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Sep 22, 2008 -- New site for auction of sports and concert tickets

There's a new site in beta called Zigabid.com, where you can buy or sell sports and concert tickets at auction. Clark himself has season tickets for several Atlanta sports teams, so he'd like to see if he can unload some of his ducats.

Meanwhile, JetBlue auctioned off more than 300 round-trip flights and six vacation packages earlier this month on eBay. This move came as eBay itself is looking at transitioning away from an auction marketplace to a fixed-price marketplace! Why? Many people don't have the patience for online auctions.


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  • Zigabid
    That sounds like a great idea, but when I went on the site to look up tickets for the SEC Championship, there are none to be sold. I am fed up with the scalpers as well buying all the good seats and ripping of the consumer.
  • scalping is not capitalism
    scalpers buy tickets that should be sold at normal prices to regular fans reducing the availble seats and creating their own artificial shortage of normal priced tickets only to profit from those who now can't buy a seat without having to pay double or triple or more to a scalper....its cornering a market...you can buy cars, sofas, cameras and try to sell them for 100%+ profit but people will laugh at you because they can buy them at the same place you did for original price...even the name "scalping" denotes what they are doing to the customer...raping them for profits. Concerts sell out in less than an hour nowadays, not because of the fans but because the scalpers buy large chunks to resell, denying fans reasonable priced seats sold by the band and the venue...we don't need no stinking middlemen....that's why scalping is bad.
  • Why is Scalping Bad?
    why is ticket scalping bad? if i buy something else (car, sofa, camera, etc), i am free to sell it for whatever i want. if i can sell it for more than i paid, great i made a profit, if not, my loss.
    i never understood why people were against scalping tickets and not other things. supply and demand will determine the price. isn't that the american way?
    don't people realize that fixing prices never works and is what communists countries do all the town.
  • Ticket Sales by Teams
    I understand there is a new company that sells discounted unsold tickets by sports teams to help fill up remaining seats in their venues? Anyone heard of this?
  • scalpers are scum
    this is a do it yourself scalper site, like ticketmaster's ticketexchange or e-bays stubhub. It allows anyone to resell tickets for double or triple what they paid for them. I doubt you will find any tickets below face value, like craigslist. I am against scalping and wish Ga would follow the lead of other states and regulate it. some states only allow a 5% markup over face value and only if you are a licenced ticket broker with an office. Most states have no laws vs ticket scalping and scalpers buy up to 20% of concert tickets in the first hour that they go on sale, leaving less for the true fans to buy without paying $100's more. It's bad enough ticketmaster has a monopoly on sales and charges up to 25% surcharge to sell you a ticket, then a convienence fee on top of that , then a delivery fee for all but one delivery option...do we really deserve to pay $2.50 for the convienece of printing our own tickets with our own printer and ink?....all scalping (ticket auction) sites are ripping off the consumer, to make them go away never buy a ticket for more than face value online....make greedy scalpers eat thier tickets. People like Clark who want to get rid of extra tickets at face value or less can use craigslist.
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