Determine Ticket Vendor
It’s hard to buy tickets if you don’t know where they are being sold and when. When the concert dates and venues are announced, determine where the tickets will be sold. Do they sell through Ticketmaster? Ticketweb? LiveNation.com? Check the website of the venue to see where to buy them. What time will the tickets go on sale? How much they will they cost? Can you afford them?
How to Buy Concert Tickets Step 1
How to Buy Concert Tickets Step 2-Have the Concert Ticket News Delivered to You
How to Buy Concert Tickets Step 3-Have Money to Buy the Concert Tickets
Save your Money
Are you always short on cash? If your favorite artist is coming out with new music, its time to start saving for that ticket and new CD. Don’t be that fan who goes to Craigslist, days before the concert, begging people to sell you a ticket at “face value”. If the show sells out and you didn’t have the money when it went on sale you aren’t as big as a fan as the person who does have money saved. If you insist on buying tickets for “face value” the on sale is your opportunity to purchase tickets for “face value”.
How to Buy Concert Tickets Step 1
How to Buy Concert Tickets Step 2-Have the Concert Ticket News Delivered to You
Set up an Alert on Google News
Go to Google News and set an alert for “your favorite artist” tour. This will serve as a “lookout” for any touring news from your favorite artist. Some artists announce their tours piecemeal, 5-10 dates at a time. If the dates are announced piecemeal don’t despair your town will most likely be announced in the coming weeks. This is just the first sign that you need to be prepared.
How To Buy Concert Tickets Step 1
This starts my series about how to buy concert tickets and make sure you are the person with the great seats for face value. The whole series will be posted over the next week.
The first rule of buying concert tickets is PLAN AHEAD!!
1. Join your favorite artists mailing list and fan club.
You will learn their tour dates. Some artists even have presales for members of their fan club before tour dates and ticket sales are announced to the general public go to the artists’ website and sign up for their mailing list. Generally the fan club presales have the best seats that are available to the general public. Fan clubs generally cost $20-$40. If you factor that into the cost of the ticket, that is just $10-$20 extra per ticket. That same ticket may cost $100 more on the secondary ticket market.
