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Title: Mobile Tickets
Post by: Power to people on Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 12:43:38
I see that you can now get tickets for the Millwall game via your mobile or on-line getting the "ticket" by text and it is cheaper at £15 (although how much it cost you in mobile fee's I don't know)

What an excellent idea, this is obviously a trial to see how it goes with a view to using it next season.

I suspect they are intending to do away with paper season tickets for next season as well.


Title: Mobile Tickets
Post by: ghanimah on Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 12:44:40
http://www.swindontownfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/TicketNews/0,,10341~1290788,00.html


Title: Mobile Tickets
Post by: Tails on Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 13:11:48
Wouldn't you be able to forward the ticket on to other people??


Title: Mobile Tickets
Post by: Colin Todd on Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 13:13:15
I imagine text you get has some form of copy protection on it.  Regardless, each square bar code is unique, and can only be scanned at the turnstiles once.


Title: Mobile Tickets
Post by: Power to people on Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 14:22:04
I would imagine it is unique, so you can forward it on all you like but whoever get's there first get's in to the ground and the other's get locked out - even if it was you that bought the ticket


Title: Mobile Tickets
Post by: Don Rogers Shop on Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 14:33:11
how does this work with away fans getting tickets in the home end though.


Title: Re: Mobile Tickets
Post by: Reg Smeeton on Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 15:09:21
Quote from: "Power to people"

I suspect they are intending to do away with paper season tickets for next season as well.


 One of Rikki Hunt's great advances was to have the plastic season ticket card....just they didn't have the card readers  :)

  You showed it to the turnstyle operator who logged it on a tally chart.  Very high tech.   I was quite impressed that some of the operators could count to 5.


Title: Mobile Tickets
Post by: Jamiesfuturewife on Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 15:12:35
I expect they cant count to five in there own languages!

I kept meaning to ask - Has anyone come across that freak steward in the Kingswood? shes quite old and sounds dutch or something - the other day she was working on the turnstyles and she took my season ticket and wouldnt give it back she was just looking at me going "oooo you so pretty you a movie star" or something totally odd like that - she then gave my boyfriend a lecture about marrying me before she let us in - she stands there wittering away about crap to anyone who walks buy during the game


Title: Mobile Tickets
Post by: Reg Smeeton on Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 15:19:20
Quote from: "Jamiesfuturewife"
I expect they cant count to five in there own languages!

I kept meaning to ask - Has anyone come across that freak steward in the Kingswood? shes quite old and sounds dutch or something - the other day she was working on the turnstyles and she took my season ticket and wouldnt give it back she was just looking at me going "oooo you so pretty you a movie star" or something totally odd like that - she then gave my boyfriend a lecture about marrying me before she let us in - she stands there wittering away about crap to anyone who walks buy during the game


  That's sounds like they're being encouraged to improve customer relations, in line with the Swindon Experience....I'd happily witter crap, with the TE stewards, rather than get the sullen jobsworth treatment.

   It'd be like being on here.


Title: Re: Mobile Tickets
Post by: flammableBen on Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 15:20:51
Quote from: "Reg Smeeton"
Quote from: "Power to people"

I suspect they are intending to do away with paper season tickets for next season as well.


 One of Rikki Hunt's great advances was to have the plastic season ticket card....just they didn't have the card readers  :)

  You showed it to the turnstyle operator who logged it on a tally chart.  Very high tech.   I was quite impressed that some of the operators could count to 5.


I still had a couple of the old card season tickets kicking away at the back of my wallet until I lost it some months back.

Tidy little things. Easy to pass back to a mate behind you.


Title: Re: Mobile Tickets
Post by: Reg Smeeton on Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 15:24:19
Quote from: "flammableBen"
Quote from: "Reg Smeeton"
Quote from: "Power to people"

I suspect they are intending to do away with paper season tickets for next season as well.


