Were they legitimate tickets or were they trying to scam people who didn't know tickets are digital only?
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Were they legitimate tickets or were they trying to scam people who didn't know tickets are digital only?
Nothing like ”you vill our system whether you like it or not” customer service.
My throw something at the wall and see if it sticks guess is they contacted the ticket office claiming they didn't have the necessary means for digital tickets.
My buddy went to Billy Joel/Stevie Nicks a week ago at Arrowhead and didn't have any issues. That stadium holds well over 80,000 and the heat index down there was over 115 last weekend.
Well the also said there would be large cooling fans on the concourses.
I never saw any, but I assumed they would be the swamp cooler variety to at least get a cooler breeze/mist effect.
None to be found that I saw, but my daughter said she saw ONE, and it was just a big industrial fan, blowing around the hot air. Not a cooling fan.
No awnings to help anywhere, like gates and lines. The water fill lines were huge, and very few. My daughter said the one on their side was out of water early on so could not fill there etc.
It really seemed like poor planning, even with the things they said they were going to do, either didnt work or was implemented poorly.
But make sure you only bring in ONE water bottle per person...god forbid you dare bring in 2.
I mean how early do you think people should have to line up to make sure they get in their seats before kickoff?. You should be able to walk up a half hour before kickoff and be able to see the start of the game. Never ever ever has been a problem before yesterday.
No idea, but I saw multiple, one right in front of the north gate. They looked legit, but no idea.
Do you want a cookie?
KidSilverhair
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Oh, yeah, I saw the “HYDRATE!” message ISU sent out last week. They said they’d have one - ONE - fan set up on each side of the stadium, they’d be handing out 6,000 bottles of water (with ten times that number of people coming) , and you were allowed to bring in one bottle yourself. I knew then they weren’t really prepared for this.
Arrowhead does a lot of things better than ISU does for events. But I was commenting on your experience.
Scalper said that if an alumni played football at Iowa State they could get hard tickets..If that is true wtf?
Pretty sure they were digital-ready street buyers/sellers during Big 12 tournament
Key word is "should". You take matters out of your own hands if you decide to play it that close to kickoff imo.
I was there too, they used the scan system Jack Trice had last year for that. Not this tap to scan or turnstyles.
And do what? Sit on hot bleacher in the sun with no shade? Stand in the concourse in the shade with thousands of other people sharing body heat?
My group somehow got lucky. We got to the south gate right around 12:40. (I remember being able to hear the PA announcing the band) We were coming from the public lots, and I steered our group to the west part of the gate because everyone was stopping as soon as they got to the gate. We got to our seats in section 17 before the team came out.
My questions/comments
1) What entity steered the AD to switch to this? Ticketmaster? The AD itself? A combination of both?
2) I hope these scanners get tested for the other weather we experience...very cold and possibly wet.
3) From all these stories, I think the AD's biggest mistake was not having a back-up plan if this failed miserably, which it obviously did. It blows my mind with all the stories and anecdotes I've heard of there being some type of upgrade when it comes to technology, and no one asks "Yes, and what happens if it doesn't work? What's the back-up game plan?"
My questions/comments
1) What entity steered the AD to switch to this? Ticketmaster? The AD itself? A combination of both?
2) I hope these scanners get tested for the other weather we experience...very cold and possibly wet.
3) From all these stories, I think the AD's biggest mistake was not having a back-up plan if this failed miserably, which it obviously did. It blows my mind with all the stories and anecdotes I've heard of there being some type of upgrade when it comes to technology, and no one asks "Yes, and what happens if it doesn't work? What's the back-up game plan?"
you can get paper tickets. They don't want you to and will probably give you grief. But there are people without smart phones that got paper tickets.
