Ticket Analyst

Archive for June, 2009

Hello world!

In Uncategorized on June 29, 2009 at 3:47 am

I’m Brian and I’ve been dealing tickets for over 9 years. For the past 5 years I’ve been advising clients on buying and selling tickets in a high end ticket brokerage, a stealth internet startup, to scalping on the street (on occasion, reluctantly). My success in advising people is due to my commanding knowledge of the ticket market. Knowing how to time the market, pricing fluctuations and patterns along with knowledge of the most popular places to sit in every venue from your ballpark to a summer show at the amphitheatre has allowed me to help the super fan get the best value in purchasing and the ticket owners the most profit when selling. You might find these two mutually exclusive, but they are not due to the fact that there are so many people buying and selling on the secondary market.

I started out just like you. I’d be at Ticketmaster every Saturday morning at the crack of dawn trying to get the best seats for that weeks’ concert. Over time as I got to know the people who would run the Ticketmaster at the local record store, one begins to gain knowledge of how it all works. While there were never a lot of good seats for seated venues there would always be some decent seats around 9A.M. Come 9:50 all those good tickets would be gone. This led to frustration and research into where the good seats went. Needless to say there are some shady backdoor transactions going on. As I learned more about under the table transactions people started to ask me to stand in line for them for a fee and I realized that my knowledge of tickets and seating was worth more. Combine my frustrations with the way the system worked, I moved to work within the system and help those who don’t have that knowledge. It always hurt to have people pay way too much for tickets but working in a company you are forced to do what is best for your job not what is best for others. Finally sick of the way I had to treat customers, I have decided to help Joe and Jane fan get the best seats for the least amount of money out of your wallet.