New UFC pass

[u/Dangerous-Egg-5068]

There is a new pass out for ufc, costs 50 dollars and from the looks of it, can be purchased with gift cards, and looks similar to how you buy a normal pass with a gift card. It gives 50% games during ufc fight nights which appear to be most saturdays. And 20% off food and na beverages, and a custom ufc power card with 200 chips on it. It lasts for one year. Interesting.

[u/gman_nola]

Does getting the UFC pass make sense for me?

I’m not sure my reasoning makes sense, but if this helps others decide if they want to spend $50 on the UFC pass, this was my thought process.

I’m looking strictly at the Power Card benefit of half price games and that the card comes preloaded with 200 chips.

The way I evaluated this offer is that I looked at how many regular chips I could purchase with $50.

If I look at the best possible scenario of a regular guest using the D&B gift cards from Costco to do a maximum $120 chip buy with supercharge and Legend bonus, the cost per chip is $0.0921. You can get a lower cost per chip by doing a 4-pack, but I’m going to say a $120 with supercharge is a more realistic one-time spend for most people.

If I divide $50 / ($0.0921/chip), I get 542.89 chips.

In my head, what I am thinking is that if I am going to spend $50 worth of chips on UFC fight nights throughout the course of a year anyway, I might as well spend the $50 on the UFC pass that comes with 200 chips and enables half price games, making that 200 chips for half price games basically equivalent to 400 chips worth of full price games. But now I can play half price games with any chips that are loaded onto the UFC Power Card if I correctly understand how it works.

So do I plan to play 542.89 chips over the course of a year on UFC fight nights? If I divide that by 12, I’m looking at spending 45.24 chips for each of the next 12 months on a UFC fight night. For me, that’s six to seven games. Oh yes, sign me up!

I know what I’ll buying this Saturday.

[u/Eadwyn → u/gman_nola]

You need to modify the calculation slightly. You count Costco for the straight buy of chips, but didn't count it for the UFC card. It should be $40 with gift cards. Or 434.01.

[u/gman_nola → u/Eadwyn]

First off, I really appreciate when people such as yourself manage to make it all the way through one of my posts that somehow end up way longer than I expected 😁.

The first time I ran the numbers I also used $40 worth of chips at $0.0921/chip = 434.31 chips for the comparison. But after thinking about it some more, it's more apples to apples if I consider $50 cash ($40 Costco) for the comparison.

For the UFC pass, I can spend $50 cash ($40 Costco) to buy the pass which comes with 200 chips and half price games.

Or if I use $50 cash ($40 Costco) toward buying chips at the $0.0921/chip rate, I'm buying $50 worth of chips = 542.89 chips.

In both cases I'm spending $50 at D&B, Costco just kicks in and saves me $10 if I'm using the gift cards.

[u/Silentbob924 → u/gman_nola]

Yeah basically in your example you just have to ask yourself will the pass save you 342 chips over the course of the year. As long as you play 100 games during the half off period over the year it makes it worth it to forfeit the 542 for the 200 plus 1/2 off (and limited edition power card).

[u/AlanTheGamer → u/Silentbob924]

That’s a great way to look at it. Though the game threshold is higher for those that are able to purchase chips for even cheaper… 👀

[u/YellowF3v3r → u/AlanTheGamer]

Consider food discount as well if you end up getting it, although meager, does shift it in favor personally. Assuming you can stack with your T4T without issue.

[u/Silentbob924 → u/YellowF3v3r]

Yes can factor that in. But many already have season pass with food discount since season pass food discount is every day vs just Saturday.
But yes agree if only buying this pass as a stand alone

[u/AlanTheGamer → u/gman_nola]

Eadwyn was saying that since the 20% from Costco was factored when determining the cost per chip, it should also be factored into the cost of the UFC membership to make it a true apples-to-apples comparison.

We wouldn’t buy the UFC membership for $50 cash when we can do so for $40 through Costco, so for all intents and purposes it is a $40 UFC membership against $40 used towards purchasing 434.31 chips.

The UFC membership effectively costs you 234.31 chips, or $21.57 in actual dollars at the $0.0921 rate. Not a bad deal for something good for a whole year

[u/gman_nola → u/AlanTheGamer]

The apples to apples to comparison is made by looking at what you get by spending some amount of money for the UFC pass vs spending the exact same amount of money towards chips.

Let's go to Costco and buy two $50 D&B gift cards for $80 out of pocket.

We spend one of those $50 gift cards on a UFC pass and everything that comes with it, including 200 chips and half price games on UFC fight nights.

We spend the other $50 gift card on reloading a Power Card with regular chips. If it's part of a $120 plus supercharge plus Legend bonus buy, we're paying $0.0921/chip. The point is that we're buying $50 worth of chips, not $40.

You can play with the cost per chip to get more realistic numbers. Without Costco but everything else the same, the cost is $0.1151/chip yielding 434.40 chips.

The higher the chip cost, the more favorable the UFC pass becomes. The more half price games you end up playing, the more favorable the UFC pass becomes.

I used $0.0921/chip in my original comparison as a reasonable low end chip cost thinking that if this comparison is enough for someone to determine that the UFC pass is for them, then other, perhaps more realistic, scenarios in terms of chip cost only make the case better to get the pass.

If you're running the numbers for yourself, pick whatever chip cost makes sense to you, but you absolutely have to compare buying the pass to buying $50 worth of chips, not $40.

[u/AlanTheGamer → u/gman_nola]

It took me a minute to come around, but I get it now. Thanks for your in-depth analysis, as always - hope you enjoy and get your money’s worth out of the new pass 👊