Guest Commentary: Ticket insurance continues to gain ground
Insurance is usually a dull and boring subject. Until June 25th, that is. Event insurance is a niche market, and like most other types of insurance, its contracts feature complex…
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Guest Commentary: The Mass Turnpike and a Ticket Broker sitting in a tree . . .
By Ken Davenport . . . both making M-O-N-E-Y. I snapped a picture of the red super-sized bumper sticker you see below at a toll booth right outside of downtown…
Guest Commentary: An update on the Dutch secondary ticket market
By Richard Kastelein Dutch legislative update – Netherlands Socialist Party Member of Parliament Arda Gerkens – has been working on anti-Secondary Ticket legislation since 2007 – and is a member…
Guest Commentary: The Economist vs. The Fan
By Richard Kastelein It’s not an easy task for legitimate, honest companies in the Secondary Ticket Market to shed the residue of the past with words like ‘Tout’ and ‘Scalper’…
Guest Commentary: How ticket sellers can lower their total cost of online fraud
By Jeff Liesendahl Credit card fraud is a key concern for online ticket sellers, and no wonder: Tickets to major music and sports events are in high demand and criminals…
Guest commentary: the evolving primary and secondary ticket market
By Joe Cohen Increasingly, conversations about the business of ticketing seem to be about the blurring of the lines between primary and secondary markets. For consumers, buying tickets has been…
Guest Commentary: The Global Secondary Ticketing Market
By Eric H. Baker Back in 2000, when I co-founded StubHub!, secondary ticketing was a foreign concept. Consumers were skeptical that it was just scalping by another name, most states…