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Post by Ginger on Mar 6, 2014 12:25:56 GMT -6
We ended up having to move over 4 seats. So we had two groups of 4 right next to each other and now we have 4 separated by 4 and then another 4. It's fucking bullshit. It could have been worse, but as far as I'm concerned putting just the tip in is just as much of a rape as going balls deep. I hear ya. Like I said they moved the visitors seats to my section and now I'll have to listen to some minnesota ass hat cheer every time they get a first down. For what? Just so Barta could charge a $50 seat fee to some Hawk that wanted seats in the South end zone. If I make through the season without punching someone it will be a miracle. MN asshats are THE worst.
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Post by Ginger on Mar 6, 2014 12:39:15 GMT -6
have we figured out who litusa used to be yet? I haven't tried too hard. You have any ideas?
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Post by egadsto on Mar 6, 2014 12:45:39 GMT -6
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Post by NOTTHOR on Mar 6, 2014 13:15:51 GMT -6
I just found out my sister doesn't get to pick seats until April. Okeefe you must have made sizable donations in order to get your seats. I don't believe that just because you've been a long time ticket buyer that you've got an "in" UNLESS you've been a longtime ticket buyer AND make large donations. A friend of my sisters that graduated only 5 years ago but makes donations gets to pick his tickets a week after her. She saw somewhere some chart that said that 60% of iowa fans with tickets had less points than her....and she's picking in April after buying tickets since the mid 80's? It's the donations making the difference. PM me your points. I'm curious in the difference. I can't get a hold of Happy Chef, but our points were 9 years of season tickets (27) points, plus member of I-Club (1 point), plus Golden Hawk status (20 points), plus 10 points for alumni status, plus 1 point for every $100 of donations. Tickets are in Happy Chef's name bince he itemized his taxes and could take advantage of the deductions (I didn't have enough deductions until Illinois raised its income taxes drastically and I bought mah condo), so I don't have the exact numbers, but I think it works out as about: 2006 - $800 (8) (first year donations kicked in) 2007 - $800 (8) 2008 - $1600 (16) (this was the year we went to 4 tickets) 2009-2012 - $6400 total - 1600 x 4 years(64 points) 2013 - $2500 (25) (to get to Golden Hawk for the reseating year bince we realized going in we would need to make up points for 2006 and 2007 where we only had 2 tix) So Happy Chef had 58 points based on length of ticketholder status, GoldenHok plus i-club and alumni status. Plus 121 for donations (I think he also had a few years where he may have donated $2k to move up parking rather than $1600, but I don't recall offhand). So that is 169 points (keep in mind that's just my guess, but I think it may have been a little higher). But fact is, everyone in our section who has had the same tickets bince the reseating will be on par or slightly ahead of us (bince we only had two seats our first two years out of law school, but we tried to make up for the two seats with a bigger 2013 donation). In other words, everyone who has had 4 seats in our section bince 2006 would have 128 points just for donations to get the tickets. But the guy sitting next to us, who has always given the minimum, picked almost two weeks before us because he has 128 points for donations and roughly 30 years as a ticketholder (so roughly 60 points above us by virtue of the fact he's in his mid 50's and has bought bince he graduated collej). Me and Chef had planned on keeping the tix forevah and we'll eat this shit sandwich because it is the cost of doing bidness with these fucking crooks. However, my charitable plans with respect to the broader institution are irreparably severed at this point. If the school served up a shit sammich because Ashton Kutcher wrote out a high 6 or 7 figure check and happened to want to sit in the back row and took out my seats, I wouldn't be pissed about it, but this is just a straight up generational theft of our fucking seats because the donation differences of people sitting in our section are fucking miniscule, so we're clearly dealing with some asshole baby boomer who took our seats. I guess, Toots, what I'm trying to say here is that donations make the difference as between us and your sister, who has likely never donated anything material, but vis a vis other people who have been in our section and donated alongside us, the tiebreaker becomes longevity as a season ticket holder because there is very little deviation in donation levels until you get into the $600/seat donation sections or up in the club where the senior partner in mah shop who makes over a mil a year and has no qualms about cutting a $10k check sits. And that guy is a fucking TavernHok who picked Harvard over Iowa. #facepalm #worseseatsthanaTavernHok
