Why
is it so hard to buy Bruce Springsteen Tickets?
Any time
Bruce Springsteen goes on tour, you see a significant increase in demand
for tickets. The problem is that the supply remains a constant. Therefore
you have an increased number of people all wanting the same number of
available tickets. There are different ways that people can buy Bruce
Springsteen tickets. Buying from the box office will usually be
your cheapest alternative. However once their supply is gone, the tickets
are gone. With everyone trying to get tickets this way, sometimes it's
better to just spend the extra money and save time by going through
a ticket broker.
Wouldn't
it be better to buy tickets from Ticket Master?
Yes, Ticket
Master would be better because they are usually cheaper. But, a lot
of the time, Ticket Master's internet server is too overloaded to handle
the demand of tickets. Also, if you do get through, you're not always
guaranteed good seats. That's why it is better to go through a reputable
ticket broker.
Isn't
it more expensive going through a ticket broker?
Yes, if
you want to buy the best seats there are. But, the average seats aren't
really expensive. But, by going through a ticket broker, you save yourself
a lot of the hassle of dealing with long lines. With as busy as we all
are today, it may actually be cheaper going through a ticket broker
when you factor in what your time is worth and how much of it you will
spend trying to get tickets from the box office or Ticket Master.
Wouldn't
there be plenty of tickets to go around if ticket brokers didn't have
tickets?
This is
by far the biggest misconception about buying premium tickets for any
event. A broker is a broker, period. If they weren't there buying and
selling tickets we would have no place to go once tickets are sold out.
Think about the numbers, if there are over 50,000 ticket subcribers,
there are probably over 1,000 each week that can't make the show. If
they didn't have an easy out by selling to a broker for a profit and
just gave them to their friends, that is even fewer tickets in circulation
and with the same demand, guess what, prices go even higher. The more
tickets bought and sold the lower the prices from brokers and that is
always best for the fans, period.