Springsteen did it right!

Rossum20

BustedDownPretext wrote:

a) I think people need, at the very least, the option to transfer tickets through the legitimate service they purchased them from. It makes things more complicated, but it's not fair so tell someone "Sorry you had to go out of town for a funeral, but you're still stuck with the tickets."

b) Moreover, what happens if your buddy buys a pair for the two of you and then he needs to leave town? Should you be screwed there too?

This is for the fans...so you have a better chance at obtaining decent seats, get it?

a) If you have a funeral to go to, will the $160 you paid for the tickets ruin your life? You can't pay your rent now? Life Happens. Shit Happens. You take the risk...chances are if your schedule is clear in advance and isn't conflicting with anything at the time of purchase, you'll probably be at the show.


b) That doesn't sound like a buddy to me...don't give him the money until you go to the show then...or find a new buddy.


I mean jesus christ...how pampered do some of you need to be? The paperless ticket system isn't perfect...but we're making progress...that requires a small inconvenience on the fans end.

Yellow Ledbelly

Jeff Murray wrote:

Yellow Ledbelly wrote:

AC/DC is doing this....I saw them in January and had major concerns about how this would work, but it was great. We walked up to the woman who would normally take your tickets, I handed her my credit card, she swiped it through a scanner on her belt and the tickets shot out in about two seconds....I think it is a great thing

Did they match your ID to your credit card? If not, that defeats the purpose. Any Scalper can go and buy prepaid credit cards for the cost of the tickets and sell you the card and tickets. Well, at least any sophisticated scalper.

Oh yeah..forgot that..I did have to show my drivers license as well. I can't remember the exact details, but my friend's mom bought my friend and her husband tickets for an event and then realized it was paperless after the fact. So, she called and got it worked out somehow...like I said though...I really don't remember exactly what they did

Jeff Murray

Yellow Ledbelly wrote:

Jeff Murray wrote:

Yellow Ledbelly wrote:

AC/DC is doing this....I saw them in January and had major concerns about how this would work, but it was great. We walked up to the woman who would normally take your tickets, I handed her my credit card, she swiped it through a scanner on her belt and the tickets shot out in about two seconds....I think it is a great thing

Did they match your ID to your credit card? If not, that defeats the purpose. Any Scalper can go and buy prepaid credit cards for the cost of the tickets and sell you the card and tickets. Well, at least any sophisticated scalper.

Oh yeah..forgot that..I did have to show my drivers license as well. I can't remember the exact details, but my friend's mom bought my friend and her husband tickets for an event and then realized it was paperless after the fact. So, she called and got it worked out somehow...like I said though...I really don't remember exactly what they did

Cool, then the system worked!

RyGuy

Rossum20 wrote:

BustedDownPretext wrote:

a) I think people need, at the very least, the option to transfer tickets through the legitimate service they purchased them from. It makes things more complicated, but it's not fair so tell someone "Sorry you had to go out of town for a funeral, but you're still stuck with the tickets."

b) Moreover, what happens if your buddy buys a pair for the two of you and then he needs to leave town? Should you be screwed there too?

This is for the fans...so you have a better chance at obtaining decent seats, get it?

a) If you have a funeral to go to, will the $160 you paid for the tickets ruin your life? You can't pay your rent now? Life Happens. Shit Happens. You take the risk...chances are if your schedule is clear in advance and isn't conflicting with anything at the time of purchase, you'll probably be at the show.


b) That doesn't sound like a buddy to me...don't give him the money until you go to the show then...or find a new buddy.


I mean jesus christ...how pampered do some of you need to be? The paperless ticket system isn't perfect...but we're making progress...that requires a small inconvenience on the fans end.

I think that sometimes you should think about what you type before you write it down. There's no use getting snippy, and everyone here is entitled to their own opinion exactly as much as you are. Believe it or not, there are always going to be people who disagree with you, no matter how intelligent you feel you are.

And I'd appreciate it in the future if you didn't go judging my friends based on things that have happened in their past that prevent them from being able to go to a rock show. You know what? Sometimes LIFE interferes. Having to bail on a show doesn't make you any less of a friend, but if you DO have to, you shouldn't have to disappoint the other people you were meant to go with.

I like the paperless ticket idea. But it needs to be fine tuned. Just blindly saying "this is the new best way" is short sighted, in my opinion. It's the fine print that determines whether policies effective and successful. Maybe if more people listened to other people's points of view rather than attacking them, we'd come up with a great new solution that nobody's thought of yet.

Or we could cuss each other out. Your call.

blondieblue227

Ok, this is a weak line of thought but……

If paperless tickets meant it was harder for scalpers to sell tickets, then it would lead to more tickets TM could sell.
That article I posted I think claimed if more people bought TM tickets, then it would help drive cost down.
But I don’t believe that for a second. TM a capitalistic bastard. IF there was a possibility that they could lower prices because some major change had happened, they wouldn’t. IMO.

slightofjeff

BustedDownPretext wrote:

I think that sometimes you should think about what you type before you write it down. There's no use getting snippy, and everyone here is entitled to their own opinion exactly as much as you are. Believe it or not, there are always going to be people who disagree with you, no matter how intelligent you feel you are.

And I'd appreciate it in the future if you didn't go judging my friends based on things that have happened in their past that prevent them from being able to go to a rock show. You know what? Sometimes LIFE interferes. Having to bail on a show doesn't make you any less of a friend, but if you DO have to, you shouldn't have to disappoint the other people you were meant to go with.

I like the paperless ticket idea. But it needs to be fine tuned. Just blindly saying "this is the new best way" is short sighted, in my opinion. It's the fine print that determines whether policies effective and successful. Maybe if more people listened to other people's points of view rather than attacking them, we'd come up with a great new solution that nobody's thought of yet.

Or we could cuss each other out. Your call.

It's kind of like the health care debate. Sure, it would be nice if every single person in the country had health care, but we can't sign off blindly on the first plan that comes down the pike without considering the unintended consequences.

To me, the unintended consequences of this ticketless plan far outweigh the supposed benefits. In my mind, I don't know why the person who purchases the ticket HAS to be the one that attends. That's dumb, and any system that goes that route is worse than the current system, in my opinion. Frankly, I'm not even sure how that is legal.

On another note, I'd be much more optimistic about Ticketmaster helping to curtail scalping if they weren't basically in the scalping business themselves, with this TicketNow crap or whatever it's called.