PreferredSeat.com Blog

 We get asked this question all the time. Why can you find the same tickets on most of the ticket broker sites on the internet? Yes, in most cases they are the same tickets. This is the way it works.

 Ticket brokers upload their inventory to one or more of several exchanges. These are databases of tickets that a ticket broker will then display on their website so they can sell their own tickets if they stock any, and all other ticket brokers tickets so they can sell them also.

 So then each ticket broker will choose to display their tickets on their website with either all the service charges included, or in most cases they hide the service charges until you choose the shipping method and then they mysteriously appear. 

 Ticket brokers will hide the total price to make it look like their ticket prices are cheaper, but the hidden fee will jack up the price of the ticket by up to as much as 25% or more. Usually, the higher the price of the ticket, the bigger difference between ticket brokers that include all the fees and those that hide them.

 And it’s not like they are doing you a favor by breaking down the service charge, though they hide it. The service charge you see is usually only a part of the total service charge you will pay. Companies like Stubhub and many others will already have marked up the price of the ticket above their cost when you see it on their website.

 Then they hit you with the service charge which does not give a fair tally of their true profits from the ticket sale. There is nothing dishonest about it. But it’s their reason for hiding the fees that we have a problem with, because the ticket buyer must go through the process of buying the tickets and choosing the shipping method just to find out they are paying more anyway.

 At one time, a very short time, we did the same thing to compete on the web with the other ticket brokers. But we received so many complaints about the hidden fees we vowed we would never do it again. And we hate complaints. You can often tell the difference between ticket brokers that hide their service fees and those that don’t. Check the Better Business Bureau record for each and you’ll see what I mean.

Cheap baseball tickets are available for this weekend for most of the Major League Baseball teams. The economy has hit baseball teams especially hard this year and many deals can be found for baseball tickets this summer.

There are plenty of places to buy baseball tickets, but you should consider a ticket broker because they can not only give you a better price often, but they provide the seat numbers and the delivery date of your tickets, where other private parties and ticket services such as Stubhub do not.

So it’s only a day away from the start of the NBA Finals at the Staples Center in Los Angeles and right now you can’t get a cheaper seat through the Tickmaster Ticketexchange or Stubhub than you can get from a sports ticket broker like Preferred Seating.

If you compare ticket prices for the NBA Finals at Staples Center, you will find that the cheapest tickets for the Lakers Celtics game on Thursday June 3 are not on the Ticketexchange for $300 each. The cheapest tickets for the NBA Finals will not be on Stubhub either, because with that $250 ticket is a hidden service charge of 10%, which jacks your NBA Final tickets up to $275 each, and that’s if they can actually get the ticket to you.

So if you go to the Lakers NBA Finals tickets at Preferrred Seating Tickets you will find the cheapest ticket currently selling for $259 each, with no hidden fees or service charges. And they will guarantee you the ticket on the spot if you call them at 800 427-3914 to place your order.

The reason you get better prices for NBA Finals tickets from a ticket broker such as Preferred Seating is they have been buying and selling tickets for the NBA Finals for over 23 years and they work with long time Los Angeles Laker season ticket holders and ticket sources to guarantee you the best seats at the best prices.

And it only gets better for you if you are looking for the best NBA Finals ticket which can cost thousands of dollars each. Since the markup for tickets is determined by percentages, the higher the cost of the ticket, the more you save from Preferred Seating because they are not a huge corporation like Stubhub and Tickeexchange and they sell their tickets at a much lower profit percentage because of their low overhead.

You still have time to buy tickets for the Los Angeles Lakers vs the Boston Celtics on Thursday June 3 and Sunday June 6 and save a bundle by going through a reputable ticket broker such as Preferred Seating Tickets. Go ahead and compare and save today!