It’s the Anti sales dept. Serving you!
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I was at an event last month with a couple friends. We have a professional relationship with the small museum that was hosting. One friend works in marketing and she has suggestions for them. I just commented that I’m used to the Miami sports marketing so anything makes me happy.
As a fair weather fan, meaning as long as it’s not raining, I’ll buy my ticket at the gate.
I laughed last year when I tried to give the girl in the box office a $20 bill to pay for my ticket. She looked at it like it was some strange bartering object. “We’re a cashless box office.” I’m not blaming her, she’s just following protocol. Gonna be a fun world when the Internet and electricity ain’t working. Who’s cashless now, huh?
FYI - Sweden no longer has currency & coins. All money is electronic.
That will be a small problem for me as I still have a few Kroner, that I will have to go to a bank to convert into something.
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Time for the box office update. All I wanted to do was renew tix and parking. Two of my three saved phone numbers for my ticket rep and box office are out of service. None of the online links to renew work, that goes for redhawk site and after logging into alumni web page. I called box office. A nice person answered however they did not know how parking worked, the options for this year, etc. I did not renew yet.
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This continues to be outrageous! The ticket office bitching has gone on for years! WHEN are they going to learn? At this point, it is gross ignorance and incompetence!
FIX it–it isn’t that tough. And if it’s too hard for the current office manager/staff to rectify this immediately, get someone who will!!
I’m not defending the ticket office but I reordered football tickets and parking when they notified me a couple months ago. All on their website without any problem.
First you’re copy and pasting links with ease. Now you’re on a site ordering tickets no problem. What’s gotten into you?
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I just read Mac for Dummies.
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I’ve been bringing a small Knights of Columbus group to a hockey game for the past eight years or so. Usually only 8-10 people, almost all over the age of 65.
Last year I was looking at potential dates, and it looked like there were no tickets available for either of the two games I was looking at.
Since hockey attendance has been woeful in recent seasons – about 50-60 percent – I called to see if that was correct. I was told for the primary date I was looking at that the president’s office bought all of them up for faculty, and to check back the Thursday afternoon before to see if any were released back into the pool.
And that’s what happened. I still called to buy them, and then they said there’s normally a significant charge to get printed tickets, but they would waive that since I already paid $30 to get my season tickets printed. (Listed attendance for that game was 2,303, BTW).
Again, the members of my group are over 65, coming from different directions, and trying to coordinate tickets on phones would be a nightmare. Frankly, if that was the only option, I’d stop bringing groups.
I’ve also had the problem in the OP where I couldn’t renew season tickets by following the link emailed to me. Now I just call when they’re available.
There’s no reason why it should be this difficult to get tickets, I’ll deal with this unnecessary hassle but I wonder how many people are permanently turned off by it.
You have a MAC. I have a Tandy. Are we really so different? I say no.
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One of the most crucial rules of life: “Never make it hard for someone to give you their money.”
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@YellowNumber5 I was a Radio Shack manager in the early 70’s; there’s the connection.
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You just went from national treasure to living legend in my book. Honest truth. I don’t think I could love you more. That news just made my day.
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Somewhere, in a long disconnected corporate computer server, lies my name, address and phone number from whence I purchased 8 D-sized batteries for my ghetto blaster at a RadioShack in 1991.
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That’s the truth. We’re trying to give you guys money…please take it. Especially since I’ve heard so many claims of poverty from MU athletics over the years.
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Credit card charges are eating into business profitability. So much so, more small businesses are providing a cash discount or CC surcharge - such as my local dry cleaners and Skipper’s in Oxford. Also a diner in Mansfield, Ohio last week. And this week I moved my son to Madison, WI for a job (graduated from Farmer last month - yippee) - one restaurant had a CC surcharge; 2 others were cash only (as well as a third one we considered but went with a different option - one of the other cash only options).
Venmo is going to destroy Visa. The average small restaurant biz can’t afford to pay their insane transaction fees. Many places already putting it as an option. Has some tax related baggage though for the biz.
About six months ago the owner of Swampwater, one of my favorite restaurants in Cincinnati, told me he was going to put a sign at the front door stating they were going to add a CC surcharge. I’ve seen significant discussion on Chowdown Cincinnati talking about the same thing.
The only reason I use a CC everywhere is because of the cash back deal, but a CC charge (I think it’s 3 percent) would be greater than the credit I receive.
Indeed. We still use the Chase 2% back card. Our kids (who both fly much more than us) seem to have mastered the CC/air miles combination and always seem to fly close to free.
And (Warning - off topic)…Both kids get to utilize the private lounges in many airports. Relaxing and pretty good food. Beats staying in the main terminal during long layovers.
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