TKC BREAKING AND EXCLUSIVE NEWS!!! KANSAS CITY CHIEFS FINALLY DUMP PAPER BUT FANS HATE NEW MOBILE TICKETING!!!
Kansas City football fans confront new technology seemingly aimed at limiting aftermarket sales under the guise of convenience but providing nothing but headaches for loyal customers.
In a brief respite from debate about our dysfunctional civic Democracy, let's look at another fading local institution . . . The Kansas City Chiefs.
To wit . . .
THE KANSAS CITY CHIEFS FINALLY DUMP PAPER TICKETS BUT NOW ENDURE WIDESPREAD FRUSTRATION WITH THE NEW MOBILE SYSTEM THAT SEVERELY RESTRICTS FANS!!!
The app doesn't seem to want fans making any profit from their purchase or selling to scalpers or Internet resellers and the new restrictions makes commonplace transactions nearly impossible. Moreover, the new app locks fans into a byzantine system that lacks many options of better ticketing tech solutions.
Here's a horror story that really points out the problem with the app . . .
"Chiefs have implemented a new system with Ticketmaster. They have now eliminated paper tickets. It seems that every person has to have (present) a ticket on their phone (for admission). Ticket holders must have the Chiefs app to do it.
"I have 3 tickets. There doesn't seem to be an easy way to show all 3 ticket bar codes on 1 phone, so I guess I have to send the tickets thru their system to each individual.
"Since you can't get a pdf of the ticket, the new system also makes it much more of a pain to sell on Stubhub, which I suspect is the driving force behind this. Oh, you can sell thru Ticketmaster, but their system sucks.
"I'm actually trying to figure out how to donate my tix to someone that does not have a phone, and I cant do it because I can't print tickets . . . Total nightmare and just a really lame app."
And so . . .
While we admire a local institution hoping to move into the future with new tech . . . It seems like the priority here is limiting fans and playing
Accordingly, what we've seen so far is massive discontent from ticket holders that's only going to get worse as the season goes along.
Developing . . .
It's just greed like any other place.
ReplyDeleteGet used to it because it's only going to get worse when Mahomes throws 3 int.s in his first game and we all realize it's going to be a longer and harder season than anyone expected.
Thank you for reporting this, hope some other news outlets pick this up because I'm having a tell of a time telling my employees about it. We share season tickets at my office and passing them around is going to be total pain in the ass now. Nobody believes the team would so something as stupid as actually dump the paper ticket but here we are. It's not like the team is trying to save the rain forest, just looking for another way to make a buck.
DeleteNo trading, no selling. Just hand over the cash and don't dare express any political opinion about the game or you'll be fired.
DeleteSeems like a lot of trouble to watch a 9 - 7 season.
ReplyDeleteOh no!! I can't show three tickets on my phone! Really? Are you a geriatric retard? You pull one up, scan it, flip your finger to the next one, scan it and repeat. Fucking retard! Welcome to the 21st century! Newsflash! Every other sports team already does this! I hate change! I fear it! I can't work my phone! Blah blah blah! Shut up retards!
ReplyDeleteWhat a schmuck you are. You just confirmed for all of us that you're actually the incompetent geezer. If you knew anything about this stuff you'd realize what the team is actually trying to do is prevent resales. It's not at all about admission like your dumbass comment suggests. But you don't really know how that works because you're a creep in your 60s that never lived up to what your dad did.
DeleteNo more football or comments for you beetch, you've been spanked now go home and learn how to play nice.
Ur a real prick, I'm glad you believe in free speech. Fuckin hater, that's what you are. When does your minimum wage job start? Don't forget to clock in. Tomorrow is probably pay day as well, make that $350 last.
DeleteTotal Fuck Up by Chiefs!! Makes it nearly impossible to gift tickets.
ReplyDeleteIt’s totally a money/ticketmaster/user data play. My dad has had season tickets since the 60s. He doesn’t have a smart phone and most of the guys he sits with don’t. Biggest issue I see is the casual passing around of tickets is over so look for a lot of empty seats this year. Sales spiffs, charity donations, etc will be too much of a hassle for the donor and the recipient. Donor has to email through their Chiefs account. Recipient has to set-up a Chiefs account to accept them and then download the app onto a smart phone to use them. When the Chiefs are complaining about too many empty seats and not enough noise at Arrowhead, they can look to fans not wanting to deal with the hassle of finding someone to use the tickets they can’t use.
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Twenty years where'd they go, twenty years I don't know...
ReplyDeleteTell me that your body doesn't miss my touch...
ReplyDeleteOh No! I'm scared! This is too much! It has to be bad if I can't use it! OMG! Why! Why did they do this to us! OMG. OMG no! I just can't do it! So many empty seats! They did it because the NFL hates America! Why would they subject us to this?
ReplyDeleteFun to watch the little snarksters rant and rave trying to attack everyone on this site, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteHope the pathetic little turds never wise up to how despicable they make themselves look, that would take away half the fun of TKC.
People have better things to do than go see a bunch of black wife beating child killing PINKO'S play ball and rub each others penis.
ReplyDeletethe spoiled brats don't care if they make it hard for their zombe fans.
ReplyDeleteThe Chiefs are ahead of the practical technology skills of their fans and this will prove to be an embarrassing disaster over the course of the season.
