You always had to have a donation for chairback seats. There was no "new" donation.

The season tickets were redistributed this year and you were given levels that allowed you to renew you season tickets. Each level had a date that you could access the renewal site, I think it gave you a week or so to renew.

The people with the higher priority points got first dibs on seats.

If your seats were unavailable whenever it was your turn to choose, you were able to choose whatever was available, and so on and so forth.

No one asked them to pay more for their seats, they just got bumped back by someone who donated more to the school... This is what almost all major schools do.

It's fine if they didn't want to be apart of the Marshall football, because their spots are taken, all donation requred seats are sold out.








 

Well not really. If 40 people gave up their seats to stay home on watch it on TV their physical seats might be taken but unless the stadium is sold out those 40 have not been replaced. 
 

and if someone just got 6 seats on the 50 my guess would be donation required seats are not sold out. 

According to this link Sections 108,110,112,114,116,118, 107,109,111 & 113 all require a donation. I'll believe they are sold out when I see them full on game day. That would be every single seat  in the yellow sections. 

Then how can Mike Hammrick upgrade the next person who calls to the chair backs if they are sold out? Are those not donation required seats? The AD is giving them away for the price of regular admission. 

herd ticket office wrote:

Retweeted by Mike Hamrick Herd Ticket Office ‏@HerdTickets  8m The next customer who calls in & mentions MU Tix Tuesday while ordering a pair of reserved season tickets will be upgraded to chairbacks.

The donation amount has been the same for s while, so like I said... someone else has their seats and they WERE NOT asked to donate more before they bought them. They were bumped out by someone else who donated more than them and had first priority... they were more than welcome to grab any of the other seats that we have in our other sections.

Look I just went through the ordering process at Herdzone for Season tickets. I can buy chairbacks on the 50 yard line. 2 tickets in section 114 row 49 seats 7 and 8.. There are also plenty of seats in all the other chairback sections except for 112. You are living in Fantasy Land.. Nothing is sold out except section 112.

Quote:

Ticket Purchases SEASON TICKETS Facility: Joan C. Edwards Stadium Price Type Price Level Level Section Row Seat(s) Qty Price Fee(s) Amount RESERVED WEB CHAIRBACK WS 114 49 7-8 2 300.00 0.00 600.00  Modify Selection   Select Delivery Method $0.00 - Mail-Standard $0.00 - Season Will Call    Remove Entire Order

 

Thanks Chris for the supporting documentation and personal experience anecdotes. 

 

But I'll say this, once again, no one was asked to donate more money for the same seats. They require a $300 donation... that's it. If someone happened to donate more than them, they got first dibs on their seat.

They were able to choose DIFFERENT seats at the same exact price as they always have once someone else took theirs, but they were not asked to donate more.

Is it unfortunate? Yes, very... but Hamrick wants to give incentive to people who are stepping up and helping the program.

If it were me, I'd be happy to move up a few rows knowing there are people donating more than I am.., I guess some people don't see it that way.













 

but you said they were ALL sold out and that is clearly not the case.  Look at section 116 you can get seats in the 8th row there,  I would hope the two sections (112 & 114) that are on the 50 yard line would be sold out but they are not. According to this link Sections 108,110,112,114,116,118, 107,109,111 & 113 all require a donation for season tickets. To my understanding it was people that sat on the EAST side that got bumped and were ticked off and said forget it. Most people don't like sitting in the chairbacks cause the elderly fans get mad if they cheer or forbid they stand up.

And did you see MU announced a new promotion today.. ALL Seats for OHIO are $15 if you use the promo code "MUONE" at Herdzone.com. I don't even think section 112 is sold out. I bet if I called the ticket office they have multiple single seats in that section. Just all the ones together are gone. 

Okay first off, I opened my last post with "You're right" I said I didn't realize the seats weren't sold out, because if you try to buy them individually on the website you can't... regardless they are close to sold out.

If they sit on the east side, it's a $50 donation with seats. My response was prompted by the other guy saying the fans were told "they'd have to pay a big extra fee"

Which isn't true.