Yankees to fight sagging attendance by eliminating StubHub print at home tickets

[Trip]

http://deadspin.com/yankees-will-no-longer-accept-print-at-home-tickets-th-1759655868

As the Yankees are continuously striving to implement technological advances to provide our fans with a ticketing experience that is unparalleled, convenient, safe and secure, the Yankees are excited to announce, as a complement to traditional hard stock paper tickets, the availability of mobile ticketing for the 2016 baseball season. Print-at-home paper tickets (PDFs) are being discontinued so as to further combat fraud and counterfeiting of tickets associated with print-at-home paper tickets (PDFs). In addition to traditional hard stock paper tickets, the Yankees will be offering the opportunity for fans to receive mobile tickets on a fan’s Smartphone.

Mobile ticketing is a completely voluntary, opt-in feature. All season ticket licensees and group ticket buyers will automatically receive traditional hard stock paper tickets. For fans purchasing individual game tickets online at yankees.com, Ticketmaster.com, or via Ticketmaster telephone, you will have the option of receiving traditional hard stock paper tickets or mobile tickets at the time of initial purchase. Fans purchasing individual game tickets at the Yankee Stadium Ticket Office or at Yankees Clubhouse Shops will receive only traditional hard stock paper tickets (and will not have an option to receive mobile tickets or the option to convert their tickets to mobile tickets). Print-at-home paper tickets (PDFs) will no longer be available.
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The Yankees would have you believe that eliminating print-at-home tickets is entirely motivated by a desire to prevent fraud, but the reality is that it has everything to do with the team’s partnership with Ticketmaster and ongoing war against StubHub.

When ticket resellers use StubHub, they can sell the ticket for as little as they’d like, but Ticketmaster sets artificial price floors that prevent sellers from listing tickets below face value. This practice has recently been called out by the New York Attorney General, as it deprives fans the opportunity to buy tickets on a fair market.


The Yankees’ wish to avoid the realities of supply and demand is the reason the team touts Ticketmaster as its official resale partner, and this new anti-PDF policy is a blatant attempt at further undercutting StubHub. The Yankees can’t force anyone to use Ticketmaster instead of StubHub, but it can make using the latter a much bigger pain in the ass by eliminating printable tickets.

Say you’re a Yankees fan, and you decide you want to duck out of work early and go to a shytty Twins-Yankees game on a Wednesday afternoon in August. There are tickets available for $19 on StubHub, but they are selling for face value on Ticketmaster, which will deliver an electronic ticket to your phone. You can’t get in with a PDF ticket, so unless you can figure out a way to get the StubHub seller’s physical tickets in your hands within a few hours, you’re stuck paying full price on Ticketmaster. You’ve been boned.

gonna look like the Mel Hall days in there

 

[Tropical Fantasy]

There's a StubHub store literally a block away from the stadium

You can pick up your tickets there

 

[NYC Rebel]

The Yankees have gotten way too corporate for me over the years. I liked last year's team because they were loosy goosey type but the suits upstairs will make you not want to fukk with the team

 

[Trip]

There's a StubHub store literally a block away from the stadium

You can pick up your tickets there

Mostly all of stubhub sales are print at home/PDF tix. It completely eliminates the possibility of an impulse buy.

 

[EducatedBrothaFromTheBank]

switching to the new Yankee stadium is one of the all time worst decisions in sports history... that team lost its mystique, and aura. they are irrelevant

 

[Captain Crunch]

 

[tremonthustler1]

switching to the new Yankee stadium is one of the all time worst decisions in sports history... that team lost its mystique, and aura. they are irrelevant

Is this a default post or did you think about how you were gonna say this for the thousandth time?

 

[K-Apps]

this gonna cause a lot of headaches for me at work this coming season

 

[tremonthustler1]

The Mets are the big winners in this.

As long as they don't switch up (every team is gonna wind up doing this, so it's only a matter of time), anyone who wants an impulse buy will just go to Citi Field only those tickets are gonna be much more expensive now due to demand.

Mets are gonna eat while only section 203 is gonna stay real at the Stadium

 

[EducatedBrothaFromTheBank]

Is this a default post or did you think about how you were gonna say this for the thousandth time?

so u agree?

 

[ORDER_66]

I have never went to a yankees game, never gonna go to a yankees game, probably when i heard of those prices....

is it even worth it going to see the yankees anymore. My brother is a die hard mets fan... Every time he goes to the game and just sit and watch from those stands that slow ass baseball game. I'm like....

 

[Trip]

The Mets are the big winners in this.

As long as they don't switch up (every team is gonna wind up doing this, so it's only a matter of time), anyone who wants an impulse buy will just go to Citi Field only those tickets are gonna be much more expensive now due to demand.

Mets are gonna eat while only section 203 is gonna stay real at the Stadium

The Yankee exchange doesn't let you sell under face value I believe. Not sure how other teams treat that.

 

[MikelArteta]

the new york jankees y'all

 

[tremonthustler1]

I have never went to a yankees game, never gonna go to a yankees game, probably when i heard of those prices....

is it even worth it going to see the yankees anymore. My brother is a die hard mets fan... Every time he goes to the game and just sit and watch from those stands that slow ass baseball game. I'm like....

Like I've always said, getting into Yankee Stadium is actually VERY easy up to now. The real real nice seats are expensive as fukk, but what stadium doesn't have this? That's kinda why they're doing this. The Yankees treat fans who Stub Hub their tickets like those guys who go to strip clubs in the middle of the day with those complementary passes they give out on the street, go inside, don't buy drinks, don't buy food, don't even get maybe more than 1 lap dance. They just look at the main stage, watch, and enjoy the free show to the disgust of the sleazy strip club owner.

Well, this is a "fukk you" to the fan who eats before they go inside, cops his ticket for $12 in the Bleachers or even $30 in the main section, watches anywhere from $1-$3 an inning of baseball, doesn't buy hats, doesn't buy beer, doesn't do shyt other than use the water fountain and go inside the museum for the piff AC.

After those first 2 months are empty, they'll relent for a little bit, especially when nobody figures out how this works and the old Italian who lives in Jersey who has had tickets since World War II and shyt can't get inside. Meanwhile Citi Field is gonna have at least 35K every night because it's the easiest way to watch a game live.

 

[Remote]

Doesn't matter to me.
I don't really care for the new Yankee Stadium anyway.

I really did prefer the old one.
The new one lacks character, even though it's nice. And things are way too expensive.

Since the new one opened, I've been to...maybe 6 or 7 games -- all of them on free tickets....most of them corporate seats through my job.
And even without paying for tickets, it's hard to walk out of that place not spending at least $40.