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Title: Buying tickets out front
Post by: Hawkinole on July 28, 2024, 12:40:24 AM
Can we still buy tickets for major college football out front of the stadium, or with the near demise of paper tickets, is that past in 2024?
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: MarqHusker on July 28, 2024, 12:53:29 AM
It's tough.  I actually saw a guy selling paper tickets at a AAA baseball game this month.   I think I last bought actual paper tickets on the street outside a college football was 2018 big ten ccg and also 2018 OU v Texas.
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: FearlessF on July 28, 2024, 07:20:25 AM
I'm gonna try to for the Colorado game in Lincoln
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: longhorn320 on July 28, 2024, 09:50:12 AM
Can we still buy tickets for major college football out front of the stadium, or with the near demise of paper tickets, is that past in 2024?

I have not been to a college game for a while but I got to ask

How does one gain entry without a paper ticket?
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: MarqHusker on July 28, 2024, 10:15:38 AM
Many pro franchises only issue e-tickets now.   I have to assume many colleges do as well.  I more or less use ticket master or stubhub for my secondary market buys.  
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: MarqHusker on July 28, 2024, 10:17:35 AM
Come to think of it all of my kids youth,  hs and club sports are all e ticketing.
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: Cincydawg on July 28, 2024, 10:25:55 AM
Da Braves are now entirely e ticket, no more "Will Call" windows.  I had to download the MLB app, which is annoying to manage I discovered.

I got some "tours" out of Sedona for next month and they provided paper tickets I could print out as well as e tickets.  I've gotten into the habit of moving our plane ticket to Apple Wallet but my wife prefers paper.

I like to have both as an option myself.  I recall my first e ticket was to an SEC CG in 2018, I think it was, it was $300 for a nosebleeder.  I was nervous about it, but it worked fine.  
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: Riffraft on July 28, 2024, 01:16:43 PM
I have not been to a college game for a while but I got to ask

How does one gain entry without a paper ticket?
Almost all sporting events, concerts, etc are exclusively electronic tickets.  Most are also cashless as far as refreshment. 
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on July 28, 2024, 02:09:16 PM
All paper tickets here. 
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: longhorn320 on July 28, 2024, 03:38:54 PM
Almost all sporting events, concerts, etc are exclusively electronic tickets.  Most are also cashless as far as refreshment.
but dont you have to print out the ticket hense its paper or do ya show an image from your phone
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: bayareabadger on July 28, 2024, 03:39:07 PM
I don’t know that I’d trust paper ones these days.

Also, HS games where I am switched to digital only and boy do I dislike that. 
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: bayareabadger on July 28, 2024, 03:39:34 PM
but dont you have to print out the ticket hense its paper or do ya show an image from your phone
There’s an app on the phone for them. That’s actually quite convenient. 
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: MrNubbz on July 28, 2024, 04:12:29 PM
I'm gonna try to for the Colorado game in Lincoln
On the Britght side if that doesn't work no worries they won't accept E or Barcode Kegs at the Tail Gates
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: Cincydawg on July 28, 2024, 04:16:07 PM
but dont you have to print out the ticket hense its paper or do ya show an image from your phone
For me, I load them  in Apple Wallet so if I lose connection it's always there.  They scan my phone, it's easy.
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: OrangeAfroMan on July 28, 2024, 04:16:20 PM
I have not been to a college game for a while but I got to ask

How does one gain entry without a paper ticket?
:57:
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: longhorn320 on July 28, 2024, 05:26:59 PM
:57:

yes I know I live in the dark ages but no cause to make fun of me
my question is still not answered
what do you show at the gate these days if not a paper ticket
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: Hawkinole on July 28, 2024, 05:38:14 PM
I'm gonna try to for the Colorado game in Lincoln
Let me/us know how that goes.
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: utee94 on July 28, 2024, 05:39:43 PM
yes I know I live in the dark ages but no cause to make fun of me
my question is still not answered
what do you show at the gate these days if not a paper ticket
They did answer your question.  You show an e-ticket on your smart phone.  Looks like this:

