I've also made a living as a ticket broker and have been doing so for 2 years now. All of my focus is on concert events but I'm interested in branching out and doing sports as well. I think it's pretty cool that you are open to answer all of these questions about the business. Most of the time ticket brokers try to keep their knowledge to themselves. Based on my credit card statements I've spent about $100,000 on tickets this year. I use my credit cards for every transaction and end up with multiple round trip tickets at the end of the year so it's nice in terms of travel benefits. This business can be very lucrative but it can also be extremely stressful. If anyone has any questions about concert tickets feel free to ask me and i'll do my best to help.

Is anyone interested in mentoring me in ticket brokerage? Id like to get a work for free internship with a seasoned ticket broker. Id be willing to work up to six weeks to learn the business, I am a fast learner and tech savy.

is there a free forum or chatroom for ticket brokers? thanks

I'm actually looking to start a small investment group where a group of brokers would work together to all buy for the same concert and control a portion of the available tickets. I make the majority of my annual salary off of 4 or 5 concerts but that's because I'm buying around $50,000 per show. If anyone is interested in this let me know. I'd basically just give my reasoning as to why I think a show would sell out and if you were interested in buying than you could. I would let you know how much I spent and you'd do the same so we would know how many tickets our group owned. I have $65,000 invested in a single festival right now that hasn't sold out but I know that it will within a month or so. I feel that if we worked together there is a lot of money to be made.

don't do this as a business but haven't paid more than $20 total to attend multiple events since reading this thread. 11th row carrie underwood, 30th row miley cyrus, 2 grizzlies playoff games etc... I usually buy as soon as they go on presale and buy 4-6 tix at a time and use 2 for myself.

So I happen to score 2 front row tix to BSB/NKOTB in Memphis. Have no clue what I should list them for. Actually have 6 more tix to same concert in the club level. So I have 8 tickets to a damn concert I have no interest in going to (wife and her girlfriend are going)

I am okay with them using the front row seats if I cant get a homerun from selling them. Have them listed at $425 each on stubhub and craigslist. Is that reasonable? Concert is June 20th.

Have the 6 club level 3, row B seats listed at $124 each. Reasonable?

Is the BSB/NKOTB tour a hot ticket?

I've only been watching the prices for the 5/28 Buffalo date, but the prices have been dropping like a rock. I had an extra pair of decent floor seats (FL6 Row 4, right in front of the extended stage), and I'd been dropping the price lower and lower on Stubhub with no bites... finally sold them last weekend for $55/ea. Face value was ~$106/ea.

If I were you I wouldn't hold onto them for too long.

grunching. i know scalping tickets in front of stadiums is illegal in many places. do the same scalping laws apply to non-licensed people selling online? if so, is that ever enforced?

really went this low 2 weeks out?

is that normal with 2 weeks left before the show?

They are delaying some ticket listings for the Memphis show. I bought my first 6 tix during the AmEx presale. Best available for 6 at the time was CLUB3 row B.

3 days ago I got curious and checked to see the best available on ticketmaster for 2 seats. It pulls up Floor2 Row A seats 1 and 2. I almost **** myself, I snap bought them.

I just did another best available search for 6 tix and this is what it pulls up...



Pretty clear evidence that they are slowly releasing blocks of tickets to ensure their are always semi decent seats available for face value. Maybe I have a tin foil hat on though. Only other thought is the tickets aren't as hot as I thought they would be so they aren't sold out.

wow i thought the backstreet boys died in like 2000

The biggest joke is ufc...I joined UFC fightclub for the pre-pre sale ticksduring the first Vancouver stop...had 8 ended up giving 4 row 3 for $100 under cost frigging UFC releases a **** load even after saying its sold out!

It really surpises me that anyone would believe this. The goal is to sell out every show. Makes no sense not to release all the tickets you can at the public onsale. What you are looking at is holds being released as VIP's no longer need them. It's not some clever strategy.

How did you manage to score the front row seats?

Scalping tickets online is perfectly legal and so is scalping them on the street in most states as long as you aren't on stadium property.

Hard tix or E-tix for sellers? What do you find buyers prefer?

E-tix seem more convenient for a seller for many reasons, but what's to stop a buyer from changing their mind for many reasons from not being able to print the tickets to just no longer wanting to go and telling Stub Hub that the tickets were already scanned? Is it just an honor system thing with e-tix where sellers have the potential to get screwed every time?

I ate two tickets to the Sharks-Canucks game 3. I was offered $30 each not to eat them, but they were too delicious to pass up. Yumm.

Are there groups/forums you guys belong to? I tried to search online broker chatrooms but they're either subscription-based or have very little traffic

explained it in the post with the seating chart above... randomly checked the best available about 5-6 days ago and they popped up.

but still screws any profit to be made, lol

I was presented with a chance to get in on Ranger tickets next season. Split 4 ways, each person gets 2 seats for 10 games, decided by some kind of random number pick or something which will be the same deal for playoff games.

Seats aren't good, FV of $30-40 each. My knowledge of hockey is limited to
A) The Rangers made the playoffs this year and lost in the 1st round
B) It's the Garden.

I'm thinking even bad seats to a mediocre Ranger team would be a wash, but if the Rangers happen to be good and I get playoff games too......

Wise investment?

oneout,

i dunno hockey but i've done the same thing with friends with knicks tickets (pre-melo, obv) and i wouldn't call it a "wise investment" if you're actually planning on trying to flip all the tickets. if you'll enjoy going to any game u can't sell for profit, it might make sense, but i don't see there being a super high demand for (insert random nhl team here). crosby and ovechkin (sp?) and the bruins are probably the only real draws and you'll get 1-2 of those. in fact, melo being a knick might even hurt sales (based on the theory that for people that want to see a sporting event at the garden will be even more likely to see bball than hockey). i'm rambling...but...

if u were to spike a stanley cup run and win your friend lottery, you'll get rich (i just don't think it's likely with my limited hockey knowledge). and we're not talking playoff run but actually making the SC finals. i had friends make a killing off having SF giants season tickets last fall.

cliff notes: you're not gonna profit unless the rangers make the SC finals so if this is purely an investment, don't. but if u like getting drunk and watching the LA kings come to town, by all means, get in on it.

Are you in NYC? Maybe you can help me with this.. I need to get 4-6 tickets for the June 25 Yankee game vs. the Rockies. This being a day game against an NL opponent, I should probably wait until the last second at the stubhub office or purchase them from my phone right before the game to get the best price right? I don't see this one selling out nor do I think a ticket that is going for $100 now will be the same come game day... Is this normal for games at new yankee stadium?

Never tried to buy Yankee tix on secondary market so I don't know. Sounds reasonable, but still remember Yankee tix are gonna probably be most expensive in baseball, especially a weekend, especially if Tulo heats up and they start playing better. Might also depend on pitching matchup if you wait till last minute. Try Seatgeek.com.

I'm thinking almost strictly as an investment. I would go and drink just for the hell of it, cept that it costs a small fortune to go to the city these days in addition to the tickets.

there are definitely more qualified people to provide insight but i'd definitely advise against it. likely scenario is you break even +/- a minimal $ amount after fees and the hassle probably isn't worth the $1.42 hourly wage u might earn. plus the rangers were the 8 seed. it's not like they're destined to make a SC run.