 One of Rikki Hunt's great advances was to have the plastic season ticket card....just they didn't have the card readers  :)

  You showed it to the turnstyle operator who logged it on a tally chart.  Very high tech.   I was quite impressed that some of the operators could count to 5.


I still had a couple of the old card season tickets kicking away at the back of my wallet until I lost it some months back.

Tidy little things. Easy to pass back to a mate behind you.


 Ssshhh.   Shame you lost them,  any old STFC memorabilia, has a meaning to someone as sad as me.   Having said that , I'm not sure where mine have gone ...every so often I have a purge on crap.


Title: Mobile Tickets
Post by: Dazzza on Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 15:29:43
Did they actually have a magnetic strip to swipe as well?


Title: Mobile Tickets
Post by: Reg Smeeton on Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 15:45:43
Quote from: "Dazzza"
Did they actually have a magnetic strip to swipe as well?


 Yep it was a proper card.....a quick look to find an old one   led to nothing, other than finding a travelling toothbrush box, which contains two halves of a toothbrush which fit together and a small tube of toothpaste.  How useful, think I won it in a quiz.


Title: Mobile Tickets
Post by: flammableBen on Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 15:48:24
Yeah defo had a magnetic strip. If it contained any information is a mystery. I suppose there's a possibility it got swiped when you claimed your club shop discount or something. I sort of doubt it, but I can't really remember.


Title: Mobile Tickets
Post by: Dazzza on Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 16:15:57
That's utter genius you can only hope they were planning to implement it at a later date!


Title: Mobile Tickets
Post by: Arnold.J.Rimmer on Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 16:24:03
Quote from: "Jamiesfuturewife"
I expect they cant count to five in there own languages!

I kept meaning to ask - Has anyone come across that freak steward in the Kingswood? shes quite old and sounds dutch or something - the other day she was working on the turnstyles and she took my season ticket and wouldnt give it back she was just looking at me going "oooo you so pretty you a movie star" or something totally odd like that - she then gave my boyfriend a lecture about marrying me before she let us in - she stands there wittering away about crap to anyone who walks buy during the game


this one? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vSN4E1S124


Title: Mobile Tickets
Post by: Jamiesfuturewife on Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 16:27:01
YES!!! HA HA HA

SHES OFF HER HEAD!!!

Did you film that?


Title: Mobile Tickets
Post by: axs on Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 17:03:07
Kingswood people scare me.


Title: Mobile Tickets
Post by: Tails on Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 18:13:16
She once told me I should go to China, teach them how to play football then come back to England and make my own team with them, because then I'd get them into the Premiership and be famous.


Title: Mobile Tickets
Post by: Wood_Ayre on Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 19:55:18
She said she liked my hair  :?


Title: Mobile Tickets
Post by: Tails on Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 20:29:21
That would be a lot funnier if I knew what your hair looked like...


Title: Mobile Tickets
Post by: pauld on Thursday, April 17, 2008, 08:07:51
Quote from: "Jamiesfuturewife"
I expect they cant count to five in there own languages!

I kept meaning to ask - Has anyone come across that freak steward in the Kingswood? shes quite old and sounds dutch or something - the other day she was working on the turnstyles and she took my season ticket and wouldnt give it back she was just looking at me going "oooo you so pretty you a movie star" or something totally odd like that - she then gave my boyfriend a lecture about marrying me before she let us in - she stands there wittering away about crap to anyone who walks buy during the game

Fantastic, not only improving the Swindon Experience but strengthening family values all in the one package.


Title: Mobile Tickets
Post by: Ralphy on Thursday, April 17, 2008, 12:31:56
She's bizarre.

If you don't smile when you walk in she yells at you.


Title: Mobile Tickets
Post by: Don Rogers Shop on Thursday, April 17, 2008, 12:39:21
Smile then you twat.


Title: Mobile Tickets
Post by: Bogus Dave on Thursday, April 17, 2008, 16:36:13
:soapy tit wank: