Oh G0d! Text Tickets, you guys.

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From the NME site:
Thousands of tickets for the sold out CARLING WEEKEND: READING AND LEEDS FESTIVALS will be made available for those with ORANGE WAP phones.

The mobile phone company will release 1,000 weekend tickets for both sites, Reading and Leeds, via their text ticket service on Orange World today (June 21) from 12 noon.

Customers will then receive a 'text ticket', which they must then keep to show to the box office on the festival site.

Customers should go to Orange World on their WAP phone, and select 'Channels', then 'Music', and follow the instructions to purchase the ticket. All Pay As You Go customers will also receive a £10 top-up voucher, and contract customers will receive £10 credit.

So, is this a wonderful new way of beating the touts? or is it DUD! ?

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 21 June 2004 10:06 (twenty-two years ago)

big dud - ppl on Vodafone, O2, Virgin and T Mobile like music too!

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 21 June 2004 10:09 (twenty-two years ago)

O NO! I'VE DELETED MY TEXT TICKET INSTEAD OF A MESSAGE FROM MY FLATMATE TO BUY MILK!

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 21 June 2004 10:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Mark H - that's why they're not going to the sodding Reading Festival.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 21 June 2004 10:12 (twenty-two years ago)

bah. doesn't anyone like collecting ticket stubs anymore? what are you supposed to do with this, take a screenshot?

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 21 June 2004 10:47 (twenty-two years ago)

i mean, i use will-call all the time, but still...

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 21 June 2004 10:48 (twenty-two years ago)

This is SO easy to fake it's ridiculous.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Monday, 21 June 2004 10:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Could I get one (as an orange customer) and then forward it to someone who wanted it for filthy money?

― Dave B (daveb), Monday, 21 June 2004 10:52 (twenty-two years ago)

If it contains a unique ticketnumber, you can fake as many as you want, only the first will get it. Which doesn't remove all the security concerns (by a long shot).

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 21 June 2004 10:54 (twenty-two years ago)

That probably wouldn't work as the from address would be different, but that's totally hackable on a lot of phones.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Monday, 21 June 2004 10:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I just see many people getting their phones nicked on the way in...

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 21 June 2004 10:55 (twenty-two years ago)

... forcibly, shall we say?

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 21 June 2004 10:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't see that at all! Regular festival goers are unlikely to resort to such tactics, and I can't see them buying phones off mugging touts either.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 21 June 2004 11:49 (twenty-two years ago)

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