(https://i.imgur.com/raIjLhG.png)
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: Hawkinole on July 28, 2024, 05:46:57 PM
but dont you have to print out the ticket hense its paper or do ya show an image from your phone
You show an image from your phone of the ticket with a QR Code. Not sure what happens if the phone battery, or phone itself, suddenly dies, or if CrowdStrike goes down.
I went to one collegiate game last year, FSU @ Pitt. I showed the ticket on my phone that was stored in some type of Wallet app. I bought the ticket online from the Pitt football's website.
If I had to sell it I think the only way to do so would be online.
I am the original poster. My buddy and I are going back to Notre Dame this year. I am getting anxious about what I might have to pay online for a ticket after seeing the online prices in 2018 which were $250 +. We bought paper tickets on the 40-yard line for $75 -- it was the coldest football game I ever went to which is why ticket prices out-front were discounted.
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: longhorn320 on July 28, 2024, 05:58:39 PM
They did answer your question.  You show an e-ticket on your smart phone.  Looks like this:

(https://i.imgur.com/raIjLhG.png)
so what if you dont have a phone

are you just out of luck

no phone no ticket?
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: OrangeAfroMan on July 28, 2024, 06:07:39 PM
Anything you have online can be printed out.  Hell, you could screen-shot it and print it out. 

That would be an extra step.  E-tickets are fewer steps.  Convenience.  The DEVIL!

Sports tickets, plane tickets, concert tickets - all of it.  
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: utee94 on July 28, 2024, 06:30:14 PM
Anything you have online can be printed out.  Hell, you could screen-shot it and print it out. 

That would be an extra step.  E-tickets are fewer steps.  Convenience.  The DEVIL!

Sports tickets, plane tickets, concert tickets - all of it. 
You could but some e-tickets have an active component to them, so a screenshot or printout won't work.  It's an anti-duplication/anti-theft/anti-cheating feature.


so what if you dont have a phone

are you just out of luck

no phone no ticket?

If it's the kind of ticket I mentioned above, then yes, it only works if you have the ticket on your smartphone.  No phone = you are outta luck.
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: longhorn320 on July 28, 2024, 06:45:42 PM
You could but some e-tickets have an active component to them, so a screenshot or printout won't work.  It's an anti-duplication/anti-theft/anti-cheating feature.


If it's the kind of ticket I mentioned above, then yes, it only works if you have the ticket on your smartphone.  No phone = you are outta luck.
it would suprise me if a sports entity would only offer e tickets to see the game
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: utee94 on July 28, 2024, 06:48:09 PM
it would suprise me if a sports entity would only offer e tickets to see the game
You admit you know nothing about a subject, you ask a question, we answer it, and then you say "nope, you must be wrong."
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: longhorn320 on July 28, 2024, 06:52:06 PM
You admit you know nothing about a subject, you ask a question, we answer it, and then you say "nope, you must be wrong."

I didnt mean to do that

are you saying colleges only offer e tickets or is there one college that only offers e tickets

cause if you are saying that then Im sorry but Im surprised
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: FearlessF on July 28, 2024, 07:16:47 PM
You admit you know nothing about a subject, you ask a question, we answer it, and then you say "nope, you must be wrong."

yes, he didn't say you must be wrong.
He said he'd be surprised
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: OrangeAfroMan on July 28, 2024, 07:18:58 PM
it would suprise me if a sports entity would only offer e tickets to see the game
I bet a lot of things would surprise you here in 2024.  Join us.
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: longhorn320 on July 28, 2024, 07:26:40 PM
I bet a lot of things would surprise you here in 2024.  Join us.
why thank you 

although I will admit Im rarely surprised by you
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: utee94 on July 28, 2024, 07:33:45 PM
I didnt mean to do that

are you saying colleges only offer e tickets or is there one college that only offers e tickets

cause if you are saying that then Im sorry but Im surprised
I can't speak for all colleges.  I can't even speak for UT because although they do distribute via e-ticket,  I don't know for certain that there is no possible way to get a paper ticket.

