Minnesota sports fans’ rights are at risk.

Implementing restrictive paperless ticketing is a way for sports teams, venues and concert promoters and ticket issuers like Ticketmaster to keep their hands in your pocket — limiting what fans can do with the tickets they buy and squeezing fans for more fees.

Fans should have the right to do whatever they want with the ticket they can’t use — like give it to a friend at the last minute, donate it to a church or charity auction or resell it on Craigslist. The price may be lower or higher than what they paid — but that’s the free market.

It bothers me that some venues are trying to squeeze even more dollars from their fans. I would think that the Twins and Wild would want fans, particularly season ticketholders, to have a positive experience.

 

Sara Barnes

Albert Lea