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>These days, they don't have those costs as the customers are the ones supplying the hardware, internet connection, and doing the printing. So there's no reason
by smackfu 11y ago
>These days, they don't have those costs as the customers are the ones supplying the hardware, internet connection, and doing the printing. So there's no reason for the high fees.
Unless you buy tickets online, as the vast majority of people do.
- chiph 11y agoI think you misunderstand. The customers (people buying tickets) are using their own computers, their own internet connection, and their own printers (with that oh-so-cheap ink) to buy and print their event tickets these days. So Ticketmaster is no longer supplying all that specialized equipment to the stores and no longer has those costs.
- kbenson 11y agoFor some venues and ticket types, you can just let them scan the PDF on your phone. For a subset of those, there's an actual mobile ticket type where the only way to get in is to show the ticket from the TicketMaster/LiveNation app, and there is no PDF.
- smackfu 11y agoAh I see. I'd still argue that the cost of supporting online purchasing more than makes up for the cost of printing paper tickets.