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847badgerfan · « **Reply #70 on:** August 14, 2024, 07:03:46 AM »

I hate Google. Evil company on all levels.

bayareabadger · « **Reply #71 on:** August 14, 2024, 08:26:57 AM »

Quote from: Hawkinole 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.

That’s a weird issue. They certainly should say they won’t appear when they won’t.

FearlessF · « **Reply #72 on:** August 14, 2024, 08:35:45 AM »

many many software programs and apps will give you an answer or statement that is just blatantly false

mostly lazy, but very misleading

just do your damn job!

Gigem · « **Reply #73 on:** August 14, 2024, 10:13:02 AM »

Probably copy pasta from a similar transaction. Lack of field testing is my guess.

Hawkinole · « **Reply #74 on:** August 14, 2024, 04:52:43 PM »

There are at least three entities involved in the secondary market, other than the Seller. StubHub (I thought I was on the SeatGeek website when I selected the tickets), the University of Iowa, its software vendor that takes your payment (I don't recall that software vendor's name but I think it was the same vendor involved when I paid for FSU @ Pitt tickets a year ago), and then there is Google Wallet.
I bought the tickets at Pitt well in advance a year ago, and the tickets were placed in Google Wallet immediately. I am guessing that this whole system has changed for every college team, but maybe some of you have electronic tickets and can explain if it is true that the tickets don't show up in your Wallet app until a week before.

betarhoalphadelta · « **Reply #75 on:** August 14, 2024, 05:00:21 PM »

When I bought the tickets for the Luke Combs concert, it was through SeatGeek.

I was a little bit worried about it because it said something on there about the tickets not transferring until the day of the event. And the last thing I'd want to do is drive 6 hours from SoCal to PHX with my wife and son and then somehow find out the ticket transfer was screwed and didn't happen...

But then a couple weeks before the concert I was notified that they were transferred and they showed up in the SeatGeek app, so it was fine.

I don't have any reasonable explanation for why the ticket transfer wouldn't be immediate once I'd bought the tickets, nor why it ultimately happened weeks before the app told me it was going to happen.

FearlessF · « **Reply #76 on:** August 20, 2024, 10:05:19 PM »

As you might have heard, Nebraska will not accept cash payments for concessions, tickets or merchandise at any of its venues this fall. This includes the Bob Devaney Sports Center (volleyball), Hibner Stadium (soccer), and most notably, Memorial Stadium. Pinnacle Bank Arena (men’s and women’s basketball) previously went cashless.

The move has received a surprising amount of backlash from fans on social media and beyond. A news report by KLKN TV in Lincoln found some fans who were displeased about the change.

Cashless concessions may be more convenient for fans (and definitely for the university*), but beloved characters – like the “Hot Dog Man” who would throw hot dogs into the stands and receive payment via cash thrown back inside the foil wrapper – will be harder to come by.

*From NU’s perspective, going cashless is an easy decision. Fans using a card are likely to spend more – 25% more, per VISA – than a fan using cash. Not having to process large amounts of cash reduces operational costs. Other venues report shorter and quicker-moving lines. And digital transactions increase the amount of customer data available to help drive future decisions.

MarqHusker · « **Reply #77 on:** August 21, 2024, 12:31:16 AM »

I can't believe I just got my 13yr old a venmo debit card. She works a bit under the table for cash and woman venmos her the dough.

You dont notice this when you Zelle or venmo a sitter or other adults. But youre own kid. Im old .

FearlessF · « **Reply #78 on:** August 21, 2024, 07:57:13 AM »

I will eventually cave and get Venmo

I don't often purchase concessions at sporting events

Cincydawg · « **Reply #79 on:** August 21, 2024, 08:23:18 AM »

I was showing my wife the Kroger app yesterday, and realizing that much of my life is now apps on my phone. I have the Delta app, the Schwab app, and some others.

If my phone dies ...

I have almost no actual cash.

utee94 · « **Reply #80 on:** August 21, 2024, 08:54:45 AM »

Quote from: FearlessF on August 21, 2024, 07:57:13 AM

I will eventually cave and get Venmo

I don't often purchase concessions at sporting events

Now that I can buy beer at UT sporting events, I pretty much ALWAYS purchase concessions.

847badgerfan · « **Reply #81 on:** August 21, 2024, 09:30:17 AM »

Quote from: MarqHusker on August 21, 2024, 12:31:16 AM

I can't believe I just got my 13yr old a venmo debit card. She works a bit under the table for cash and woman venmos her the dough.

You dont notice this when you Zelle or venmo a sitter or other adults. But youre own kid. Im old .

One of my kids has 3 kids. You are not old.

FearlessF · « **Reply #82 on:** August 27, 2024, 09:19:10 AM »

The Nebraska Athletic Department announced that this fall will be the last time the Huskers will use printed tickets. Beginning with the 2024-25 winter sports season, all NU athletic events will be mobile.

"That doesn't mean that you have to have a smart phone," Nebraska athletic director Troy Dannen said on "Sports Nightly" Monday. "You can print your tickets out at home and take the piece of paper. I'm one of those guys when (mobile ticketing) first rolled out, I didn't trust it — my (phone) battery's gonna be gone or my WiFi's not gonna work — so I would always print them out on a piece of paper and take them."

Dannen said mobile ticketing increases security by alleviating fraud and helps with transfers of tickets. He also said this will be a financial savings for the athletic department.

"Frankly, we are spending in the hundreds of thousands of dollars to print tickets," Dannen said. "So its really an economic move."

MrNubbz · « **Reply #83 on:** August 27, 2024, 09:49:37 AM »

Quote from: FearlessF on August 21, 2024, 07:57:13 AM

I don't often purchase concessions at sporting events

Correct MUCH cheaper to be a glutton outside - there are enemies at within the gates

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