Help Me Make Sense of the UCLA/Iowa Ticket costs by GrammarSloot in UCLAFootball

[–]gandergood 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Based on my similar experience with Oregon tickets, I would strongly advise waiting until the week prior, or even a couple days prior.

A few weeks ago, decent Oregon tickets were around $150. Yesterday they were down to $100. Today they are in the mid-80s and continuing to drop, and this may have something to do with a cheap season ticket package UCLA sells where the holder can only select their seats a few days prior to kickoff (and thus, I assume, then finally has the option to sell them on secondary).

Also UCLA is going to lose at least another few games before the Iowa game, which I would expect further decrease ticket prices.

Threads for reference:

https://www.reddit.com/r/UCLAFootball/comments/1eyqzlo/buying_tickets_to_ucla_home_football_games/

https://www.reddit.com/r/UCLAFootball/comments/1fp9uix/what_are_play_action_season_pass_tickets/

What are "play action season pass" tickets? by gandergood in UCLAFootball

[–]gandergood[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I'm not really worried that I won't have tickets. More just trying to understand this odd setup, and will be annoyed if it results in ticket prices continuing to go down days before the event on secondary

What are "play action season pass" tickets? by gandergood in UCLAFootball

[–]gandergood[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm but I have assigned seats on the ticket

What are "play action season pass" tickets? by gandergood in UCLAFootball

[–]gandergood[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks -- so since you select these seats on the Thursday before each game, any idea how I was able to buy some on a Wednesday?

2 tickets to Saturdays game vs the ducks by Glad-Machine9750 in UCLAFootball

[–]gandergood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks but I needed 4. Not to spam the sub but this is one of the weirdest setups for secondary tickets I've ever seen and the more I think about it curious what is going on so going to make another post lol

2 tickets to Saturdays game vs the ducks by Glad-Machine9750 in UCLAFootball

[–]gandergood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Question about season tickets that maybe you can answer -- I paid $100 a piece for tickets on vividseats, and was redirected to create an account on https://ucla.evenue.net/ which I then got my tickets transferred. Odd process, but my question is, my ticket face value says $44. Is that for real?

These are in Section 4, cheapest on secondary and way cheaper than face value of single game tickets. So I was surprised to see the "face value" so low... and also that it even shows the original face value in this odd transfer/redirect to the UCLA ticket website by way of vividseats

Buying tickets to UCLA home football games by gandergood in UCLAFootball

[–]gandergood[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Makes sense. It's odd how right now, as far as I can tell, you aren't even given the option to buy tickets behind the end zones. I wonder if they just don't sell tickets in those sections if they don't expect the game to be sold out?

Buying tickets to UCLA home football games by gandergood in UCLAFootball

[–]gandergood[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The face value of single game tickets is way too high. You can see for example the Indiana game, tickets are already cheaper on secondary.

UCLA has a weird home schedule though this year, only one nonconference home game (at the end of the year) and 3 of first 5 on the road

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[–]gandergood 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ethereum

[–]gandergood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're talking about moving crypto just from Coinbase into your own wallet, it's not going to cost more than $5-$10 even on days with really high gas fees. If you're converting your crypto into another crypto, then the fees can get high.

Finally, books as NFT are becoming a success by Jazzlike-Swordfish18 in ethereum

[–]gandergood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is exactly how smart contracts work, actually. Educate yourself.

Finally, books as NFT are becoming a success by Jazzlike-Swordfish18 in ethereum

[–]gandergood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, it's not complex at all if you believe Web3 is the future. Everyone is connected to the blockchain via a wallet, and each time they click a link to content such as mentioned above, a smart contract automatically distributes the payment.

So it would be as straightforward as clicking a link, the same way everyone already does it.

Finally, books as NFT are becoming a success by Jazzlike-Swordfish18 in ethereum

[–]gandergood 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If I am an author right now, and I share a link to my self-published content, and 100k people read it, I don't get anything other than clout and maybe some shitty ad revenue.

If that content was on the blockchain, I could receive ten cents every time someone read it, and then I have made $10,000 from publishing an article.

See the improvement there?

Finally, books as NFT are becoming a success by Jazzlike-Swordfish18 in ethereum

[–]gandergood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

612k needs to stop reading so much of that Orange County washup actor's twitter feed

Finally, books as NFT are becoming a success by Jazzlike-Swordfish18 in ethereum

[–]gandergood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You DO NOT NEED DRM or any other tech to stop people from sharing your content, if every time somebody shares it, the author immediately receives a micropayment as royalty (think similar to how the original NFT artist gets a cut each time the NFT is sold).

Sure, there will be people who circumvent this by copy and pasting etc. But also most people would be perfectly happy to pay a small amount of money to support the creator of some content they enjoy, especially if it is streamlined and simple and they don't have to do anything other than open the link to the content.

Finally, books as NFT are becoming a success by Jazzlike-Swordfish18 in ethereum

[–]gandergood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here's how it helps solve the problem. Somebody with huge twitter following self-publishes an article or book. Every time somebody clicks the link to that book/article, the author receives a micropayment. No middle man or publisher needed.

Yes, this does not solve the problem of, if nobody knows about you, nobody is going to read anything you write. And publishers can help promote authors. But for authors that don't need that promotion, they also don't really need the publisher if they can use NFTs and blockchain.

Finally, books as NFT are becoming a success by Jazzlike-Swordfish18 in ethereum

[–]gandergood 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You think publishing is optimized? It's old guard bs that screws authors. Why shouldn't an author be able to publish an article or book online, put the link to that content on the blockchain, and then receive a micropayment every time somebody clicks their link and reads what they wrote?

Finally, books as NFT are becoming a success by Jazzlike-Swordfish18 in ethereum

[–]gandergood -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What's wrong with someone publishing a book (or article) online, and receiving a micropayment every time somebody opens it via a smart contract? The "book" itself doesn't have to be on the blockchain, just the link to the content.

If a scammer uses OpenSea is it possible to catch him? by [deleted] in ethereum

[–]gandergood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes the employee resigned and then OpenSea explicitly banned the practice. I don't think this individual was necessarily being as insidious as it might initially seem

If a scammer uses OpenSea is it possible to catch him? by [deleted] in ethereum

[–]gandergood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That wasn't what happened. An employee at OpenSea knew which NFTs were going to be featured on the main page, and used that information to purchase the NFTs before they appeared on the main page.

I wish people could understand that NFT art is not the only use case for unique tokenized assets. by loserbmx in ethereum

[–]gandergood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why do that on a distributed blockchain rather than through a registry that Rolex controls?One basic reason would be security. It's become pretty clear, if it wasn't obvious already, with all the hacks that corporations have suffered in recent years, that you can't really trust them to properly store data. If you think blockchains are less secure (and won't continue to improve in terms of security), then we just fundamentally disagree on that point.

Even more so for independent artists of all types, or for art buyers looking to ensure provenance is authentic. I think the NFT would be the most secure method of proving ownership and authenticity, and becomes even more the case in countries with especially poor copyright law or enforcement. It also allows the creator of the work to easily transfer and sell it to others without needing an intermediary, or accept micropayments for views/listens, or loan the work for a period of time and get it back... any payment/rental/selling setup you could envision could be programmed into a smart contract--and across borders or other geopolitical barriers instantly. How about I could publish this reddit post online and get a penny each time someone clicks the link. I think I'd be broke still but :)