Well, they did it because of the constant gritching about empty seats on camera. The decision has good intentions, but is just carried out poorly.

What they should have done (in an ideal world and in my opinion) is provided a Flashseats subgroup where Aggies could trade and sell tickets to Aggies only (and of course, this wouldn't be 100% secure). Instead they made a money grab with StubHub and now the problem of empty seats will just worsen because it is such a pain (and way too expensive) to list and sell midweek and non-SEC tickets. Also, some folks may not have even used an Aggie only trading system because they don't even want to subject their fellow season ticket holders to some obnoxious Aggies that show up in the 3rd, get up in the middle of every inning for a drink or to take a phone call or whatever, and leave at the 7th inning stretch. And of course, there is no way to 100% police the re-selling of the tickets to visiting fans.They would rather leave the seats empty and let those loyal fans sitting around then enjoy the full game.

12th Man Ag said:

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What they should have done (in an ideal world and in my opinion) is provided a Flashseats subgroup where Aggies could trade and sell tickets to Aggies only (and of course, this wouldn't be 100% secure).

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or, just use the ticket exchange forum on Texags


Mid week games you can get GREAT seats it looks like for under face value (with fees on stubhub) and about the same cost as a high school baseball/basketball game.

Now that I've got it working, StubHub is way faster for listing a bunch of tickets.

But you literally need 3 different logins to do so (12MF, 12MF baseball marketplace, StubHub). I'm tech savvy, and it took 30 minutes to find everything I needed to list the first time. That barrier is gonna deter a lot of people.

And the $6 floor is killer. I used to sell midweeks for $2-3 (total cost to buyer) The absolute minimum you can sell for is essentially $10 after fees.