You are going to run out of space real soon as you add new categories, if you keep your current layout. Maybe change it to "Sports" | "Concerts" | "Theater" . And then on mouse over display the actual sub categories(NBA/NFL/NCAA etc)
Look at Ticketmaster.com. That's what we're going to mirror in many respects with more customization, more accurate geo tracking capabilities, better search (which we already have) and happy customers (instead of TM's angry/disgruntled customers).
Once this happens (hopefully in 1-2 months) please email me and let me know what you think: dan@ticketstumbler.com
haha sort of. Ignoring the TicketsNow conspiracies, which I'll elaborate on at another time, Ticketmaster doesn't do secondary tickets directly from their main site until an event is sold out.
They can't list specific tickets (sections, row, seats) for purchase - they assign it all to you after you pick a price level or section and enter the Captcha crapshoot. But I have to hand it to them, they did a really really good job on their new design.
The main problems with the secondary ticket market are fees, stigma and safety, which are our three main priorities. And SEO of course: http://is.gd/1pQx
Exactly - even if our commissions are slashed 75% we'd make it up in volume (famous last words right?) because there's very little to no incremental cost.
But it doesn't really matter since we're not doing it for the $$.
