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Re: Show HN: Ticketdata, see what others paid for tickets to any concert or game

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Post by joshfinnie »

From their About section:

    We estimate that we are able to track over 80% of all tickets that
    are resold on the internet, and this percentage will continue to
    grow as we develop additional methods of gathering data.
I wonder what is the percentage of tickets sold that are actually resold. If they are getting 80% of some small subsection of tickets sold, the data is must less interesting.

edit: styling

Re: Show HN: Ticketdata, see what others paid for tickets to any concert or game

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Post by jsherry »

joshfinnie wrote: post #3

From their About section: We estimate that we are able to track over 80% of all tickets that are resold on the internet, and this percentage will continue to grow as we develop additional methods of gathering data. I wonder what is the percentage of tickets sold that are actually resold. If they are getting 80% of some small subsection of tickets sold, the data is must less interesting. edit: styling

I guess if they are tracking 80% of tickets resold (and make the assumption that this 80% is accurate), you can back into the numbers pretty easily.

For example, the table for the Springsteen concert shows that 1540 tickets were resold. Let's assume this was 80% of everything resold, which grosses the total number of tickets resold for this even up to 1925 tickets. Now let's assume that the venue holds 20,000 people (this data is easily attainable - I'm just using 20k for illustration). That means that the other 18,075 tickets were purchased for face (another data point that is easily - albeit tediously - attainable).

So really the data is all there - the big assumption that this all hinges on is that the site tracks 80% of all tickets resold.

Re: Show HN: Ticketdata, see what others paid for tickets to any concert or game

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Post by kapgoals »

joshfinnie wrote: post #3

From their About section: We estimate that we are able to track over 80% of all tickets that are resold on the internet, and this percentage will continue to grow as we develop additional methods of gathering data. I wonder what is the percentage of tickets sold that are actually resold. If they are getting 80% of some small subsection of tickets sold, the data is must less interesting. edit: styling

Good Question. The amount of tickets re-sold definitely varies greatly depending on what the event is, and it can probably range from anywhere between 0-40%. I'd say for an event like a popular NHL / NBA / NFL / MLB game, the average is somewhere around 15%.

Re: Show HN: Ticketdata, see what others paid for tickets to any concert or game

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Post by kapgoals »

russtrpkovski wrote: post #7

Did you create autoglance.com as well? Both are very impressive startups. Good job and keep it up.

Yes. This is a sideproject that I had sitting around for a while, just recording data. Figure I'd launch it and see what happens, nothing to loose.

Re: Show HN: Ticketdata, see what others paid for tickets to any concert or game

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Post by joejohnson »

I did a search for a rather small show that will be at a club near me in a week. I was impressed that this event was in their database, and had many ticket sales. It shows me the three cheapest ticket sales, but to view more I have to create an account and login? If I login, will it show me where these tickets were purchased too?
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