PreferredSeat.com Blog

From our recent blogs you can see that the price for tickets to the 2011 Super Bowl have gone up dramatically in the last few weeks. What started as a $1700 ticket is now a $3100 ticket and that’s just to get in the upper end zone. And they could go even higher after this weekends NFL Conference Championship games.

Most of the websites selling tickets online for the 2011 Super Bowl have hidden fees that can jack up the price you see by hundreds of dollars per ticket and with some like Stubhub where Super Bowl tickets are sold by zone only, with just a guarantee that if you don’t get the tickets you will get a full refund.

Do you really want to pay $3000 and up and for tickets in a zone and not know the row or the seat numbers or if you’ll actually get the tickets? Then think about buying your 2011 Super Bowl tickets from PreferredSeat.com where they have sold guaranteed Super Bowl tickets without any hidden service charges or fees since 1987.

You won’t find zones on our website but you will find seat locations with sections and rows and often seat numbers as well. And if they aren’t showing up call and we’ll provide those. Some of the Super Bowl tickets we have are ready to ship today. Just call and ask and we’ll ship them by Fedex overnight for no charge.

Stubhub had big problems with the recent BCS game with their zone seats. They blamed the brokers but they added to the problem by not allowing exact seat locations, only zone seats. And when your policy states the seller has 48 hours to respond and you don’t know if the seller is a broker, or someone that bought the tickets on Craigslist before listing them on Stubhub, you are really taking your chances.

When you factor in the extra service charges, the risk of not getting the Super Bowl tickets you ordered and now knowing where they are coming from, you will find that the best place to buy your 2011 Super Bowl tickets is from PreferredSeat.com. In many cases you can order them today, and have them in hand tomorrow, 24 hours before Stubhub even lets you know if you are in the zone or not.

When the 2011 BCS National Championship teams were announced the price of BCS Championship tickets were running just over $700 per ticket. In the few weeks since the ticket prices have gone up to just over $1000 per ticket. The biggest sellers of BCS National Championship tickets in the country are ticket brokers such as PreferredSeat.com and  Stubhub.com.

What most fans don’t know is that Stubhub gets a large number of their 2011 BCS Championship tickets from ticket brokers. So you can often save hundreds of dollars on the price of a BCS Championship ticket by going directly through a ticket broker. And Stubhub has an additional hidden fee of 10% to the price they show for BCS tickets, adding a minimum of $100 to each ticket.

In addition you cannot get an exact seat location if you want to buy 2011 BCS Championship tickets through Stubhub.com. They are only selling BCS tickets by zones or areas in the stadium. You find out where your seats are only after they have been sent to you. And if you’re tickets from Stubhub did not come from a ticket broker, good luck. Stubhub also sells tickets for anyone under the sun and that’s why the best guarantee they offer is a refund of your money if you get to the gate and the tickets are no good.

At PreferredSeat.com they have been buying and selling tickets for college bowl games such as the 2011  BCS Championship tickets since 1987 and they don’t have any hidden service charges or fees. So the price you see, is the price you pay. Preferred Seating tickets buys their tickets from 24 years of ticket sources which allows them to provide a guarantee that gives the college football fan double their money back if they are not able to get into the game because of bad tickets.

Many fans are traveling many miles with lots of extra expenses for the BCS Championship game at the University of Phoenix Stadium. They don’t want to have problems with their tickets when they get there. And the best way to make sure of that and save money at the same time is to buy 2011 BCS National Championship tickets from the best source for tickets, PreferredSeat.com.

Ticket service charges are nothing new for concert fans who have had to deal with Ticketmaster’s service charges and the service charges added to tickets that are resold by ticket brokers and fans alike.  And there’s no escaping it unless you are a season ticket holder or have access to the venue box office.

But you can save money by avoiding ticket sites that hide their service fees, because as you can imagine they do it for a reason.

Sports fans and theater goers have the same problem with ticket fees adding up to 25% or the ticket price from primary sellers like Ticketmaster. And the fees ticket brokers add can increase the price of a ticket by several hundred percent, or in some cases ticket brokers sell tickets without a service fee and even below face value if the market demands it.

Ticketmaster has started showing the total ticket price up front for many but not all events they sell tickets for, and they show how the service fees add to the price of the ticket. And that is a good start, but the biggest complaint from fans is the excessive price they charge for the service they provide, and Ticketmaster chooses to ignore this fact.

A majority of the tickets sold online have hidden fees and most of them use the same method to hide them. Stubhub resells ticket broker tickets for the most part and adds an additional 10% to the cost of the tickets only after you enter your personal information. In additon the tickets may already be marked up by 15% or more.

Most ticket brokers online use one of several checkout systems that add a hefty service charge only after you choose the shipping method. It makes it hard for consumers to determine the best price even when most of the tickets sites have the very same tickets.

There are a few ticket brokers that do not have any hidden fees or service charges. The price of the ticket may very well be above the face value as determined by the market, just as anything else you buy. But you can find tickets online without any hidden fees.

PreferredSeat.com is one of those ticket brokers that believes that by providing the total cost of each ticket up front consumers can make a better choice without having to spend 5 minutes on each site trying to figure out just how much that ticket really will cost in the end.  When you have the cheapest ticket prices as PreferredSeat.com has, you don’t have to hide anything.