Like all jobs, and people in the world, you have good ones and bad ones, the same holds true for ticket brokers. TickPick aggregates over a thousand ticket brokers across the United States and guarantees the authenticity of the tickets. Plus consumers get access to wholesale ticket prices at a modest markup of 10%, which is 10-15% less than industry standards.
Expert Tip: When you call a ticket broker, they’re going to be looking at a “broker board”, which shows them other brokers inventory that they can sell. The likely hood that you’ll speak with the broker who owns the tickets (that you’re interested in) is about 0.1%. Thus, the broker who you speak with, will likely mark the tickets up by 15% to 25%.
Read what our users have to say: you decide, buy tickets with no service fees on TickPick or call a ticket broker?
How Ticket Brokers Get Tickets
Typically, the name ‘ticket broker’ has a negative connotation, I don’t think that should be the case, but that’s besides the point. When trying to understand how ticket brokers buy their tickets it’s important to know that the way ticket brokers work, has completely changed over the last 10 to 15 years.
Traditional ticket brokers (the ones who have been around for 20 to 30 years) have developed numerous relationships to get tickets at face value, to then flip for a profit.
Sports Ticket Brokers
The most traditional way for ticket brokers to get tickets is by dealing with individual season ticket holders. Brokers have two standard types of agreements with season ticket holders:
- Outright purchase the tickets at 20% above face value (this is negotiable depending on the sports team and the sports ticket broker).
- Consignment: which means there’s no guarantee that the season ticket holder will get paid, but if the tickets do sell they will typically receive 50% of the profit.
Other valuable relationships for sports ticket brokers are ones with, any of the following people:
Ticket sales representatives for sports team | General Managers | Owners | Other executives
You may wonder why sports teams would sell tickets straight to ticket brokers. There’s one logical reason: the ticket broker business is based on buying and selling tickets, that’s not going to change. So from a business and sales perspective, if you take care of ticket brokers and develop relationships with them, they are going to buy tickets even when your local franchise isn’t doing well.
Concert Ticket Brokers
Ticket brokers that are focused on the music scene are generally located in major cities, such as Chicago, NYC, Los Angeles, Boston, Dallas, Houston or Atlanta. Ticket brokers who focus on concerts, get their tickets in a few different ways, here they are:
- Online via Fan Clubs, Presales and General Onsales
- Directly from the Box Office or a TicketMaster Outlet
- Industry Connections
- Relationships with promoters
- Relationships with the artists and or their management
- Relationships with the venue
Although there’s a face value printed on the tickets, it’s very likely that even the ticket broker didn’t pay that price. That’s because behind closed doors brokers cut deals with industry insiders to get access to the best seats. However, they pay a premium for these seats: brokers may pay 3x-5x above face value for some of the best seats in the house in hopes to resell them for even more. Alternatively, brokers may work out a profit share plan where they are 50 / 50 partners.
Lastly, there are a handful of online ticket brokers that use “bots” to buy tickets in bulk. This is done with software which apparently outsmarts TicketMaster’s security systems and buys ups loads of tickets before consumers are able to. Although the media makes it sound like every ticket broker utilizes bots, this is not true, based on some research we have done, roughly 5-10% of online ticket brokers utilize this type of ticket broker software.
A List of Ticket Brokers by State and City
As stated above, TickPick is a ticket marketplace, where users can buy, bid and sell tickets. The bulk of the ticket inventory is from ticket brokers, which took TickPick over two years to aggregate some 1,000+ ticket brokers. Still to this day, we continue to call on smaller brokers to continue to increase our ticket inventory.
Our suggestion to you, is to search for the event that you are interested in buying tickets to, on TickPick. Otherwise you’ll end up calling five different ticket brokers to get prices, after that you’ll have to try and negotiate and hackle with them. I am the founder of TickPick and even if I call a broker, it’s highly unlikely they’ll give us additional discounts. Plus if for whatever reason a problem arises with the ticket broker, you’ll no longer have a 3rd party in the to help you solve those problems. Nonetheless, if you are inclined to call, feel free to utilize any of the ticket brokers below.
