Print at home tickets (Now live - P7)

didsburyblu said:
One thing that worries me with this is the touts who will print off 50 copies and pass em on. Happens a lot at concerts so bound to affect football too.
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Do idiots at gigs really buy paper tickets from touts that have been copied again and again and again? Admittedly, I've sold two via Scarlet Mist that were e-tickets but had absolute trust from both buyers as I was an established seller. I'm forever unable to go or have too many. If anything, the paper tickets should eliminate touting as people wouldn't buy from some scally on a street corner.
 
I think it is a ridiculous idea and said so in the survey they sent. If you are paying for a ticket then you should get a ticket instead of wasting your printer ink, which can be expensive, doing their job for them!!

And yes, I do know that airline tickets now can be printed at home, I object to that also. Why have an A4 piece of paper when a smaller ticket is much handier. MHO
 
Corky said:
Seems like a backward step. I'm sure there were no paper tickers in the first seasons at CoMS even for away fans.
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There's always been paper tickets the only difference with this is that you print your own instead of them being posted or picked up from ticket office
 
Eccles Blue said:
I think it is a ridiculous idea and said so in the survey they sent. If you are paying for a ticket then you should get a ticket instead of wasting your printer ink, which can be expensive, doing their job for them!!

And yes, I do know that airline tickets now can be printed at home, I object to that also. Why have an A4 piece of paper when a smaller ticket is much handier. MHO
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Thought everybody did their printing at work-:)
 
I went to Barcelona v Levante at the weekend, bought tickets via barca's website, they sent me an email with a pdf attached (and the option to send it to my passbook on Iphone), i printed the tickets off and there was a steward who scanned me into the Camp Nou. I also did the same at Malaga last year, but without the Iphone option.

It was really easy and effective. These clubs must have some sort of security in place against touts.
 
Guyvxt said:
Why not just have them on your smartphone to scan in. Like you do with boarding passes these days
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https://www.fc-koeln.de/en/fc-tickets/single-match-tickets/additional-offers/mobile-ticket/

Cologne does:

"The FC Mobile Ticket: Enter the stadium with just your Smartphone.


Tickets can also be purchased digitally through fc-tickets.de. The tickets will be sent to your E-mail inbox in the form of a 2D-Barcode. Please show the 2D-Barcode at the entrance to the stadium. We advise you to save the 2D-Barcode on your phone (i.e. Passbook on iPhones or Pass2U on Android) because network connections on matchdays could be difficult. Damaged or scratched smartphone screens will make it difficult to scan the QR-Code, so those 2D-Barcodes that cannot be scanned properly will not be admitted to the stadium. In order to book the mobile ticket, simply select "MobileTicket" at the end of your ticket booking application.

fc-ticketbörse.

Note: The mobile ticket will NOT double as a passenger ticket for the VRS public transport system."
 
kramer said:
There's always been paper tickets the only difference with this is that you print your own instead of them being posted or picked up from ticket office
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When we moved there it was access card only for home fans, the international games in 2004 were plastic cards and the away fans got plastic cards to use once.
 
Corky said:
Seems like a backward step. I'm sure there were no paper tickers in the first seasons at CoMS even for away fans.
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A backward step ! You have to be joking.Its the way forward for fans and I dare say there will be teething problems,but at least the Club are attempting to do something different.I guess some people just don`t like change.
 
Soon as I saw this topic I thought - am I in 2005 here?

Fair enough not everyone has a smartphone but I don't understand why city don''t implement the ticketing online background into the matchday app they have, so your ticket purchases will be in this app, you could simply display a unique QR Code for the specific match and the devices at the turnstile will scan it....

Even this technology isn't new, been scanning those QR codes for a few years now when something interests me.
 
This is a great idea.

Will save people queuing at the ticket office and missing some of the match, like against Juve.

Do what others have said and print at work.
 
Why Always Ste said:
Soon as I saw this topic I thought - am I in 2005 here?

Fair enough not everyone has a smartphone but I don't understand why city don''t implement the ticketing online background into the matchday app they have, so your ticket purchases will be in this app, you could simply display a unique QR Code for the specific match and the devices at the turnstile will scan it....

Even this technology isn't new, been scanning those QR codes for a few years now when something interests me.
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You're the only person I know who has admitted to scanning QR codes.
 
Eccles Blue said:
I think it is a ridiculous idea and said so in the survey they sent. If you are paying for a ticket then you should get a ticket instead of wasting your printer ink, which can be expensive, doing their job for them!!

And yes, I do know that airline tickets now can be printed at home, I object to that also. Why have an A4 piece of paper when a smaller ticket is much handier. MHO
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grim up north said:
Thought everybody did their printing at work-:)
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I could have done with being at work just now when my printer started printing gobbledegook in the middle of printing out pages for a training course I am running this evening!! And there is another reason why it is a ridiculous idea!! What happens when your printer decides it has had enough!!??

Just give us the trusted little season card PLEASE!! That's why I've paid for a ticket. :-)
 
Eccles Blue said:
I could have done with being at work just now when my printer started printing gobbledegook in the middle of printing out pages for a training course I am running this evening!! And there is another reason why it is a ridiculous idea!! What happens when your printer decides it has had enough!!??

Just give us the trusted little season card PLEASE!! That's why I've paid for a ticket. :-)
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Printing your own ticket costs approximately 0.5 pence! Definitely worth it for those who spent an hour queuing while the Juve game was being played.

I'm absolutely sure this would be run in parallel to the existing method rather than as a straight switchover.

Presumably the smartphone scan thing would require a brand new set of readers on each turnstile, so that might take time. But this is only City moving with the times and I'd say is totally inevitable.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
Printing your own ticket costs approximately 0.5 pence! Definitely worth it for those who spent an hour queuing while the Juve game was being played.

I'm absolutely sure this would be run in parallel to the existing method rather than as a straight switchover.

Presumably the smartphone scan thing would require a brand new set of readers on each turnstile, so that might take time. But this is only City moving with the times and I'd say is totally inevitable.
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From what I heard last night you still have the option for tickets to be sent to you or to pick up at the Ticket Office as well, so is another option to help reduce queues on matchday etc.
 
I'm surprised that there's any hostility to this really.

I think it's a progressive move by the club that will helpfully eradicate a lot of problems encountered by those without season cards or City cards.

It was a farce against Juventus, so the club need to do something and this, coupled with the smartphone option, seems to be the best option.
 
If you are able to print off a paper copy of an individual match as part of your season ticket that could be a big help to those of us who miss a few games a year. I regularly have a ball ache having to go to the ticket office on match day and pretend to be a mate to get his, or have someone doing the same pretending to me me.

It would be much easier to pass on your ticket to someone from here, or that Facebook ticket exchange, without having to arrange the return of your ticket or to meet someone and scan them in.

I'm not sure that would influence the club's thinking though as it would have an impact on match day sales.
 
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