Tickets for student events on campus are now subject to a $4.75 fee if they are ordered over the phone or on-line, according to the Theatre~Intime website.
A switch to a new centralized ticketing system organized by the outside company tickets.com this year unifies the box offices among Intime, Frist, Richardson, Program in Theatre and Dance events, athletics and the Performing Arts Council.
This centralization allows patrons to buy tickets for any — or all — events at any of the box offices on campus. However, tickets purchased over the phone or on-line now cost extra for the service.
Tickets.com is a California-based company that provides retailers with software and voice-activated response call centers to help facilitate ticket sales, according to its website.
In response, student performing groups are not sidestepping the new fee and instead encouraging patrons through their advertising to hoof it over to a box office to buy the tickets in person.
"We encourage patrons to come directly to a box office for ticket purchase to bypass the online and phone order processing fee," the Intime website said.
Students fear that the fee — which often costs as much as the ticket itself — will deter out of towners, visitors and town residents from attending their shows.
Elizabeth Gott '05, the president of Muse, is facing preparations for Muse's fall show during the second week of October, Gott feared that the fee might deter members of the surrounding communities from attending.
"It's easier for me to go to Frist than using credit card over the phone," Gott said. "A lot of events are put in Princeton weekly bulletin and the PAW [Princeton Alumni Weekly] too. There are definitely lots of people in the Princeton area who like to come to student shows but maybe it's more convenient for them to get their tickets mailed to them."
Gott hypothesized that tickets.com would want to make a buck out of the deal, too.
"There's a perfectly logical reason for having this fee, but it seems kind of a shame," she said.
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