Leagues Cup - August 3 - Red Bulls
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it's funny to ask questions about history and challenges about playing RB at RBA to thiago who is only in his 2nd season...
Is it just me, or is this Third Rail photo policy absolutely insane?
Instead of just checking to see who uses their tickets, they expect fans to send selfies of ourselves at the game?
Instead of just checking to see who uses their tickets, they expect fans to send selfies of ourselves at the game?
I think it's new club policy and TR is just having to go along. I saw instructions posted by people who got tickets directly from the club and they are the same. The club did a poor job wording it. Sounds needlessly harsh.
As I was tightening up my tin foil beret, my first reaction was this has nothing to do with tickets and is more than likely a way to make it easier to ID the usual band of traveling imbeciles that can't behave themselves. IIRC traveling supporters of teams in the Polish Ekstraclassa have to do this and there might be more Euro leagues as well.
It's crazy to me. The Third Rail just sold fans $20 tickets. 3 Days later they let everyone know if they don't take a selfie of themselves using the ticket they'll be charge an extra $13.
I honestly think if people start disputing those charges, the Third Rail could be caught in the middle of a shitstorm.
It's a front office policy, nothing to do with the Third Rail. The front office buys the tickets from the home club and subsidizes it to fans whether they are buying from the front office or supporter groups. People have bought away game tickets and not showed up, so the club is wasting money on those people. This has happened for games where we've sold out allocations and other fans wanted to actually attend. So people are abusing the system.
People had to take photos of themselves and their tickets while attending away games to get Cityzens points back in the day.
I don't see the problem with the front office requiring this nowadays. In prior years they threatened to charge people full price if they didn't show up. Now they are doing it.
That all makes sense and sounds like a good measure to take, but the club should have made that requirement well known before tickets went on sale and people starting buying them.
But I guess the club bungling communication isn't the most surprising thing to happen
This all makes sense, but it also feels like there are better ways to do this than having to send a picture to the front office. Surely there's a way fans can check in either in-person or online without making them go through a time-consuming step like this.
I don't think it seriously takes that much time to take a photo of yourself on your phone and email it. Under a minute.
No, it doesn't. But could totally see a bunch of people just forgetting to do something they've never had to do at a game before.
I'm sure there is a better way, but this is likely the one that involves the least from an app development perspective and is quickest to implement
Oy. Phish last night. 7AM video conference. Just barely back to feeling normal. So...
It's game day, bitches - LCHRD edition!
It's game day, bitches - LCHRD edition!
if their purpose is to ensure people aren't wasting tickets, then all they need to do is say "purchased tickets must be used or full price of the ticket will be charged". and they can check the attendance log to see which tickets were actually scanned at the gate. if someone has the time to go scan 20 tickets at the gate and not actually go to the game, well what are you gonna do...
but sure, taking a selfie is another solution.
Lack of common sense.
The funny thing is, how much could the club really be losing on these? I'd assume it's the worst with away games at Red Bulls. They only distribute a few hundred tickets. If they are losing $13/ticket you are talking a couple grand if 50% of fans don't show up. For away matches when only a handful of tickets are sold, you're probably talking in the hundreds of dollars lost. Over the course of the season there is no way they are losing any material amount of money doing this. Sometimes there is just a cost of doing business and this should be pocket change to an MLS club.
