Paperless Tickets
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I was looking at tickets for sale for Thom Yorkes band, Atoms for Peace and they are only using this paperless ticket method. It is similar to what Pearl Jam does for fan club tickets, makes the purchaser be at venue to collect tickets to avoid people from reselling online for way more than face value. If this is successfull i can see PJ adopting this for future tours.
http://www.ticketmaster.com/paperless
http://www.ticketmaster.com/paperless
4/28/2003,7/5/2003,7/8/2003,
7/14/2003,10/02/2004, 9/12/2005, 5/27/2006, 5/28/2006, 8/5/2007, 6/14/2008, 10/28/2009,
10/30/2009, 10/31/2009, 5/21/2010, 9/3/2011 9/4/2011, 9/2/2012, 9/22/2012,
7/19/2013, 10/18/2013, 10/19/2013, 10/12/2014, 9/26/2015, 4/8/2016, 4/9/2016,
5/1/2016, 5/2/2016, 8/22/2016, 4/7/2017, 9/3/2018, 9/18/2021, 9/10/2022, 9/11/2022,
9/14/2022, 8/31/2023, 5/28/2024
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made him ... want to be everywhere
there's a ... lot to be said for nowhere."
but I can imagine a serious clusterfuck with 20,000 fans trying to get into an arena at 7:45
not every ticket has to be that way...but certainly they can do a bunch of up close sections
I suppose it isn't fail proof, but it has worked well for me so far. And maybe I shouldn't say that now because I'm attending another paperless show in a couple of weeks....
They say every sin is deadly but I believe they may be wrong...I'm guilty of all seven and I don't feel too bad at all
Neither is paper. I've had numerous friends burned by the "TicketFast" and even actual hard tickets that turned out to be counterfeit. Plus many venues still end up scanning the barcodes of paper tickets, which is time-consuming as well.
made him ... want to be everywhere
there's a ... lot to be said for nowhere."
Not all the tickets for his shows were paperless just the better seats
I like to think right now it's the best way we have to stop scalping
but I'd much rather have a ticket stub to keep
They say every sin is deadly but I believe they may be wrong...I'm guilty of all seven and I don't feel too bad at all
just check a few empty rows after the show ends. theres always stubs lying around that people lose
also as stated above, people like to keep their stubs as a keep sake/ proof they were there. like for instance, for a music class i'm in, i have to write two papers on concerts i've gone to this semester, i need a ticket stub for proof.
so the trade off to stop/reduce scalping is to not do it so that people can have real stubs?
like i said the shows ive been to that were paperless had 10000+ people there. you will find stubs lying around if u want!
just saying
Right now, you have to stand in one line to get your 10Club tickets and then another line to actually go in the venue.
The way I see it, this is one less line. It could end up saving time.
I still like the old school tickets.. probably because I like to collect the stubs/tickets from all the shows I've been too.
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Happened to me with a recent show I went to- was going to use my dad's credit card, but then realized if that was the case, he needed to be the one to show his face to get us into the venue, even though he wasn't attending- which he wasn't up for.
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i, personally, dont like the sound of this at all
what if your CC is magically demagnetized ...like mine sometimes do.... or WHATEVER!
ugh... too much reliance on technology
why is more techno better?
there are a lot of downsides to this.
i dont like it and for sure i hope PJ doesnt start doing anything like this... :evil:
In this case, you'd have to use her card and she'd have to pay you back.
If the thing prints out two tickets, it seems to me that you would be fine... you could enter, and he could join you later???
If the CC doesn't work, i'd suggest getting a new one.
yeah, the slip has your seat section/row/number on it....mine kind of looked like a little ticket because it still had the name of the band and the date on it so I still had something for my ticket stub collection
I go to most shows by myself anyway, so not much problem with everyone entering at the same time
LOL... that would help a lot 45 minutes before the show....
AND... i thought this was paperless... is there a ticket and a stub... or not?
And as far as the issue with your friend who is taking your extra ticket.... Well doesn't the swiping of the CC happen AS you enter the venue?
(Isn't that supposed to be the upside of this.... so you cant take the ticket and walk to the street and resell for 5x the price?)
*EDIT* PS-Thanks Choop... just read your answers.
Back to my original statement... This doesnt sound like it's "fan-friendly" and I really hope PJ and the 10c agree with me and never go this route!!
that's soooo old school.... what are you... some kind of caveman or something?!?!? :?
That is not cool at all in so many levels
It is fan-friendly in the sense that the fans have a better chance at getting good seats because they are not competing with as many scalpers as usual during the on-sale.