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Students see profits by flipping
season football tickets on Facebook
Many students have used online class pages to resell their tickets to key games
University of Michigan class
Facebook
pages,
meant
for
academic inquiries, awkward
freshman year introductions
and
wholesome
memes
are
now a front for student football
ticket sales.
MarketNoire,
an
open
Facebook group with the sole
purpose of serving as a space for
transactions between students,
has close to 7,000 members and
is a frequent stop for students
trying to buy or sell their
football tickets.
Pharmacy student Kimberly
Pais said she’s sold numerous
tickets
this
year
using
MarketNoire
and
Facebook
class pages.
“I’ve been doing it for a
while,” Pais said. “For the
most part, I get blasted with
messages right away.”
Pais has been selling since
her
undergraduate
years,
which were also spent at the
University.
“I’m basically just trying to
make my money back,” she said.
“I try and sell it around the
average value. If I really want to
sell it, I’ll sell it for a little under
just so I can get rid of it.”
On the other end of the
spectrum is LSA sophomore
Matthew
Askar,
who
only
recently
started
flipping
football tickets for a profit.
“When I originally sold my
first (Ohio State) ticket, I kept
getting messages from people
offering me different prices
and I realized I could’ve gotten
a lot more,” Askar said. “So I
messaged other people asking
how much they were selling
their tickets for and realized
there was a gap, so I started
trying to flip tickets.”
Askar has bought about 10
tickets and has flipped four of
them for a profit.
“At first I felt bad, but then
I realized that if you’re not
willing to do the research — and
I am taking the time to look it
up and message people — it kind
of evens out,” he said.
His greatest profit margin
thus far has been $150.
“You feel some achievement
when you flip a ticket,” he said.
“It feels like I’m doing some shit
with my life.”
Askar
also
conducts
his
business using MarketNoire,
and already has plans for the
future.
“Next
year,
probably
not
(going to try) because we don’t
have the big games,” he said.
“But for sure senior year, I can
capitalize on that.”
Both
Pais
and
Askar
recognize
some
seasons
can produce more valuable
tickets than others. This year,
with both the Ohio State
and Michigan State games at
the Big House, University of
Michigan ticket holders are
selling without any problems.
“I was trying to sell my OSU
ticket and like five seconds
later some girl messaged me
and I sold it,” Pais said.
Associate Athletic Director
Kurt Svoboda wrote in an
email interview that 21,000
tickets were sold this year,
the highest demand for tickets
since 23,584 student tickets
were purchased in the 2007
season.
In
regards
to
students
reselling their student tickets,
Svoboda commented, “We love
it when our venues are full
because it adds so positively to
our atmosphere. In that regard,
I’d much rather have a ticket
utilized than to go unused.”
RACHEL LEVY
Daily Staff Reporter
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My friend just replied all to
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sume. He is not a freshmen.
My condolences to him.
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@kaixmason
Mark Schilissel, welcome to the
resistance
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Are the @umich buses ever going
to run consistently or should I
always plan an hour to get from
central to north campus? @
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Getting goosebumps at
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UMSI Bicentennial
Symposium
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learn from experts, panels and
a student poster exhibition
showcasing about the ever-
changing field of information in
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WHO: School of Information
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WHERE: Rackham Graduate
School, Auditorium and Fourth
Floor
Minor in Writing Info
Session
WHAT: Learn about the minor
in writing, which develops
disciplinary and professional
writing abilities and certifies
compositionary expertise to
prospective employers.
WHO: Sweetland Center for
Writing
WHEN: 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: Angell Hall, Room G219
Symphony Band Chamber
Winds
WHAT: Symphony Band
musicians will perform works
inspired by Finnish, German,
Italian, Japanese and Spanish
musical traditions.
WHO: School of Music, Theatre
& Dance
WHEN: 8 p.m.
WHERE: Earl V. Moore Building,
Hankinson Rehearsal Hall
Cafe Du UMix
WHAT: In this week’s UMix,
get cozy with hot chocolate,
trivia, crafts and a screening of
the Princess and the Frog to stay
warm during the cool weather.
WHO: Center for Campus
Involvement
WHEN: 10:00 p.m. to 2 a.m.
WHERE: Michigan Union
Lecture on
#fragilemasculinity
WHAT: Psychology student
Jennifer Rubin will explore the
conenction between men’s need
to reaffirm their masculinity and
the culture of online harassment
towards women.
WHO: Department of Philosophy
WHEN: 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
WHERE: Angell Hall, Room 1164
Movie Night on the Diag
WHAT: Enjoy a free screening of
Spiderman: Homecoming while
munching on donuts and apple
cider.