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Post by GhostMod 5000 on Mar 6, 2014 13:53:42 GMT -6
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Post by Ginger on Mar 6, 2014 15:29:47 GMT -6
I just found out my sister doesn't get to pick seats until April. Okeefe you must have made sizable donations in order to get your seats. I don't believe that just because you've been a long time ticket buyer that you've got an "in" UNLESS you've been a longtime ticket buyer AND make large donations. A friend of my sisters that graduated only 5 years ago but makes donations gets to pick his tickets a week after her. She saw somewhere some chart that said that 60% of iowa fans with tickets had less points than her....and she's picking in April after buying tickets since the mid 80's? It's the donations making the difference. PM me your points. I'm curious in the difference. I can't get a hold of Happy Chef, but our points were 9 years of season tickets (27) points, plus member of I-Club (1 point), plus Golden Hawk status (20 points), plus 10 points for alumni status, plus 1 point for every $100 of donations. Tickets are in Happy Chef's name bince he itemized his taxes and could take advantage of the deductions (I didn't have enough deductions until Illinois raised its income taxes drastically and I bought mah condo), so I don't have the exact numbers, but I think it works out as about: 2006 - $800 (8) (first year donations kicked in) 2007 - $800 (8) 2008 - $1600 (16) (this was the year we went to 4 tickets) 2009-2012 - $6400 total - 1600 x 4 years(64 points) 2013 - $2500 (25) (to get to Golden Hawk for the reseating year bince we realized going in we would need to make up points for 2006 and 2007 where we only had 2 tix) So Happy Chef had 58 points based on length of ticketholder status, GoldenHok plus i-club and alumni status. Plus 121 for donations (I think he also had a few years where he may have donated $2k to move up parking rather than $1600, but I don't recall offhand). So that is 169 points (keep in mind that's just my guess, but I think it may have been a little higher). But fact is, everyone in our section who has had the same tickets bince the reseating will be on par or slightly ahead of us (bince we only had two seats our first two years out of law school, but we tried to make up for the two seats with a bigger 2013 donation). In other words, everyone who has had 4 seats in our section bince 2006 would have 128 points just for donations to get the tickets. But the guy sitting next to us, who has always given the minimum, picked almost two weeks before us because he has 128 points for donations and roughly 30 years as a ticketholder (so roughly 60 points above us by virtue of the fact he's in his mid 50's and has bought bince he graduated collej). Me and Chef had planned on keeping the tix forevah and we'll eat this shit sandwich because it is the cost of doing bidness with these fucking crooks. However, my charitable plans with respect to the broader institution are irreparably severed at this point. If the school served up a shit sammich because Ashton Kutcher wrote out a high 6 or 7 figure check and happened to want to sit in the back row and took out my seats, I wouldn't be pissed about it, but this is just a straight up generational theft of our fucking seats because the donation differences of people sitting in our section are fucking miniscule, so we're clearly dealing with some asshole baby boomer who took our seats. I guess, Toots, what I'm trying to say here is that donations make the difference as between us and your sister, who has likely never donated anything material, but vis a vis other people who have been in our section and donated alongside us, the tiebreaker becomes longevity as a season ticket holder because there is very little deviation in donation levels until you get into the $600/seat donation sections or up in the club where the senior partner in mah shop who makes over a mil a year and has no qualms about cutting a $10k check sits. And that guy is a fucking TavernHok who picked Harvard over Iowa. #facepalm #worseseatsthanaTavernHok JFC! Did you even exhale when writing all of this? I had to read it three times and didn't breathe through the whole thing! No she has never donated that much...ever! Isn't the fucking price of the tickets enough? Her points are about half of what Happy Chef has. So that's crazy if even then, half of the ticket holders had less points than her. I think a lot of people also do what my sister does and buys several tickets with the help of friends and family members and scalp the extras if people don't want to go. They might be able to get some money back but I can't imagine you'd break even.
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Post by #70 on Mar 6, 2014 15:39:53 GMT -6
Someone in that deal is definitely winning and one is absolutely losing. Hey ok4p, I have some ocean front property for sale. But you better hurry.
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Post by The Resistance on Mar 6, 2014 15:48:18 GMT -6
Partner seems to be plugged into a 440 volt supply lately. WTF, dude?
