It did seem odd that there was no option for an e-ticket when I got mine, but at the same time I don't think everyone should be forced down the tech route for ticketing.
Is it an ID thing for you guys? I.e. you collect the ticket and presumably have to show ID so they know who's buying the ticket?
I would assume most tickets are bought online via a club account and the tickets are posted, but I'm not certain, presumably there is a reason. Maybe the digital systems vary and are not compatible, though the bar-codes themselves are all standard.
I think it's not ID but the logistics of the tickets being passed from the away team, to City, then to fans. You buy away end tickets via the away club, not direct from the team selling them. A physical ticket can obviously be posted around but I guess they've yet to come up with an elegant way for selling clubs to allocate digital tickets to an away club to sell on.
Yeah that's a fair point. I was trying to think what the difference would be and that's probably the main one, not having home fans able to buy in the away end. Whereas over here it doesn't really matter where people sit ultimately.
QPR last season. And it went spectacularly wrong. I suspect the problem is that away clubs sell away tickets on behalf of the home club, so integrating with whatever ticketing system each home club uses is a barrier. The etickets for qpr had to be printed out on sheets of A4 (and then didn’t work at the barriers), a solution worse than just printing tickets in the first place! edit - I’ve repeated what PLT posted, sorry!
It's fast approaching the point of no preferences... A lot of older people,I'd include myself in that,are comfortable in dealing with the old way and some of us get confused by technology,there's no shame in it. On my most recent holiday to Lanzarote(Spain),we had that massive outage that crippled transport,telecommunications and card payment systems...Thankfully when standing at the back of the queue in the supermarket and we were informed it was cash only,I immediately became first in said queue,as no **** had cash..?
The notion that people are generally technophobes and wouldn't want to make their life easier. Are you one of those "cash is king" nuts?
Theres already incidences of Payment processors Ie visa. Deciding what youre allowed to buy Im not cash is king But i like being able to use it
