The fine print, made large
Why should you trust a site that earns commissions?
Fair question — it's the one we'd ask. TixInfo earns a referral commission from partner marketplaces when you buy through our links. That's the whole business model, and it only works long-term if you come back, which only happens if our prices and their order hold up when you check them. Here is that incentive structure written down, so you can hold us to it.
How the money flows
- 1You compare prices here for free and click through to a marketplace.
- 2If you buy, the marketplace pays us a commission; you pay the same price whether or not you came from us.
- 3We order by estimated total per ticket, not by commission. If a partner paid us more than another, the order still would not change — that rule is what this page exists to hold us to.
That last point is the core of it: our commission only exists if you complete a purchase, and you complete purchases where prices are honest and low. Sending you somewhere expensive would be lighting our own business on fire.
Six promises we operate under
The order is a rule, not a sale
Priced rows are ordered by estimated total per ticket: a fees-included price counts as shown; a + fees price counts with that marketplace’s typical fees added (8% at Ticket Squeeze, rounded from the 7.6% median we measured in October 2026). A price that looks broken is marked and goes last. No partner can pay to move up.
Fee basis on every price
Each price says whether it includes the marketplace’s fees (“fees included”) or is its price before them (“+ fees”). We never present a before-fees price as a final price.
Only real partners on the board
Every marketplace on the board is a partner we have an affiliate agreement with. We don’t pad the comparison with sites we can’t actually take you to.
The tape doesn’t lie
For the events we track we record each marketplace’s cheapest price every day and never change a past day’s reading. Readings that are clearly broken (a $2 ticket while every other marketplace starts above $100; a parking pass read as a seat) are left out of the price charts, by the rules below.
No dark patterns
No countdown timers. No "only 2 left!" we can't verify. No fake viewer counts. No pre-ticked boxes. The industry runs on manufactured panic; we run on information.
Your data stays boring
No account needed, and we never sell personal data. We use Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity (session replays, with anything you type masked). Details in our privacy policy.
How we clean the price record
We never change a past day’s reading. We do leave some readings out, by these rules, each with where it applies:
- One-off junk
- A reading under a fifth of the cheapest price another marketplace gave for the same event within two days is dropped when it is also far below its own marketplace’s usual price for that event (under a fifth of that series’ median, or the series is too short to have one). With no other marketplace to compare, a reading under a fifth of its own median (three or more readings) is dropped. Applies to the price charts and the Price Index, and to that day’s board. A lasting disagreement between marketplaces is not dropped: the build lists it for a person to look at.
- Dents
- A reading under half of a series’ latest price is dropped when the same series had already been at three quarters of that price or more before it. A floor that collapses and recovers like that is a non-seat listing, such as a parking pass, not a market move. Applies to the price charts, the Price Index and our best-time-to-buy research.
- Trust dates
- Ticket Squeeze readings before July 23, 2026 (the day we fixed a parser that counted parking passes as seats) and TicketNetwork readings before August 26, 2026 (its first day) stay out of the Price Index, the past events archive and our research.
- One reading per day
- When a marketplace is read more than once in a day, the chart keeps that day’s latest reading. Event pages chart up to the last 90 daily readings per marketplace.
Did our prices hold up?
Visitors who come back from a partner’s page can tell us whether its price matched ours. Once a partner has 30 such answers in 30 days we publish them here, as exact counts. Until then, this is what we measured ourselves:
- Ticket Squeeze: its checkout adds about 7.6% to the price before fees (measured Oct 14, 2026: Ticket Squeeze’s own pages ask a median 1.076 times its feed price for the same event and day, n=2,139).
Caught us breaking one of these?
Wrong price, misleading label, a partner row that shouldn't be there — report it and we'll investigate the pipeline, not the complaint. The price record and this page exist so you never have to take our word for anything.