Selects Ticketmaster Exchange As Exclusive Bowl-Authorized Service for Event Ticket Resale
Posted on: Friday, 15 December 2006, 12:00 CST
SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- The Alamo Bowl, a post-season college football bowl game matching the Big Ten and Big 12 conferences, has selected Ticketmaster's TicketExchange as the exclusive Bowl-authorized service for event ticket resale. Beginning today, Friday, December 15, 2006, the Alamo Bowl has deployed Ticketmaster's TicketExchange to provide season ticket holders and single game ticket holders with a risk free site to buy and resell tickets to the Dec. 30th game and other Alamo Bowl promoted football games. College football fans purchasing tickets through Ticketmaster and through TicketExchange have the option to receive their tickets via Ticketmaster's online delivery service, TicketFast. Through the multi-year agreement, Ticketmaster also continues as the Bowl's authorized ticketing company for original, primary market ticket sales.
"The year's Alamo Bowl match-up between Iowa and Texas has created unprecedented demand for tickets," said Derrick Fox, President and CEO of the Alamo Bowl. "We appreciate Ticketmaster's help that resulted in our quickest sell-out in our 14-year history and now we are extremely pleased to be expanding our agreement for their continued services. TicketExchange will provide our patrons with an authorized site to buy and sell tickets to Alamo Bowl events while avoiding the risk of fraud."
"The Alamo Bowl is fully committed to its teams and their fans," said Neal Gunn, Sr. Vice President, Venue Relations, Ticketmaster. "By deploying TicketExchange and our integrated ticket sales and marketing solutions, the Alamo Bowl is greatly enhancing the level of customer service provided to event-goers while also increasing its ability to reach and serve a broader consumer audience."
About Ticketmaster
Ticketmaster is the world's leading ticketing company, operating in 20 global markets, providing ticket sales and distribution through http://www.ticketmaster.com/, one of the largest e-commerce sites on the Internet; approximately 6,500 retail outlets; 20 worldwide telephone call centers; and a broad online and offline marketing network. Celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2006, Ticketmaster serves more than 9,000 clients worldwide across multiple event categories, providing exclusive ticketing services for hundreds of leading arenas, stadiums, performing arts venues, museums, and theaters. In 2005, the company sold 119 million tickets valued at $6 billion on behalf of its clients. Ticketmaster is headquartered in West Hollywood, California and is an operating business of IAC/InterActiveCorp .
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CONTACT: Bonnie Poindexter of Ticketmaster, +1-310-360-2321; or BrandonEdelman, +1-210-704-6389, for the Alamo Bowl
Web site: http://www.ticketmaster.com/
Source: PRNewswire
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User Comments (10)
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Posted by Ted Lee on 12/19/2006, 08:08 I looked at the auctions and it looke like people dont want to buy their auctions.Also the prices that the alamobowl is letting their season tickets holders sell for are crazy.I can find the same seats or better for alot lower prices from local brokers.The brokers sell more reasonable now isnt that funny! |
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Posted by ben wallace on 12/18/2006, 15:07 It looks like a lot of angry people.I hope the extra money is worth the bad press to the alamobowl. |
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Posted by Nancy Walker on 12/17/2006, 22:22 They call this MARKETING SOLUTIONS! That the ALAMO BOWL is fully committed to the fans. I DO NOT THINK SO. They are fully committed to ripping the fan/student off. What is this integrated Sales???? All I see is that they are the only ones with control over the tickets and are trying to hold on to them to get top dollar. If Ticketmaster has tickets that they are going to auction off, why not put them up for sale. This would be fair to the consumer. My daughter goes to Texas and as a student can not even get tickets. IS THAT FAIR?? We have called the school and Ticketmaster only to find out now they are auctioned off. Does the NCAA know about this? I am letting you know they will! This is a Collegiate game not the Super Bowl. I have found out that other students have gone to Ticket Brokers in the San Antonio area to buy tickets. And we are too. Once again if they have extra tickets open them up to the students or like any other time an game or concert is scheduled just sell them. SHAME on TICKETMASTER CAPITOLIST PIGS! |
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Posted by free economy on 12/17/2006, 00:22 I do not think The Texas legislature should put their nose in setting a profit margin as texas is a free interprise state and is not russian as is newyork.If the alamo bowl wanted to use leverage on their tickets maybe they should talk to the spurs and let them explain as to why they dont need to auction tickets.When the going is good and that is not very often for the spurs in this 1 horse town they will make u buy tickets for the next year to get a few tickets.The alamobowl could have done this as well but do not have the salespeople to do this and it is not often that the alamobowl finds itself in such a good way.It does seem really weird seeing them sell tickets on a auction when thay could of raffled them to UT fans it really makes you wonder were things are going in the future.At somepoint people are going to say hey I can watch at home and dont have to pay $6.00 a beer and $20.00 to park and pay? for a auction.Rick Fox needs to scratch his head I dont think thsi is becomming of him.Any extra money needs to go to charity for sure. |
