Why does it cost you extra if you print your own ticket at your own cost?!
And I don't start complaining about the horrendous booking fee of 22.07 euro on two tickets (€50 each)
What I generally most detest with print at home is, that they let you print every single one ticket on an A4 page so you have to carry all that paper around. The most appalling thing, is the fact that you pay for the adverts on it, or must use en expensive software to edit the PDFs. I recently had to print an A4 page with deep red background that sucked my ink empty.
I do agree that it makes no sense to have to pay a fee to print your own tickets. That's ridiculous!
On the other hand, it's a lot more convenient to print your tickets at home than to have to go and stand in line to pick up your tickets before every show, and if I could print my own tickets for BETM in London, I definitely would do it.
Ellen
"I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance.”
-George Balanchine 1904 -1983
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I agree that having to print out colored ads on a ticket receipt is pointless and expensive. When I print, I print only the page with the bar code and my name/seat info, which is usually the first. I also print in grey shade only and, if available, on an economy setting which keeps the amount of ink to a minimum. I do the same for air tickets; the receipt I can download onto my Iphone if it is needed.
There should be no fee for printing a ticket, a receipt, or collecting a ticket at Will Call. A charge for mailing a ticket is fair.
Most professional theatres accept a printout, OR a scan of the bar code, downloaded to a mobile phone, to gain entrance these days. There should be no charge for this. The Victoria Palace Theatre still uses a system of tearing ticket stubs to record who has entered, making a call at Will Call mandatory for those who buy online. I have seen its quaint partitioned wooden trays into which these stubs are collected and sorted. In light of recent emergencies in theatres (last year's ceiling collapse at the Apollo being one), I would think a computerized system of recording just who it present and where they are sitting, by scanning bar codes whether on ticket, receipt or mobile, would be far more sensible and efficient in an emergency, than sifting through stubs in a tray. It is the norm these days.