WHO: Office of Greek Life
WHEN: 7:45 p.m. to 6 p.m.
WHERE: Angell Hall, Room
3154
Conversation with Art
Law Pioneer S. Hodes
WHAT: Scott Hodes, a
University alum internationally
recognized for his contributions
to the field of art law, will share
his insights with History of Art
associate professor Joan Kee.
WHO: History of Art
WHEN: 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.
WHERE: Tappan Hall, Room 180
Dogs on the Diag
WHAT: Come and see how
therapy and service dogs can help
people. Pat the dogs and learn
from volunteers about how your
pet can assist those in need.
WHO: Council for Disability
Concerns
WHEN: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
WHERE: Diag
Every Friday, the Michigan Daily will
be republishing an article from the
Daily’s archives from a moment in
University history.
December 4, 1989
— Some fans
perform salt rituals. Others repeatedly
wear the same socks, jerseys and
boxers shorts. For die-hard fans of the
maize and blue, these superstitions are
a force that helped carry the football
team all the way to the Rose Bowl.
SA first-year student Dylan Brock
said his green-and-black plaid boxer
shorts and his blue down comforter
propelled the team to Pasadena.
His superstition evolved over this
year’s winning season. “I always
sleep in until the game on gameday
Saturday mornings,” Brock said. “I
would never get changed until after
the game was over. So I would wear
my boxers and then wrap myself in my
dark blue comforter. My friend would
come over to watch the games, and we
kept winning.”
The whole thing started as a joke,
Brock said. But after securing his first
game ticket of the year, Brock showed
up at Michigan Stadium for the Ohio
State game clad in his trusty box- and
armed with his familiar comforter.
After the Wolverines disposed
of the Buckeyes, Brock ditched the
comforter for a joyful jaunt around the
field in just his boxer shorts.
“When we blew out Penn State,
I kept saying it was because of my
comforter,” Brock said. “Then my
friends convinced me that it was true,
and I guess I convinced myself.”
The true test was the Wisconsin
game, Brock said.
“I ordered pizza and when the
pizza guy came I had to get dressed to
go get my pizza,” Brock said. “When
I got dressed and went downstairs,
Wisconsin scored a touchdown. That’s
when I realized that there was a direct
correlation between the two. I came
back and got undressed. We won the
game, but we didn’t blow them out.”
LSA junior David Lanxner said his
elaborate salt ritual has brought the
maize and blue to the Rose Bowl.
“I don’t know how it got started,”
Lanxner said. “I started doing it this
year before every football game.
Before the games I would pour salt
around the stadium and our house.”
The ritual traditionally is
performed around someone’s feet,
room or bed to bring them good luck,
Lanxner said.
“My family is really superstitious,”
Lanxner said. “I watched this
Middle Eastern movie when I was
little, where this little boy kept
having nightmares. The little boy’s
grandmother poured salt around
the boy’s bed and put a knife in the
mattress to get rid of bad spirits. I
guess I kind of picked up on that.”
University alumnus Mark Grueber
said he and his former first-year
roommate Dave Gamm are the proud
owners of a giant letter “D” and a
cardboard picket fence that they use to
show support for the team’s defensive
abilities.
“We have had the D-fence for two
years,” Grueber said. “The first time
we used it was the Ohio-Michigan
game two years ago. They won that
game, 31-23.”
Grueber said that because he and
Gamm were unaware of the power
of the D-fence, they didn’t use it at all
last year.
“We brought it to every game this
year,” Grueber said.
Since Grueber and Gamm live apart
from one another, they only use the
special weapon when they watch the
game together.
“It’s the two of us that make the
force. I am the fence and Dave is
the D,” Gruebber said. “Combined
knowledge is more powerful. We’re
sick.”
Other requirements for Grueber
and Gamm are wearing the same
clothes to every game.
“We must also enter the same gate
and leave at the same time - that is
essential,’ Grueber said.
For Brock, his revealing ensemble
proved a little hazardous after the
Ohio State game.
“I wore just my special boxers and
my comforter into the stadium,” Brock
said. “I was extremely jubilant that we
won. I ran onto the field in just my
boxers, running around and hugging
all my friends. When I tried to leave
through the endzone, I got kind of
thrown around by the cops. It got
kinda rough, but it was definitely an
interesting experience.”
For his part, Lanxner even poured
a circle of salt around Michigan
Stadium the day of the Ohio State
game. “I think I might even use this
for finals,” Lanxner said.
—STEPHANIE HEPBURN
Daily Staff Reporter
FRIDAY’S BICENTENNIAL FEATURE: SUPERSTITIOUS FANS PREPARE FOR GAME