Blitz ticketing service

[dickiedawg]

Is anyone here subscribed to the Blitz ticketing service?

I'm curious to hear your experience. How have the seats been? How are the tickets actually delivered?

I haven't seen this discussed really at all outside of when it was announced, and a few people complaining that they would do it but just lived too far away.

 

[L4Dawg]

I signed up at the beginning. The football seats were hit and miss. They weren't great seats but for a couple of games they weren't bad. For basketball so far they have all been upper deck in the corners. The tickets are delivered to your phone. They send you a barcode/s and your phone is scanned directly. There is no paper involved. It's up to 120 miles to sign up now that football is over.

 

[Ishmael]

I'd love to sign up, but because I live in Memphis instead of Germantown and therefore am just outside the arbitrary mileage limit the school set, I'm not eligible.

 

[Requiem For A Dawg]

What is the goal of Blitz? If it's to get more people to the games, then the $360 a year for this service is a deterrent. I'm just going to save that $360 to use and buy tickets from a poster on the SPS ticket exchange. If it's to make money, I doubt enough people sign up to make any sizable impact monetarily.

A free exchange service between fans would be really nice. This would definitely help for basketball and baseball.

 

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On Hailstate.com under your dog tag, there is a way to transfer your tickets to someone else. So ther is already a transfer process.

 

[dickiedawg]

What is the goal of Blitz? If it's to get more people to the games, then the $360 a year for this service is a deterrent. I'm just going to save that $360 to use and buy tickets from a poster on the SPS ticket exchange. If it's to make money, I doubt enough people sign up to make any sizable impact monetarily.

A free exchange service between fans would be really nice. This would definitely help for basketball and baseball.

It gets more people to the games, yes, but more than that it makes the games more accessible to fans who may not be able to afford season tickets. It's $270/year, you don't pay in the months that don't have regular season home games. Season tickets to all sports would be much more expensive than that. Baseball alone is $220 for GA. Not to mention, for many people the monthly payment is much easier than a lump sum at the beginning of the season.

Personally, I'm fortunate to have access to season tickets that I could not afford. If that weren't the case, I would be all over the Blitz package.

 

[dickiedawg]

If this is really the case, I would try giving the ticket office a call and see if you can get a waiver. I'd be interested to hear the response.

As for the dog tag transfer, I think that's a great start and a needed step in the process. Plenty of people get hung up on the $5 fee for that, which we've had multiple threads about. There's also an option to list your tickets to StubHub, which is almost exactly what people keep clamoring for. My concern with it is that the whole dog tag thing is not streamlined enough to encourage people to use it. There's apparently an old system and a new system, each with its own login, then you have to link a separate stubhub account. It's just kind of a pain. If it was all on one app, I believe that would help solve a lot of issues.

 

[Villagedawg]

I signed up yesterday. . .

I signed up at the beginning. The football seats were hit and miss. They weren't great seats but for a couple of games they weren't bad. For basketball so far they have all been upper deck in the corners. The tickets are delivered to your phone. They send you a barcode/s and your phone is scanned directly. There is no paper involved. It's up to 120 miles to sign up now that football is over.

Got an email saying I would receive further instructions for an app. However, I haven't gotten another email. Do you remember how registration works? Hoping I can get registered in time for MBB tomorrow.

 

[msstate7]

Got an email saying I would receive further instructions for an app. However, I haven't gotten another email. Do you remember how registration works? Hoping I can get registered in time for MBB tomorrow.

Go to www.hailstate.com/myblitz

 

[Villagedawg]

Thanks! Now it tells me pass not found. Contacting customer service.