Junk Fees: Why Are They Still a Thing?

Concert tickets are littered with junk fees. You’ve seen them all: order processing fees, email delivery fees, facility fees. Most can barely be explained. All of them make us crazy. One simple fee to buy a ticket to concert shouldn’t be too much to ask. The dreaded trifecta of service fees (service fee, facility charge […]
Pre Sale Codes: Where to Find the Best Ones



Have you ever found out your favorite band was coming but all the tickets are sold out just one day after they went on sale? And have you ever wondered how that happened? Here’s the answer: pre sale codes. Pre sale codes are available for most big shows and they give you access to tickets […]
Who Has the Lowest Ticket Fees for Concerts?



Tickets fees add 30-40% to the final price of any concert ticket. It sucks and we all know it. Lots of people ask us who has the lowest ticket fees for concerts. So, we decided to write a post telling you who’s got the lowest fees. Best Primary Ticket Sellers We like primary tickets sellers […]
How to Get Tickets for Sold Out Shows



Frustrated a show you want to see is sold out? Don’t want to pay a reseller like StubHub or SeatGeek for tickets to the show? In a previous blog post, we talked about how you can’t find good last minute tickets. That’s mostly true, but there a few exceptions. Here’s how to get tickets to […]
Cheapest Way to Get Great Taylor Swift Tickets



If you’re upset you didn’t see Taylor Swift’s Eras tour, you still got two more shots to. Taylor Swift tickets will cost you a fair bit of money. Here are the two ways you can see here in 2024: We’ll walk you through the costs and the cheapest way to get great Taylor Swift tickets […]
Dynamic Ticket Pricing: Amazing or Disaster?



Everybody hates paying too much for tickets on resale sites. Some people say “dynamic ticket pricing” solves the problem with high resale ticket prices. It has some positives and negatives. It can be great for artists and venues, but unlikely to help fans see more shows or get better seats. The bottom line: Dynamic pricing […]
How to Find the Cheapest Ticketmaster Tickets



We’ve got three rules we live by that help you find the cheapest Ticketmaster tickets. Here they are: In an earlier post, we talked about how Ticketmaster can do better with ticket prices: Ticketmaster Concert Prices: We Love to Hate Them. In this post, we’ll help you make the best of Ticketmaster because sometimes (shocking […]
Ticketmaster Concert Prices: We Love to Hate Them



Taylor Swift concert prices soared the day they went on sale and we love to hate Ticketmaster for this. Lots of fans lost the opportunity to buy reasonably priced tickets. According to Ticketmaster, bots flooded their site and locked out fans from buying tickets. Most people blame Ticketmaster for this disaster. It’s a national past […]
How to Find the All In Price for Concert Tickets



The biggest complaint we hear from our live music fans over and over is just how high fees are. Concert tickets that start as $35 a ticket end up over $50 when fees are included. To make matters worse, there’s no formula to predict just how much fees will be. Fees add between 15-40% of […]