Comments on: TicketMaster May Stop Charging You For The “Convenience” Of Using Your Own Paper And Ink Soon

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 06:55:08 +0000

Gee, this wouldn’t be the beginning of freezing out
non-ticketmaster sanctioned scalpers to increase profits. Another wonderful
convenience for the end customer. thanks TM.

By: ObtuseIntolerant

ObtuseIntolerant — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:08:04 +0000

If there are no tickets, shouldn't they change their name?

CardSwipeMaster perhaps?

It's like voting machines...needs a paper trail, for sure, or else there's bound to be malfunctions, fraud and hacking.

By: bbrian12

bbrian12 — Tue, 20 May 2008 11:24:35 +0000

what is so convienent about ticketmaster charging you 10$ – 15$ per ticket for a conveinience charge. if you go online and get your tickets you do all the work yourself and its only 42c to mail you the tickets.

By: davidm

davidm — Tue, 20 May 2008 09:54:14 +0000

I’ve done this at museums and IMAX theatres, and it did print out a ticket that I then walked 20 feet and handed to a ticket taker.

By: tenners

tenners — Tue, 20 May 2008 03:46:41 +0000

i don’t like this, because i like to keep the ticket stubs as “souvenirs”.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 20 May 2008 01:52:08 +0000

so yeah… what does happen if you want to give someone tickets for a gift? or if you like to buy tickets at the box office to avoid service charges? although, i guess that might even have something to do with this… people are buying tickets without paying convenience charges, and ticketbastard doesn’t like it.

By: Artie Fufkin

Artie Fufkin — Mon, 19 May 2008 09:30:28 +0000

How are the seats assigned? Does the usher check your credit card #?

By: summeroflove

summeroflove — Mon, 19 May 2008 09:00:20 +0000

@summeroflove: 'in A flood-prone...'

*sigh* can't type today.

By: summeroflove

summeroflove — Mon, 19 May 2008 08:59:04 +0000

@whoneedslight: nope, thank god. i have tix to another show which is thankfully not in the in a flood-prone area. i was reading about it here (sorry, don't know how to post links. hopefully this works):

[consumerist.com]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 19 May 2008 08:47:30 +0000

@summeroflove:

Did this happen to you?

By: summeroflove

summeroflove — Mon, 19 May 2008 08:03:35 +0000

@whoneedslight: imagine having gotten one of those tickets to the washington d.c. radiohead show that people had to drive around hours because of the rain. imagine then if you had gotten lucky enough to be let in and then the system didn't recognize your card, etc.

By: El Zilcho!

El Zilcho! — Mon, 19 May 2008 07:32:40 +0000

Say somebody wants to give you, or you want to give somebody, tickets to a show as a gift. If everything's paperless, then it looks like that's not going to be happening anymore.

One more reason to hate Ticketmaster, I guess.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 19 May 2008 06:57:04 +0000

I bought tickets to the Atlanta show.
I will be fifty shades of irate if I drive 3 1/2 hours and there is a flaw in the system.
Can't I just have a ticket? All of this newfangled technology makes old people like me suspicious.

By: Thierry

Thierry — Mon, 19 May 2008 06:44:27 +0000

Was there really a huge demographic that always wanted to go see a show but did not because they hated having to pick up a ticket SO MUCH?

Also, it seems to me that having to wait for someone to swipe a credit card AND check your I.D. would, if anything, take MORE time than just have someone scan a ticket...