From our correspondents in far-flung locations such as Stoke-on-Trent, Merthyr Tydfil, the Mormaerdom of Mearns, and Rathfriland, we bring you the inconclusive list of event ticket mishaps. Names have been changed to protect the innocent. We would never, ever, call attention to the failings of our competitors.

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The perforations were just drawn in! Nicola J. writes, “For our yearly Black and White Gala [our organisation] decided to save money by ordering admission tickets from a questionable source. We thought we were ordering tickets with perforated stubs. We didn’t imagine there could be a difference in event tickets. Picture our chagrin, when the guests arrived, and the stubs simply wouldn’t detach easily. The perforations were just drawn in! Our volunteers had to resort to bending, tearing, and cutting tickets stubs. It was awful! The line backed up out the door and around the city centre! Never again will we sacrifice quality for cost.”

You never saw such a donnybrook! Charles P. writes, “Community theatre is meant to bring people together, but shoddy ticket printing nearly tore our community apart. Imagine, if you will, the brouhaha involved in tickets printed with non-sequential numbers. We never had any idea how many seats had sold or how many people to expect. One night we played to an empty house. The next night, we found we had sold two thousand seats, and our fire code permits only three hundred people in the audience. You never saw such a donnybrook! There was fighting in the aisles, in the footlights, in the orchestra pit. Next time, we will order our tickets from professionals and be assured of numbers we can count on!”

The dangers of substandard stapling Beth L. writes, “I still shudder at the memory of that dreadful night. We had ordered three thousand tickets to our parish’s summer festival, conveniently stapled into booklets of one hundred. But no sooner had [the administrator] opened the box, then she began screaming. The staple tips, rather than being folded neatly over themselves, came sticking out straight and sharpened to points, and within moments, our front office was covered in blood. Everyone who approached the tickets was maimed, and we all needed tetanus jabs. Needless to say, the summer festival was canceled and the children were devastated. Who knew the dangers of substandard stapling? This year, we shall have our tickets stapled by experts.”

We didn’t ask about card stock! James A. “It should have been a simple affair, just a small run of novelty tickets for my nephew’s birthday party. We didn’t ask about card stock. We didn’t think it mattered. Well, it did. Our tickets were printed on tissue-thin paper. In fact, they were printed on Kleenex. The dog sneezed once. Our entire investment was destroyed.”

So there you have it: the foibles of ordering event tickets from untrustworthy sources. But you can learn from others’ mistakes. Eliminate mishaps, missteps, and mistakes! Don’t let these common problems plague your event. When you order from UK Ticket Printing, you know you’re ordering satisfaction and tickets held to a higher standard.

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Consider the staple: a lowly scrap of metal with two right angles built into it. Just a piece of stiff wire, waiting to be folded around a stack of paper. In the Middle Ages, the staple had slightly different shape–more like a U–and you had to pound it in by hand. The modern age brought us the stapler, which uses leverage and makes it all the easier to bend the staple’s legs, and then the electronic version, which requires almost no effort at all.

What has any of this to do with tickets? Well, it may not have occurred to you that staples can help organize anything, including your tickets. With just the click of a button, you can turn a stack of loose tickets into neat and orderly ticket booklets. Just pull a single ticket away from the stack as you sell individual seats, leaving the rest of the tickets clean and sharp.

If you’re selling general admission seating, there’s no need to keep your tickets separated. Why not save the hassle of spills and losses by having your tickets stapled into booklets?

It’s easier to split booklets among your sales team, keep track of sales, and mobilize event sales with stapled ticket booklets. You can tell at a glance how many tickets you’ve sold, how many remain. You can slip booklets into a pocket or bad without any fear that those tickets will get away from you or become crushed at the bottom. Booklet stapling when you print your own tickets is just a smart idea for the smart business owner. You choose booklet stapling and our machines will take care of the rest.

So let’s hear three cheers for the lowly staple: keeping human lives together for hundreds of years.

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