Revolutionary Way to Buy Tickets
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Yesterday’s post focused on the 6 places I like to search for tickets.
It begs the question - why hasn’t someone found a way to capture all the information regarding Tickets on sale, and list them on one site?
So if you needed tickets for the New England Patriots, Hannah Montana, The Police, Bon Jovi, or the Super Bowl you could visit one site that would compile the Sections, Rows, Seats and Prices in one location. Instead of visiting Ticketmaster, eBay, Stubhub, TicketsNow, Craigslist, and a dozen other sites - you could make one stop and be confident in your purchase.
Turns out - SeatQuest - a Chicago based software company has built a site that does just that. Their site is incredibly simple. Just type in what you know about your event (anything from zip code to venue name, sports team to event date) and you will be given a list of options that match your search.
Once you narrow it down to a specific event - you will be able to view a map with all the seating options and pricing from SeatQuest affiliates. Once you decide to purchase, you are redirected to the affiliate site to complete the sale.
In my initial research, I found that the only sources of tickets are currently eBay and TicketsNow. I do not know if SeatQuest plans to add other large ticket sellers like StubHub or Ticketmaster.
I also found some major events that did not have any tickets listed for sale. Not sure if its a system glitch, or a result of only having a few affiliated sites.
In my opinion, if they add all the major players - they will instantly become the ONLY place to look for tickets. If they remain affiliated with only a few of the players, they will just be one of a dozen places to look for tickets. I sincerely hope they are able to come to terms with the other major ticket sites - as it will lead to an efficient market for everyone buying and selling tickets.
As of today, I have not bought or sold tickets on SeatQuest. If you have either bought or sold tickets on SeatQuest please email me or leave a comment. I will work to keep everyone informed of their progress!
Hey,
Great topic! I have never herd of SeatQuest before reading your article, but I looked it over and found the same flaws as you did in that they only have listing from EBAY and Ticketsnow.com.
I have found two other sites Ninjatickets.com and ticketwood.com that does the ticket price comparison site as well and so far ticketwood.com seems to be the best. However, both site have flaws.
1) They claim that they have listings from many brokers but in reality only really list a handful of brokers.
2) They only seem to list a partial list of the events for each broker. For example they may list 4 brokers and have 50 listings. However, if you look at one brokers site they have 50 listing for that event on that date all by themselves.
3) Lastly, comparing ticket prices don’t mean nothing unless they are compared to tickets in the same section class. Meaning, compare all upper reserved tickets with upper reserve ticket prices. Don’t mix them up, as the comparison ticket sites have done.
I too hope that someone will step forward and perfect this process. I know from experience that it is not easy.
Take care!
I have also built a ticket comparison engine, you can take a look at www.ticketshock.com