The Best Way to Buy Tickets Online
If you are like most people buying from an online ticket websites, it does not take much digging to realize that the same tickets can be found on 100's of different websites. This does not mean that the ticket is not unique, quite the contrary. Understanding how the ticket broker exchanges works is quite simple, each broker who buys and sells tickets to an events, whether sports, concerts or theater has to have a place to list their tickets, while getting the most exposure to the customers. Therefore, a majority of brokers list their tickets in a hub which is then broadcasted over each of the approximate 1000 ticket websites. In addition, each broker's website has the discretion to increase or decrease the list price of the those tickets on their personal website. This and the Service fees are the main way brokers make their money.
For many years, before I became a broker myself I had bought tickets from the secondary ticket market (STM) nearly exclusively, and over those years I have bought from at least 25 different broker sites. Like so many of us who use the STM for their ticketing needs, do so to get the seat locations they want and are willing to pay the mark up. I considered the service fee as a price of doing business for that ideal ticket.
Except one day I received my tickets and there was an note attached to the invoice, it read " you could have saved on the fee if you bought from {broker's site}", I checked out that brokers site and found that he had no fees attached to his tickets. However, only those particular tickets I purchased were lower on his site then the other sites. Which told me those tickets belong to that broker and that he marked up the other broker's tickets on his site.
Tip #1: The owner of a particular website's tickets will usually be lower then those on the other broker sites. They can be marked with a symbol and located first on the ticket listing page for that event.
Tip # 2: Compare the "No Fee" and "Fee Charging" sites at the checkout screen. This will tell you if you are really getting a deal with the no fee site or are the tickets marked up to compensate for the no fee offer?
Tip #3: Find 3-5 trusted broker sites to compare the tickets, these are usually sites where one has purchased from in the past. Remember even though a broker site is well known does not mean that it is more trusted. Remember most of these tickets are on all sites because they are plugged into the same network hub..therefore the ticket is unique, just sold at a different price.
Tip #4: Call the broker many do not charge fees if you call them personally.
Hope you enjoyed this information.
27 Aug, 2011--
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