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    Will the friends of DCI plan work?

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    Friends of DCI was formed in the early 80's and has been a huge success. Friends have donated thousands of dollar each year to DCI and most support individual corps also. Once all the Friends request for tickets have been met DCI opens up the left over seats to the corps to sell. No seats within the 40's go unsold at the regionals or chapionships. I normally sit in the Friends section but I have never been a Freind of DCI since I prefer to donate directly to corps. If you want good sits

    guaranteed being a Friend of DCI is the way to go.

    See, I was unaware of this. I did not know that you could be considered a friend for direct donation to a corp. I thought all the money had to go directly through DCI.

    Will the friends of DCI plan work?

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    I took a look into what it comes to become a friend of DCI today out of curiosity's sake. Its quite a hefty cost to become a "friend". Now I have a simple question, will it work? Are regular fans going to show up to finals to see empty seats between the 40's because there aren't enough people willing to throw $1000+ at DCI or will the whole system pan out just the way DCI wants it? Please share your comments on this.

    DCI Student Discount

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    We do not advertise to and have often turned our backs on the older, wiser population of drum corps fans with income to spend,

    We give free tickets to high-school band students so they can attend shows,

    We discount some tickets for high school and college students so that we can gain their "Friendship," (they are the future)

    We do this so they will remember us and be loyal customers when they are older, more stable, and working with money,

    But as soon as they get older they become part of the older, wiser population, and we turn out backs to them, repeating the process.

    :satisfied::blink::wub::tongue::worthy: Sounds like an amazing idea to me.

    DCI Student Discount

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    Nothing personal kid, but you have just made the point that many on here have argued about for the past few years. The audience DCI is targeting can't afford tickets, yet DCI keeps pushing the legacy fans (who can afford it) away from the activity. Not a great business plan.

    The sad part is that the fan network is so much better of a deal. Of course it isn't live but I pay $60 (actually $30 since I split it with my brother) and I can watch shows the whole season. Maybe this is the audience they're targeting for the fan network, I don't know. I still wouldn't be able to watch finals though even if I weren't going to Indy.

    DCI Student Discount

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    Seeing as DCI's fan base is made up of many students, college and high school, has it ever been thought of to give a student discount for any tickets?

    I'm a college student myself and I work all summer in order to pay for school during the fall and winter semesters. This year I will once again be making my yearly trip down to finals, but this year will be a little bit different. Seeing as the prices for any decent seat in Lucas Oil Stadium are $75+ dollars, I will not be going in to see the show this year. Instead I plan to head down and just watch the lot scene all day. I have also even considered going to Open Class Finals as it is much cheaper, and you get to see some pretty good shows. I'm disapointed that the prices were bumped up from last year which made finals much more affordable. So has this ever happened? Would it ever work? I think discounts to college students would be great. It doesn't even have to be that much. If the discount made the prices the same as last year I probably wouldn't mind paying for it, but for now $75 just seems like a lot of money for the value of seat you're getting.

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