Online transaction fee for tickets

^ Yeah but isn't that the cost of doing business? It looks better to the customer to be buried.

Don't pay the fee. Just walk up to a ticket window and buy your ticket.

In the end, it works both ways: if people find the extra $6 too much, they just won't go to CP. (Or they will buy tickets more cheaply at a ticket window.) If it's not too much, they pay.

Interesting. From what I've read here, the fee has gone from $4 to $5.99.

Cedar Fair has raised the fee several times without, apparently, any significant drop off in sales or increase in complaints.

I wonder how high they could go on the fee before they started getting pushback.

Captain Hawkeye said:
Don't pay the fee. Just walk up to a ticket window and buy your ticket.

In the end, it works both ways: if people find the extra $6 too much, they just won't go to CP. (Or they will buy tickets more cheaply at a ticket window.) If it's not too much, they pay.

But at the ticket window, you pay the full price, 54.99. Online it's 44.99+ the service fee per order.

So make a choice. Buy online, pay the fee, and still save money. Avoid the fee, pay at the window, pay full price. That strikes me as an easy choice, but if the fee offends you, don't pay it.

Unless there is a special online promotion going aren't the tickets at Discount Drug Mart the same price as online?

Paisley said:
Unless there is a special online promotion going aren't the tickets at Discount Drug Mart the same price as online?

Yes they are. But without the processing fee. If you just buy one ticket online, you only save yourself about $4. When I got my season pass online, I had to pay that fee.

noggin said:

Cedar Fair has raised the fee several times

I don't think it's Cedar Fair's call. It's an Accesso fee. As someone said "the cost of doing business" - which is exactly right. CP, and most of the amusement industry, pays a 3rd party (Accesso) to handle their online ticketing for them.

It works out well for all involved, because the parks don't have to deal with that side, and Accesso makes a little profit for each ticket sold, after paying for bandwidth, credit card processing, and application development.