For reasons that can only be guessed at, the Haggler has been inundated lately with e-mail about problems that are not really problems: airlines that refuse to offer refunds on nonrefundable tickets, for instance, or financial penalties for ending home alarm contracts before the contracts expire.
London's Oyster travelcard ticketing system uses NFC to replace paper tickets, for instance.
Getting big gigs and selling tickets, for instance, does not matter very much in the long run.
In some cases (buying a ticket, for instance), the person might take advantage of the connection.
Nobody pushed harder for Romney to add Paul Ryan to the Republican ticket, for instance, than the Manhattan insiders at the Wall Street Journal editorial page.
So if you buy a $100 ticket, for instance, and pass the code to three of your friends, they could each get a $10 discount on the tickets, and you could get a $15 refund (or whatever amount the event organizer decides to offer).
WiFly plays a role, too, by allowing policemen to submit traffic tickets wirelessly, for instance.
Customers who order tickets for The War Within via online ticketing outfits, for instance, will get a coupon for a free CD of the film's soundtrack.
The company's ticketing side, for instance, is barred from sharing data with the promotion side.
A gutsy move to rename its Rapunzel movie "Tangled" to play down the princess paid off with stellar Thanksgiving ticket sales, for instance.
Her eviction in 2005 from a Eurostar train following a quarrel over a ticket upgrade, for instance, appears a particularly low-wattage example of the customary friction between celebrities and service-industry jobsworths.