However there are most certainly sporting venues around the country and around the world that only offer e-tickets.  The Formula 1 racetrack here in Austin, COTA, is one such venue.  There are no paper tickets, it's e-ticket only.

There are at least a few reasons for this:

1) Cheaper to distribute
2) Easier to control tiered pricing and special offer pricing
3) Much more difficult to counterfeit (for the e-tickets that have an active component like I mentioned earlier)

If you're surprised by this, I'm not sure what to say.  It's just one of the many ways that technology is changing the world around us.



Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: longhorn320 on July 28, 2024, 07:36:01 PM
I can't speak for all colleges.  I can't even speak for UT because although they do distribute via e-ticket, because I don't know for certain that there is no possible way to get a paper ticket.

However there are most certainly sporting venues around the country and around the world that only offer e-tickets.  The Formula 1 racetrack here in Austin, COTA, is one such venue.  There are no paper tickets, it's e-ticket only.

There are at least a few reasons for this:

1) Cheaper to distribute
2) Easier to control tiered pricing and special offer pricing
3) Much more difficult to counterfeit (for the e-tickets that have an active component like I mentioned earlier)

If you're surprised by this, I'm not sure what to say.  It's just one of the many ways that technology is changing the world around us.




can you print the ticket and resell it to a friend
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: utee94 on July 28, 2024, 07:41:20 PM
can you print the ticket and resell it to a friend
No.  You can electronically transfer it to a friend.
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: longhorn320 on July 28, 2024, 07:48:24 PM
No.  You can electronically transfer it to a friend.
so the days of walking around outside the stadium buying and selling tickets can only be done transering between phones
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: utee94 on July 28, 2024, 07:51:28 PM
so the days of walking around outside the stadium buying and selling tickets can only be done transering between phones
That is the question posed in the first post of this thread.

I can't answer it for all sporting event tickets at all venues, but for many of them, the answer is, "yes."
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: Hawkinole on July 28, 2024, 09:53:53 PM
I just searched the answer for Notre Dame. E-Tickets only. There are no paper tickets. Damn.
Can e-tickets be transferred by text, or only by email?
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on July 28, 2024, 10:10:12 PM
It's a file that they send you via e-mail. You could save it onto a thumb drive, take it to a copy center, and have them print it out, cut it out, laminate it, and attach it to a lanyard so that you could wear it around your neck. 
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: OrangeAfroMan on July 28, 2024, 11:02:51 PM
e-mail is like a note or letter you send through the mail, but it's electronic.

Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: utee94 on July 29, 2024, 12:24:38 AM
I just searched the answer for Notre Dame. E-Tickets only. There are no paper tickets. Damn.
Can e-tickets be transferred by text, or only by email?
Some can be sent via text.  Depends on the system they're using.

Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: OrangeAfroMan on July 29, 2024, 01:16:51 AM
Maybe 3D-print a ticket, then make a rubbing with the side of a crayon...that should be accepted out of sheer effort.
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: bayareabadger on July 29, 2024, 06:50:28 AM
it would suprise me if a sports entity would only offer e tickets to see the game
For the most part, yeah. I’m betting in smaller spaces (HS) and such, it saves a lot of overhead. 

I was taking to family and thinking about the generational divide. Someone I know was very concerned about not being able to get print outs of photos of checks for record keeping. 
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: bayareabadger on July 29, 2024, 06:52:36 AM
so the days of walking around outside the stadium buying and selling tickets can only be done transering between phones
Honestly, you basically don’t need to do that at all. You can just go online and have a big market of a ton of tickets. 
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: longhorn320 on July 29, 2024, 09:51:00 AM
For the most part, yeah. I’m betting in smaller spaces (HS) and such, it saves a lot of overhead.

I was taking to family and thinking about the generational divide. Someone I know was very concerned about not being able to get print outs of photos of checks for record keeping.
Ive been using my bank to pay bills for several years now and like it a lot

if you ever need it you can get copies of both fron and back to prove the check was received and cashed
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: utee94 on July 29, 2024, 10:04:34 AM
Honestly, you basically don’t need to do that at all. You can just go online and have a big market of a ton of tickets.
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.
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: betarhoalphadelta on July 29, 2024, 10:30:01 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've wondered about this. Is it typical that as you near (and perhaps pass) kickoff, the online prices start dropping like a rock? I haven't paid close attention as I'm not the type to drive to a stadium with no ticket and "hope" I get a seat... 

Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: utee94 on July 29, 2024, 10:38:48 AM
I've wondered about this. Is it typical that as you near (and perhaps pass) kickoff, the online prices start dropping like a rock? I haven't paid close attention as I'm not the type to drive to a stadium with no ticket and "hope" I get a seat...


Yup.  I don't do it a lot, but in my experience the prices for say, Texas versus Kansas in Austin, are already pretty low.  Then they tend to drop throughout the week before the game, and on gameday they can get pretty close to free.

Of course, one difference between buying through the ticket exchanges online, versus someone on the street corner, is the FEES applied to the purchase.  Those can be quite high.
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: CatsbyAZ on July 29, 2024, 10:43:53 AM
Can we still buy tickets for major college football out front of the stadium, or with the near demise of paper tickets, is that past in 2024?

The push to all e-ticketing is nearly complete, and there’s no looking back. That is unless your event requires passes to be displayed for accessing certain areas of, say, a golf course or convention hall. Two years ago was the last time I had paper tickets, when the PGA mailed my passes for the Phoenix Open.

In fact, e-ticketing is the sole reason I finally caved in to getting a smart phone:

This week I am begrudgingly upgrading to a smart phone. After SIXTEEN years on the same Basic Plan, $35/month, featuring a flip phone w/ T9 texting. Trading in for a new flip phone about every 3 or 4 years.

What I could no longer hold out on w/o a smart phone is Sporting/Live Event ticketing requiring an App for entry.

Will miss you little guy!

(https://i.imgur.com/xAtBmvt.png)
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: betarhoalphadelta on July 29, 2024, 10:53:29 AM
Of course, one difference between buying through the ticket exchanges online, versus someone on the street corner, is the FEES applied to the purchase.  Those can be quite high.
Oh, yeah, those are freakin' insane. It's such a racket. 

We had a concert we were going to see last year in Vegas (Luke Bryan) and the Wednesday before the concert, the dog got a spell of diarrhea, so we cancelled the trip and listed them to sell. I probably sold them a LOT cheaper than I could have, but basically just wanted them gone quickly and to break even. Which meant I had to list them significantly higher for the fees that the ticket company would take out of me for selling them. And I'm sure the ticket company then slapped the buyer with fees to buy them too. 

After our last concert at SoFi, I was thinking about how long of a night it was to get up there and back, and how seeing P!nk in September even farther away at Dodger Stadium would be a lot of work, especially as it's on a Sunday night. I've listed those tickets as the current prevailing listing prices are high enough that I can potentially make about a $100 profit on each ticket after fees if they sell. But that's one that I'm only listing / selling them if I can make a decent profit. If not, I'll just de-list them and go to the concert. I mean, I bought the tickets because I wanted to see her, so if I can't unload them and turn a tidy profit, I might as well actually use them myself, right?
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: bayareabadger on July 29, 2024, 11:35:48 AM
Yup.  I don't do it a lot, but in my experience the prices for say, Texas versus Kansas in Austin, are already pretty low.  Then they tend to drop throughout the week before the game, and on gameday they can get pretty close to free.

Of course, one difference between buying through the ticket exchanges online, versus someone on the street corner, is the FEES applied to the purchase.  Those can be quite high.
Interesting. I've had a kinda mixed bag there. I was trying with a local NFL team, and they kinda stayed static.  

