 Guys, we're talking about something fun today. We're talking about how to actually go ahead and buy tickets, but not just buy tickets. We're talking about how to go ahead, buy tickets and compare prices between different resale markets because it's not always as clear as it may seem. But before we begin, Vladdy over here, he needs an update, 18 home runs, because my man here, my man, he cannot stop hitting them home runs. So now that that's done, let's get to it. What's up guys, welcome back. My name is Shrest here on thumbs up run where we talk about buying tickets, selling tickets and making sure that you have all the fun with those things. Today we're talking all about how to go ahead, actually buy tickets and compare them between different resale marketplaces. Every resale website, they will apply their fees differently. They all have a different structure, but it's all comes down to the same process. If you're looking at a ticket price, can you compare it at that level? Or do you need to go a bit further to find out what the actual comparable price is? With all that being said, we're talking about all in pricing versus hidden fees. I know you guys don't like hidden fees. I don't like hidden fees. Nobody likes them hidden fees. So we got to talk about both these things. Then we'll get into comparing actual ticket prices across different platforms. Strap in, stay tuned, get ready, it's gonna be a good one. So let's talk fees. Fees are basically how all these different ticket exchanges make their money. When you go in via ticket, there will be a ticket price displayed to you. Then you'll go in through the finalization of the checkout process and there may or may not be any fees shown to you as you kind of go through that whole thing. A lot of times as you're moving through the process, you may find that the ticket price that was displayed to you may not actually be the true ticket cost of that actual ticket. And it can be a bit frustrating, but annoying, just downright terrible. But we just got to figure out a way to deal with it. And the way to deal with it is being able to compare that price across different platforms. Reason I say this, not every platform displays their tickets the same way. Many of them, not all of them, but many will display their tickets without all in pricing. Basically saying, hey, here's the ticket price for the tickets, but then as you move through the checkout process on the backend, then they'll start adding in their fees, you know, the delivery fee and the convenience fee and the download fee and the transfer fee and the fee fee. All these fees, they're just, I don't even know how to explain it. Basically, they're there just because they can essentially. Regardless, that's how many ticket resellers operate. They'll show you a very low base ticket price for the actual ticket upfront, but then as you move through the checkout process and get to the very last page, that's where you'll see all the other additional fees kind of waiting for you before you actually make that final purchase. Making it very difficult to compare tickets across the board. However, on the flip side, there are also other ticket reseller marketplaces that will use all in pricing. StubHub actually used to use all in pricing a few years back. That was their standard, that was their norm. And they found that tickets did not actually sell as well as they did when they were using the hidden fee model, which seems to actually drive a lot more sales because the ticket price that's displayed looks a lot cheaper. In the end, the actual cost to buy that ticket is the same across the board between all these different sites, but it can be displayed differently and that may potentially drive someone to finish that purchase. They may not be happy at the end of it, but by the time they've gone through the checkout process and they've gone to two, three, four different levels of stages before they actually see that final price, they've just basically, they've been wound down, they've been worked to the ground and they've said, oh, you're not, I can't do this again. I'm just gonna buy it, I don't care. I'm not gonna look around anymore. Now, there are other recent websites that currently do allow for all in pricing. Some have it built into the actual model that they use where all the prices displayed are all in pricing, while others who allow you to simply hit a checkbox that says what is the total cost inclusive of all other fees, taxes, and things of that nature. And again, because of this difference between these different marketplaces, when you look at a ticket on an all in pricing model, it may seem more expensive, but in the end, it's possible that it's actually cheaper than going through the finalization process of another ticket resale website. Now that you guys understand the difference between all in pricing and hidden fee models, let's go into an example of how to actually