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Originally Posted by BeesKnees
Hi, I hope you don't mind giving our experience of changing to cashless.
All the turnstiles have scanners that read barcodes, season tickets have been replaced with monthly membership cards that have a barcode on them that lets you straight into the ground. There is a £2pm loyalty card that gives 15% of everything, tickets, merchandise, food and drink.
eTickets are bought online and work by showing the code you are emailed to the scanner from your smartphone or a print at home ticket. The club are building a new ticket office as we speak that will be fitted with terminals so fans can buy tickets in a similar manner to when you go to the cinema.
There was a lot of negativity and cynicism, particularly around the membership cards but paying monthly has nearly doubled the number of members compared to season ticket holders (Although not changed attendance numbers).
Anyway, sorry if you feel I have intruded and hope for a good game tomorrow.
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I have used a similar system for years as a season ticket holder at Ibrox and it is a great system especially when when you can activate the smart card for non season ticket games. The same worked for non season ticket holders who had a "Ready Card" which worked the same but there was no charge for the card. That worked because people wanted to go to games especially season ticket holders for big games, Cup finals and european games. That won't be a problem at Accy.
Going by what you say that sounds an expensive system for no gain as the attendances didn't rise. That isn't even what is being talked about here, it's a case of paying cash to someone then giving the ticket to someone else. What is the point of having two people doing what one did in the past? The idea is to cut the losses not add to them.
I can see the point if the turnstiles were computerised and there was an online ticket system but it isn't. I could also see the point if it was necessary for crowd control but not with the size of the crowds we get so can someone plese explain what the benefit of this is in terms of attracting new fans and in reducing the deficit because otherwise what is the point?
Any chance of just giving us the answers?