Buying Tickets On The Secondary Market

Buying Tickets On The Secondary Market

My Experience with Barry’s Tickets

There are many things these ticketing sites have to hide, while others make transparency a major feature of their platform. The aforementioned factors have made ticketing services like Barry’s Tickets more popular. However, what do they cost in the end?

Barry’s Tickets is a simple-to-use ticketing service.

From the home page, Barry’s Tickets offers a number of options to click on, such as popular events, local happenings, and just top events.

There are a variety of “assurances” advertised on the homepage. “Full Peace of Mind,” “100% Buyer Guarantee,” and others belong to this category. At first, I am relieved by their use because they seem like normal business phrases until I think about why they were trying to reassure me. I rationalized it away as them knowing that other ticketing sites may be unreliable and proceeded with my purchase.

I noticed right when I clicked on the website that they had tickets for one of the newer theaters near me for a stand-up performance that I’d been looking into. I’m not sure how to handle this. I know that this place does not sell its own tickets; instead, they go through Ticketmaster. 

I compared the prices of tickets from the source to those from Barry’s Tickets. The same pair of tickets might cost me $41.00 via Ticketmaster as opposed to $53.00 through Barry’s Tickets. The difference between $12.00 and nothing isn’t significant, but it’s enough to persuade me to stick with Ticketmaster.

I gave …

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