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betarhoalphadelta · « **Reply #98 on:** August 27, 2024, 04:36:07 PM »

Quote from: FearlessF on August 27, 2024, 04:32:34 PM

not sure what the price of a plastic cup of Coca-Cola was back in 1981 at Memorial stadium in Lincoln, but I'd smuggle in a pint bottle of 151.

One thing @utee94 may never appreciate about the Midwest is the cold kickoffs... SO much easier to smuggle something in when you're wearing a winter coat...

...wait, I take it back. He was probably wearing his winter coat if the kickoff was below 82 degrees

utee94 · « **Reply #99 on:** August 27, 2024, 04:41:06 PM »

We took dates to football games and dressed up. I wore jeans, a long sleeved button down, and boots, to football games whether the temperature was 100 degrees or 60 degrees.

Always plenty of room in my boot flask. On a good day I'd go DOUBLE boot flask.

FearlessF · « **Reply #100 on:** August 27, 2024, 04:43:42 PM »

those 151 plastic pint bottles would fit in the back pockets of my jeans - just let your shirt tail cover them

this was before 911 so there wasn't much of a pat down entering the stadium

jgvol · « **Reply #101 on:** August 27, 2024, 05:19:52 PM »

I once walked into Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium holding in my hand, the neck of a fifth of Jim Beam. I was patted down, and got the wand treatment, and they never saw the giant bottle in my hand.

Hawkinole · « **Reply #102 on:** August 27, 2024, 07:07:44 PM »

Quote from: FearlessF on August 27, 2024, 04:32:34 PM

not sure what the price of a plastic cup of Coca-Cola was back in 1981 at Memorial stadium in Lincoln, but I'd smuggle in a pint bottle of 151.

If dad would order a rum and Coke he would tell the bartender, or bar maid, "I'll have a rum and Coke, and don't waste the coke."

Hawkinole · « **Reply #103 on:** August 27, 2024, 07:20:51 PM »

Quote from: betarhoalphadelta 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.

Viewing your post, I am somewhat relieved to read that your ticket transferred before the concert. It is absolutely nerve wracking, and especially in my case since it said my tickets transferred to Google Wallet, but they didn't transfer to Google Wallet. It was a relief that a student in the ticket office explained that the week of the game the ticket would show up, but sheesh, if it doesn't, and my buddy is coming from Pensacola on my ticket that is not currently in my phone, and how do we get in?
In my office some computer or printer inevitably stops networking, and IT must be called in to fix it. I am in fear it will be the day my appellate brief is due, or the day I must file jury instructions, or worse, a jurisdictional deadline that cannot be extended, and the case is lost.
Someday, 60,000 -111,000 people will await outside a Big Ten stadium and a system crash will occur. What will the ticket scanners do? What will the coaches be told about the starting time of the game? TV will just display another game if this one is delayed due to IT issues.
The future is now.

utee94 · « **Reply #104 on:** August 27, 2024, 07:45:21 PM »

This story got longer than I expected but it's definitely not all rosy with e-tickets.

A few years back I bought tickets through SeatGeek, for a Texas A&M game against Auburn. The War Tigers weren't great that year but it was still a desirable home game, and I was looking forward to surprising my i s c & a aggie wife with the tickets for our entire family, a hotel stay in College Station, and these club-level seats to the game.

So I'd bought the tickets a couple weeks earlier and received a receipt notification from SeatGeek, but I didn't have the tickets in-hand (on phone) yet and that made me nervous. But hey, it's a reputable company, and they charged my account and sent me the receipt, so everything should be just fine.

Regardless I took my family to College Station and we got to campus a few hours early and hit up the Dixie Chicken and then hit up a tailgate party thrown by some friends of ours, and then it's time to head to the stadium about an hour before because I wanted to get into the Club and get some drinks, and my wife wanted to watch the band do its thing pre-game.

But I still don't have the tickets. I call up their service line and go through the electronic runaround for a while but finally reach a person, and that's when I found out that for some reason, they don't require the ticket seller to transfer the tickets to the buyer, until 30 minutes before the event is supposed to start. I don't recall seeing this anywhere on their site during my purchase, but that's what this agent tells me. Even though I'd purchased the tickets weeks earlier.

So now I've got to kill 30 minutes standing around outside when we really want to be inside, but I figure it's not the worst thing in the world. There's still interesting gameday stuff going on, the wife and kids are preoccupied, and so I wait. And then we hit 30 minutes before, and I still don't have the tickets. The agent before had been kind enough to give me her direct extension and so I got a hold of her, and gave her an earful. I was respectful of her personally but I absolutely unloaded on her company, that it could allow such a dumbass policy, and voiced my anger about the asshole seller, that he'd hold on to the tickets this long for no reason since they'd already been sold for weeks. I was absolutely livid. She listened and let me vent, but apparently there was still nothing she could do to force the seller to release the tickets. I informed her that SeatGeek had now breached our contract because I still had not tickets and I expected a full refund. She acknowledged the refund but just then, about 15 minutes before kickoff, I got the tickets transferred to me electronically.

