This is ridiculous. As someone who has been to well over 600 UK basketball games home and road without having tickets before arriving at the locale, I hate this. Many thing have changed in me going to games. First one of our "3 Stooges" passed away just before Covid shut down the SEC Tournament and everything really.
As I said we went to many games and just asked folks going in if they had any extra tickets. Without fail we always found someone who had a couple back out at the last minute and would sell us the tickets, usually at the price on the ticket and often just giving them to us. Of course it was difficult finding 3 together but many times my son or my buddy's son would go so 2 and 2 was fine.
Now after Covid and the whole no touching thing, everything is electronic. You don't even get paper tickets unless you request them from the issuing teams site. I have saved my ticket stubs as souvenirs and that's now gone as well. Today if you sell your tickets you have to transfer them over the phone. For older folks as me, I don't feel very good about transferring money from my phone due to all the scammers and stuff, plus often at a venue with so many people there cell service isn't very good.
My son is wanting me to go when he takes his son to his first game. He bought tickets - online - for a reasonable price, or so I thought. One key stroke to buy 4 tickets and he was charged almost $30 - per ticket for a "handling fee". On top of that he had to pay tax on a ticket that had already been taxed. I am all for people making money but $30 to transfer the 4 tickets wouldn't have been too bad but per ticket just doesn't seem right.
Sorry for the rant. Now.............