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Posted by spurs fan on 12/17/2006, 00:04 The problem that I see with teams as the stars mavs spurs and now the cowboys letting season ticket holders sell their season tickets is that they cannot sell for under face value.The brokers fight with each other to keep their prices cheaper than the next and you can buy tickets alot of the time for less than face value.You never hear about those games and events you only hear about the few big games that the media will make up big prices that most of the time are double what the prices really are.The brokers are the last frontier of the west like gunslingers of the past but I am afraid their days are numbered and their free spirits and enterpranuel style are going to be tested.I think at some point congress will see that primary sellers have no right to auction off or sell over their face value is legal.I see nothing wrong for the season ticket holders selling on their websites over face.I worry that the mavs alamobowl or cowboys will sneak in extra tickets as in who is watching the hen house the wolves?I do see the spurs release great seats for their fans to buy as games near and feel as though they are a classy group.I just wonder why people buy season tickets?? |
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Posted by mad ut fan on 12/16/2006, 23:50 I am a UT booster who pays extra each year to keep yardline seats.Well I guese I need to pay more cause I did not get any alamobowl tickets.Now I find that the alamo bowl could of given UT a bigger allotment but held back tickets so they could auction tickets off and make extra money.Someone in austin really needs to put ticketmaster and the alamobowl in their place and explain to them that they are the main seller of the tickets they are not ebay or stub hub.They would like to be but they are not.If they want more money they should charge more money upfront for their tickets and then let the ticket resellers have their day in the sun.I have watched as the price keeps going up on events but ticketmaster is just not happy.If the main sellers are going to scalp tickets then the profits should go to charity or for school education.Ther is no way they should monopolize the free market as well as the primary market. |
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Posted by Mnauel UT Fan on 12/16/2006, 15:49 I agree with the above statements-but am really upset that Ticketmaster would be allowed to resell and in fact double their intake.Maybe The Texas legislature should look into regulating ticket sales profit.I would rather purchase tickets from a person on the street corner the day of the game or from a broker already in existance.No conscience at all by Orbin and Ticketmaster. |
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Posted by Mad Consumer on 12/16/2006, 12:32 Hooray Hooray TicketMaster and Alamo Bowl has saved the Day! Is it not enough that the Alamo Bowl has sold 65,000 seats- a great accomplishment, right? Yet they have been overcomed with greed that now they have chosen to hold back tickets which they can sell to fans in order to auction them off for more money. The amount of extra money that they will receive on these tickets will not amount to very much but I believe they should donate that money to charity instead of filling the pockets for dirty scalping Ticketmaster and Alamo Bowl officials. I'm mad, angry and I am not going to take it anymore!!!! |
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Posted by fed up on 12/15/2006, 22:08 I dont like to buy from brokers because I dont like to pay over face value.I surely dont like to pay over face to ticketmaster the alamobowl or the spurs scalper exchange buyer beware there no better than the brokers.They like to say that it is safer when in fact the fake tickets are their own creation ticketfast tickets are the from the venues and ticketmaster and those tickets are allways problems out front of the venues.I think ticketmaster the spurs and the alamobowl are all in the same scalper bed!! |
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Posted by maggie may on 12/15/2006, 19:16 Wow is it not enough that ticketmaster charges $6.50 to $15.00 for their service charges not to mention the $3.50 extra they tack on to each internet sale.Now they want to be ticket brokers also?What happened to the days that secondary ticket brokers were the scum of the earth as ticketmaster would say.If the alamo bowl has tickets why do they auction them off why not sale to the fans.They are selling out and now are brokers themselves.Shame on ticketmaster and the alamobowl.I bought my tickets from a real ticket broker www.alamotickets.com The primary ticket sellers should stick with what they do best and be the primary not secondary also wow what has the world come to?? |
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