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utee94

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Re: Buying tickets out front
« Reply #28 on: July 28, 2024, 07:33:45 PM »
Quote from: longhorn320 on July 28, 2024, 06:52:06 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.



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Re: Buying tickets out front
« Reply #29 on: July 28, 2024, 07:36:01 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on July 28, 2024, 07:33:45 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
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Re: Buying tickets out front
« Reply #30 on: July 28, 2024, 07:41:20 PM »
Quote from: longhorn320 on July 28, 2024, 07:36:01 PM
can you print the ticket and resell it to a friend
No.  You can electronically transfer it to a friend.
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Re: Buying tickets out front
« Reply #31 on: July 28, 2024, 07:48:24 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on July 28, 2024, 07:41:20 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
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« Reply #32 on: July 28, 2024, 07:51:28 PM »
Quote from: longhorn320 on July 28, 2024, 07:48:24 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."
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Re: Buying tickets out front
« Reply #33 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?
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Re: Buying tickets out front
« Reply #34 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. 
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Re: Buying tickets out front
« Reply #35 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.

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« Reply #36 on: July 29, 2024, 12:24:38 AM »
Quote from: 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?
Some can be sent via text.  Depends on the system they're using.

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Re: Buying tickets out front
« Reply #37 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.
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Re: Buying tickets out front
« Reply #38 on: July 29, 2024, 06:50:28 AM »
Quote from: longhorn320 on July 28, 2024, 06:45:42 PM
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. 
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Re: Buying tickets out front
« Reply #39 on: July 29, 2024, 06:52:36 AM »
Quote from: longhorn320 on July 28, 2024, 07:48:24 PM
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. 
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Re: Buying tickets out front
« Reply #40 on: July 29, 2024, 09:51:00 AM »
Quote from: bayareabadger on July 29, 2024, 06:50:28 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
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« Reply #41 on: July 29, 2024, 10:04:34 AM »
Quote from: bayareabadger on July 29, 2024, 06:52:36 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.
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