Local high school selling tickets online only

[Flip Wilson]

As the title says, the local school is selling tickets to athletic events online only. No tickets sold at the gate. This doesn't seem quite right to me. I'm sure there's got to be folks in the district who, for whatever reason, can't buy tickets online. Am I overreacting in thinking this is somewhat elitist?

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Are you my neighbor? Same thing here.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

This has become very commonplace at the big football high schools.

 

[sgreenwell]

As the title says, the local school is selling tickets to athletic events online only. No tickets sold at the gate. This doesn't seem quite right to me. I'm sure there's got to be folks in the district who, for whatever reason, can't buy tickets online. Am I overreacting in thinking this is somewhat elitist?

After the past two years, I'm not sure what percentage of the population has zero access to the Internet, yet still has the means to get to a game. Worst case scenario, I suppose they'll have to go to a library and print some tickets out there. I also imagine it could be a staffing / security thing - no need to have a bunch of cash sitting at the gate for students or psycho parents to skim from. (Yes, we actually had a problem with that at the boosters club for the HS I used to work for.)

 

[rtse11]

Pretty commonplace in Ohio now.

 

[Driftwood]

Yeah, we started it in the fall of '20.
I don't ever have to work ticket gates, so I can't for certain, but I don't think we are online only this year. I know it's preferred, though.

 

[JimmyHoward33]

Massachusetts started this last year. The service they use jacks up the price by 15-20% a pop for processing fees. People are pissed but so far nothing they can do.

No cash at the door ought to be against the law

 

[Batman]

Common in Mississippi, too. Most of the public high schools here use the GoFan site. Our locals went to it for the fall of 2020 as a way to reduce hand-to-hand contact during COVID, with the stated side benefit of it making it easier to track ticket sales and handle money. They don't have to worry about handling several thousand dollars in cash at the end of the night and, when they were having to limit attendance in 2020, they were able to see exactly how many tickets were left and cut off sales.
People buy the tickets on their smartphones and get them scanned at the gate. If there have been complaints, I haven't heard a huge uproar over it.

 

[ChrisLong]

Time for me to hide in the closet in my home office.

Went to an Angels game. Cards only, no cash.

Disneyland is all reservations. Meaning, you need a reservation for everything from getting through the gate to riding Splash Mountain. Some of the newer rides -- I don't even know the names of them -- require a separate fee. It is just damn sad that if you wake up on a random Tuesday and decided you want to go to Disneyland, you can't because you didn't make a reservation in advance.

I finally figured out the Wallet thingee on my phone for Ducks tickets last season.

 

[User 150927]

Became the norm in FL during the pandemic

 

[Scout]

Local amusement park went totally cashless this summer.

my daughter is 14 and has a Greenlight card. No worries at all.

 

[Sea Bass]

High school football is about one percent as popular here as it is in the U.S., yet my kids’ school has gone online-only too.

 

[User 149557]

My parents are starting to have real problems functioning. They don’t have smartphones or the internet at home. They’ve been able to get by without them. More and more I’m being tasked with buying tickets for events they want to go to.

 

[playthrough]

My only complaint is the surcharge on top of a $6 game ticket from these high school versions of Ticketmaster. Or that I'm mad that I didn't think of it in 2018.

 

[jr/shotglass]

Yeah, this bothers me. So do "no cash" venues. Not because I can't navigate them, but because I know there are people out there who aren't at all tech-savvy, and the world's leaving them behind.

Hershey's Giant Center was no-cash for the district basketball championships last February, and I saw a lot of disgusted people. They didn't want to have the line times lengthened as credit cards get swiped.

 

[SixToe]

My old high school is doing tickets online now via a site or QR code. I can't imagine how many Olds have said "F'k that, I won't go" because they don't want to mess with it.

I use the online and QRs but still like having a physical ticket for some things, like when I fly.

 

[Cosmo]

When I went to England in March, I took about 200 pounds out of the ATM because when I went in 2019, there were several places -- including the home pub in Watford -- that accepted only cash. Pandemic completely changed all of that.

For the entirety of the trip, I used 4 quid in cash -- 2 quid per night at the coat check at the Electric Ballroom for the Hold Steady shows. Literally every other place was cashless. Finally learned to love my Apple pay and now hate places where I can't just tap with my phone and pay. I never carry cash anymore.

 

[Huggy]

When I went to England in March, I took about 200 pounds out of the ATM because when I went in 2019, there were several places -- including the home pub in Watford -- that accepted only cash. Pandemic completely changed all of that.

For the entirety of the trip, I used 4 quid in cash -- 2 quid per night at the coat check at the Electric Ballroom for the Hold Steady shows. Literally every other place was cashless. Finally learned to love my Apple pay and now hate places where I can't just tap with my phone and pay. I never carry cash anymore.

Thanks for the heads up, the missus and I are off to Scotland tomorrow and I wonder if we'll see the same thing (even though we are taking a lot of quid).

 

[poindexter]

Adapt or die, folks.

 

[Deskgrunt50]

Thanks for the heads up, the missus and I are off to Scotland tomorrow and I wonder if we'll see the same thing (even though we are taking a lot of quid).

We were there recently. Took 400 pounds in cash. Used most of it but definitely didn’t need to. Could do almost everything on cards. Left some tips in cash. And used cash for some cabs. But can also use cards in cabs.

Foreign transaction fee wasn’t too bad using Chase. AmEx, I think, doesn’t have a fee at all.