Selling Tickets to a Broker
Consider selling tickets to a broker. If you have extra tickets or simply have tickets that you can’t use, you may find that a ticket broker will be willing to buy them from you. This may require some investigation on your part, though, to find a broker who is looking for the tickets you have to sell. Sometimes it’s a matter of making a few phone calls, but at other times, it may require researching a little farther.
Some ticket brokers may choose to use a company such as webtickets.com instead of advertising to the general public for the tickets that they seek. Whether this is a better way to get the information out there depends on the amount of advertising that is done by the company hired by the ticket broker as well as the potential seller’s experience with selling that way. Webtickets says they also sell on consignment, so if you can’t find a broker for your tickets, this may be another way for you to find a potential broker who is interested in what you have to sell.
As a seller, one thing you must keep in mind is that a ticket broker is looking for tickets for a customer. Depending on what his customer is willing to pay, you may or may not be able to sell your tickets at face value. Keep in mind that the broker is going to charge in excess of the face value to his customer, but he already knows what the maximum is that his customer will pay. In other words, if you have concert tickets with a face value of $60, and the broker has a customer who is willing to pay no more than $100 for the tickets, you may have to accept less than face value to sell the tickets.
After all, if the broker has to search for the tickets, he is more than likely going to charge more than just $20 over the face value of the ticket. For a $100 customer maximum, he will probably be looking to spend maybe $50 if that much to secure the ticket. The final decision is yours, but you will have to decide how badly you need to sell the tickets you possess.
You can find brokers to work with on the web. Make sure you do a little investigative work to determine the best value for those tickets and then secure the broker’s interest. Hopefully you will get at least the face value for them.