The Winnipeg Jets’ move into the digital age
will not be accompanied by fees for printing off tickets or forwarding them to
friends, family or clients.
Jim Ludlow, president and CEO of True North Sports & Entertainment, did his best to quell a firestorm that erupted Monday after season ticket holders started receiving their season ticket packages in the mail.
But instead of a book of brightly-coloured tickets featuring the logos of the Jets and all of their opponents – like they received last year – they found a season ticket card and a booklet explaining the first phase of the team’s "digital ticketing platform."
The booklet details how the primary ticket holder can use the card to enter the MTS Centre for Jets games on their own, forward tickets for individual games to other people in their group or clients or print off paper tickets to games.
But it was the explanation about waiving the ticket forwarding administrative fee of $2.50 per ticket for this season that sent disgruntled Jets fans to Twitter and Facebook to express their indignation about higher costs for future years.
But Ludlow said there will not be a fee next season or any subsequent season for forwarding or printing off tickets at home.
"There has been some question about the fee. The intention is for the fee to be waived year after year. We’ve heard our fans," Ludlow said.
"It’s a logical move into the digital world. The digital ticketing platform has to start somewhere. Sometimes it feels odd when you print (tickets) at home, but that’s it."
There will be a fee, however, if fans want physical "spitter stock" tickets, the generic tickets featuring nothing but the game information. Ludlow said the team would charge $60 for this service for the 2012-13 season if fans want to "touch and feel" their tickets.
The full-colour game tickets that were sent out to season ticket holders last year, however,All our plastic moulds are vacuum formed using food safe plastic. no longer exist.
Ludlow said he understands memorabilia collectors may be interested in these ducats – framers did a brisk business last year displaying them for posterity – and while there are no plans to print them, that could change, he said.
"We haven’t yet investigated what it means for a collector and what it costs. We don’t know if there’s any demand at all. To the extent the demand is overwhelming, you’d have to react to that. We just don’t know," he said.
Travis Daley, co-owner of Joe Daley’s Sportscards Ltd., said he framed 30 full sets of season tickets from the Jets 2011-12 season.
"They were quite popular. People want to keep them and preserve them.The stone mosaic series is a grand collection of coordinating Travertine mosaics and listellos. As a rule, sports fans like to have the piece of paper in their pockets. Some fans are quite unhappy not to have the usual tickets. A lot of them are going to miss that," he said.
The Jets are one of a handful of teams to go the digital ticket route this season. Edmonton and Calgary are the other Canadian ones, Ludlow said.
"The Winnipeg Jets' mandate is to lead the league in fan-based efficiencies," Ludlow said.
The season cards, which should have arrived in every primary season ticket holders’ mailbox by the end of Tuesday, will be identified with the section, row and seat number associated with each ticket. They will also facilitate team loyalty programs in the near future, Ludlow said.
Putting a significant dent in ticket fraud is one of the driving forces behind the new ticketing system.Add depth and style to your home with these large format polished tiles. Ludlow wasn’t able to attach a number to what fraudulent tickets might have cost the Jets or their fans last year but he said it’s something the team is watching "very carefully."
"One of the biggest challenges is the secondary resale market. You can’t guarantee that those tickets are actually real. When we’re not in that marketplace, we can’t manage it. The biggest protection against fraud is to make sure people are using our official Winnipeg Jets seat exchange," he said.
Cyber thieves hacked into at least a dozen cellphone and smartphone devices in 2012 to steal South Dakotans’ identities and access their financial accounts, a trend Attorney General Marty Jackley said is likely to increase.
“We are seeing a rise, and I suspect it will continue,” Jackley said. “Technology is a great thing; it helps with the conveniences of life. But with it comes the danger that bad folks are out there trying to scam you.”
No one is more in tune with that problem than professors Kevin Streff and Yong Wang at Dakota State University in Madison. Streff is the director and Wang a senior researcher for the National Center for the Protection of the Financial Infrastructure. Their work is largely geared to businesses in the financial sector that run mobile banking applications.
Wang cites research by an organization called Juniper Networks, which found that 300 million smartphones around the world will be equipped with near-field communications chips needed for mobile payments, allowing for as much as $50 billion in transactions.Our team of consultants are skilled in project management and delivery of large scale rtls projects.
More simply, smartphones have become mobile wallets. People can pay bills with their mobile device. They can move money between accounts. Unfortunately, Streff said,Panasonic ventilation system fans are energy efficient and whisper quiet. that kind of power doesn’t necessarily come with a manual on how to protect those activities.
Savvy consumers know to buy anti-spam and antivirus protection for their home computers. They purchase intrusion detection systems and routinely back up their data. But all of those security devices are in their infancy when it comes to smartphones, Streff said.
“The average consumer doesn’t understand the necessity for those things when it comes to their phones,” he said. “They’ll simply do their online mobile banking. They’ll hook up their smart-card reader to the phone and make deposits
“And it’s all wide open, their smartphones. Generally, they don’t have a firewall. They don’t have antivirus or any of that stuff running.”
