tickets and tours
From the best day of the week to buy to whether buying at the last minute actually works, here's what TicketData and Seatpick experts had to say
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The live events industry can be notoriously volatile, with tickets to some events quickly snapped up and resold for eye-watering sums, while others drop to bargain-basement prices. It can be frustrating for music fans to splurge on tickets, only to see prices drop to a fraction of what they paid. While there’s no surefire way to prevent this, there’s a surprising amount of data behind concert and sports ticket prices.
Amid frustrations with Live Nation and Ticketmaster, many fans turn to the resale market. Two leading sites that track the resale market are Seatpick and TicketData. Both are aggregators that compare resale sites like StubHub, SeatGeek, Viagogo, and others, monitoring prices in real time.