The agent apologized profusely and gave me a $150 credit (that I never used because since then I've absolutely refused to do business with that shit-ass company). Luckily aggies don't really bother to fill the stadium unless it's a really high profile opponent like Texas or Alabama, and so we easily got in, got to the Club, got food and drink, and go to our seats, right before kickoff. My i s c & a aggie wife had missed watching the band walk around on the field and not play their instruments, but that's no great loss and so overall the rest of the day went fine. We watched the game, hung out a bit more on campus, got dinner, crashed at the hotel, and came home the next day.

But man that interaction was a real pisser. If I ever found out who that asshole aggie seller was, I'd pop him right in the mouth.

betarhoalphadelta · « **Reply #105 on:** September 04, 2024, 11:28:18 AM »

Effin' Ticketmaster and their fees, man...

So I finally offloaded those P!nk tickets. I realized that between the sellers fees and THEN the buyers fees that I was well above-market for the price I was asking. I ended up dropping it to exactly where I'd break even on the tickets. And they just sold this morning.

Each ticket was $193.20 including all taxes and fees that I paid--which obviously included Ticketmaster fees I paid to get the tickets. So they got their fees once. I had to list the tickets at $227 or so to recoup 193.20 each after the Ticketmaster sellers fee. So they got their fees a second time. And of course the new buyer has to pay a little over $270 IIRC to buy the tickets. So they got their fees a third time.

Greedy bastards.

betarhoalphadelta · « **Reply #106 on:** September 04, 2024, 11:36:47 AM »

And the follow-up to that, of course, is that I just got an email from Ticketmaster with the subject line "P!nk Tickets Are Waiting For You". I had to open it to make sure that there wasn't something hinky with the sale or something...

...Nope. It was their system noting that cookies revealed that I'd been looking at the ticket system a LOT over the last few weeks (to make sure I was in a reasonable price range to move them), and now I don't have any P!nk tickets on my account, so OBVIOUSLY I must be wanting to go to the concert and just need their email to push me over the edge. Dummies.

847badgerfan · « **Reply #107 on:** September 04, 2024, 12:10:36 PM »

Why did you buy Pink tickets?

bayareabadger · « **Reply #108 on:** September 04, 2024, 12:30:00 PM »

Quote from: utee94 on August 27, 2024, 07:45:21 PM

This story got longer than I expected but it's definitely not all rosy with e-tickets.

A few years back I bought tickets through SeatGeek, for a Texas A&M game against Auburn. The War Tigers weren't great that year but it was still a desirable home game, and I was looking forward to surprising my i s c & a aggie wife with the tickets for our entire family, a hotel stay in College Station, and these club-level seats to the game.

So I'd bought the tickets a couple weeks earlier and received a receipt notification from SeatGeek, but I didn't have the tickets in-hand (on phone) yet and that made me nervous. But hey, it's a reputable company, and they charged my account and sent me the receipt, so everything should be just fine.

Regardless I took my family to College Station and we got to campus a few hours early and hit up the Dixie Chicken and then hit up a tailgate party thrown by some friends of ours, and then it's time to head to the stadium about an hour before because I wanted to get into the Club and get some drinks, and my wife wanted to watch the band do its thing pre-game.

But I still don't have the tickets. I call up their service line and go through the electronic runaround for a while but finally reach a person, and that's when I found out that for some reason, they don't require the ticket seller to transfer the tickets to the buyer, until 30 minutes before the event is supposed to start. I don't recall seeing this anywhere on their site during my purchase, but that's what this agent tells me. Even though I'd purchased the tickets weeks earlier.

So now I've got to kill 30 minutes standing around outside when we really want to be inside, but I figure it's not the worst thing in the world. There's still interesting gameday stuff going on, the wife and kids are preoccupied, and so I wait. And then we hit 30 minutes before, and I still don't have the tickets. The agent before had been kind enough to give me her direct extension and so I got a hold of her, and gave her an earful. I was respectful of her personally but I absolutely unloaded on her company, that it could allow such a dumbass policy, and voiced my anger about the asshole seller, that he'd hold on to the tickets this long for no reason since they'd already been sold for weeks. I was absolutely livid. She listened and let me vent, but apparently there was still nothing she could do to force the seller to release the tickets. I informed her that SeatGeek had now breached our contract because I still had not tickets and I expected a full refund. She acknowledged the refund but just then, about 15 minutes before kickoff, I got the tickets transferred to me electronically.

