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By ALVAND ABDOLSALEHI: So I’ve been thinking of this idea lately regarding student football tickets. We get our season seats for about $135, right? I was looking up general admissions prices to our football tickets and the price for one seat is often times close to, if not higher, than the entire price of our season ticket. So how can we capitalize on something like this?
I would not actually do this, but I would like to share with you something that some people willing to suffer consequences might find interesting. If I were in the scalping business, I would just sell my student season ticket to someone looking for a ticket around the stadium. How, you ask? The thing that makes this trickier than it would normally be is the fact that our season tickets are our ID cards. Many of us know, however, that as long as the gender of the ID card matches the gender of the person holding it, the security at the Coliseum (DPS) usually doesn’t care.
So what you would do is sell your ID card to a complete stranger after negotiating some prices, make yourself a nice little profit, and then return home. Pretty easy, huh? Not so fast. There’s still a problem. Now you don’t have an ID card, and a complete stranger has the ability to use your card for all the remaining home games (and possibly for other purposes too)! Don’t worry, my friends. There is an easy solution to this problem. The USCard office can issue you a new student identification card for the hefty price of…$18. That’s it. And I’m sure your profit margin will be larger than that (at least I hope so). Once you get a new ID card, the old one is deactivated and you’re back to stage one. Repeat. Enjoy. Buy yourself a little something nice with the hard-earned profits you made.
Once again, this is not something I would personally do (disclaimer) because it might have legal consequences, but if you’re into that kind of stuff and the opportunity presents itself—you can’t make it to a certain game, need a little pocket change, or whatever the case may be—go ahead and see if it works. I will not claim responsibility for anyone who gets in trouble for doing this. If you are going to engage in it, do so responsibly. Other than that, good luck. If you become rich overnight, be sure to thank me sometime…
