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   a comment, Jun 12th, 2009 @ 8:19am

   
   

   paperless tickets

   Ticketmaster charges extra for the paperless tickets. Doesn't that show that they don't think that paperless tickets prevent resale?

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Jun 12th, 2009 @ 8:41am

   
   

   Re: paperless tickets

   No, it shows that there are some higher administrative costs in getting paperless tickets to work (particularly at the shows themselves). I would expect to see Ticketmaster reverse this position over time, making paper tickets more expensive (or possibly not available at all).
   
   Stubhub talks a brave game, but when it gets too difficult to actually get the tickets, I think you will see that stubhubs business will drop.
   
   I think you will see more and more sports teams move towards smart cards to replace tickets, where the card is identified to a user who is the only one that can use the account. Using that smart card to hold tickets and allow access to the facilities might be a workable solution.

    

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   minijedimaster (profile), Jun 12th, 2009 @ 9:08am

   
   

   Forget TM

   Or... people could just stop using Ticketmaster all together and just start using local brokers.

    

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   Annoyed ticketbuyer, Jun 12th, 2009 @ 9:29am

   
   

   Higher costs for paperless?

   Maybe I haven't seen these "paperless" tickets, but it's absurd that they charge a premium for "print at home" tickets, when it saves them the printing time, handling, and postage. As for admin costs at the venue, even with "hard" tickets, they are all barcoded now to control fraud, and ever ticket gets scanned at the entry point.

    

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   me, Jun 12th, 2009 @ 9:38am

   
   

   RE: Higher costs for paperless?

   What if a counterfeit ticket gets used/scanned before you get to the venue and you are the SOL? Has happened before.

    

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   Phil McCraken, Jun 12th, 2009 @ 10:15am

   
   

   Re: Re: paperless tickets

   bullshit.
   
   It all about money.

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Jun 12th, 2009 @ 10:20am

   
   

   Re: Re: paperless tickets

   I think you will see more and more sports teams move towards smart cards to replace tickets, where the card is identified to a user who is the only one that can use the account. Using that smart card to hold tickets and allow access to the facilities might be a workable solution.
   
   Yeah right, I am going to go through all that trouble so that I can overpay for the tickets, then have to pay the "smartcard" fee, the "convenience" fee, the "facility", the "service" fee, the "will call" fee, the "paperless ticket" fee. FUCK ticketmaster, they are and illegal monopoly and add up to 50% to the price of a ticket. FUCK ticketmaster...

    

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   Yakko Warner, Jun 12th, 2009 @ 10:34am

   
   

   Re: Higher costs for paperless?

   I agree. The Denver Center for the Performing Arts has the same higher-price-for-"paperless" crap (although it's not exactly "paperless" if you have to print something out on paper), which is why we most recently bought tickets and had them delivered by mail.
   
   Which was fortunate, because when it turned out we couldn't go, we could re-sell the paper tickets on Craigslist at cost. (Bummer, I really wanted to see Spamalot, too...)
   
   It's just like the push to go digital with videogames, trying to destroy the resale market and saddle it with as much DRM as possible. But, like with videogames, as the last statement in this article suggests, no matter how they try to prevent it, people will find a way around it.

    

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   Overcast (profile), Jun 12th, 2009 @ 12:39pm

   
   

   What a surprise!! :)
   
   I've had to tell my daughter 'no' to three concerts because of the cost.
   
   And not to worry RIAA - she, like me; prefers the original CD. But $75.00+ for a concert ticket?
   
   naaaaa

    

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    Anonymous Coward, Jun 12th, 2009 @ 4:55pm

    
    

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    The $75 for the ticket is to make up for all the money lost to the artist and record labels as a result of rampant piracy and those who subscribe to the "masnick way". Your concert ticket would have been $30, but hey, someone has to pay for all those free downloads / pirates / infringers.
    
    Welcome to web 2.9! Hopefully we will flip over to 3 soon as this horrible situation will get resolved.

     

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    tom, Jun 20th, 2009 @ 7:29pm

    
    

    Re: paperless tickets

     

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    jah, Mar 31st, 2011 @ 2:21am

    
    

    It's a wonderful news, now i will finally have the money for some Real Madrid tickets game wit my young boy. I think this is a good thing for all of us who travel a lot and need to find ways to cut down on something to get another thing.

     

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