I wonder if some teams work in that you can't sell below a certain price, just to make sure you don't wait it out.
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: Gigem on July 29, 2024, 12:03:49 PM
I wonder how the stadiums handle the certain group of people over the age of say 65 that just cannot use a smart phone?  Surely there is some kind of paper system they can use.  There are still lots of folks on the wrong side of the digital divide (been awhile since I've heard that phrase!).  
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: utee94 on July 29, 2024, 12:05:17 PM
I wonder how the stadiums handle the certain group of people over the age of say 65 that just cannot use a smart phone?  Surely there is some kind of paper system they can use.  There are still lots of folks on the wrong side of the digital divide (been awhile since I've heard that phrase!). 
Is this actually a legitimate market segment, though?  My dad's 84 and has no problem using a smart phone. 
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: jgvol on July 29, 2024, 12:21:19 PM
Oh, yeah, those are freakin' insane. It's such a racket.

We had a concert we were going to see last year in Vegas (Luke Bryan) and the Wednesday before the concert, the dog got a spell of diarrhea, so we cancelled the trip and listed them to sell. I probably sold them a LOT cheaper than I could have, but basically just wanted them gone quickly and to break even. Which meant I had to list them significantly higher for the fees that the ticket company would take out of me for selling them. And I'm sure the ticket company then slapped the buyer with fees to buy them too.

After our last concert at SoFi, I was thinking about how long of a night it was to get up there and back, and how seeing P!nk in September even farther away at Dodger Stadium would be a lot of work, especially as it's on a Sunday night. I've listed those tickets as the current prevailing listing prices are high enough that I can potentially make about a $100 profit on each ticket after fees if they sell. But that's one that I'm only listing / selling them if I can make a decent profit. If not, I'll just de-list them and go to the concert. I mean, I bought the tickets because I wanted to see her, so if I can't unload them and turn a tidy profit, I might as well actually use them myself, right?

Bought 4 tickets to TN vs Kentucky -- usually one of the cheaper games to attend at Neyland.

Tickets listed at $220 each -- upper deck -- 12th row -- 30 yd line, or so.  Not bad seats, but not great seats.

Went through "Gametime" for the first time ever.  Fine.  The fees attached were about the same as the other secondary ticket outfits.

$90 freaking bucks per ticket.  So my tickets that are advertised as $220, are really $310 each.

4 tickets -- $360 bucks in fees!!  (Sure am glad someone is saving money on printed ticket overhead.  What a load of BS)
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: Gigem on July 29, 2024, 12:42:02 PM
Bought 4 tickets to TN vs Kentucky -- usually one of the cheaper games to attend at Neyland.

Tickets listed at $220 each -- upper deck -- 12th row -- 30 yd line, or so.  Not bad seats, but not great seats.

Went through "Gametime" for the first time ever.  Fine.  The fees attached were about the same as the other secondary ticket outfits.

$90 freaking bucks per ticket.  So my tickets that are advertised as $220, are really $310 each.

4 tickets -- $360 bucks in fees!!  (Sure am glad someone is saving money on printed ticket overhead.  What a load of BS)
Wowzers !  That seems preposterous.  
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: bayareabadger on July 29, 2024, 02:15:06 PM
Wowzers !  That seems preposterous. 
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. 
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: bayareabadger on July 29, 2024, 02:17:04 PM
I wonder how the stadiums handle the certain group of people over the age of say 65 that just cannot use a smart phone?  Surely there is some kind of paper system they can use.  There are still lots of folks on the wrong side of the digital divide (been awhile since I've heard that phrase!). 
I’m guessing the group is pretty small, in part because you’re talking about people that age who don’t have someone who can show them the bare basics and are going in alone. 

If you’re with a group, you only need one person who can operate it, and I’d bet in a given group, someone will know or fall on the sword to figure it out. 
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: MarqHusker on July 29, 2024, 04:50:32 PM
for a hot minute, stub hub posted prices with the fees,    they immediately lost market share to other outlets (vivid seats etc)  that thought they were priced high.

now they give you the option to show listings with the fees.
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: MrNubbz on July 29, 2024, 07:04:53 PM
I've wondered about this. Is it typical that as you near (and perhaps pass) kickoff, the online prices start dropping like a rock? I haven't paid close attention as I'm not the type to drive to a stadium with no ticket and "hope" I get a seat...
Back in the day that was part of the fun scalps droping their prices in the lot and just acting not interested after K.O. Then getting them below face - beer money for the game
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: FearlessF on July 29, 2024, 08:01:13 PM
Dat's how I roll with the scalpers. 