The agent apologized profusely and gave me a $150 credit (that I never used because since then I've absolutely refused to do business with that shit-ass company). Luckily aggies don't really bother to fill the stadium unless it's a really high profile opponent like Texas or Alabama, and so we easily got in, got to the Club, got food and drink, and go to our seats, right before kickoff. My i s c & a aggie wife had missed watching the band walk around on the field and not play their instruments, but that's no great loss and so overall the rest of the day went fine. We watched the game, hung out a bit more on campus, got dinner, crashed at the hotel, and came home the next day.

But man that interaction was a real pisser. If I ever found out who that asshole aggie seller was, I'd pop him right in the mouth.

I mean, I’ll take the credit off your hands …

bayareabadger · « **Reply #109 on:** September 04, 2024, 12:32:15 PM »

Quote from: betarhoalphadelta on September 04, 2024, 11:28:18 AM

Effin' Ticketmaster and their fees, man...

So I finally offloaded those P!nk tickets. I realized that between the sellers fees and THEN the buyers fees that I was well above-market for the price I was asking. I ended up dropping it to exactly where I'd break even on the tickets. And they just sold this morning.

Each ticket was $193.20 including all taxes and fees that I paid--which obviously included Ticketmaster fees I paid to get the tickets. So they got their fees once. I had to list the tickets at $227 or so to recoup 193.20 each after the Ticketmaster sellers fee. So they got their fees a second time. And of course the new buyer has to pay a little over $270 IIRC to buy the tickets. So they got their fees a third time.

Greedy bastards.

The thing that kills me is the non-transparent pricing. I can live with fees, but the fact I have to give my credit card number to get the real price is grade A horse shit.

utee94 · « **Reply #110 on:** September 04, 2024, 12:45:21 PM »

Quote from: bayareabadger on September 04, 2024, 12:30:00 PM

I mean, I’ll take the credit off your hands …

It was a couple of years ago, I have no idea if it's still there and beside, on principle I can't support anyone else doing business with those jackwipes, either.

Gigem · « **Reply #111 on:** September 04, 2024, 01:04:24 PM »

Quote from: utee94 on August 27, 2024, 07:45:21 PM

This story got longer than I expected but it's definitely not all rosy with e-tickets.

A few years back I bought tickets through SeatGeek, for a Texas A&M game against Auburn. The War Tigers weren't great that year but it was still a desirable home game, and I was looking forward to surprising my i s c & a aggie wife with the tickets for our entire family, a hotel stay in College Station, and these club-level seats to the game.

So I'd bought the tickets a couple weeks earlier and received a receipt notification from SeatGeek, but I didn't have the tickets in-hand (on phone) yet and that made me nervous. But hey, it's a reputable company, and they charged my account and sent me the receipt, so everything should be just fine.

Regardless I took my family to College Station and we got to campus a few hours early and hit up the Dixie Chicken and then hit up a tailgate party thrown by some friends of ours, and then it's time to head to the stadium about an hour before because I wanted to get into the Club and get some drinks, and my wife wanted to watch the band do its thing pre-game.

But I still don't have the tickets. I call up their service line and go through the electronic runaround for a while but finally reach a person, and that's when I found out that for some reason, they don't require the ticket seller to transfer the tickets to the buyer, until 30 minutes before the event is supposed to start. I don't recall seeing this anywhere on their site during my purchase, but that's what this agent tells me. Even though I'd purchased the tickets weeks earlier.

So now I've got to kill 30 minutes standing around outside when we really want to be inside, but I figure it's not the worst thing in the world. There's still interesting gameday stuff going on, the wife and kids are preoccupied, and so I wait. And then we hit 30 minutes before, and I still don't have the tickets. The agent before had been kind enough to give me her direct extension and so I got a hold of her, and gave her an earful. I was respectful of her personally but I absolutely unloaded on her company, that it could allow such a dumbass policy, and voiced my anger about the asshole seller, that he'd hold on to the tickets this long for no reason since they'd already been sold for weeks. I was absolutely livid. She listened and let me vent, but apparently there was still nothing she could do to force the seller to release the tickets. I informed her that SeatGeek had now breached our contract because I still had not tickets and I expected a full refund. She acknowledged the refund but just then, about 15 minutes before kickoff, I got the tickets transferred to me electronically.

The agent apologized profusely and gave me a $150 credit (that I never used because since then I've absolutely refused to do business with that shit-ass company). Luckily aggies don't really bother to fill the stadium unless it's a really high profile opponent like Texas or Alabama, and so we easily got in, got to the Club, got food and drink, and go to our seats, right before kickoff. My i s c & a aggie wife had missed watching the band walk around on the field and not play their instruments, but that's no great loss and so overall the rest of the day went fine. We watched the game, hung out a bit more on campus, got dinner, crashed at the hotel, and came home the next day.

But man that interaction was a real pisser. If I ever found out who that asshole aggie seller was, I'd pop him right in the mouth.

Do you think maybe it was just somebody who was just oblivious to what he had to do? Like the ticket agent had to call them and walk them thru it?

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