I was attending SAIT the very first year that the U-Pass came out. Assuming that conditions of the U-Pass have not changed, the system's pretty solid.
1. You must be a student to make use of the U-Pass. It gets attached to your student ID card. On any other form of ID, it is null and void.
2. All full time students at a post secondary institution pay for the U-Pass as part of their tuition, whether they use it or not. That's how these institutions were able to get such a good price: the catch was 100% participation or no deal.
As I recall, this caused some controversy among the SAIT student body as a minority of students felt it was an unreasonable charge as they never rode Transit. the U of C SU actually rejected Calgary Transit's offer initially, but capitulated under majority pressure the following semester.
The conditions of the U-Pass make resale virtually pointless. Anyone that can use a U-pass should in theory already have one.
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