How do you get your tickets for football?

[DSMCy]

You cannot open a Ticketmaster account with a Google Voice VOIP number number. It is not allowed.
You cannot open a cyclones.com account with a Google Voice VOIP phone number. It is not allowed.

So you can order tickets, pay for tickets, and get your seat.... but... you cannot print your tickets or get them on a cell phone unless you have a particular carrier or type of service or phone.

Google has been my phone for the last 11 years. It barely functions in JTS because bandwidth is so 2005. It works great everywhere else in the continental United States.

I wonder what the ticket lines will look like on Sep 4th. Pick the right line, folks!

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It seems your only option is to create a ticketmaster account so that your are able to print the tickets at home.
In order to do that, you will need a way to accept an initial text message to set up the account.
Good luck.

As I posted above, these are your best options to work around that:
1. Do you have a close relative or friend that you'd trust to use their phone number to create a ticketmaster account?

2. Create a Google Voice number. Do you have a gmail email address? If yes, you can create a Google Voice number that will accept text messages that you can receive on your computer.

3. Buy a burner phone from a gas station - I'd say this is the last resort.

 

[1UNI2ISU]

How do you live in 2021 without a phone that accepts text messages?

 

[KneeGusto]

I have a Google phone account. It's a phone. It's a cell phone. It accepts phone calls, texts, voicemail from anyone and everywhere. I can email pictures of kittens to my niece. I can check stock values. I can fire up Chrome and check scores on ESPN. This is not the problem.

You cannot receive communications from a cyclones.com or Ticketmaster account with this number to print out tickets or have them on your phone for scanning.

THAT is the problem.



They will accept your money for services and sell you stuff but they will not allow you access to the actual product you purchased until you have an "approved" phone carrier.

 

[BryceC]

I have a Google phone account. It's a phone. It's a cell phone. It accepts phone calls, texts, voicemail from anyone and everywhere. I can email pictures of kittens to my niece. I can check stock values. I can fire up Chrome and check scores on ESPN. This is not the problem.

You cannot receive communications from a cyclones.com or Ticketmaster account with this number to print out tickets or have them on your phone for scanning.

THAT is the problem.

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They will accept your money for services and sell you stuff but they will not allow you access to the actual product you purchased until you have an "approved" phone carrier.

The way to do it was outlined in post #9. You can choose to do that or you can not choose to do that. it's up to you.

 

[allfourcy]

Going to be interesting at UNI game to see how fast the lines go. I am bringing my smartphone wallet tickets and the printed tickets.

You mean if you print the tickets, they still remain on your smarthphone wallet too? So you are just covering your bases? So at entry, once scanned, that alleviates another person getting in? Maybe I'm confusing what you are saying.
(For example, if that's the case, I have tickets purchased for which I have to transfer two of them. You mean I could print those tickets first and still have them on my wallet to transfer? Totally hypothetical and stupid, I know, but what keeps some jerk from doing that and showing up with the printed ticket before the transfer recipient had their's scanned? What am I missing here?)

 

[barometriclow]

You mean if you print the tickets, they still remain on your smarthphone wallet too? So you are just covering your bases? So at entry, once scanned, that alleviates another person getting in? Maybe I'm confusing what you are saying.
(For example, if that's the case, I have tickets purchased for which I have to transfer two of them. You mean I could print those tickets first and still have them on my wallet to transfer? Totally hypothetical and stupid, I know, but what keeps some jerk from doing that and showing up with the printed ticket before the transfer recipient had their's scanned? What am I missing here?)

I assume, great ISU inventor of the computer, is just capable as your Target store, in tracking inventory going in. I.e. once one ticket is scanned any others are denied entry.

 

[KneeGusto]

Bought a burner phone at a gas station. Input the number and voila! Ticketmaster likes me. Now myself, drug dealers and hitmen can get our tickets to ISU Football.

Ironically, the Ticketmaster App doesn't work on the phone but it unlocked my computer and I was able to print tickets.

I predict really long lines to get into the stadium September 4th. They only put up 2 temp towers for phones. People who depend on their phones as their ticket may not have service to get into JT. Cel service at JT has always been reliable and lightening fast, right?

I hope they thought this out. I don't know why this isn't a bigger topic of discussion. So many people are going to show up at the stadium on Sep 4 and talk to the person they gave money to for tickets and say "I have to download what?"

 

[IcSyU]

Bought a burner phone at a gas station. Input the number and voila! Ticketmaster likes me. Now myself, drug dealers and hitmen can get our tickets to ISU Football.

Ironically, the Ticketmaster App doesn't work on the phone but it unlocked my computer and I was able to print tickets.

I predict really long lines to get into the stadium September 4th. They only put up 2 temp towers for phones. People who depend on their phones as their ticket may not have service to get into JT. Cel service at JT has always been reliable and lightening fast, right?

I hope they thought this out. I don't know why this isn't a bigger topic of discussion. So many people are going to show up at the stadium on Sep 4 and talk to the person they gave money to for tickets and say "I have to download what?"

It won't be a big deal for anyone who has gone to other events because this is how ticketing works now. They're doing it to try and cut down on fraud, save their mailing costs, etc. This isn't a JTS or Hilton thing....its industry wide.

And no one has anyone to blame but themselves if they wait until they get to the gate to download their tickets. They're repeatedly communicating you should download your tickets and save them to your phone before arriving on game day. I buy tickets for 5 other people and they already have their tickets on their own devices via transfer so that's not an excuse.

Like anything else they'll have a few games of pain and then it'll work smooth.

 

[scratch]

How do you live in 2021 without a phone that accepts text messages?
Lived without a cell phone for 45 years of my life and got along just fine......LOL.
They are a good thing and a bad thing.....LOL

 

[8bitnes]

You mean if you print the tickets, they still remain on your smarthphone wallet too? So you are just covering your bases? So at entry, once scanned, that alleviates another person getting in? Maybe I'm confusing what you are saying.
(For example, if that's the case, I have tickets purchased for which I have to transfer two of them. You mean I could print those tickets first and still have them on my wallet to transfer? Totally hypothetical and stupid, I know, but what keeps some jerk from doing that and showing up with the printed ticket before the transfer recipient had their's scanned? What am I missing here?)

When you transfer the ticket, a new barcode is generated and the prior one becomes invalid.

 

[DSMCy]

It won't be a big deal for anyone who has gone to other events because this is how ticketing works now. They're doing it to try and cut down on fraud, save their mailing costs, etc. This isn't a JTS or Hilton thing....its industry wide.

And no one has anyone to blame but themselves if they wait until they get to the gate to download their tickets. They're repeatedly communicating you should download your tickets and save them to your phone before arriving on game day. I buy tickets for 5 other people and they already have their tickets on their own devices via transfer so that's not an excuse.

Like anything else they'll have a few games of pain and then it'll work smooth.

Haha yes this exactly.

Trying to be polite to the OP, but this is 2021. Nearly everyone has a smartphone and is very accustomed to using apps for things like this.

In addition, for the ~20K fans that attended games last year, this was the process. I saw very few issues. The biggest issue I saw was the glare of the sun not allowing the ticket scanner to work on phones.

 

[moforisu]

So there will be no scalpers selling tickets i take it?