I'm willing to walk away and watch at the bar.
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: 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.

Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: OrangeAfroMan on July 29, 2024, 10:34:19 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.  

Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: OrangeAfroMan on July 29, 2024, 10:35:14 PM
longhorn still writes checks at the grocery store
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: Hawkinole on July 30, 2024, 12:03:54 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?
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: Hawkinole on July 30, 2024, 12:10:47 AM
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.
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: 847badgerfan 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.
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: bayareabadger on July 30, 2024, 08:06:51 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.
 Noted!
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: bayareabadger on July 30, 2024, 08:10:15 AM

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.
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: utee94 on July 30, 2024, 08:16:25 AM
Our high school and junior high athletics are also 100% digital ticketing.
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: FearlessF 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
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: FearlessF on August 01, 2024, 08:39:46 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/73jFCF0.png)

Mobile only for this NIL Fundraising event - I bought 2
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: OrangeAfroMan on August 03, 2024, 02:47:31 PM
I'd pay money to watch longhorn ride in a Waymo.  
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: 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.
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: MrNubbz 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
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: 847badgerfan on August 14, 2024, 07:03:46 AM
I hate Google. Evil company on all levels.
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: bayareabadger on August 14, 2024, 08:26:57 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.
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: FearlessF 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!
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: Gigem on August 14, 2024, 10:13:02 AM
Probably copy pasta from a similar transaction.  Lack of field testing is my guess.  
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: Hawkinole 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.
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: 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. 
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: FearlessF 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.


(https://i.imgur.com/d5Jcd38.jpeg)
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: 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 .
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: 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
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: Cincydawg 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.
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: utee94 on August 21, 2024, 08:54:45 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. :)
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: 847badgerfan on August 21, 2024, 09:30:17 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.
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: FearlessF 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."
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: MrNubbz on August 27, 2024, 09:49:37 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
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: utee94 on August 27, 2024, 10:00:22 AM
Correct MUCH cheaper to be a glutton outside - there are enemies at within the gates
eh, compared to the price of the tickets, the price of parking, the price of the gear to ensure your fit is fire... a couple of $12 beers aren't much.
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: FearlessF on August 27, 2024, 10:12:15 AM
I always say, "I have a budget for beer"

but, I still don't like being raped.
Won't be buying many $12 cups of suds at the concession stand
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: bayareabadger on August 27, 2024, 10:15:47 AM
Correct MUCH cheaper to be a glutton outside - there are enemies at within the gates
I feel like when I go to events now I’m just sitting there and thinking about how nice a crisp beer would be. Then I allow myself one and I’m slightly annoyed that I paid 14 goddamn dollars for it.

although I did go to a smaller event at a local theater last weekend, and there was something that felt uplifting about supporting in the institution, even if I paid 12 bucks for a local beer. (and I am a person steeped in thrift.)


that said, it is a freaking joy when you go to a minor-league event, and suddenly all the concessions are mostly reasonably priced.
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: MrNubbz on August 27, 2024, 10:16:04 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.
:'(
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: FearlessF on August 27, 2024, 11:07:51 AM
progress

and if they're spending the $$$$ saved on printing to buy championships........... that's OK
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: jgvol on August 27, 2024, 11:36:10 AM
I always say, "I have a budget for beer"

but, I still don't like being raped.
Won't be buying many $12 cups of suds at the concession stand

Go old school .... sneak in a pint and buy $4 Sprite's instead.
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: utee94 on August 27, 2024, 11:54:53 AM
Go old school .... sneak in a pint and buy $4 Sprite's instead.
Yup that's why God created the boot flask.
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: longhorn320 on August 27, 2024, 12:30:28 PM
Yup that's why God created the boot flask.
only time I ever used one
one of my fondest memories of my UT days was the aroma of whisky in the student section
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: Gigem on August 27, 2024, 01:00:39 PM
Somebody on another forum I frequent posted that they were at an even and the beers were $25.00. Not sure the size.  

