81yo Dodgers fan can no longer get tickets because he doesn't have a smartphone

Post by the_snooze » Mon, Apr 06, 2026, 6:07 PM UTC

Lammy wrote: post #135

crazygringo wrote: post #52

From my quick research online, it seems they've gone digital-only for season tickets because they don't want people just reselling them to turn a profit. They want actual season-long fans, so now if you transfer too many games they can track it and ban you. This is essentially anti-scalping. There's a legit justification. You can still buy paper tickets at the stadium for a single game. But not for season passes anym…

> At some point, you have to cut off previous technologies because virtually everyone's moved to something better. I don't agree that it's better. Why should I have to worry about my ticket running out of battery power or being such a high-value pickpocket target once I'm already in the venue? The latter is a huge issue at music festivals for example: - https://old.reddit.com/r/OutsideLands/search/?q=phone+stolen...…

Post by trollbridge » Mon, Apr 06, 2026, 6:08 PM UTC

andrewla wrote: post #76

bigstrat2003 wrote: post #66

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What? We sold tickets for literally decades upon decades before smartphones came out. Of course you can do it, it's already been done!

Decades upon decades of holograms and watermarks on tickets to make them unforgeable. But it keeps getting easier to forge them. Meanwhile ticket prices keep increasing (venue space is one of the last things that's truly scarce) and the incentives for forgery keep increasing. Even if we could make them truly unforgeable, people generally want electronically transferrable tickets. How do you propose to do this?

Post by tosti » Mon, Apr 06, 2026, 6:08 PM UTC

mrweasel wrote: post #85

moondance wrote: post #67

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Have you had the pleasure of coaching a technologically illiterate grandparent through the process of learning how to use a smartphone? It’s a never-ending job and disheartening for all parties involved. Modern mobile UX is not designed with accessibility for the elderly in mind, and it is constantly changing in a way that demands constant re-learning. Not to mention the disabilities and neurological conditions often…

I'm in my 40s, there is a shit ton of modern UX I struggle with. Basically anything gesture based for example, but really a lot of apps are just shit and have no sensible UX design behind them, so you need to try to click everything and hope you don't mess something up. To me it's easy to see how someone over 70 might simply refuse to use an app. Especially if it doesn't support scaling the UI to well.

Post by trollbridge » Mon, Apr 06, 2026, 6:09 PM UTC

nslsm wrote: post #154

polski-g wrote: post #15

Well he has no responsibilities. His entire calendar is free, for the past two decades. They came out 17 years ago. He can go get one and learn how to use it.

I have absolutely no sympathy for people who choose not to get with the times. We all took our time to learn how to use a smartphone. He could have too but chose not to. Probably refused to learn to use tap to pay, ATMs, etc as well. You chose to opt out of society. You are no longer part of it. (I’m not happy that you need an app to buy tickets, but that’s a different thing — he didn’t choose not to own a smartphone…

Post by EvanAnderson » Mon, Apr 06, 2026, 6:10 PM UTC

this_user wrote: post #158

SoftTalker wrote: post #146

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There's an older guy at my office who often says "if you don't want to do something, don't learn how" and I think this attitude is common. It's not that they can't learn this smartphone stuff, they just don't want to use it.

That's their choice, but they also choose to suffer the consequences. Expecting the world to cater to your needs specifically is such a typical boomer attitude and should no longer be tolerated.