</p> You register once with a national website. You get a photoID card that you swipe at turnstiles. You book the exact seat you want, as early or late as you like, online. The club would save significantly on staffing and running ticket sales and the cost of installing the system and a few card scanners would quickly be recovered. Season ticket style savings could be achieved by buying blocks of tickets up front and this would keep your seat open for you to buy first. Friends travelling to away matches would easily be able to buy seats together. </p> It would aid greatly in the enforcement of banning orders and, as the hardware becomes cheaper, the ID card scanners could be replaced with retina or fingerprint recognition hardware making the system even quicker and more foolproof.</p> You could cancel at the last minute and have your account refunded, you could even arrange a direct debit to keep your account credited and receive a small interest. </p> Idon't believe there's a single problem currently associated with match ticketing (and a few other aspects) that wouldn't be fixed with this system and, at a time when seats were at a premium the system would put customers in order according to the programmed criteria. The only queueing would be done automatically online. You'd apply for what you wanted and, once a certain deadline had elapsed, the system would automatically allocate.</p> All this for much less than the cost of the current system. How can you lose?</p>
Oh, another saving. Turnstile staff. Instead of one per turnstile you'd just one per group of turnstiles to make sure nobody jumped them.
Somebody does I was in Glasgow a couple of weeks ago so I decided to go to Rangers v St. Mirren. I bought the ticket online on the Wednesday then picked up a smartcard at Ibrox on the saturday morning. Swipe to get into the ground at 2.30pm no hassle at all.</p> Now if I'm ever up that way again when ther Huns are at home I can activate my smartcard via the interweb and my account will be debited. It's almost exactly the system as described.</p>
Cost of setup? Cost of Hardware? Cost of Software? Cost of Maintenance? Cost of Databases (and associated yearly costs) Cost of downtime - both financial and customer satisfaction. Cost of repacement when it becomes out of date (h/w has a 3 year life span) I sell this stuff and cant believe people invest in it as its costs a fortune year on year.
RE: Offset them against the current costs and it's got to be a big saving. nt Not a chance mate! Cost of setup? 5k at a guess Cost of Hardware? 20k for a decent server that could cope Cost of Software? dont know 10k off the shelf 10k java specialist? Cost of Maintenance? 10k per annum plus it would 9 til 5 contract plus double time on nights and weekend (when it would be used) Cost of Databases (and associated yearly costs) (SQL Server the cheapest named brand at 5k per pop for the bisic service plus annual fees) Cost of downtime - both financial and customer satisfaction. (impossible to put a cost on this) Cost of repacement when it becomes out of date (h/w has a 3 year life span) (all the above again) I'd agree if we were processing 40k tickets every two weeks. We are talking about 1 game in 10 years where everyone who wanted a ticket didnt get one. 9 times out of ten people are cheaper than the solution!
Ah, we've got our wires crossed. </p> I'm talking about a national system to handle every league and cup match. It's not run by the club, each club pays a small percentage to use it.</p>