Seeing Green Day Thanks to the Online Ticket Market
It’s Forever been tricky to get your hands on a ticket for a music gig or sports event. For Instance, the whole Michael Jackson’s marathon 50 date residency at London O2 sold out at 33 tickets PER MINUTE. So how on earth can a person who’s in full time employment get their hands on a ticket if they’re selling out so fast?
They have to get one second-hand.
In the dismal days before the internet, you had to get your second-hand ticket through a ticket tout at the event itself. This inevitably meant getting ripped off, or even perhaps handed fake tickets which would inevitably be spotted as you entered the event – meaning you miss the game or concert while wasting your money by being gypped.
However, matters have improved for sports and music lovers. The resale ticket marketplace has cleaned up its act in the last 10 years or so, thanks to the internet. Now there is so much competition to resell tickets online, the market has actually become self-regulating. The tickets you sell don’t have insurance? I’ll buy my ticket from another website! And so many ticket agents offer very cheap insurance if the sports event / music gig is called off. And with stiff competition online, secondary tickets have come right down in price to the point that sometimes you’re not paying a lot more than the actual initial value of the ticket.
Nowadays you can get tickets for many sorts of concerts and sporting events. From soccer to basketball matches to cricket, right through to getting hold of front row seats for a world famous band; secondary tickets provide a 2nd chance to go to the concert you want to see. So how to get hold of tickets online? Simply use a search engine and key in your keyphrase like Green Day tickets, and you will discover a large range of resale ticket brokers who can sell that ticket to you.
Not everyone is happy with the idea of secondary tickets though. For example, Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails calls secondary ticket agents “parasites”, and he’d like to see an end to the resale of event tickets. However, he’s missing the point of resold tickets : people simply do not have the time to queue up for tickets. They’re more likely working when the tickets are on sale, and physically cannot be in the right place at the right time to get hold of the ticket they want in that precious 60 or so minutes it takes for an entire tour to sell out.
While there is strong competition between secondary ticket agents, we believe this is a much needed service for true fans who were unable to buy the tickets the first time around.
