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

[theramm]

Without completely shooting down your idea at the first hurdle can you clarify a few points?

How would a ticket site 'for the fans' differ to existing ticket sites?

The servers that Ticketmaster, Seetickets use, along with their call centre can handle huge amounts of simultaneous web traffic. I imagine your initial set up costs would be huge?

I currently sell tickets for my comedy club via Seetickets..I've also used Ticketline & Ticketmaster, as a promoter why would I put my event on sale with you?

[Shinny]

Ticketline Own... you can't beat them.

[Old Mosher]

I mostly use Stargeen, by far the best of a bad bunch. You've got a tough job on if you go ahead, simply getting the venues to sell through you.

Also, I have no proof whatsoever and can certainly not substantiate this, but I often feel that there is some kind of ticket control going on. I mean for large seated venues it is often impossible to get good seats, they seem to instantly disappear, only to re-appear with premium prices on a premiun ticket website or on eBay. Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I believe that something goes on.

[metalman]

I would use anyone as long as they could convince me that they are legit, I think you would struggle to break into this market though. If you are really serious about doing this I would look at setting up a business like Scarlet-mist as this is what the genuine music fan needs more of rather than another ticket site selling the cast-off's that ticket master haven't sold yet which tends to be the back blocks by the time general sale comes around or another site selling tickets at an extortionate price.

if you was to set up a business like ticket exchange between fans you would be providing a needed service to music fans and making profit on all transactions. The key is to only charge the face value of the tickets with say a £2 handling fee, this may not sound like a lot but when you consider how many tickets are being handled by a company doing similar you will find that there's a lot of cash to be made by sitting back and maintaining a site. This way you can build up a good reputation as a site that doesn't rip the average music fan off and offers tickets at face value without having to pay mega bucks out of your own pocket for tickets as a start up. to start you would need the cost to build a site then you would just need to pay for advertising cost which can be done for as little as 5p per click for a sponsored link on a well knows search engine. once you've got the reputation then there's nothing stopping you opening an on line ticket shop.

Top and bottom is dont take on the big boys at there own game with no reputation do somthing a little different to break into the same market with less risk.

I reserve the right to charge a commission should you use this business model