Atlanta Ticket Brokers
| Empire Tickets |
Atlanta |
GA |
800-725-0112 |
| Ultra Tickets |
Atlanta |
GA |
800-927-7839 |
| Encore Tickets |
Atlanta |
GA |
404-365-0555 |
| Peachtree Tickets (GA) |
Atlanta |
GA |
770-391-9600 |
| Smooth Tickets |
Atlanta |
GA |
404-374-1150 |
| Front Row Seats LLC. |
Atlanta |
GA |
404-633-2726 |
| Game Day Events |
Atlanta |
GA |
404-432-9654 |
| Will Call Tix and Courier |
Atlanta |
GA |
404-271-4127 |
| Tickets In Seconds |
Atlanta |
GA |
800-792-8499 |
| Pioneer Tickets |
Atlanta |
GA |
770-516-6606 |
| PSI |
Atlanta |
GA |
404-941-3969 |
Austin Ticket Brokers
| Ticket City |
Austin |
TX |
800-521-9616 |
| IceTickets.com |
Austin |
TX |
800-478-1468 |
| M and D Holdings |
Austin |
TX |
866-850-3805 |
| Namesake Tickets |
Austin |
TX |
512-494-1420 |
| QTickets |
Austin |
TX |
734-476-3752 |
Boston Ticket Brokers
| Ace Tickets |
Boston |
MA |
800-697-3287 |
| Top Star Tickets |
Abington |
MA |
781-982-8046 |
| Bostonian Tickets |
Boston |
MA |
978-988-2100 |
| South Shore Ticket Agency |
Marshfield |
MA |
781-837-4020 |
Chicago Ticket Brokers
| JustGreatTickets.com |
Chicago |
IL |
773-467-7000 / 877 467 2827 |
| Tysen Tickets |
Chicago |
IL |
312-726-0021 |
| AAA Tix (CHI) |
Chicago |
IL |
773-549-7676 |
| Northshore Ticket Connection |
Chicago |
IL |
847-679-7788 |
| Gold Coast |
Chicago |
IL |
800-889-9100 |
| Classic Ticket Service |
Chicago |
IL |
312-431-8222 |
| The Ticket Zone (IL) |
Chicago |
IL |
773-276-9112 |
| Prime Time Tickets |
Chicago |
IL |
773-388-3800 |
| Teds Tickets |
Chicago |
IL |
773-419-8499 |
| Redline Tickets Inc. |
Chicago |
IL |
773-342-8497 |
| Classic Ticket Service 2 |
Chicago |
IL |
773-880-2161 |
| National Event Partners |
Chicago |
IL |
312-485-7880 |
| Leave It To Us Events |
Chicago |
IL |
312-853-0300 |
| VIP Sports Marketing |
Chicago |
IL |
312-951-0700 |
| Tickets321.com |
Chicago |
IL |
888-622-9500 |
| Crosstown Tickets |
Chicago |
IL |
312-476-9849 |
| Center Stage Ticket Service |
Chicago |
IL |
773-233-8686 |
| FSG Ventures |
Chicago |
IL |
646-504-7395 |
| Remembertickets.com |
Chicago |
IL |
773-853-2994 |
Dallas Ticket Brokers
| Ticket Attractions |
Dallas |
TX |
800-341-6660 |
| Metro Tickets (TX) |
Dallas |
TX |
800-463-0888 |
| Ticket Source (TX) |
Dallas |
TX |
214-821-9011 |
| Ticket Source (TX) (NRT) |
Dallas |
TX |
800-557-6872 |
| Ticket Finders |
Dallas |
TX |
800-345-0819 |
| Texas Tickets |
Dallas |
TX |
800-926-2025 |
Denver Ticket Brokers
| Denver Ticket Co |
Denver |
CO |
888-868-9938 |
| JC Tickets |
Denver |
CO |
720-299-6352 |
Houston Ticket Brokers
| Ticket Stop |
Houston |
TX |
713-526-8889 |
| TicketConnection.com (TX) |
Houston |
TX |
713-524-3600 |
| A-1 Tickets (Houston) |
Houston |
TX |
888-895-3060 |
| Northside Tickets |
Houston |
TX |
281-447-8833 |
| AnyTickets.com |
Houston |
TX |
866-516-0200 |
| H-Town Tickets |
Houston |
TX |
713-665-8100 |
Indianapolis Ticket Brokers
| Front Row Tickets (Indianapolis) |
Indianapolis |
IN |
317-255-3220 |
| Great Seats Company Inc |
Indianapolis |
IN |
800-407-9058 |
| Circle City |
Indianapolis |
IN |
800-627-1334 |
| Sport Events LLC |
Indianapolis |
IN |
317-299-4444 |
| Event Ticket Authority |
Indianapolis |
IN |
317-251-5500 |
| Preferred Tickets and Tours |
Indianapolis |
