TM Paperless tickets

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  • JOEJOEJOE
    JOEJOEJOE Posts: 10,968
    Indifference wrote:
    Thanks Pete wrote:
    Indifference wrote:
    How does it work when you buy tickets months in advance and then have a conflict or whatever reason and you can't go. Today, you can utlize craigslist, etc and get rid of the tickets. Under the paperless system you are out $$ - correct? Also, I believe the person whose credit card is used has to be the one picking up the tickets........


    With paperless you can transfer your tix. check out the TM site.

    So you can still scalp....just have to go through another step.


    I think TM only allows a small mark-up when it comes to reselling paperless tickets.
  • Indifference
    Indifference Posts: 2,794
    JOEJOEJOE wrote:

    I think TM only allows a small mark-up when it comes to reselling paperless tickets.

    Yes, but for the sake of the conversation, one could agree to pay an amount outside of TM to the seller on top of face for the tickets via the TM site.

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  • JOEJOEJOE
    JOEJOEJOE Posts: 10,968
    Indifference wrote:
    JOEJOEJOE wrote:

    I think TM only allows a small mark-up when it comes to reselling paperless tickets.

    Yes, but for the sake of the conversation, one could agree to pay an amount outside of TM to the seller on top of face for the tickets via the TM site.

    Very true....you could make the deal independent of TM, receive the Added amount, and then sell them to the buyer who pays tyhe maximum allowed price thru TM.
  • Ryan_WFC
    Ryan_WFC Posts: 1,353
    JOEJOEJOE wrote:
    Indifference wrote:
    JOEJOEJOE wrote:

    I think TM only allows a small mark-up when it comes to reselling paperless tickets.

    Yes, but for the sake of the conversation, one could agree to pay an amount outside of TM to the seller on top of face for the tickets via the TM site.

    Very true....you could make the deal independent of TM, receive the Added amount, and then sell them to the buyer who pays tyhe maximum allowed price thru TM.

    But if a scalper even proposed something like that, people on Craigslist/Ebay whatever could rat them out and have the tickets canceled.

    There's no perfect system, but paperless is the one that will get the most real fans in the seats for face.
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  • Thanks Pete
    Thanks Pete NYC Posts: 614
    But if a scalper even proposed something like that, people on Craigslist/Ebay whatever could rat them out and have the tickets canceled.

    There's no perfect system, but paperless is the one that will get the most real fans in the seats for face.[/quote]

    so true!
  • P-Town-P-Jam-Fan
    P-Town-P-Jam-Fan Posts: 930
    I think PJ has not gone to paperless because it just puts more money into Ticketmasters pockets. I don't think PJ is interested in helping TM. I don't like it because I like the flexibility of being able to change my mind and sell my tickets down the road if I want to, but It definately does cut way down on scalping.
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  • Thanks Pete
    Thanks Pete NYC Posts: 614
    P-Town-P-Jam-Fan wrote:
    I think PJ has not gone to paperless because it just puts more money into Ticketmasters pockets. I don't think PJ is interested in helping TM. I don't like it because I like the flexibility of being able to change my mind and sell my tickets down the road if I want to, but It definately does cut way down on scalping.


    Your last phrase says it all :D
  • helplessdancer
    helplessdancer Posts: 5,292
    Get_Right wrote:
    sounds good in theory

    but imagine the bottleneck at 745 pm for a PJ show

    and no ticket stub
    thats a deal breaker for me :D

    not every section in the building. just pick 5 very good sections and make those paperless

    also, have u ever tried to find extra stubs after a show is over when there are 10000 people there. you will find a stub...it might not be your exact seat location but there are stubs left lying around always

    bottom line is this system works, and i'm disappointed that more bands aren't doing it.
  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 44,392
    I never heard of this until a few weeks ago when I ordered tix for the Kings Of Leon. Sounds like a good idea. Hope more bands start doing this.
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  • starmap3333
    starmap3333 Posts: 3,925
    scalpers have to make a living too. whah whah.
  • Alpine Bound
    Alpine Bound Posts: 1,809
    I went to a show this weekend that used paperless tickets. it sucks on all levels!

    I want my ticket stub, I want the chance to unload my tickets if something comes up last minute... I hope this falls by the wayside and fast!
  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 99,885
    For regular season hockey game ticket's, I don't mind if they go paperless tickets. But for rock show's, especially Pearl Jam show's, I want my ticket stub.
  • starmap3333
    starmap3333 Posts: 3,925
    adspj wrote:
    I want the chance to unload my tickets if something comes up last minute... I hope this falls by the wayside and fast!

    plain and simple.

    another guy wrote about wanting his ticket stub.... another good reason.

    maybe if everyone quit trying to make things better in the world, it would just be better.

    rotary dial phone and fucking 3, 5, and 9. i want it back.
  • chime
    chime Posts: 7,839
    I have done it for The Who and Metallica.

    For those talking about ticket stubs ... although I didn't get a ticket stub the machine that swiped the card didn't print out a piece of paper that had the band name, date and for Metallica seat location that has gone in my stub collection.

    The slight problem I had for The Who, which was GA, it was a friend who had bought my ticket (tickets were limited to 2 per person) and I had to wait for my friend before I could go in. If it was normal tickets I could have gotten this from my friend before hand and gone in with my other friends who were going to the show. But it was a small club show that would definitely have had a lot of touting (scalping) if not for paperless tickets and I saw none ... and I was stood outside for quite a while.
    So are we strangers now? Like rock and roll and the radio?
  • redrock
    redrock Posts: 18,341
    I suppose it's not much different than the process for 10C tickets.

    There's pros and cons for this system (like anything else!)
  • Horse2345
    Horse2345 Posts: 3,301
    paperless tickets are a bloody scam by ticketmaster. Yes you can resell them but the only way is through Ticketmaster and their site and guess who charges you to do it. Just another way to screw over the public and make money.
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  • helplessdancer
    helplessdancer Posts: 5,292
    Horse2345 wrote:
    paperless tickets are a bloody scam by ticketmaster. Yes you can resell them but the only way is through Ticketmaster and their site and guess who charges you to do it. Just another way to screw over the public and make money.

    ever visited stubhub?

    the people who have to resell paperless tickets are a huge minority, at best. the trade off is that you stop someone from the other side of the country from trying/buying for tickets to ANY hot show that they never plan on even going to but only to buy to resell them at a huge profit(etickets or actual tickets mailed) ugh
  • Thanks Pete
    Thanks Pete NYC Posts: 614
    I don't understand this obsession with ticket stubs. Someone please explain it to me.

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