ReplyDeleteWith security lines already a bottleneck, this will amplify the fan chaos.
good article, TKC.
ReplyDeleteIt's no big deal. Then again, I'm no retard.
ReplyDeletethey'll have to have a separate line for people who can't access their tickets on their phones, such as phone lost in parking lot, battery dead, glass cover cracked, dropped phone in portapotty, cooked phone on barbeque, and many other reasons.
ReplyDeletewhat will the line for phone exception items look like and how will it be handled?
will they tell season ticket holder fans, "no phone, no game entry"?
this policy might blow sky high.
"Mr. Local CEO season ticket holder whose company advertises in the stadium, you need your phone ticket or can't come into the game."
ReplyDelete"Mr. car factory worker driving a red pickup whose brought his wife to tailgate games for twenty years, you have to go home and get your phone or you can't come in. And no, we won't look up your tickets on our computer for you."
"Mr. Iowa and farmer friends, when you visit Kansas City you know that everything is up to date and you need tickets on a smartphone. That printed receipt is not a ticket. If you have a flip phone, you should have gotten a smartphone before the game. Go back to Iowa and watch on T V."
^^except and this is key retard..most STH's have cards for tickets. They don't use their phones. You can transfer tickets from your account and dig this dummy..you can even print them out! It's not hard. Tony is trolling you geriatric dumbfucks. None of these asswipes who have responded have ever been to a game, or hell even left their fucking hovels.
ReplyDeleteI have season tickets and I have for the last several years and you are no longer able to print out the tickets starting this year. Everything is done through the app, or the card and you cannot print out paper tickets. It is pretty annoying because you have to open in app and it's slow as shit because the internet out there is terrible because all the cell towers are clogged with 80,000 drunk dumbasses using snapchat and posting on facebook so the app takes up to 10 minutes to load. I'm younger and pretty tech savvy and I can't imagine how much trouble the average fan who isn't as tech savvy will have with this. The chiefs did include a $10 concession credit for every game that's tied to the app as sort of a conciliatory thing but I'd rather be able to print my tix
ReplyDeleteThey have also raised parking prices, shrunk the size of parking spaces which basically cuts down on tailgating. This year they are having a tailgate alternative where they can make a 3000% markup on things like water.
ReplyDeletepretty sad overall
welcome to the nfl
ReplyDeleteWait until an Oakland based hacker shuts down the system one Sunday morning. Lol
ReplyDeleteOh no! Oh the horror! It's all so sad! Why have you forsaken us God! The absolute horror of a paperless system! The NFL fucking hates us! So much anthem disrespect being showed! Paperless tickets! Increased prices! Shrunken parking spaces! 3000% markup on water!(who the fuck buys water at a tailgate!) Wife beatings! Player violence! Oh why! why? why?
ReplyDeleteit will not impact my living room tailgate festivities
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ReplyDeleteI have seat geek for sporting and it took them a month for the system to work the bugs out but it is really a good way of doing things, no more lost or forgotten tickets, I can sell, trade or give away tickets pretty easy, it’ll be fine people, everybody relax, by the way, I’m an old geezer so if I can do it so can everybody but geezer hater, he’s too stupid to understand anything but hate.
ReplyDeleteHis true hate is of himself.
Deleteif you're a small business owner and
ReplyDeleteI ran this through the TKC translator
ReplyDelete"Chiefs have implemented a new system with Ticketmaster. They have now eliminated paper tickets. It seems that every person has to have (present) a ticket on their phone (for admission). Ticket holders must have the Chiefs app to do it.
"I have 3 tickets. There doesn't seem to be an easy way to show all 3 ticket bar codes on 1 phone, so I guess I have to send the tickets thru their system to each individual.
"Since you can't get a pdf of the ticket, the new system also makes it much more of a pain to sell on Stubhub, which I suspect is the driving force behind this. Oh, you can sell thru Ticketmaster, but their system sucks.
"I'm actually trying to figure out how to donate my tix to someone that does not have a phone, and I cant do it because I can't print tickets . . . Total nightmare and just a really lame app."
RESULT:
"I'm a geezer. Why don't this work on my flip phone?"
I could care less. I quit going to chiefs games years ago. Its just not worth it anymore. The Chiefs are not going to win a Super Bowl. The Royals wont be going back to a World Series for another 30 years. This is not a champions town. This is a big small town with a serious crime problem and a street car.
ReplyDelete2:27 Best comment of the day.
ReplyDeleteI don't like the Chiefs! Crime! I don't go to games so fuck everybody that does! People having fun...I can't abide it! You should hate football cause I do! The anthem disrespect! You should do what the President tells you to do! I'm scared of technology! I'm frighted by it. This town sucks, but I'm here everyday!! Everything sucks. There should be no football cause there is crime! Everybody has to do and say what I like! Wha!!!!! Paperless tickets!! Oh fucking no!
ReplyDeleteAll you geriatrics just stay home and watch Matlock and change your Depends. I will be hanging with some other young hip dudes and we will all be sucking each other’s cocks.
ReplyDeleteWe all knew that already
ReplyDeleteThe high cost of tickets, parking and concessions should easily cover the cost so a paper ticket. It is handy, makes a great piece of memorabilia and is just a easy, maybe easier to use. The Chiefs are being petty.
ReplyDeleteWe will be watching for disrespect during the anthem, no matter how we are ticketed.
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