If you are a die-hard sports fan you know that you will do just about anything to follow your team. Whether you are a football, rugby, baseball or basketball fan watching your team is a big part of your life and you always want to be there to watch them win. So this season your team has actually started to perform well for a change and it looks like they might actually win something for a change.
You have to be there to watch them but you know that tickets are going to be like gold dust and you don’t fancy giving the best part of months’ wages to a scalper. What to do? If you are in the UK you are in luck as there are a number of fantastic sites where you can buy sports tickets online without the fear of being ripped off. Some of the best include:
GET ME IN!
GET ME IN! is a dedicated online marketplace for tickets for leading sports, music, theatre and comedy events. It brings together buyers and sellers of all kinds of tickets in an open marketplace where the supply of tickets is determined by supply and demand. While GET ME IN! doesn’t actually buy or sell tickets it does offer protection to users of the site to ensure that buyers get the tickets they want and sellers get their money. Their Fanguard system ensures that people can use the site in safety without fear of being ripped off. GET ME IN! offer a huge range of sports tickets for football, rugby, golf, horse racing, NFL and many other sports.
Viagogo
Founded in 2006 Viagogo is a place to buy and sell tickets for major sporting and music events and festivals. While offering a similar service to GET ME IN! Viagogo has a number of additional advantages. It has struck deals with some of the biggest names in the sports world such as Chelsea FC, Manchester Unites and Roland Garros so the site is the only place where fans can trade and re-sell tickets for these teams and venues legally. The deal was the first of its kind in Europe and the site has now made further deals with rugby clubs in the UK and a number of other football clubs across Europe. Viagogo offer a guarantee of all deals made on the site to protect both buyers and sellers of tickets.