go ahead and compare those ticket prices to make sure that you guys get the best deal. All right, so handy dandy phone is over here, follow along, we got a lot of good things to go through. So let's start with SeatGeek just because I can. So we're gonna have our friend here, Mr. Vladigarero Jr. We wanna go see him play. Let's see what's going on. I'm gonna search for Toronto Blue Jays. And I'm gonna look at June 10th. This game says free t-shirt. Everybody loves them free t-shirts. So let's get some more free t-shirts. This free t-shirt, extra large, but free. So you take what you can, right? We're now here. I'm looking at the very, very, very cheapest ticket that is available here, $9. Section 512, row seven, $9 sounds like a great price. I don't wanna pay nine bucks. I'll get into the game. It's gonna be great. So I'm gonna go ahead, click it, get through the actual process. See what the true cost is though of these tickets because I have a feeling this $9, it ain't no $9 ticket. And like I said, they have all these different stages to kind of wear you down so that once you get to that final checkout process, you just feel too worn down. You feel too stressed. You feel too, you know, just too much work, having to draw this information in and just kind of wanna get this over and done with. So once we hit that review button, here's what we're left with. We're left with some tickets that were $9, but then there's fees of $9.68 per ticket. So that $9 ticket is now actually an $18 ticket. 100% fees on top of that ticket cost. I understand fees may be a bit skewed in this example just because the ticket price cost is so low and some of these standard fees, they're just a certain flat number, whether it's like a delivery fee of five bucks or whatever the case may be. Point being that $9 ticket is actually now an $18 ticket, all in $37.36 for that pair of seats. Not a great feeling when you go in, thinking it's gonna be $18 when you're buying the ticket. Come out at the end, you're looking at a doubled price ticket. Not exactly giving you that warm and fuzzies, right? On the inside. So with that being said now, let's take a look. So SeatGeek, they are currently using the hidden fee model, fine. Take that nugget, put it in the back of your brain, let's jump on over into the next place. Let's take a look at TickPick. Let's go over to TickPick and do the same thing. Let's go check out our friend and we're gonna take a look at that same event and we're gonna get to that exact same seat. Seats that are displayed across the board in different resell exchanges, generally means, not always, but generally will mean that it is being sold by a ticket reseller, someone who has access to basically a system which lets them post their tickets across multiple websites. So this way they can get their ticket displayed to as many people as possible, trying to basically get that sale to happen a bit faster. If you guys are actually interested in learning more on how tickets are displayed across different exchanges, just drop a comment, let me know and maybe we can make that happen. Now that we're here though, we're gonna have to find that same seat. So we're looking for a section 512, row seven. So let's zoom in, do do do, 512, row seven. And now on TickPick, it said $15 a ticket. Let's dive in to see if it's actually that $15 ticket price. So as you get here, as we get to the actual checkout page, the total price they're showing $30. This is a good sign. So let me click that show order details, see if it shows me anything there. Look at that, the breakdown is as follows. Price $15 per ticket, quantity two. Delivery fee, zero. Service fees, zero. TickPick total price in US dollars, 30 bucks. So TickPick as I mentioned, they use an all in pricing model. So any ticket fees that are associated with that sale, they're all on the back end. Buyer doesn't actually see anything. They're just going in, they're seeing a final ticket price and that's what it is to them. When they go in, they see that price, they know exactly what they're gonna pay. In the end, this is coming up to $30. Compared to SeatGeek, 39, 37, whatever the case may be over there, you're saving $9 on that order. It's important to note that if you're looking at these ticket prices just on the surface level, SeatGeek would say, hey, I got a $9 ticket for you. Come buy it over here, come, come. I got the goods. And TickPick's like, no, no, no, 15. It's only 15. And you don't hear them because you're like, oh, no, nine is way better than 15. That's much cheaper. I'm gonna go buy tickets over there. And then you get to the end and you realize it's actually, you know, $18 ticket. TickPick's selling it for $15 a ticket and now you're a loser because you bought that ticket over at SeatGeek. Now I do need to mention, this is not always the case that TickPick will be cheaper than SeatGeek and vice versa. Every single event, every ticket is