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he doesn't think our pricing model will work. we're a ticketing business and we think fans will pay to upgrade their seats in game, if the price is right. i think it was just a disagreement and we didn't have any hard data to back up our assumptions.

pedalpete,

great point. i think we failed to keep it simple. we focused too much on level 2 and 3 stuff as opposed to the basics - blocking and tackling. and pg went right to the crux of our business model and we had assumed we had that figured out long ago. thanks for the input.

yes, we're targeting the teams/concerts with the highest percentage of unsold seats and we're focused on upgrades once a game/show starts. fans will have to have a ticket and already be at the game/show. we're giving fans the freedom to roam while at the same time generating revenue for all seats that would otherwise have been empty (13,000 seats per game at tampa bay rays games for example - MLB averaged 68% occupancy in 2010).

being a founder of pogoseat, i'd like to add that our new friend amir connected us with his bud at the houston rockets, winston. winston has already setup a meeting with us tomorrow morning and indicated that the rockets have explored in-game seat upgrades and would be interested in learning what we do and discovering how upgrades can work in conjunction with dynamic pricing. great example of cool people meeting cool people and helping each other out! thanks again amir!

thanks for the info! any chance we could communicate via email/facebook? my email is [email protected]. we're looking for some advisors/consultants with ticketing experience. thanks, e

Wow, thanks for all the info! I researched paciolan recently and was pretty convinced they were running a closed system, thanks for confirming my suspicions. I also had a pretty good idea that TM was very restricted and inaccessable.

I'm trying to get access to ticket info in addition to venue info. Venue info I can easily get, but ticket info will be difficult. I've been researching how stubhub and other sites do it, but the only conclusion I can draw is that they have a financial agreement with TM to get access to their data, after all when you list a ticket on stubhub they need to verify the ticket ownership and validity (one would hope they do at least).

I was thinking of taking the yodlee approach by writing connectors that access dat through a series of API calls and simple HTML parsing, however there would probably legal implications to scraping TM sites, so no matter what, it would come back down to establishing an agreement with TM.

Any thoughts on this?