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Tickex.com - Your UK Ticket Hunter - KillerStartups.com Article 22.07.07
Just as the savvy traveler knows to use comprehensive search engines like Travelocity and Kayak to find the lowest prices, so should the UK event-goer use Tickex for the same purpose. Tickex bases itself on similar principles; users run a search, and Tickex comes up with the cheapest tickets available after hunting through a variety of other primary main-seller sites (included but not limited to TicketMaster and TicketLine). Additionally, it checks up on offerings from secondary brokers. Users can search by artist, venue, date, or city for a variety of events; the site claims it can turn up tickets for everything from an Arsenal soccer match to an Amy Winehouse concert to a ballet performance at the London Royal Operahouse. Tickex will also help you out if you need to sell your own tickets by providing you with a list of the best sites for such a transaction.
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TickEx Aims To Become ‘Google For Tickets’
Ticket trading site TickEx.com is launching a search engine for live tickets today (Monday). TickEx.com suggests that its newly-launched PowerSearch will allow consumers to access 95% of ticket content on the web by searching information from all top ticket websites, including Ticketmaster, Viagogo, MyTicketMarket, See Tickets, Stargreen and eBay.
The engine will look for tickets for live music, sports and theatre events – although
the company specialises in concerts – with the ability to search by location,
date and price. It will look at both primary and secondary ticket sellers and
TickEx.com says that it will only display results from “reputable ticket
sellers” who have been screened to ensure they are selling authentic
tickets. In addition, the status and availability of tickets will be regularly
checked.
“We see us as Google for tickets,” says chief marketing officer
Bill Fischer. “Our research indicates that 80% of internet users have
purchased tickets online. Our goal is to be the first place that they go online.
We know they go to Google, but Google does a lousy job for tickets. It has
no sense of which sites are reputable.”
The company will initially focus its marketing and coverage on the UK but will look at expanding into other English speaking countries. TickEx.com itself is an online ticket resale site, offering guarantees to both buyers and sellers and promising a full refund if these are not met.
In total, the live event ticket industry is worth £2.6bn in the UK annually, according to TickEx.com figures, of which £1.1bn is secondary.
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