 What's up guys, welcome back. Today, I wanna talk about delivery methods. When you're buying those tickets and you're about to check out, you always have a bunch of different options, so I wanna go over them and tell you what they're all about. Let's get into it. So you just found some great seats, congratulations, time to check out. First thing that's gonna happen though, is once you get there, you're gonna have to decide on how you're gonna get those tickets delivered to you. So let's go over the five main options. Hard stock tickets, PDF slash e-tickets, mobile tickets, paperless tickets, and we'll call. Let's dive into it. Starting off with the most common thing when you think of tickets, hard stock. So hard stock, basically, you know, piece of card stock paper, print it out. Sometimes there's commemorative details on them. Other times it just says, you know, the basic information for the event. Regardless, as long as it has a barcode on it, you're good to go. Generally, these tickets are sent out well in advance of the event actually happening. And then you can go ahead and distribute them to your friends if you're going with anybody. And then it's also very easy to sell these if that is something that you decide to do. There may be a small fee to get a hard stock ticket these days because they're moving towards more electronic based options. Number two, number two, PDF e-tickets. So e-tickets, these were kind of the most common ones I would say, you know, maybe just five, six years ago even. They were very common, very easy to get. Once you buy your tickets, it's basically just a PDF download of the ticket itself. Very easy to download, very easy to distribute to your friends, send them off, sell them, move them, however you want to do with them. It's very, very easy to use them. One of the potential drawbacks of a PDF ticket is not necessarily if you're buying it from the primary market, but it was when people were buying them off, you know, Kijiji and Craigslist. There was always a risk associated with it because you never knew if that was the original ticket itself. If you buy a PDF ticket from Ticketmaster, there's no requirement for you to only download it once. And so with that, what can happen is you'll download it and print it off 500 times and then you sell it to 500 people. Is that right? Definitely not. That fraud, definitely yes. However, most people, for the most part, are good people and if they're gonna sell their tickets or get into someone else, they're only gonna give them the one copy and they're expecting them to, you know, just use that one copy and not have to deal with the issue of someone trying to print off millions of copies. The hot level of fraud with it in itself was not very high. It was about through the box office or through one of the larger, you know, secondary websites because of all their, you know, fan guarantees and things like that. But basically, it was easy to blame a lot of fraud based on the ability for those tickets to be transferred and kind of resold many, many times over. So there was definitely some negative connotation around them and that's kind of where we're leading into the next type of ticket, which is mobile tickets. So mobile tickets are definitely the standard right now. The way they work is pretty simple. You can't actually print anything out or hold anything physical because it's gonna be on your phone or on your iWatch or whatever the case may be. Basically some kind of mobile device. What's gonna happen is you open up the app. It's gonna have a barcode on it and then basically that's just what you're gonna scan to get into the venue. With mobile tickets, there are a lot of, you know, current issues with them in the sense that because they're electronic, they can be more easily controlled by the primary market or the box office itself. And so what happens is sometimes if you're buying a ticket from Ticketmaster and it's a mobile ticket, sometimes what they'll do is they'll actually turn off the transfer feature so that if you want to send them to your friends, you actually have to wait until, you know, 48 hours or 24 hours before the show actually starts where you can actually send them off. Sometimes they'll even be a little disclosure that says this ticket cannot be transferred or resold. And when that happens, if you want your friends to go with you, you all have to enter together. It's not something where you can kind of give, everyone has their own ticket on their own phone. It's one phone and everyone just kind of lines up and you go one, one, one, one, one. It's kind of ridiculous. All of this is just to help and prevent kind of resale of these tickets. And it's also to help reduce fraud because if you have a ticket tied to your account, if you want to send it to anyone else, you no longer have it in your possession so there's only one unique version of that ticket that exists. It is relatively easy to sell a mobile ticket. Sometimes people will just take screenshots of them. Other times they'll actually go through the transfer feature and send them off to whoever's buying them. Also with mobile tickets, there's actually another version specifically with Ticketmaster and I'm sure others are also planning on releasing their own if they haven't already is what basically includes a rotating barcode. So with Ticketmaster they call these safe ticks. Reason behind that is that you can't actually take a screenshot of these tickets because the barcode rotates every couple seconds. So it's always gonna have a unique barcode so that if you do try and take a screenshot of it and send it off to someone else, they won't be able to use it because it's not official. It's not an official ticket. One of the reasons they brought this in is kind of again to prevent fraud, which is what they say anyway, but then also it's really to control where the who uses that ticket. Basically they'll have all the customer information because the only employee you can use a safe ticks ticket is through the Ticketmaster app. And unfortunately there's a lot of issues that can arise from this. So what happened with the black keys? They use safe ticks