IN |
800-925-2500 |
Kansas City Ticket Brokers
| Ticket Boat |
Kansas City |
MO |
480-776-5420 |
| Big Red Sports Travel LLC |
Kansas City |
MO |
913-871-0040 |
| posnetBrokerTest |
Kansas City |
MO |
(816) 555-5555 |
Las Vegas Ticket Brokers
| VIP Tickets (NV) |
Las Vegas |
NV |
702-895-7555 |
| Nevada Ticket Service |
Las Vegas |
NV |
800-597-7469 |
| TicketMart |
Las Vegas |
NV |
(702) 951-9341 |
Los Angeles Ticket Brokers
| Jimmys Tickets |
Los Angeles |
CA |
323-662-1800 |
| Global Event Forum |
Los Angeles |
CA |
310-770-3160 |
| Avery Tickets |
Los Angeles |
CA |
213-747-5556 |
| TicketsToTheShow.com |
Los Angeles |
CA |
888-681-6084 |
| VIP Event Tickets |
Los Angeles |
CA |
323-380-8499 |
| Barrys Tickets |
Los Angeles |
CA |
800-752-2333 |
Miami Ticket Brokers
| Main Event Tickets |
Miami |
FL |
305-932-6922 |
| Biglietto Entertainment |
Miami |
FL |
305-571-8433 |
| Tickets By Gus |
Miami |
FL |
305-898-4276 |
| SeatSnob.com |
Miami |
FL |
855-732-8766 |
| EveryTicket.com |
Miami Beach |
FL |
800-928-7328 |
| TakeMeToTheGame.Com |
Miami Beach |
FL |
866-431-0909 |
| Great Seats Miami |
Miami Beach |
FL |
305-395-4488 |
Milwaukee Ticket Brokers
| Ticket King (Milw) |
Milwaukee |
WI |
800-334-5434 |
| Connections Ticket Service |
Milwaukee |
WI |
888-999-8497 |
New York – Ticket Brokers NYC
| Great Seats (NY) |
New York |
NY |
212-302-1643 |
| Americana Tickets (NY) |
New York |
NY |
212-581-6660 |
| Applause Tickets (NY) |
New York |
NY |
800-451-9930 |
| Broadway Hospitality |
New York |
NY |
212-977-7058 |
| National Event Company |
New York |
NY |
212-792-8640 |
| Inside Sports and Ent Group |
New York |
NY |
646-453-8820 |
| Admit One – Ticket Gallery |
New York |
NY |
646-307-4285 |
| Allshows.com |
New York |
NY |
203-983-3600 |
Phoenix Ticket Brokers
| Western States Ticket Service |
Phoenix |
AZ |
602-254-3300 |
| Ticket Exchange (AZ) |
Phoenix |
AZ |
602-254-4444 |
| Ticket Lobster |
Phoenix |
AZ |
602-268-0600 |
| RT Ticket Company |
Phoenix |
AZ |
800-505-4248 |
Pittsburgh Ticket Brokers
| Prime Time Tickets (PA) |
Pittsburgh |
PA |
800-200-8111 |
| All American Events |
Pittsburgh |
PA |
800-270-6457 |
San Antonio Ticket Brokers
| Best Tickets |
San Antonio |
TX |
210-349-0317 |
| Prime Seat Tickets |
San Antonio |
TX |
800-550-7556 |
| TicketWholesaler.com |
San Antonio |
TX |
210-344-1995 |
| A Awesome Ticket |
San Antonio |
TX |
800-707-2714 |
| First Choice Tickets (TX) |
San Antonio |
TX |
210-822-6100 |
| Great Tickets Inc. |
San Antonio |
TX |
800-701-6561 |
San Diego Ticket Brokers
| Premier Spectator Tickets |
San Diego |
CA |
619-295-7000 |
| Atlas Tickets |
San Diego |
CA |
619-222-7800 |
| Ultimate Ticket Shop |
San Diego |
CA |
562-612-3426 |
| Event Ticket Source |
San Diego |
CA |
858-592-0500 |
| Advance Tickets |
San Diego |
CA |
800-776-8497 |
| IWantGreatSeats.com |
San Diego |
CA |
858-674-6145 |
San Francisco Ticket Brokers
| Golden Gate |
San Francisco |
CA |
415-434-9333 |
| San Francisco Box Office, Inc |
San Francisco |
CA |
415-495-4400 |
| Mr Ticket (CA) |
San Francisco |
CA |
415-775-3031 |
St. Louis Ticket Brokers
| VIP Access Tickets |
St Louis |
MO |
855-373-0857 |
| The Ticket Block |
St Louis |
MO |
855-761-7676 |
| Pete”s Seats |
St Louis |
MO |
314-329-7328 |