different. It is not the same across the board where all in pricing will be cheaper than a hidden fee model. Ticket sellers who are listing their tickets, they can price their tickets differently across the board. So if they're listing on one exchange, they could have it at a price of $15. They could list it on a different exchange, have it at a price of $18. List it on a different exchange, have it at a price of $47. It really depends. It really varies. So every single event is different. Fee structures change from time to time as well. So you cannot just rely on using one website to buy your tickets unless you just for whatever reason have a favorite, you don't wanna move across anywhere else and you just wanna make all your purchases on one place. But as you can see in this specific example, TickPick is the cheaper option, $30 versus 39. So if you're gonna buy them, you'd be leaning towards buying them on TickPick. Now let's go check one more place, StubHub. Let's see what they've got going on. Okay, so StubHub, same thing. Let's look for our Toronto Blue Jays. So we'll jump in there, look for June 10th, 512, row seven. Let's find out where that is. Let's take a look. There it is, 512, row seven, $12 ticket. Okay, interesting. So if you just take a quick look at it, this looks much cheaper than TickPick. Does it not, $12 a ticket, $24 total. TickPick was charging us $30. SeatGeek was charging us $39. Let's go check out and take a look, shall we? And look at that, total order price is actually $33.22. So if you had gone over to SeatGeek initially to go buy those tickets, you would have paid $39. If you went over to StubHub, you would have only paid $33. So you'd be like, oh, yes, I did it. I saved myself $6. That's fantastic, wonderful, excellent. But if you went that one step further to check another site, you could go ahead and potentially save even more. Now there is a certain level of, there's a certain point where there's like diminishing returns, the amount of time you're spending to find that perfect ticket, that perfect price, the cheapest you can possibly find. There is a limit to how far you can actually go on that, unfortunately. So we don't have unlimited time. And because these tickets are live across all these different platforms, they may not be available all the time. They may end up getting sold while you're doing your research. So at some point you do need to make a decision how much are you actually willing to spend and how much time are you willing to put in to find the cheapest ticket possible. So if you just said, first, I'm gonna look, that's where I'm gonna buy my ticket. So then you know what, you pick your favorite resell website, you go in, you buy the ticket, la di da, life is fantastic. If you want to spend a little bit of time, check between two resell marketplaces. You know, just to give yourself an idea like are you paying too much? So then you know what, you start at StubHub, you see the price there, you jump over to SeatGeek, check the price there, you realize, hey, cheaper over here, I'm just gonna go ahead, buy that ticket. If you're the kind of person though who wants to save the most amount of money, I got two suggestions for you. One, check out, you know, three, four, five different websites, just get an idea of what the fee structures are across the board. And two, before you make any final purchase, make sure you sign up for Rakuten. Basically, Rakuten is a cashback website. Anytime you're going in to buy tickets, I like to use Rakuten first because they usually have cashback options available on all of these different ticket resell marketplaces. StubHub usually one to 2%, Ticketmaster's a couple of percent. All these different resell websites, many times they do have some level of cashback going on, but if you're gonna go in and actually make that purchase, if you're happy with where you wanna buy those tickets from, always jump over to Rakuten first, see if they're an eligible website to go ahead and get that cashback, and then you'll save, you know, another one to 2%. What's wrong there, nothing. So go ahead, save that free money. Everybody loves free money. I got a link down in the description below. If you are interested in signing up, you'll get a little bonus as well if it's your first time, so everybody wins. Don't just settle for the first place you look. Do a little bit of digging. Obviously, if you don't have the time, so be it, then just go ahead, make that purchase. But if you are gonna make that purchase, do use Rakuten as well, save yourself a little bit of money. And if you have the time to go ahead, search between different RISO websites, do that first before you make any final decisions. Hope you guys enjoyed this video. If you did, definitely let me know by hitting that like button down below. Also, be sure to subscribe. Have an already great new content from now every single week in. See you guys next time.