Digital tickets or a sheet of tickets

Digital tickets or sheet of tickets

  • Digital

    Votes: 36 27.3%

  • Paper

    Votes: 97 73.5%
  • Total voters
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#5
#5
I always liked keeping the stubs to games I’ve attended.

That being said, I don’t miss them really.
 
#6
#6
How can a scalper make a living with folks whose cel battery went dead, or have no smart phone? :cool:
 
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#10
#10
I have ticket stubs from 82 Vols vs Bama, 85 Vols vs auburn , 98 Vols vs fla . 2021 Vols vs Ole miss , we lost that game but Neyland was electric and I was the loudest person in my section , ranks in my top 5 of all time , I'm grateful to have those ticket stubs along with the great memories ! GO VOLS !! ..... Oh yeah Bo knows he got his A## kicked in Knoxville Tennessee in 1985 !!
 
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#12
#12
Paper. Digital sounds nice until someone is holding up the line trying to scan the QR code on their cracked iPhone 4.

They switched to digital tickets when I was a student and we used to screen shot and send them to each other because after probably 20 seconds of trying to scan it, they’d just let you in.
 
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#16
#16
Paper for me. I don't mind ordering print out tickets online, cause I still get a paper copy. But NEVER a cellphone scan ticket. Matter-of-fact, I refuse to conduct ANY kind of transaction via phone. They just don't have the same robust anti-malware and hacking resistance as my computer. I once watched my supposedly protected phone activate and performing commands while I was holding it in my hand. Including sending out emergency calls to family members. Who of course anxiously contacted me about my location and what kind of help I needed. Of course calls claiming I owed money and what to do to pay and other spoof, spam, and scam, stuff. All this despite supposedly top of the line protection $ervice. So I made up my mind to NEVER, EVER conduct financial activity connected to my phone outside of credit card paying my phone service. And that card gets deactivated if it even smells like it is being hacked. So paper for me, and yes, I know, nothing is foolproof or 100% safe these days, but I can at least minimize my exposure. So I never phone scan anything, I never conduct a transaction despite pressure from friends, my bank, and some businesses to do so because it's faster and easier. Paper, paper, paper, for me. And the day they say, "You can't do that anymore," I'll do walk-ins with cash. Or move to Tibet, the Andes, or some other isolated non-digitalized region if I have to.
 
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#17
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volfaninky said:
Not even close. I’ve got every ticket stub from every UT football game I’ve ever attended. 235+ and growing. Memories!!
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What was you first game? Also are they all home games you have been too? That's a lot man. 47 years of home games.
 
#18
#18
Paper all the way. I also like to write the outcome and who I went with on the back of the ticket (and if something special happened that night). Plus I am one of the seemingly extreme minority that does not own a smart phone that works with the apps the tickets are found.

Box office employees tell you it's "easier" or somehow "quicker" to enter with digital than paper. Yet when everyone had paper, we weren't standing in line waiting on people to try to get their phones to connect to overloaded Wi-Fi or having to adjust their phone's brightness so a scanner can read the bar code. It's mostly a way for the box office to save money on printing and shipping costs. And I assume it also helps minimize the number of scalpers.

I think it should be an easy option to select paper tickets. Recently when asking for paper tickets from places, they act like it is a huge ordeal.
 
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#19
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jbeeman85 said:
Paper all the way. I also like to write the outcome and who I went with on the back of the ticket (and if something special happened that night). Plus I am one of the seemingly extreme minority that does not own a smart phone that works with the apps the tickets are found.

Box office employees tell you it's "easier" or somehow "quicker" to enter with digital than paper. Yet when everyone had paper, we weren't standing in line waiting on people to try to get their phones to connect to overloaded Wi-Fi or having to adjust their phone's brightness so a scanner can read the bar code. It's mostly a way for the box office to save money on printing and shipping costs. And I assume it also helps minimize the number of scalpers.

I think it should be an easy option to select paper tickets. Recently when asking for paper tickets from places, they act like it is a huge ordeal.
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Same reason I still use paper tickets when flying.
There’s always one doofus taking forever trying to pull up the QR code at the gate. Never had that problem with a paper ticket and I don’t have to worry about missing a flight because my phone died.
 
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#20
#20
kcvols1 said:
For this reason, I’m digital.

Had to meet the wife at the Chick fil A in Dalton in 2006. Didn’t realize I left them until I hit Sweetwater. 😫

Yes, she’s a keeper.
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I am not!!
I am flesh (some what fat) and bone (guess getting brittle) and have trouble just sending a text and have never added an app to a phone that I have trouble just making and receiving TELEPHONE calls on. So if I ever try to go to another UT game, I will have to get someone else to get my ticket, as first I would never be able to contact where ever I would need to CALL/TEXT(?) to order it. Second I wouldn't know where to have it sent and third if I ever did get far enough to approach a gate, the ticket person would have to take the damn thing (it is not right to refer to these things as phones) and try to get through all the passwords that I can't remember and don't need anyway as about all I want to do is text, (with one finger and hit the right spot/letter about 40-50% of the time) take a picture now and then and oh yes! Talk on the damn thing!!;)
 
#22
#22
YankeeVol said:
I always liked keeping the stubs to games I’ve attended.

That being said, I don’t miss them really.
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Exactly how I feel--it was cool to see the new design / theme each year. But, after having gone to two games and forgotten them at home and having to go back (and I live in Chattanooga), digital is the way to go because I'm never without my phone.

I feel like the only drawback to digital is it makes them more difficult to sell (to someone you don't know, i.e. off of Facebook marketplace, Craigslist, eBay, etc) when you don't try to sell them in VividSeats via UT's partnership. I've taken screenshots of my tickets digitally, and texted them to a friend with an Android phone who used the screen shots to gain admittance to the game when I couldn't go. So the ability to fraud a digital ticket is easy when it's outside of the original ticket holder's hands unless it's done thru something protected, i.e. VividSeats. But then, you've gotta deal with the 10% fee, which sucks.
 
#23
#23
#1n51&98 said:
Which do you prefer , the ticket office says digital only for 2022 season .I have always liked going to the gate with ticket in hand , plus I keep my ticket stub and write on it who I attended the game with and the outcome.
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They say that, but they offered me the option for paper tickets with a $50 processing fee.

I hope they continue that trend, because I personally hate a digital ticket.

You know what has happened to me during a day of tailgating multiple times? My phone has died and I've not had a charger.

You know what I've never done? I've never lost my ticket.
 
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#24
#24
I liked the paper tickets when they had some cool imagery on them. For example, those Jack Daniels inspired ones from a few years ago were awesome and would make a great keepsake.

Outside of those types of tickets, I’d prefer digital.
 
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