Briala1d ago

I wish we could break up the monopoly of TicketMaster.

Just bought a ticket to the Easter Show. Required to change my password - no reason given. They push you hard to install their app, apparently oblivious to how much people distrust them. This might be linked to the lack of a printable ticket.

I got to the QR code* in the webpage and took a screenshot with my phone. The page happens to say "Screenshots will not get you in" which is kind of nuts as the screenshot is exactly the same as what the webpage looks like. So if the webpage will work, the screenshot should too?

It's getting awfully user hostile

* it's not a QR code - it's a PDF417, also called a 2D barcode.

Show threaddecryption
@static for the AFL at least, the QR code/barcode is animated and moves around, a screenshot doesn't work :(
Apr 5 at 1:00pmWeb
Show threadBriala1d ago
@decryption I saw the moving thing on the webpage. The code also changes? I was going to have the webpage up long before I reached the gate anyway.
Show threaddecryption1d ago
@static personally I just install the app, login, add the ticket to my Apple Wallet, then delete it after the event
Show threadBriala1d ago

@decryption I don't have Google Wallet setup.

And the Android app has a rating of 2.6. And it asks for a lot of permissions I'm not sure it needs.

Show threadMarc21h ago
@static @decryption If you do install the app then during first launch it asks for permission to know your location and appears to not allow you to proceed without accepting, but you don't have to accept to proceed; you just have to force close the app and reopen it, where on the second go it won't ask you again. Shifty shits
Show threadBriala21h ago

@marcEndingInC @decryption I didn't install it. I didn't have the spoons last night to fight it.

But the website worked fine on my phone's browser. And my login session lasts a long time ago. I didn't even need to login again this morning.

Show threadAJ Sadauskas1d ago
@decryption @static Can confirm. And (at least for GWS games) they only send it out to Google Wallet at the last minute sometimes.

Speaking of which, GWS members are supposed to get into the Royal Show on particular days for free. The instructions say you just need to enter your member barcode number to get in.

(Keep in mind, this is with me already logged into the Ticketmaster website from an account that's linked to my membership.)

So I enter in the barcode number and... An error message.

It's just frustrating.

#AFL
Show threadBriala1d ago

@aj @decryption

*sigh*

They don't have to be this bad. They really don't have to be this bad.