Getting Your Ticket to the Super Bowl or Big Game

Getting your ticket for live, real-world event such as the Super Bowl or Grand Prix or any big game event there can be an huge gap between shopping and buying. Using the Web you can easily learn all you want about your favorite music group, or sports team, or Broadway show. That just increases your desire to go, but how do you get a ticket?

There are always a limited number of seats, of varying desirability, for a limited number of dates. Whatever happens you can't just manufacture more of them -- there is only one valid ticket in existence for seat 43a for the June 12 performance of that show on Broadway, or for the seventh game of the World Series, or for the Third Final Concert Tour of Celine Dion.

You can of course buy a ticket for any available seat if you go to the physical box office, but that might be in another city, and is probably open for very limited hours. Some events let you buy directly by phone or over the Web -- but that's still the exception. Many have made deals with a single ticketing agency for exclusive rights for remote ticket sales. And if its an in demand show, game, concert the seats are likely to sell out quickly.

Some people buy tickets to Broadway shows a year in advance. And getting good seats or any seats at all to events like the Super Bowl or the World Series can be more a matter of special privilege than price, no matter how far in advance you try.

So what difference does the Web make?

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Editors note

Tickets for all occasions, games, concerts, broadway HERE
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Buying tickets to sold-out events is tricky, but possible. Keep in mind that in some jurisdictions, it is illegal ("scalping") to sell tickets to events at prices higher than the original price. (For instance, that's the case in Boston.) Before proceeding, you should check to find out what rules apply in your city/state and in the city/state where the event is scheduled to take place, and whether it is just the seller or also the buyer who is considered at fault.

Also, consider that the most hard-to-get tickets that go for the highest prices are natural targets for counterfeiters. So you should make very sure that you have good reason to trust the party who is selling the ticket, and that you know how that person obtained the ticket in the first place, and that you will have some recourse is something goes wrong.