Features:

• Find lowest prices for sports and music concert tickets.
• Get price forecasts and decide if you should buy or wait.
• Subscribe to email alerts to get alerted when the tickets are cheapest.
• Search tickets by artist, venue, team or city.

Check out SeatGeek @ www.seatgeek.com (via TechCrunch) (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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Features:

• Find the best deals on event tickets.
• Searches a huge number of ticketing sites to aggregate and filter the data.
• Robust filtering mechanism which sorts tickets based on various parameters.
• Compare tickets based on prices, seating, section and more.
• Buy directly from the site.
• Similar sites: Tickex,  TicketStumbler and FanSnap.

Check out Ticketflow @www.ticketflow.com [via TechCrunch] (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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The site lets you search for event tickets by venue, event name or your zip code. Users can see the availability of tickets for different sections and rows, compare prices from different brokers (TicketsNow, StubHub, TicketNetworks) and if necessary book tickets online.

Features:

• See the exact location of your ticket seat at the venue and see the availability of tickets for different sections and rows.
• Aggregates tickets info (availability, prices) from major online ticket brokers including TicketsNow, StubHub and TicketNetworks.
• View calendar of events for different performers (bands, sports teams) and venues.
• Free, no registration or email required.
• Currently US only.
• Similar sites: TicketsFTW, RoosterFly and TicketsStumbler.

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You can also look for events on a specific date and/or location.

Features :

• Price comparison engine for entertainment tickets.
• Compare ticket prices for sports events like NBA or NHL, music concerts and plays.
• User friendly interface.
• Provides a list of tickets available for events from different brokers.
• Similar sites: Seathound, Tickex, TicketStumbler and FanSnap.

Check out Roosterfly @ www.roosterfly.com (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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Service is free if your event is free, and if you sell tickets for a price, Eventbrite collects a small fee on each ticket sold. Sign up for a free account to get started.

Features:

• Organizing and selling tickets for an event made simple.
• Use free tools to promote your event to maximize its attendance.
• Create and customize event registration page.
• Pay small fee from each sold ticket (no fee if the tickets are free).
• Enlist your event in site’s public events directory.
• Similar websites: PurpleTrail and Invite43.

Check out Evenbrite @ www.eventbrite.com

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How does it work?

1. Search for events by performer/team, venue or location.
2. Choose the event and the venue
3. Compare different ticket prices depending on the section and row of the venue.
4. Press “Buy!”
5. Complete the order at the ticket reseller’s website

You can view the venue seating chart for the event, though its not yet available for all the venues.

Features:

• Compare ticket prices online.
• Find cheapest tickets to sold out events through one site.
• Browse for events by performer/team, location and the venue.
• Compare ticket prices by section and row of the venue.
• Pulls ticket pricing information from different resellers including StubHub and TicketsNow.
• Free, no registration.
• Other sites to compare tickets: TicketPredator, Bandsintown, TicketStumble and FanSnap.

Check out TicketsFTW @ www.ticketsftw.com

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You can search for tickets and browse them by categories such as NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, Nascar, MLS, Tennis, NCAA, WNBA… etc. When you search for a ticket the site gives you a list of prices from various ticket brokers listing the cheapest first.

Features

• Compare ticket prices for US events.
• Tickets are compared across 400 hundreds online ticket brokers.
• Search and browse tickets by category.
• No registration is needed
• Similar sites: Tickex, Bandsintown, TicketStumble and FanSnap.

Visit TicketPredator @ www.ticketpredator.com (Contributed by Wim Permana from Wimkhan)

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As you can see in the screenshot below, there’s a sidebar with sliders on the left hand side of search results which allows you to filter the results according to your preference.

Other ticket search engines that were profile on MakeUseOf earlier are BandsInTown, Tickex and TicketStumbler (sport tickets only).

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It’s interface and presentation style would remind you of a similar service named BandsInTown which we covered some time back. TicketStumbler currently covers the following sports events : -

• NFL
• MLB
• NCAA Football
• NLH
• NBA

You can find tickets by typing in the name of venue, event, team or the place. It also lets you set the price and find the tickets which fall in the desired price range by using a slider.

Next time you’re looking for sports tickets for the above mentioned events, make sure you check ticketstumbler.

Check out TicketStumbler @ www.ticketstumbler.com ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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Music lovers living in big cities like New York could find this tool particularly useful because such cities host a lot of events everyday and hence you can easily miss the event of your favorite rockstar if you don’t get the information in time.

On the other hand, if you are a bandsintown user, you could stay up-to-date with the events and also purchase tickets for the show in advance. Further you can also link them to your iTunes or Last.fm favorites and recommendations.

Features

• Find live music concerts and events in your city
• Customize your search by distance and ticket price
• Provides a way to get the cheapest tickets
• Browse for tickets by price and location
• Setup and get email reminders
• Link BandInTown to the info in your iTunes or Last.fm favorites and recommendations

Check out Bandsintown @ www.bandsintown.com. ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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Yapta Features

• Track flight ticket prices and receive email notifications as soon as price changes.
• Browser add-on that lets you easily bookmark flights (add to Yapta) that you find on popular airline or travel website (i.e. Expedia).
• Supported Airlines: AirTran Airways, Alaska, American, ATA Airlines, Continental, Delta, Frontier, JetBlue, Midwest, United, US Airways / America West.
• More Questions? Check out Yapta FAQ section here.

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Tickex Features

• Search for tickets on all major ticket websites at the same time. (Ticketmaster, Livenation, Viagogo, Seetickets, Seatwave, Ebay and more)
• Search for tickets by Artist, City or Venue name.
• Filter search results by price, seat, venue location, or date.
• Brows tickets by ‘Popular Searches’ and ‘Hot Tickets’

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