As promised, the ticket office monitored websites where Notre
Dame football tickets were being offered for sale without authorization
in the 2003 season. And in cases where the original purchasers
could be identified from row and seat numbers, the purchasers
were held accountable for their misdeeds.
The office says it caught 86 season ticket holders and as punishment
revoked their right to purchase tickets for a period of between
two and five years depending on how many game tickets the person
was offering for resale. The office confiscated a total of more
than 1,300 tickets that were either being offered for sale online
or scalped on campus.
Some of the scalpers were attempting to sell tickets they'd
purchased at the returned-ticket window the week of a game.
The office plans to continue its control efforts next season.
(April 2004)
