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Admission Tickets as Text Messages
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ScuttleMonkey
on Wed Jan 18, 2006 02:53 PM
from the hope-you-have-a-cell-phone dept.
from the hope-you-have-a-cell-phone dept.
lee1 writes to tell us that InfoWorld is reporting that Smartmachine and their partner Skidata have developed a new way to allow customers to purchase and receive tickets to events. The new ticketing system allows users to "have a ticket sent to their mobile phone via SMS (Short Message Service) in the form of a 2D (two-dimensional) bar code. At the gate, they slide their mobile phone display showing the bar code by a bar code reader." The new technology also claims to help combat the counterfeit, pilferage, and repeat use that can be such a problem for paper tickets.
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And they'll pass the cost savings on to... (Score:4, Insightful)
(http://www.download.com/kittyflipping)
Re:And they'll pass the cost savings on to... (Score:5, Insightful)
I doubt few would disagree with you... Look at ticketmaster. The last time I bought a ticket via TM I was charged somewhere about 8 USD for a "convience fee". I bought the ticket online and picked the ticket up at the box office. So what's the convience? The fact that I did my own order entry and seating research instead of tying up one of their customer services sales reps on the phone for 15 minutes on an 800 number? The fact that they didn't have to put the ticket in an envelope and mail it to me? I SAVED them money by doing my business on the internet and still I got smacked with a fee as if doing things on my own is somehow easier....
Wait, yeah, considering the level of competence of the average sales rep, I guess it was more convient.
Re:And they'll pass the cost savings on to... (Score:4, Interesting)
Plan B (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://xmoo.com/)
Paperless ticketing, while important, will only cause monetary loss, imagine if a country is crazy enough to adapt paperless voting where voters don't get a "vote receipt" in case something or someone messed up the results.
Re:Plan B (Score:5, Insightful)
(Last Journal: Tuesday October 30, @10:59AM)
imagine if a country is crazy enough to adapt paperless voting where voters don't get a "vote receipt" in case something or someone messed up the results.
What, you mean like the US of A?
Re:Plan B (Score:4, Informative)
(http://www.hyperlogos.org/ | Last Journal: Wednesday July 18, @08:19PM)
Re:Plan B (Score:4, Interesting)
(http://dchky.com/)
It'll cost a small chunk for the equipment, though all of it can be obtained off the shelf. Spec An, RX equipment, downconverters, modems, digital capture card, pc.
Re:Plan B (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.macphersonclan.com/rod)
You'd probably have several seconds to do it before the person scanning it gives up trying to scan the "bad phone display" and tries another way to verify the ticket.
Like public transport in finland (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Like public transport in finland (Score:4, Funny)
(http://www.werizit.com/)
So if you buy enough public transit tickets your phone usage is free?
This is a bummer... (Score:5, Insightful)
Let's see if I got this straight (Score:5, Funny)
Old news in Korea (Score:5, Interesting)
(Last Journal: Friday March 04 2005, @04:19PM)
It makes a lot of sense. It's convenient to order the tickets, also via cell phone, and then you don't have to wait in line. And everyone there has a cell phone.
Funfact: In South Korea when you buy a movie ticket, you can buy a particular seat, like at a sports game.
Oh good... (Score:5, Funny)
Heard at Woodstock anniversary concert... (Score:5, Funny)
Already in use for years... (Score:3, Informative)
Combat counterfeit? (Score:3, Insightful)
(http://seenonslash.com/ | Last Journal: Friday May 11 2007, @04:02PM)
They can counterfeit a barcode on a ticket to get into Madison Square Garden. They can most certainly figure out how to draw the image on a phone's screen.
Tried it, seat but my seat was already occupied (Score:3, Funny)
Are those SMS? (Score:3, Informative)
(http://www.fr4ncis.net/)
This was tried in India for a Cricket match (Score:3, Interesting)
(http://slashdot.org/~GillBates0 | Last Journal: Tuesday July 10, @04:36PM)
FTA:
The tickets would be delivered directly to their mobile phones. At the venue, they only need to place their phones on the sensor installed at the gates for entering the stadium. Spice Telecom and Karnataka State Cricket Association, after their "successful" and ongoing joint venture of Future Strokes, have again come together to launch the Mobile Ticketing in association with ConvergeLabs, a Spice Telecom release said.
Swiss Federal Railways (Score:3, Insightful)
(http://etoy.com/)
Step 1 : You sign up for the service
If you are missing an option to order your ticket via a web site free of charge you are probably not alone.
Those blitzes of brilliance with which marketing bozos can come up with truely mystify me at times.