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Sold Out Concert Tickets: What’s the hubbub at StubHub?

What’s all the hubbub about sold out concert tickets?

Pete Townsend and Roger Daltrey are still rocking 25 years later and will be gracing North American stages this fall in The Who’s long-awaited reunion tour. And the Rolling Stones are hitting the road again with Mick Jagger and the boys bringing 40 years worth of amazing music with them. But then you hear they’ve “sold out!”

If you’ve ever planned on seeing a concert, you’ve probably realized that there’s one detail above all others that is quite challenging – getting tickets. Concerts featuring bands with large followings usually sell out within minutes, and if you haven’t camped outside an outlet to get tickets, you are more often than not left out in the cold.

That’s why we’ve launched this concert tickets blog to give you and other fans, buddies, couples, families and rockers the latest news and information about concert ticket sales.

Who are we? According to William Grimes of The New York Times, “To anyone surfing the Web, StubHub looks like a ticket brokerage. It’s not. The company, founded (in 2000) by a couple of Stanford Business School students, is a kind of stock market where the only shares traded are tickets to live events….Buyers and sellers mingle in the marketplace and, through free negotiation, arrive at a price that reflects the true value of a commodity.”

Now that we’ve disclosed our transparent biases, may we offer a suggestion? If you want to buy sold out concert tickets, it would be wise to purchase them as soon as possible. Last weekend, ticket prices for The Who ranged from $50 to $7,201, while ticket prices for The Rolling Stones ranged from $45 to $37,648. And the best tickets will go faster than you can sing “Pinball Wizard” or “Jumpin’ Jack Flash.”