WTF is this about needing an MLB acct to use your ticketmaster tickets at FENWAY?

24567…10

Comments

  • YourDirtisMyfood
    YourDirtisMyfood Boston Posts: 4,668
    If you’re not doing fan to fan and just have tickets through TM, you’re good right?
  • DM282158
    DM282158 Beverly, MA Posts: 658
    JimmyV said:
    Gotta love the Friday night news dump, too. 
    Seriously. Oldest trick in the book. 
    Boston '06
    Mansfield '08
    Hartford '10
    Worcester, Hartford '13
    Global Citizen, NY '15
  • pjl44
    pjl44 Posts: 10,547
    YourDirtisMyfood said:
    If you’re not doing fan to fan and just have tickets through TM, you’re good right?
    You'll still need to download the MLB Ballpark app to access the tickets on show day 
  • jimjam1982
    jimjam1982 AZ Posts: 1,471
    edited September 2024
    I fully expect to have to buy new tickets when I get there. Chances of this actually going smooth feels close to 0%

    And then there will be lawyers.
    Post edited by jimjam1982 on
  • pjl44
    pjl44 Posts: 10,547
    I get skittish about things like this because I see how it plays out at work. These decisions are sold and made by people with above average technical competence and don't take into account how many users will have below average or low technical competence.

    So there will be a mountain of headaches even if everything goes smoothly which it often doesn't.
  • pjl44
    pjl44 Posts: 10,547
    Unless there are details I'm missing or misunderstanding they have to ensure that 80,000 ticket holders understand their tickets will be available in a different app than many used to initially purchase them. And their accounts on both apps must have matching emails.
  • pjl44
    pjl44 Posts: 10,547
    cxd said:
    Just type the URL in, don't click on it, www.MLB.com/redsox/tickets/mobile

    It's annoying but it is what it is. 
    Bad sign when they screw up the link in the initial email 
  • CO278952
    CO278952 Orlando, FL Posts: 1,451
    pjl44 said:
    CO278952 said:
    Does anyone see their tickets in the ballpark app?
    No. The way it reads I assume they'll migrate over around 9/7 give or take.
    The email provides instructions about how to load the tickets into your ballpark app (which doesn’t work for me), I didn’t read anything suggesting the tickets will all of a sudden show up there on their own after the deadline for fan to fan resale. 
    4.17.94 Paramount 9.28.96 Randall's Island 8.25.00 Jones Beach 4.28.03 Spectrum 7.5.03 Camden 7.6.03 Camden 07.08.03 MSG 07.09.03 MSG 7.12.03 Hershey 7.14.03 Holmdel 6.12.08 Tampa 10.19.13 Brooklyn 4.11.16 Tampa 5.1.16 MSG 5.2.16 MSG 8.7.16 Fenway 9.2.18 Fenway 9.4.18 Fenway 9.11.22 MSG 9.16.22 Nashville 9.18.23 Austin 9.19.23 Austin 9.3.24 MSG 9.4.24 MSG Fenway 9.15.24 Fenway 9.17.24 Hollywood 4.24.25 Nashville 5.6.25 Nashville 5.8.25
  • pjl44
    pjl44 Posts: 10,547
    CO278952 said:
    pjl44 said:
    CO278952 said:
    Does anyone see their tickets in the ballpark app?
    No. The way it reads I assume they'll migrate over around 9/7 give or take.
    The email provides instructions about how to load the tickets into your ballpark app (which doesn’t work for me), I didn’t read anything suggesting the tickets will all of a sudden show up there on their own after the deadline for fan to fan resale. 
    The link does not provide instructions on how to do that. It's a generic landing page about accessing Red Sox tickets in the Ballpark app.

    (This is what I'm talking about.)
  • EBowie
    EBowie Posts: 533
    edited September 2024
    Add this to my list of reasons why I don't like concerts at baseball stadiums.
    Play at venues that are designed for music only, or at worst, basketball/hockey arenas.  The Fenway/Wrigley novelty has worn off!!!
  • smhondl
    smhondl Avon, MN Posts: 26
    I spent way too long on the phone today with the Red Sox ticket office (ultimately said they can't help and referred me to Ticketmaster), and Ticketmaster support... Ticketmaster said that as long as you have it in your wallet it will work... even if that wallet ticket came from Ticketmaster and not the ballpark app... but do we really trust Ticketmaster?
    177XXX

