Ticket Seller

[Fesival_goer]

Hi All,

I am a huge gig and festival fan. Done Glastonbury, Download, and doing V and Reading.

Due to my current job being made redundant soon, i am in the process of thinking of setting up a business.

My aim is to set up a new online ticketing company, but to be fair for fans, offering a better service than the big boys do, ie you ticketmasters, seetickets etc.

Before i even go to the promotors, i was wondering if you guys would have an opinion and vote on this.

I will post this on other festival areas in here, to get an overall view point, as i want to set up a company that caters for all music lovers.

Thanks for your time

TR

Edited August 18, 2009 by Fesival_goer

[tomisnothere]

Always open to trying new websites, as long as it's classed as an official vendor and is delivered tickets by promoters.

[hearing_aid]

There are already a couple of companies that do this. A few examples:

www.tickettext.com (closed at the moment but about to relaunch)

www.wegottickets.com

www.gigantic.com

I think you will find it very hard to compete, as a lot of the bigger venues are associated with other companies and a lot of smaller venues will sell their own tickets as its sometime cheaper for them, and as mentioned above their are already a number of companies that do what you mentioned. Its worth looking into though, a competitive market place is always good for the buyer!

Edited August 18, 2009 by hearing_aid

[Bradders]

I'm not really sure what you're offering over the likes of See, who, despite having slightly larger booking fees than I'd like, I've never had a problem with.

[Fesival_goer]

Thanks for your input guys, i appreciate that there is competition out there, but i appreciate that there is a risk.

I already have a full business model, company registered and site registered, so i am taking this seriously. I would want to be shown on official sites as an official vendor etc.

As i say i am getting a view point from some real fans, which i can show as ammo to go to promotors to get tickets and pitch why i am worth a go.

Thanks again for your viewpoints

[thetime]

I personally think your biggest hurdle after finance will be TRUST, especially with the current problems connected with scam sites. you will need to build up trust so people buy tickets of you. hearling_aid mentioned gigantic, I bought tickets of them for the love music hate racism festival but it took along time to actully go through and purchase as id never heard of them before.

I personally only use seetickets if at all possible, as there trustworthy and have never let me down with tickets.

one way could be is just to take alittle loss or break even by not charging booking fees, or very little to get yourself a good name and build up clients and customers.

[fat_man_joe]

I've never had problems using different ticket selling sites so long as they're legit and official to the event.

Sometimes I enjoy using the smaller companies, for the exact reason you stated, because you get a more personal touch, and your custom is much more valued by the business.

[markeee]

providing you got to be an official ticket seller with the site name/logo on festival./gig sites I don't see why it wouldnt work

charge less than others for a booking fee and youd be on your way

key is being officially afifliated

[Im_in_a_tent]

i dont understand how is your company gonna be any different from the ticket companies out there now?

and what do you mean by you are you going to be "fairer to the fans?"

[hearing_aid]

Yeah, what are you going to offer is the main question. What will you offer that say www.wegottickets.com and similar sites don't. These sites already offer less booking and transaction fees then the big companies and have got rid of postage with e-mail and text tickets. what would make me want to go to your site rather then theirs?

For smaller venues that sell their own tickets why would I go to you rather then buy directly from the venue?

[bouncingflea]

I'm open to trying new sites but don't very often have to as the current main vendors serve me pretty well.

I don't see how you're going to make much money out of it, or what you could do differently from the well established players... as others have said the big companies have affiliations with the major promoters and venues.

Good luck let us know how you get on!

[remote]

As has already been said, i'm not quite sure what you're doing that'd be any different. If I want to buy a ticket to a gig then I'll head straight to seetickets usually, because they've never let me down and I know, with the size of the company, they're trustworthy. If someone is buying tickets to a gig, they'll probably be buying more than 1, so you're looking upwards of £50, I'd like to know I can trust whoever I'm giving my £50 to.

At the end of the day, when you start, you'll be no different to someone on ebay apart from you'll have your own website, which would make me a little more apprehensive I think. At least with Ebay, you have a seperate party to go back to if you do get scammed.

I hope you do manage to get it off the ground, but I think it'll take something special.