Jim Ludlow, president and CEO of True North Sports & Entertainment, did his best to quell a firestorm that erupted Monday after season ticket holders started receiving their season ticket packages in the mail.
But instead of a book of brightly-coloured tickets featuring the logos of the Jets and all of their opponents – like they received last year – they found a season ticket card and a booklet explaining the first phase of the team’s "digital ticketing platform."
The booklet details how the primary ticket holder can use the card to enter the MTS Centre for Jets games on their own, forward tickets for individual games to other people in their group or clients or print off paper tickets to games.
But it was the explanation about waiving the ticket forwarding administrative fee of $2.50 per ticket for this season that sent disgruntled Jets fans to Twitter and Facebook to express their indignation about higher costs for future years.
But Ludlow said there will not be a fee next season or any subsequent season for forwarding or printing off tickets at home.
"There has been some question about the fee. The intention is for the fee to be waived year after year. We’ve heard our fans," Ludlow said.
"It’s a logical move into the digital world. The digital ticketing platform has to start somewhere. Sometimes it feels odd when you print (tickets) at home, but that’s it."
There will be a fee, however, if fans want physical "spitter stock" tickets, the generic tickets featuring nothing but the game information. Ludlow said the team would charge $60 for this service for the 2012-13 season if fans want to "touch and feel" their tickets.
The full-colour game tickets that were sent out to season ticket holders last year, however,All our plastic moulds are vacuum formed using food safe plastic. no longer exist.
Ludlow said he understands memorabilia collectors may be interested in these ducats – framers did a brisk business last year displaying them for posterity – and while there are no plans to print them, that could change, he said.
"We haven’t yet investigated what it means for a collector and what it costs. We don’t know if there’s any demand at all. To the extent the demand is overwhelming, you’d have to react to that. We just don’t know," he said.
Travis Daley, co-owner of Joe Daley’s Sportscards Ltd., said he framed 30 full sets of season tickets from the Jets 2011-12 season.
"They were quite popular. People want to keep them and preserve them.The stone mosaic series is a grand collection of coordinating Travertine mosaics and listellos. As a rule, sports fans like to have the piece of paper in their pockets. Some fans are quite unhappy not to have the usual tickets. A lot of them are going to miss that," he said.
The Jets are one of a handful of teams to go the digital ticket route this season. Edmonton and Calgary are the other Canadian ones, Ludlow said.
"The Winnipeg Jets' mandate is to lead the league in fan-based efficiencies," Ludlow said.
The season cards, which should have arrived in every primary season ticket holders’ mailbox by the end of Tuesday, will be identified with the section, row and seat number associated with each ticket. They will also facilitate team loyalty programs in the near future, Ludlow said.
Putting a significant dent in ticket fraud is one of the driving forces behind the new ticketing system.Add depth and style to your home with these large format polished tiles. Ludlow wasn’t able to attach a number to what fraudulent tickets might have cost the Jets or their fans last year but he said it’s something the team is watching "very carefully."
"One of the biggest challenges is the secondary resale market. You can’t guarantee that those tickets are actually real. When we’re not in that marketplace, we can’t manage it. The biggest protection against fraud is to make sure people are using our official Winnipeg Jets seat exchange," he said.
Cyber thieves hacked into at least a dozen cellphone and smartphone devices in 2012 to steal South Dakotans’ identities and access their financial accounts, a trend Attorney General Marty Jackley said is likely to increase.
“We are seeing a rise, and I suspect it will continue,” Jackley said. “Technology is a great thing; it helps with the conveniences of life. But with it comes the danger that bad folks are out there trying to scam you.”
No one is more in tune with that problem than professors Kevin Streff and Yong Wang at Dakota State University in Madison. Streff is the director and Wang a senior researcher for the National Center for the Protection of the Financial Infrastructure. Their work is largely geared to businesses in the financial sector that run mobile banking applications.
Wang cites research by an organization called Juniper Networks, which found that 300 million smartphones around the world will be equipped with near-field communications chips needed for mobile payments, allowing for as much as $50 billion in transactions.Our team of consultants are skilled in project management and delivery of large scale rtls projects.
More simply, smartphones have become mobile wallets. People can pay bills with their mobile device. They can move money between accounts. Unfortunately, Streff said,Panasonic ventilation system fans are energy efficient and whisper quiet. that kind of power doesn’t necessarily come with a manual on how to protect those activities.
Savvy consumers know to buy anti-spam and antivirus protection for their home computers. They purchase intrusion detection systems and routinely back up their data. But all of those security devices are in their infancy when it comes to smartphones, Streff said.
“The average consumer doesn’t understand the necessity for those things when it comes to their phones,” he said. “They’ll simply do their online mobile banking. They’ll hook up their smart-card reader to the phone and make deposits
“And it’s all wide open, their smartphones. Generally, they don’t have a firewall. They don’t have antivirus or any of that stuff running.”
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