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"The SeatGeek app now allows you to send tickets to anyone else, right from your phone. Your friend will be able to get into the game with the app – no printing, no meeting..."

Um, maybe.

The venue has no obligation to accept phone scans, and a growing number of venues is refusing to allow people to just scan a PDF off their phones rather than have a printed instrument because it is a growing vector for fraud.

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We're working with venues and have venue access control policies within our data model for every event. A substantial majority of venues support mobile entry. For a minority of events, you do indeed need to print tickets – in these cases we clearly indicate to the user that printing is necessary.

"We're working with venues and have venue access control policies within our data model for every event."

Care to name a few with which you have any agreement?

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