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Unless you’ve plenty of time, getting your mitts on a concert ticket before it sells out is not easy. For example, the entire Michael Jackson’s mammoth 50 date residency at London O2 sold out at 33 tickets PER MINUTE. How does someone who’s at work when the tickets are on sale actually get to buy a ticket?

In the dark days before the internet, you had to purchase your second-hand ticket through a tout at the event itself. This meant paying over the odds, or even perhaps handed fake tickets which would inevitably be spotted as you tried to enter the event – meaning you miss the music gig or sports event while throwing away your wonga by being diddled.

Nevertheless, matters have improved for sports and music loversThe secondary ticket market has improved remarkably in the last decade or so, with much thanks to the internetWith much thanks to the internet, the secondary ticket marketplace has cleaned up its act in the last decade. These days there is a huge amount of competition to resell tickets online, the marketplace has actually become self-regulating. You’re offering the ticket for HOW much money?! I’ll look elsewhere! And so many ticket agents provide insurance if the gig or event is cancelled. And with tough competition online, resale tickets have come right down in price to the stage that sometimes you’re not spending much more than the actual initial value of the ticket. Many ticket buyers compare prices between lots of vendors selling resold tickets for the same concert / event. They evaluate the prices, seating, insurance, and even history of the seller before deciding to buy or not – so the power has considerably moved away from the tout of days gone by to the ticket purchaser.

Nowadays you can purchase tickets for many kinds of concerts and sporting events. From cricket to soccer to basketball matches, to getting hold of front row seats for your favourite band; secondary tickets provide a 2nd chance to attend the concert you want to see. How can you get tickets online? Use a search engine like Google and key in your phrase like Eddie Izzard tickets, and you will see a large array of secondary ticket brokers who can offer that ticket to you.