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Brutus Buckeye

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Re: Buying tickets out front
« Reply #56 on: July 29, 2024, 10:29:00 PM »


Out here in no man's land, the e-tickets can easily be exchanged for regular tickets, for those of us that don't want to have a phone taking up valuable pocket space, and don't want to have to carry an 8x11 sheet of paper around all night, just in case someone wants to see the ticket.

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Re: Buying tickets out front
« Reply #57 on: July 29, 2024, 10:34:19 PM »
Quote from: bayareabadger on July 29, 2024, 02:15:06 PM
It’s most irritating because you have to get super deep into the buying process before it shows them. So you often have to give up a credit card number just to find out what they are.
Just like renting a car.  Would be very easy and everyone would agree to just require the fees to be included in any advertised prices.  

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Re: Buying tickets out front
« Reply #58 on: July 29, 2024, 10:35:14 PM »
longhorn still writes checks at the grocery store
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Re: Buying tickets out front
« Reply #59 on: July 30, 2024, 12:03:54 AM »
Quote from: utee94 on July 29, 2024, 10:04:34 AM
Right, and you can still wait until gameday, go down to the tailgate party, and wait for the online prices to drop in the secondary marketplace, as kickoff draws closer.  Then, a couple clicks on your smartphone and voila, you've got tickets.  It's really no different than before except instead of having to go to the "right corner" outside the stadium to find the most sellers, you have instant access to a lot more options, online.

Obviously this only applies to a game that is going to have excess tickets at gametime.  Super sold-out games won't have a glut of available tickets online, but they also never had a glut of available tickets from folks on the street.  What few were available, would be extremely high priced, same as online.
I hate using my phone to search and buy things online. My fingers are much to large, and the click icons, much to small. If it is sunny, the screen is way too dark. Nevertheless, that could be good advice, but in your experience, and the experience of others on here, do online ticket prices drop in the hour before the game? Are sellers really manning their station to adjust prices?
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Re: Buying tickets out front
« Reply #60 on: July 30, 2024, 12:10:47 AM »
Quote from: bayareabadger on July 29, 2024, 02:15:06 PM
It’s most irritating because you have to get super deep into the buying process before it shows them. So you often have to give up a credit card number just to find out what they are.
I noticed today that on U of Iowa's "Seatgeek" link that if you look carefully, you can click a button that shows the full price with fees for all tickets being sold, and it seems they are 20% or so higher than listed price. I should have invented "Seatgeek." Some geek is getting rich with very little effort. Twenty years ago I would have said that's the American way. Now it seems more like Russians or North Koreans ripping off Americans.
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« Reply #61 on: July 30, 2024, 08:01:37 AM »
When I go out, I bring my phone. It never leaves my car and comes into a restaurant, store, bar, etc. 

I HATE carrying it around.
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Re: Buying tickets out front
« Reply #62 on: July 30, 2024, 08:06:51 AM »
Quote from: Hawkinole on July 30, 2024, 12:10:47 AM
I noticed today that on U of Iowa's "Seatgeek" link that if you look carefully, you can click a button that shows the full price with fees for all tickets being sold, and it seems they are 20% or so higher than listed price. I should have invented "Seatgeek." Some geek is getting rich with very little effort. Twenty years ago I would have said that's the American way. Now it seems more like Russians or North Koreans ripping off Americans.
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Re: Buying tickets out front
« Reply #63 on: July 30, 2024, 08:10:15 AM »
Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on July 29, 2024, 10:29:00 PM

Out here in no man's land, the e-tickets can easily be exchanged for regular tickets, for those of us that don't want to have a phone taking up valuable pocket space, and don't want to have to carry an 8x11 sheet of paper around all night, just in case someone wants to see the ticket.


Preferences are always interesting.

I will say this, I went to a rare major league baseball game earlier in the summer and I will be damned. They did have an actual physical box office. People were in line and everything. 

and ironically, the first few times that I was told the only way to do business was with digital tickets was at minor league hockey, and high school football.
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Re: Buying tickets out front
« Reply #64 on: July 30, 2024, 08:16:25 AM »
Our high school and junior high athletics are also 100% digital ticketing.
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Re: Buying tickets out front
« Reply #65 on: July 30, 2024, 08:19:37 AM »
I've always had options at the UNL ticket on-line
Paper tickets delivered via snail mail
tickets delivered email that I could print
or E-tickets on my phone

the NIL $$$ practice on a Friday night is E-ticket only
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« Reply #66 on: August 01, 2024, 08:39:46 AM »


Mobile only for this NIL Fundraising event - I bought 2
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Re: Buying tickets out front
« Reply #67 on: August 03, 2024, 02:47:31 PM »
I'd pay money to watch longhorn ride in a Waymo.  
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Re: Buying tickets out front
« Reply #68 on: August 14, 2024, 01:19:51 AM »
So in my ticket debacle -- I plan to attend two college football games this fall with two different buddies from my law school class at FSU:
Wisc. @ Iowa, and then:
FSU @ Notre Dame
I bought tickets online for Wisc. @ Iowa. I literally spent 5-hours the past two days with technical support at Google Wallet, and with me trying to re-find technical support on my phone as I tried to switch between Google Wallet and technical support, after buying Iowa Stubhub tickets online. I received a message on my phone that my tickets were saved in Google Wallet.  I opened Google Wallet and there were no tickets. I tried accepting the tickets on Stubhub a second time and received a message I already accepted the tickets and could not proceed. For those who don't know your "Wallet app" must have a QR Code with your seats designated, and my "Wallet app" had no tickets in it, other than the Pitt @ FSU archived tickets from 2023.
After 5-hours, with much anxiety over possibly losing tickets I bought, I contacted the University of Iowa ticket office (because the payment somehow went through the U of Iowa) and I spoke with a student working in the office. She said I had 4 different accounts with 2 different mailing addresses. I am not sure why I had 4 accounts but I have a business address and a residence address. (I last had season football tickets circa 1993). Then she said,
Q. "I looked in one of your accounts, did you buy tickets for the Wisconsin game?"
A. "Yes."
Q. If this were the Illinois State game you would have those tickets.
Q. This year you should receive your Wisconsin tickets the week of the game.
A. [I didn't say this] Damn, why then did the f'ing app the University of Iowa has a hand in, lie, and say my tickets were saved to Google Wallet and put me in this downward spiral for 2-days? [I didn't say this because this soft spoken female student was not at fault]. I'd like to say something to the tech guy that programmed a message that the ticket was saved to Google Wallet and lied to me and many others, but probably to at least 1,000 or more buying tickets on the secondary market, because such tickets are not in Google Wallet.
Maybe I should start searching for FSU @ ND tickets now that I have had modern day experience with electronic ticketing.
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Re: Buying tickets out front
« Reply #69 on: August 14, 2024, 06:56:57 AM »
Effe it, simply not worth buying,and one is suppose to float their credit card info out there to these ner-do-wells? Who are either rabble or rubes? Open the ticket booths and put people back to work
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