Penticton Vees Tickets vs a Motion Picture Ticket
Posted: Jan 15th, 2013, 11:17 am
A few weeks ago, the usual “rant” editorial appeared in the Penticton Herald. “Why aren’t people supporting the Vees …… ?”
I mentioned my amusement to my wife that the newspaper editor continued to complain that people weren’t supporting the Vees but wasn’t taking note of the archaic unfair, stupid, ridiculous manner in which the Vees attempted to sell tickets.
To this my wife said “Well you haven’t checked the Vees ticket site for over a year they must have fixed it by now.
I immediately forgot all about the conversation, until this weekend….
Friends were over for dinner and we got talking about the new movie “Zero Dark Thirty”, we decided that we should go. Another piped up that “It’s real easy to get tickets you can get them on line, etc etc.”
With that I went to our home office and brought up the Landmark Cinema web site. Located the show, the time we wanted and bought 4 tickets and printed out a piece of paper that will get us in to the theatre.
It was only at that point I made the link to my earlier conversation with my wife and my reading of the Penticton Herald editorial about Vees tickets. The next morning I compared purchasing 4 tickets for a Vees game vs my purchasing 4 tickets to the movie.
Quite a difference…
Landmark Cinema
Vees Ticket
So, why can Landmark Cinemas vend their tickets so easily, make things so easy for their customers and the Vees make it so hard ?
In this day and age, lots of people now want to purchase ticketing for events on line, before they attend an event. They don’t want to line up, not knowing what seats are available, they want to make their purchase in the comfort of their homes and then walk up to the arena, tender their self printed ticket and walk in.
In this day and age that is the norm.
As for the price. If you want to charge me $19.00 for a ticket to a Vees game, then tell me it's $19. Don't tell me it's $12.25 and then add on user fee after user fee. I get enough of that crap from the Provincial Government with their "lower taxes" and then increased user fees.
So, if I feel the need for an evening of entertainment,,, ? Vees ?? Movie ??,,,,,, MOVIE, I don't need the frustration and the feeling of being ripped off.
I mentioned my amusement to my wife that the newspaper editor continued to complain that people weren’t supporting the Vees but wasn’t taking note of the archaic unfair, stupid, ridiculous manner in which the Vees attempted to sell tickets.
To this my wife said “Well you haven’t checked the Vees ticket site for over a year they must have fixed it by now.
I immediately forgot all about the conversation, until this weekend….
Friends were over for dinner and we got talking about the new movie “Zero Dark Thirty”, we decided that we should go. Another piped up that “It’s real easy to get tickets you can get them on line, etc etc.”
With that I went to our home office and brought up the Landmark Cinema web site. Located the show, the time we wanted and bought 4 tickets and printed out a piece of paper that will get us in to the theatre.
It was only at that point I made the link to my earlier conversation with my wife and my reading of the Penticton Herald editorial about Vees tickets. The next morning I compared purchasing 4 tickets for a Vees game vs my purchasing 4 tickets to the movie.
Quite a difference…
Landmark Cinema
- Price for on line ticket (quoted at site) $10.50.
Price at door $ 10.50
Additional costs to purchase an online ticket $00.00
Final price for one $10.50 on line ticket - $10.50
Final price for 4 $10.50 on line tickets - 4 X $10.50 = $42.00
Procedure at Theatre, produce self printed ticket, or use code provided to print ticket at theatre.
... or...Price at the door $10.50
Vees Ticket
- Price for on line ticket (quoted at site) $12.50
Price at door $13.00
Additional costs to purchase an online ticket $3.25 (plus $3.50 “order charge”)
Final price for one $12.25 on line ticket - $19.00
Final price for four $12.25 on line tickets (4 X $12.25 = $49.00) - $65.50 ($3.25 extra each in fees, plus $3.50 order charge)
Procedure at arena, you still have to line up and obtain a ticket from “Will Call” at the box office.
... or...Price at the door $13.00
So, why can Landmark Cinemas vend their tickets so easily, make things so easy for their customers and the Vees make it so hard ?
In this day and age, lots of people now want to purchase ticketing for events on line, before they attend an event. They don’t want to line up, not knowing what seats are available, they want to make their purchase in the comfort of their homes and then walk up to the arena, tender their self printed ticket and walk in.
In this day and age that is the norm.
As for the price. If you want to charge me $19.00 for a ticket to a Vees game, then tell me it's $19. Don't tell me it's $12.25 and then add on user fee after user fee. I get enough of that crap from the Provincial Government with their "lower taxes" and then increased user fees.
So, if I feel the need for an evening of entertainment,,, ? Vees ?? Movie ??,,,,,, MOVIE, I don't need the frustration and the feeling of being ripped off.