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Post by Ginger on Mar 6, 2014 15:48:53 GMT -6
Partner seems to be plugged into a 440 volt supply lately. WTF, dude? Probably had some wheat and it's kicked in his ADHD.
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Post by livingintheusa on Mar 6, 2014 19:11:50 GMT -6
PREZ If the money has not been laid by the OP a quick call to the ticket office can take care of this
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Post by livingintheusa on May 14, 2014 18:15:34 GMT -6
Hey PREZ I checked the News to day O boy. O'Face Seats next to my PRIMO NE endzone seats are still on sale. Stand by your man.
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Post by Gumbyhawk on May 14, 2014 18:27:24 GMT -6
Just getting into this thread and I gotta say "LOL!!" Even Le Pardner is not immune to getting fucked by the U.
So glad that my primo seat is now at home on my couch. Though it won't be long before Shitty Sally and Gary Fucktard find a way to take that too.
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Post by Plez Azkins on May 14, 2014 19:01:15 GMT -6
The dude that got our seats through his deceased father's "account" got caught, but the U is still letting him have the tickets for 3 more years as long as he puts them in the name of his business. After 3 years, he loses the points his dad accrued. I thought that was pretty decent of the ticket office.
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Post by NotMyKid on May 14, 2014 19:13:11 GMT -6
We moved down 10 rows and moved over a section to hopefully avoid the moron proles we sat by. My guess we will just be sitting by moron proles wit money now. Fingers crossed .
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Post by Gumbyhawk on May 14, 2014 19:28:03 GMT -6
The dude that got our seats through his deceased father's "account" got caught, but the U is still letting him have the tickets for 3 more years as long as he puts them in the name of his business. After 3 years, he loses the points his dad accrued. I thought that was pretty decent of the ticket office. Yeah, that's kinda why the Old Man and I stopped getting the season tix that we had for like 27 yrs or some shit. The tix were under his name to accumulate the points and then he had planned to hand over the tix and points to me somewhere down the road. Come to find out points no longer transfer. Plus, we would get moved AGAIN. We basically said "fuck this" and out. I understand you can't please all of the people all of the time, but Bartard and Shitty Sally sure seem to be able to piss off most of the people most of the time.
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Post by Ginger on May 14, 2014 19:35:39 GMT -6
The dude that got our seats through his deceased father's "account" got caught, but the U is still letting him have the tickets for 3 more years as long as he puts them in the name of his business. After 3 years, he loses the points his dad accrued. I thought that was pretty decent of the ticket office. Yeah, that's kinda why the Old Man and I stopped getting the season tix that we had for like 27 yrs or some shit. The tix were under his name to accumulate the points and then he had planned to hand over the tix and points to me somewhere down the road. Come to find out points no longer transfer. Plus, we would get moved AGAIN. We basically said "fuck this" and out. I understand you can't please all of the people all of the time, but Bartard and Shitty Sally sure seem to be able to piss off most of the people most of the time. WTF? Points don't transfer anymore? Since when? Where is the linky? Shit. I've been buying mine through my sisters priority. I'm been screwing myself I guess.
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Post by NOTTHOR on May 14, 2014 19:42:40 GMT -6
Just getting into this thread and I gotta say "LOL!!" Even Le Pardner is not immune to getting fucked by the U. So glad that my primo seat is now at home on my couch. Though it won't be long before Shitty Sally and Gary Fucktard find a way to take that too. Meh, I ain't as pissed now as I was, but I still ain't giving those fucking crooks a nickel. My buddy's mom died on Sunday. I sent him an email with condolences and asked him if they had an in lieu of flowers charity. He sent me info on an endowed scholarship fund his family had established at UNI in his mom's name. I called UNI as soon as I got the info and sent them enough cash to pay for that scholarship for a year. That was the money that would have gone to Iowa, but fuck them. I'll send the alumni relations person from the law school a copy of the gift receipt in case they thought I was joking about making donations. I'll feel much better about some education major from Black Hawk County getting my money than those fucksticks in Iowa City anyway. Fucking assholes.