    08/28/92 Harriet Island: St. Paul, MN
    06/30/98 Target Center: Minneapolis, MN
    06/15/03 FargoDome: Fargo, ND
    06/16/03 Xcel Energy Center: St. Paul, MN
    09/09/05 Fort William Gardens: Thunder Bay, ON
    06/26/06 Xcel Energy Center: St. Paul, MN
    06/27/06 Xcel Energy Center: St. Paul, MN
    09/03/11 Alpine Valley: East Troy, WI (PJ20)
    09/04/11 Alpine Valley: East Troy, WI (PJ20)
    09/17/11 MTS Centre: Winnipeg, MB
    10/19/14 Xcel Energy Center: St. Paul, MN
    04/20/16 PNC Arena: Raleigh, NC (CANCELLED)
    04/21/16 Colonial Life Arena: Columbia, SC
    08/22/16 Wrigley Field: Chicago, IL
    08/10/18 Safeco Field: Seattle, WA 
    08/13/18 Grizzly Stadium: Missoula, MT
    04/09/20 Pepsi Center: Denver, CO (CANCELLED)
    09/22/22 Ball Arena: Denver, CO 
    08/31/23 Xcel Energy Center: St. Paul, MN
    09/02/23 Xcel Energy Center: St. Paul, MN
    09/18/23 Moody Center: Austin, TX
    09/19/23 Moody Center: Austin, TX
    05/21/24 Kia Forum: Los Angeles, CA
    05/22/24 Kia Forum: Los Angeles, CA
    09/17/24 Fenway Park: Boston, MA
  • YourDirtisMyfood
    YourDirtisMyfood Boston Posts: 4,668
    Any updates on this? If you buy tickets through the 10 club lottery and ticketmaster process, do you need the major-league baseball app?
  • PJNB
    PJNB Posts: 13,890
    smhondl said:
    I spent way too long on the phone today with the Red Sox ticket office (ultimately said they can't help and referred me to Ticketmaster), and Ticketmaster support... Ticketmaster said that as long as you have it in your wallet it will work... even if that wallet ticket came from Ticketmaster and not the ballpark app... but do we really trust Ticketmaster?
    No lol
  • nikita_02445
    nikita_02445 Posts: 76
    I want to transfer my tickets to my friend but the transfer option is unavailable in TM and my tix are not showing up in Ballpark - which is where I believe they can be transferred. However with the 10 day lockout, they need to be there within 3 days. TM said contact Ballpark. Ballpark said contact Fenway Park “🦗”
    anyone figured out a way to transfer without having to give someone my phone? (assuming the tix magically appear - which I am definitely not)
    tia 
  • CantKeepmedown
    CantKeepmedown Portland, Maine Posts: 3,119
    I think we'll know more after tomorrow. My understanding is once they are in the ballpark app, you can transfer them to anyone you want. But it's not entirely clear right now.  
  • koncretekite
    koncretekite Posts: 18
    My Fenway tickets show on the Ticketmaster app when I go into My Events. However, when I click on "View Barcode", it totally kicks me out of the app. WTF?
  • JimmyV
    JimmyV Boston's MetroWest Posts: 19,600
    edited September 2024
    Why do we think tickets will be transferable once they migrate over? Is there an indication somewhere of that? (Rooting of course for this to be true.)
    ___________________________________________

    "...I changed by not changing at all..."
  • YourDirtisMyfood
    YourDirtisMyfood Boston Posts: 4,668
    koncretekite said:
    My Fenway tickets show on the Ticketmaster app when I go into My Events. However, when I click on "View Barcode", it totally kicks me out of the app. WTF?
    Can u move to wallet?
  • nikita_02445
    nikita_02445 Posts: 76
    JimmyV said:
    Why do we think tickets will be transferable once they migrate over? Is there an indication somewhere of that? (Rooting of course for this to be true.)
    I thought there was a carve out to the ban for Fenway. Or maybe I was confused by the name Fan to Fan Ticket Transfer, I mean c’mon? 
  • nikita_02445
    nikita_02445 Posts: 76
    CantKeepmedown said:
    I think we'll know more after tomorrow. My understanding is once they are in the ballpark app, you can transfer them to anyone you want. But it's not entirely clear right now.  
    🤞
    wondering if both Fenway shows will be added tomorrow …?

Categories