Brokering Concert Tickets 101

With the now permanent foundation of selling thattake place anywhere from a week to a day
is EBay-ticket scalping-or more kindly, ticketbefore the public sale. To give an example of how
brokering, has become a mainstay in thethis works, let's say a concert has 1000 tickets to
secondary market of ticketing. While once asell, they might have 200 tickets available through
simple side project to make a few bucks, thisa presale and the rest will be available through the
periodic gamble has become the livelihood ofpublic sale. Why go for the 200 instead of the
many people.800? Well for a big show, one that's going to sell
Sounds good doesn't it? I'm going to give you theout, there will be thousands of people bidding for
2 minute inside scoop on how to start sellingthe same tickets come the public sale, but the
concert tickets online.presale is going to be password protected, so
First and foremost there are generally 2 types ofonly a limited number of people are going to be
sales for concert tickets, a general public sale,bidding for these concert tickets.
available to everyone, and a presale. A presale will