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Obviously not essential, but NFL tickets no longer have a paper option. It is app-only.
by tengbretson 4y ago
Obviously not essential, but NFL tickets no longer have a paper option. It is app-only.
- tobias_smollett 4y agoThe world cup in Qatar requires a specific app to manage your tickets. I really hope U.S. sports don't go down this route.
- mccolin 4y agoUS sports are already headed there. Proprietary apps help them control (eliminate) the secondary market in two ways: they broker transactions between people (app-to-app) and prevent scalpers from transacting paper tickets. MLB, NFL, NBA, and NHL all do this with league-branded apps and/or partnerships with Ticketmaster, etc
- tutorialmanager 4y agoWith my current MLB tickets I can take a screen shot of the ticket and text it to somebody else. Much easier than a ticketmaster transfer. The world cup is using a time base code to prevent any transfer of tickets.
- PebblesRox 4y agoWe went to an amusement park this summer and they no longer give out paper maps of the park. We had to squint at the online map on the tiny screens of our phones. It was a shame because I would have liked to give out maps to the kids so they could navigate/orient themselves. A few days afterward, I actually went to the trouble of printing nice legal-sized color versions of the map at Staples to give to the kids as mementos. Sure enough, they loved looking at and discussing those maps just like I did as a kid. Next time we go I'm printing maps ahead of time so we can have them while we're there.