Monday, July 21, 2008

How to save money buying tickets from a ticket broker

In this article, I will explain to you the smart way to purchase tickets from a ticket broker. Too many people just click onto a website and purchase tickets, not knowing that they could have easily saved 15% - 30% on their purchase. On a $100.00 ticket, that is a $15.00 - $30.00 savings on just 1 ticket. If you are purchasing 4 tickets, that can be a savings of over $100.00. Like anything else in life, you have to understand how the system works. So I am going to tell you.

First things first, ticket brokers are in the business of making money on tickets. That is all they do and that is all they are interested in. The price of a ticket is decided by supply and demand. There are over one thousand ticket brokers in the USA and all of the tickets brokers help one another sell tickets. It is actually a very nice system that they have. Companies like Event Inventory, which is a
Ticketsnow
company, provide ticket brokers with a complete suite of products to help their business succeed. They supply ticket brokers with a website, a point of sale system so they can keep track of things like their ticket inventory, ticket accounting etc... but the most important thing that that supply is a database for all of the ticket brokers in the country to share. So if you are a ticket broker and you list your tickets in this database, your tickets will be for sale on every other ticket brokers website that also shares the database.

Here is where it is important for you, the ticket buyer to understand how easy it is to save money on tickets when buying from a ticket broker.