<p>Auburn allocates only 1000 tickets for the 5,000 or so freshmen and all were gone in the first minute of on-line ordering, meaning that many people trying to get tickets did not get them.</p>
<p>Does anyone have any helpful hints about how to get student tickets now?</p>
<p>some people buy tickets for the sole purpose of selling them at a profit. Keep a weather eye open on facebook, bulletins around campus, etc. for people selling tickets. Everyone is looking to sell at least one game's tickets usually. It WILL be more expensive, of course, but if you're really interested in going that's what you'll have to do.</p>
<p>Exactly how does this tranaction of buying a ticket take place. The student's ID is scanned at the gate and unless that student bought the ticket, he or she is not admitted. Also, students cannot buy regular tickets and sit in the student section. I don't know if students can change ID cards for the game or if that inconveniences them in other ways.</p>
<p>For a school known for its spirit, eliminating 80%+ of the freshman class from the football games is a big disappointment for freshmen who looked forward to ALL of Auburn.</p>
<p>My take is that it would be better to sell expensive student tickets for those who could not break through on line to buy a cheap ticket.</p>
<p>The student section is already full to capacity/overflowing. Shove any more people on top of that and it'd be ridiculous. My friends and I couldn't even find seats at the beginning of the game Saturday, we sat on stairs for the first quarter (until we scored a few times and people started leaving then we found a bit of space on a bench). I'm sorry that freshman often can't get tickets, but it happens. You can't punish the rest of us, who've been here vying for tickets for years, for the fact that Auburn just keeps getting bigger and the stadium doesn't. (Blame Auburn for not remodeling their stadium yet to hold more people.)</p>
<p>Also, "The student's ID is scanned at the gate and unless that student bought the ticket, he or she is not admitted." Never EVER happens. People sell tickets, which are on their IDs, ALLLLLLLL the time. They never look at the pictures on the IDs, and even if they did, I don't think it's against the rules to sell your ticket, because I have seen them let in senior citizens (people's parents and grandparents) and children (students' little brothers and sisters, and possibly their own kids) on the student ticket line with IDs and never look at them twice for it. There are always people trying to sell tickets: something comes up for that day which they have to go to, like taking the GRE or LSAT, or a wedding of a friend from high school, or whatever. People will even be selling Georgia and LSU tickets (for $100+) just to make some money if they're getting a little broke at the time. As I said previously, some people buy student tickets solely for the purpose of making a profit out of them, which if you sell your ticket to just one high-profile game (like those above, LSU and UGA) you'll make your money back and then some, right there. Basically, you just hook up with someone (on facebook, or by calling them off their fliers posted around campus, a friend of a friend, whatev) who is trying to sell a ticket, the friday before, get them ID from them and give them your money (sometimes people ask for a separate deposit to replace their ID should you lose it, sometimes not) and then get back with them on Sunday or Monday to give them their ID back. The only time it is imperative to get someone their ID back ASAP, and they are sure to let you know this, is if they live in a dorm and need it to get in their building.</p>