There has to be some kind of study that shows the relationship between price and quantity.  As in, what's the price point that we can charge the most for beer and still sell more?  At $25 per beer, I doubt the average person is buying more than 1-2.  At $12 per beer, I'd think 3-4 at most.  I could easily consume 5-8 at any sporting event (price notwithstanding), so is there a point at which you make up in volume what you don't make in price?  The fuggin' beer itself has to be the cheapest part of this equation.  Probably cost something like $1-2 each to have them delivered.  Maybe less.   
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: utee94 on August 27, 2024, 01:06:52 PM
Somebody on another forum I frequent posted that they were at an even and the beers were $25.00. Not sure the size. 

There has to be some kind of study that shows the relationship between price and quantity.  As in, what's the price point that we can charge the most for beer and still sell more?  At $25 per beer, I doubt the average person is buying more than 1-2.  At $12 per beer, I'd think 3-4 at most.  I could easily consume 5-8 at any sporting event (price notwithstanding), so is there a point at which you make up in volume what you don't make in price?  The fuggin' beer itself has to be the cheapest part of this equation.  Probably cost something like $1-2 each to have them delivered.  Maybe less. 
This is the characteristic called "price elasticity."  For some items, as the price rises just a little little, and people immediately start buying less of it.  This is an example of high price elasticity.

Historically, the price for beer is INelastic.  Meaning, as price goes up significantly, demand drops very little.  People love their beer.

Although for me personally, $25 is way out of line if we're talking a 16 oz pour or less.  But I'm guessing I probably wouldn't have chosen to spend the money on the tickets in the first place, if the venue is charging $25 for beer.
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: betarhoalphadelta on August 27, 2024, 01:15:17 PM
Somebody on another forum I frequent posted that they were at an even and the beers were $25.00. Not sure the size. 

There has to be some kind of study that shows the relationship between price and quantity.  As in, what's the price point that we can charge the most for beer and still sell more?  At $25 per beer, I doubt the average person is buying more than 1-2.  At $12 per beer, I'd think 3-4 at most.  I could easily consume 5-8 at any sporting event (price notwithstanding), so is there a point at which you make up in volume what you don't make in price?  The fuggin' beer itself has to be the cheapest part of this equation.  Probably cost something like $1-2 each to have them delivered.  Maybe less. 
I would think that at many of these events, my beer consumption is more limited by a desire not to leave my seat and go stand in line, more than it's about the price. I paid a lot for that seat, I don't want to go there and then miss a bunch of action. 

I will say that the 2017 Foster Farms bowl was excellent for this. It was so poorly attended that the beer lines were VERY short lol. Something to be said for attending an event at a nearly empty stadium. :57:
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: OrangeAfroMan on August 27, 2024, 04:04:56 PM
They charge it because people will pay it.  I guess the griping about it comes free.
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: FearlessF on August 27, 2024, 04:26:59 PM
most places the line to the pisser is longer than the line at the tap

cause folks all want to piss during a TV timeout or break in the action
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: FearlessF on August 27, 2024, 04:32:34 PM
Go old school .... sneak in a pint and buy $4 Sprite's instead.
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.


(https://i.imgur.com/2cccGSd.png)
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: betarhoalphadelta on August 27, 2024, 04:36:07 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.


(https://i.imgur.com/2cccGSd.png)
One thing @utee94 (https://www.cfb51.com/index.php?action=profile;u=15) 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 :57:
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: utee94 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.
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: FearlessF 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
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: jgvol 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.
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: Hawkinole on August 27, 2024, 07:07:44 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.


(https://i.imgur.com/2cccGSd.png)
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."
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: Hawkinole on August 27, 2024, 07:20:51 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.
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: 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.

Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: 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. 
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: betarhoalphadelta 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.

Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: 847badgerfan on September 04, 2024, 12:10:36 PM
Why did you buy Pink tickets?
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: bayareabadger on September 04, 2024, 12:30:00 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 …
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: bayareabadger on September 04, 2024, 12:32:15 PM
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.
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: utee94 on September 04, 2024, 12:45:21 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.

Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: Gigem on September 04, 2024, 01:04:24 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? 
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: MarqHusker on September 04, 2024, 01:13:42 PM
Why did you buy Pink tickets?
This question would fit nicely in that other thread. 
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: utee94 on September 04, 2024, 01:22:37 PM
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?
So, a really dumb aggie instead of an asshole?  Maybe... ;)

Regardless, it's a terrible policy for the reseller to have.  Those tickets should be transferred as soon as they're sold.  And the seller shouldn't have any say in when that transfer occurs.
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: betarhoalphadelta on September 04, 2024, 01:23:33 PM
Why did you buy Pink tickets?
Because I actually really wanted to see her. But then I just realized that driving to/from Dodger Stadium on a Sunday night was going to be a LONG night. 

So I decided that if I could get out break-even or better, I'd sell. If the tickets didn't sell, I'd have gone and probably would have enjoyed the hell out of it. 
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: 847badgerfan on September 04, 2024, 01:24:39 PM
Yuck.
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: utee94 on September 04, 2024, 01:25:28 PM
Pink puts on a good show.  I saw her live when she played the Saturday night concert at the Formula 1 US Grand Prix a few years back.  She's no Taylor Swift but she's entertaining for sure.

Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: betarhoalphadelta on September 04, 2024, 01:25:50 PM
Yuck.
#dontyuckmyyum
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: bayareabadger on September 04, 2024, 01:36:18 PM
Because I actually really wanted to see her. But then I just realized that driving to/from Dodger Stadium on a Sunday night was going to be a LONG night.

So I decided that if I could get out break-even or better, I'd sell. If the tickets didn't sell, I'd have gone and probably would have enjoyed the hell out of it.

She makes solid to good pop bangers. If someone invited me to such a show, I’d be up for it. 

A few years back I ended up at a Dierks Bentley concert, and that was a fine and good time (his openers were pretty good)
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: betarhoalphadelta on September 04, 2024, 01:43:13 PM
She makes solid to good pop bangers. If someone invited me to such a show, I’d be up for it.

A few years back I ended up at a Dierks Bentley concert, and that was a fine and good time (his openers were pretty good)
She kinda skirts that line between pop and rock. I'm not much of a pop fan, but she's rock-adjacent. I just think she's a really talented artist, has a phenomenal voice, and I've heard she puts on a REALLY amazing show live. 

I've seen Dierks as well. We used to have an outdoor amphitheater here in Irvine that made it really convenient to see concerts. Saw quite a few artists there, including Dierks. Unfortunately that closed.

And after driving up to SoFi back in July for Kenny Chesney / Zac Brown Band, I just realized that maybe, just maybe...


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Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: Gigem on September 04, 2024, 08:08:53 PM
So, a really dumb aggie instead of an asshole?  Maybe... ;)

Regardless, it's a terrible policy for the reseller to have.  Those tickets should be transferred as soon as they're sold.  And the seller shouldn't have any say in when that transfer occurs.
Eh, maybe just somebody older or not quite tech savvy. 

But, probably the most plausible explanation is somebody who just plain forgot. 
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on September 04, 2024, 10:03:02 PM
I got some FCS season tickets for forty bucks, and it was a laminated card with a lanyard attachment that you have to show to the guy at the ticket booth who then gives you a paper ticket that gets scanned by the guy or gal at the gate. 

Most unusual. Peculiar, even. 
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: jhetfield99 on September 05, 2024, 01:42:48 AM
so what if you dont have a phone

are you just out of luck

no phone no ticket?


I don't have a smartphone, simply a personal preference for mult reasons.

I hate the end of paper tickets, it forces me to typically find a ticket mule for my Purdue season tix -- whether it's parking or going into RossAde -- of concerts which I attend a bunch of.
Title: Re: Buying tickets out front
Post by: jhetfield99 on September 05, 2024, 01:44:07 AM
Pink puts on a good show.  I saw her live when she played the Saturday night concert at the Formula 1 US Grand Prix a few years back.  She's no Taylor Swift but she's entertaining for sure.

Both are playing in Indy in mid Oct and Nov.