PreferredSeat.com Blog

Ticketmaster has put out press releases all over the web the last week hawking their paperless method of selling tickets to “stop the scalpers”. But it’s rather ironic considering Ticketmaster is still scalping the tickets themselves through their own site as Ticket Exchange, or through Ticketsnow.com, the secondary ticketing company they bought to resell tickets.

What a pathetic company Ticketmaster is, hated by all and they will try anything to deflect attention away from themselves as they try to find more ways to monopolize the entertainment business with a possible merger with Live Nation.

With the economy in a tailspin, Ticketmaster is pulling out all the stops to appease their shareholders with promises of monopolizing the secondary ticket market at all costs. But what will become of Tickets Now, their secondary ticket selling unit that Irving Azoff has been trying to unload since he proposed the Live Nation / Ticketmaster merger?

You must think you’re one hell-of-a salesman Irving if you think you can sell a company at the same time you have vowed to destroy the very business model it was built upon.

Yes you can get tickets for less than you would pay at Ticketmaster, and from a ticket broker no less. In today’s tough economy Ticket Brokers may be the first place to check for the best seats and prices.

Ticketmaster is one of the newer companies to enter the resell market for tickets after buying TicketsNow a few years back, but there are cheaper alternatives. Since TicketsNow gets a majority of their tickets from Ticket Brokers such as Preferredseat.com, you can save by buying directly from the ticket brokers that supply TicketsNow with their inventory and avoid the middleman.

This can save you up to 25% or more on the cost of a resell ticket. You can also get better prices from a ticket broker than Stubhub, TicketNetwork and Ticket Liquidator as well as all their affiliate websites, because they get a majority of their tickets from Ticket Brokers as well.

But first you may want to read our past blog on finding tickets with no hidden service fees.