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Smart phone only way to enter Optus stadium Perth

Thousands of everyday people will no longer be able to attend Optus Stadium because they do not own a smart phone.
Downloaded tickets have been scrapped. No smart phone, no entry.
Most organisations care little for senior citizens, move with the times or stand aside.
Surely it is time for those overpaid pollies to stand up for their constituents and mandate a percentage of tickets be allocated for those who want nothing to do with the all-encompassing technology.
It can be done; mandates are applied for new builds regarding affordable and social housing.
What it shows me is that senior citizens are no longer valued and a huge portion of society would rather that seniors stay locked away in their homes.

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whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

Go back to supporting community sport at the local oval, where the price of admission is buying a snag on bread with some sauce. And onion if you werent standing too close to the next person..😷

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whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

@Gusman I accept that. So has the opportunity to be ripped off by the owners and to pay $10 for a barely warm pie and $20 for a car park half a mile from the nearest exit. (Figures are imagined as I wouldnt be caught dead going to a football (or cricket) game..😷

Gusman · 61-69, M

@whowasthatmaskedman I take my own lunch and there is plenty of free parking everywhere at the local sports grounds. My only cost is petrol for a return trip. Never more than 25km.

whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

@Gusman But the snag and bread is usually to support the club for uniforms or something. Now thats real sport. People who play for the love of the game and their families who come along and help out.😷

ArishMell · 70-79, M

Sadly, so many companies and agencies are doing their damndest make us all live only by so-called "smart"-'phone.

I refuse too: they are costly, over-complicated, physically bulky things.

I am not one of those who want everything for nothing, I appreciate we have to pay for things. Nevertheless even if it's possible to buy one even second-hand for <£100, I assume it would need a contract costing a lot more than my actual call charges, from an outfit determined to push all sorts of surplus guff onto it.

None of it is for our benefit and it's not a matter of age.

It is purely to suit US and Chinese IT "oligarchs", stock-market spivs and the spreadsheet-jockeys and Chief Customer Ignoring Officers in Head Office.

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ninalanyon · 61-69, T

@ArishMell Tap on/off usually uses contactless/NFC [1] so debit card, credit card, or mobile with NFC should work.

[1] Near-field communication. Extremely short range radio connection where the chip in the card is powered by the incoming signal from the payment terminal.

what middle-man fees are added to the fares

Much less than you might expect and anyway more than offset by the reduced cost of handling cash as well as making the driver's life safer because he can't be robbed of cash he hasn't got.

ArtieKat · M

@ArishMell You can buy NEW smartphones in the UK for under £80; you don't need a contract with companies like Giffgaff or Lebara - topups from £5 or £6 which is plenty for my use. Nor are smartphones bulky or complicated and I'm in the same age cohort as you.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@ArtieKat Oh, thankyou for that! All the advertising seems to be for ones costing £hundreds, and the cheapest second-hand one I saw in a shop window today was more than £80.

My present portable phone is a basic type, on PAYG. Speech calls first, text a rather poor second, plus a few accessories like a simple camera and an alarm-clock. I suppose I use the alarm twice a year at most, the camera even less.

I did have a "smart"-'phone a few years ago. Bulky, heavy, very difficult to use so I missed calls or could not reply to them. I sold after six months to my sister, cancelled the remaining three-quartyers of the contract and bought the one I have now.

ninalanyon · 61-69, T

It's like that here in Norway with buses, I'm not sure it's even possible to buy a bus ticket with cash any more let alone travel without the ticket on your mobile.

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ninalanyon · 61-69, T

@FreddieUK That would be a fair excuse, unfortunately my lapse was pure carelessness :-)

Sleep well, get well soon.

FreddieUK · 70-79, M

@ninalanyon Thanks, Got back up...can't sleep I'm so bunged up I can hardly breathe.

ninalanyon · 61-69, T

@FreddieUK When I had a bad cold like my mother would half fill her mixing bowl with boiling water and a spoon of Friar's Balsam and make me lean over it with a towel over my head to breathe in the fumes. This days I prefer a hot toddy; it doesn't fix the problem but I still feel better for it!

helenoftroy2000 · 22-25, F

The only way to enter Optus stadium in Perth is through Entrance #5

CreyvinMoorhead · 41-45, M

Thousands of everyday people are smarter then the fools that go to watch crap

Wireman · 31-35, M

I will do without it, then. No more visits.

butterflybaby75 · 41-45, F

Fuck that venue then

KiwiBird · 36-40, F

Incorrect

Yes, you can enter Optus Stadium at Gate 5 (or any other gate) without a smartphone, provided you have a physical hard ticket or a printed PDF ticket that has a valid barcode

It may take longer than tap and go

TheSirfurryanimalWales · 61-69, M

Somewhere else assuming everyone has a smartphone.
I am in possession of my Glamorgan County Cricket 2026 membership card as they will send one to those of us who do not have a smart phone.
I’m on the list of those who don’t.
But they would prefer it if we all did!
I am wondering if an iPad would suffice at Optus Stadium.It would at Glamorgan.
But I can’t get into the Millennium Stadium or buy tickets from Ticketmaster unless I succumb to buying a smart phone.
I won’t.

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ArtieKat · M

@KiwiBird Under £80 for a new smartphone in the UK, no need for a contract with Giffgaff or Lebara - £5 or £6 for calls, texts and internet

butterflybaby75 · 41-45, F

@ArtieKat like inkjet printers the devices are throwaway cheap but the telco plans like ink cartridges are not. I have a bare minimum postpaid one costing $75 a month

ArtieKat · M

@butterflybaby75 The ones I'm talking about are available in the UK unlocked with no SIM card - the companies I mentioned supply the SIM cards without a contract.

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