[evanowens]

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?

[dallred]

Stubhub and Ticketmaster don't have any agreements like this; they hate each other. Stubhub does not "verify" you have tickets, but they keep your cc on record, so if you can't make good on tickets you've posted on their website, they will buy comparable replacement tickets from somebody else, and take the difference from your credit card.

If you're looking for ticket info, it is easy to get for the secondary ticketing market. Get in touch with ticketnetwork, they have an XML feed of tickets from ticket brokers from all over North America.

[evanowens]

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