and they didn't tell anyone that they couldn't transfer the tickets and then people still sold them. And then basically what happened in the end is that when people were trying to get into the venue they couldn't get in because their tickets didn't work and then you had hundreds of people all stuck outside just waiting, waiting, waiting, hoping their tickets gonna work. Maybe they will, maybe they won't. It was really bad actually how they kind of did it and it was all just, everything was last minute and people weren't sure what was gonna work, what wasn't gonna work. There was a lot of confusion from both the primary marketplace, the secondary marketplace, buyers, everyone was just having a really hard time using it. I've linked the article below so you can go ahead and take a look at that. It was a really interesting case. With that they are now using that as kind of a baseline of how they want to implement this safe ticks program. And again, another article I'll put down is with Taylor Swift. So she's actually going through this safe ticks format as well but then with her it specifically said that all these tickets will be transferable. So people will be able to actually get these tickets to their friends and family or if they wanna sell them, they'll be able to do that as well. All right, so now we're moving to the last couple. So number four is gonna be will call. So will call tickets themselves are no different than a hard stock ticket. What it just means is that you have to go pick up the ticket from the box office. Sometimes you'll be able to pick it up a couple of days before or a week before, anytime before the event. Other times they'll do is they'll actually force you to go pick it up within one and a half hours, two hours within that short timeframe before the event actually starts to get your ticket. Reason behind this is again, it's to reduce the ability to resell these tickets because if you can only pick it up at the event itself, generally speaking, there's not enough time to be able to get that ticket out to another buyer and make that whole transaction happen. With will call tickets as well, purchaser has to be the one who picks up the tickets and they'll have to bring the other ID or credit card which they use to purchase it. Just to read the terms and conditions as every event and venue is a little bit different. Depending on when they release the tickets from the box office for will call, if it's say it's an hour and a half before the event starts, the person who bought tickets can go down, pick them all up and then distribute the tickets, walk in together however they wanna do it. But other times they might actually require you to get in line all together, walk in, get your wristband and then walk in directly into the show. With will call tickets, you'll find that these are for the most part reserved for prime platinum type seating, VIP seating or general admission type seating depending on the event and venue. But then there are also times where you can select the will call option for just regular tickets that are trying to all over the upper bowl or bowl wherever the case may be. And then number five is basically what they call paperless tickets. So there's two methods with this one. So one is with flash seats specifically. Flash seats are basically tickets that are tied to a photo ID or a credit card. What you do is basically swipe that card when you get to the venue and what they'll do is they'll issue you out kind of a ticket slip and that'll be your ticket per se. You don't get an actual physical ticket handed to you. You're basically just using your own ID which you would be carrying at all times anyway to be able to get into the venue. So again, the reason behind this is one, it helps produce fraud because obviously no one else has your driver's license except for you. So that obviously makes it a lot easier to make sure you never lose your ticket. But then the flip side is if you can't attend the event you're not gonna just hand off your driver's license to somebody else. You have to make sure that you can transfer your ticket. So it's all kind of controlled within the Flash Seats app and through the Flash Seats ecosystem. So a lot of the events, yes, you can go ahead, transfer them off. Sometimes they'll be able to issue them to you as mobile tickets with QR codes or whatever. Other times they might be able to give you hard stock tickets but if you're gonna use the Flash Seat ticket abilities themselves a lot of times that just means you actually have to have your own ID which is tied to you. On the flip side with paperless tickets sometimes outside of Flash Seats with Ticketmaster or some other venues you swipe your credit card or it might even be you might have a season seat holder card. So like for example with the Toronto Blue Jays what they have is they have these specific RFID cards that you just tap when you get to the venue. And what it does it prints out a ticket slip saying here's where you're sitting and you don't even need to have any physical tickets. It's really just all on the card. So yeah that's basically all the different options that exist for you. There are obviously when you go through secondary markets there are a few other options what they'll usually term as special delivery and within that those will encompass walk-ins or local pickup or gift card delivery. And these are all kind of very special circumstance type items. I won't go into it today just because it is a bit more advanced than what the traditional methods are and you won't generally see these unless you're buying them on a resale site. So for now I think we've kind of covered everything that's gonna happen when you're going to buy tickets from the primary market. Hope you guys learned a lot today. If you have any questions definitely leave them in the comments below, I'll be sure to get back to you. Otherwise I'll have another video for you guys next Tuesday. If you haven't subscribed yet definitely do so. Be sure to hit that little bell because I wanna make sure that you stay tuned for all the new ticket items that I'll be discussing and I'll see you guys next time.