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Post by NOTTHOR on May 14, 2014 19:44:03 GMT -6
Yeah, that's kinda why the Old Man and I stopped getting the season tix that we had for like 27 yrs or some shit. The tix were under his name to accumulate the points and then he had planned to hand over the tix and points to me somewhere down the road. Come to find out points no longer transfer. Plus, we would get moved AGAIN. We basically said "fuck this" and out. I understand you can't please all of the people all of the time, but Bartard and Shitty Sally sure seem to be able to piss off most of the people most of the time. WTF? Points don't transfer anymore? Since when? Where is the linky? Shit. I've been buying mine through my sisters priority. I'm been screwing myself I guess. No, they don't transfer. Your sister is the one with the account. HappyChef has our account. If your sister or HappyChef dies, we're fucked.
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Post by NOTTHOR on May 14, 2014 19:47:30 GMT -6
The dude that got our seats through his deceased father's "account" got caught, but the U is still letting him have the tickets for 3 more years as long as he puts them in the name of his business. After 3 years, he loses the points his dad accrued. I thought that was pretty decent of the ticket office. As long as you guys didn't bump someone from their seats and just kept your original seats, that seems reasonable. But if you bumped someone, that is fucked up and everyone in your party should be castrated.
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Post by Ginger on May 14, 2014 19:52:53 GMT -6
WTF? Points don't transfer anymore? Since when? Where is the linky? Shit. I've been buying mine through my sisters priority. I'm been screwing myself I guess. No, they don't transfer. Your sister is the one with the account. HappyChef has our account. If your sister or HappyChef dies, we're fucked. Son. Of. A. Bitch.
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Post by Plez Azkins on May 14, 2014 20:06:22 GMT -6
The dude that got our seats through his deceased father's "account" got caught, but the U is still letting him have the tickets for 3 more years as long as he puts them in the name of his business. After 3 years, he loses the points his dad accrued. I thought that was pretty decent of the ticket office. As long as you guys didn't bump someone from their seats and just kept your original seats, that seems reasonable. But if you bumped someone, that is fucked up and everyone in your party should be castrated. We kept our seats.
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Post by GhostMod 5000 on May 15, 2014 7:40:36 GMT -6
Pics of you screwing yourself or stfu
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Post by NotMyKid on May 15, 2014 8:18:00 GMT -6
I have a friend who has had tickets with his wife for the last 10 years, they are both staff now but he wasn't at the time they got married. They started ordering another set when he went to work for the U of I about 5 years ago.
So it's time to pick the wife's seats and there isn't 4 anywhere together near the section that they currently sit in and he didn't pick for another week at that time. They sit in a $50 per seat donation level but as staff they don't have to pay for that because they are grandfathered in with no seat donation as long as they keep their current seats.
Basically what the ticket office did by doing this is force them to move to sit together and if they did they would have to start paying $200 for their 4 seats. So they said fuck it and moved to the Endzone.
Even the student at the ticket office admitted that setting it up that way forces people to move so they can get seat donations out of those seats that they haven't been collecting on because staff was grandfathered.
As I said before in this thread the people to be pissed at are the staff and retired staff sitting in the $200,$400, and $600 seat donation sections that don't and won't move because they will be forced to pay more. Those are the fuckers that have been sitting in choice seats forever in some cases never donated a dime and pay the reduced staff ticket rate when the person sitting next to them could have donated $50K and still have the same seats as a prole janitor from the U that doesn't donate a thing.
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Post by Ed Jeffries on May 15, 2014 11:40:43 GMT -6
Good afternoon OKEEFE4PREZ and Jiāng,
Might I recommend hefty life insurance policies on "HappyChef" and Jiāng's sister? When they die, you could buy your way back in to your seats with donations and the points program. But guess who wins again in this scenario?
Regards, Ed
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Post by Ginger on May 15, 2014 11:49:59 GMT -6
Good afternoon OKEEFE4PREZ and Jiāng, Might I recommend hefty life insurance policies on "HappyChef" and Jiāng's sister? When they die, you could buy your way back in to your seats with donations and the points program. But guess who wins again in this scenario? Regards, Ed Dear Ed, I can't speak for Okeefe but I really think this is a fine idea. Thank you. She has very high cholesterol and a high stress level to boot, so it's only a matter of time. From what I've heard about Happy Chef, he seems to have a severe drinking problem so the same can be said for him. At the very least we could buy a room in the press box and invite all our fellow Wastelanders. Ginger
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