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Message: [QUOTE="0.2 YNdeeR, post: 4146213, member: 8125"] [USER=71]bnoro[/USER] is a good source on this. My guess is that TM and other for-profit ticket services are totally unlike SU (which has actual concern for fans and alums). Ticket services get paid a percentage on sales. That gives them an incentive to create a market in which they can influence price - and a disincentive to discourage digital scalping. There's also revenue extracted from the harvesting of ticket holders' personal data - this is obvious from TM's privacy disclosures. So at the end of the day, yes they have to make the 'apps' useable, it's clear that the driver of digital ticket processing is not the 'convenience' of the average fan. It's also not covid - since paper tickets are bar-coded and scanned and surface spread is not a significant factor in transmission. But I'd be interested to hear Bnoro's perspective. [/QUOTE]