http://venturebeat.com/2008/01/15/ticketmaster-to-buy-ticketsnow-for-265m/ News About Tech, Money and Innovation Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:11:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://venturebeat.com/2008/01/15/ticketmaster-to-buy-ticketsnow-for-265m/comment-page-1/#comment-826802 LiveStub hopes to nuke StubHub, others, with commission-free scalping » VentureBeat Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:43:09 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2008/01/15/ticketmaster-to-buy-ticketsnow-for-265m/#comment-826802 [...] — has gone legit. eBay bought the market pioneer, StubHub, for $310 million. TicketMaster dropped $265 million to get its hands on TicketsNow, and top-tier VC firm Kleiner Perkins led a $26 million investment [...] [...] — has gone legit. eBay bought the market pioneer, StubHub, for $310 million. TicketMaster dropped $265 million to get its hands on TicketsNow, and top-tier VC firm Kleiner Perkins led a $26 million investment [...]

]]> http://venturebeat.com/2008/01/15/ticketmaster-to-buy-ticketsnow-for-265m/comment-page-1/#comment-785248 VentureBeat » Secondary event ticket site Seatwave raises money, amid industry frenzy Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:30:17 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2008/01/15/ticketmaster-to-buy-ticketsnow-for-265m/#comment-785248 [...] The financing continues a — yes, a large wave — of interest in the secondary ticket market, where people buy tickets, but then turn around and sell them to someone else. These markets can serve people who are legitimately caught with tickets and want to get rid of them because the can no longer go to an event, or they can also benefit scalpers trying to make a few bucks through arbitrage. In the last year, we’ve seen a frenzy: Stubhub, TicketsNow and GetMeIn have all been gobbled up in the last 12 months by eBay and Ticketmaster (see our coverage). [...] [...] The financing continues a — yes, a large wave — of interest in the secondary ticket market, where people buy tickets, but then turn around and sell them to someone else. These markets can serve people who are legitimately caught with tickets and want to get rid of them because the can no longer go to an event, or they can also benefit scalpers trying to make a few bucks through arbitrage. In the last year, we’ve seen a frenzy: Stubhub, TicketsNow and GetMeIn have all been gobbled up in the last 12 months by eBay and Ticketmaster (see our coverage). [...]

]]> http://venturebeat.com/2008/01/15/ticketmaster-to-buy-ticketsnow-for-265m/comment-page-1/#comment-740266 TicketGuy Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:15:46 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2008/01/15/ticketmaster-to-buy-ticketsnow-for-265m/#comment-740266 The big worry for me what if ticketmaster starts selling its primary inventory in large blocks on ticketsnow for double the price of face value? Then no one gets a fair chance. There are tons of other sites out there to choose from, so you can avoid using both ticketmaster and ticketsnow if you like. Tickex, http://www.tickex.com is a lot of help finding these other sites....... The big worry for me what if ticketmaster starts selling its primary inventory in large blocks on ticketsnow for double the price of face value? Then no one gets a fair chance. There are tons of other sites out there to choose from, so you can avoid using both ticketmaster and ticketsnow if you like. Tickex, http://www.tickex.com is a lot of help finding these other sites…….

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