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God this website blows.

Just kidding. Hi, I'm Dan one of the cofounders of TicketStumbler.com. If you have any suggestions or feedback please leave them here no matter how minor.

If you have scathing criticism and are worried about being down modded, please email me directly - dan [at] ticketstumbler (dot) com.

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When I click any of the ticket categories, such as NHL, I get 'led zeppelin' in the search bar. Not sure if that's supposed to be a humorous example, but I don't get any search results for it. Perhaps populate the search bar with relevant events to the ones being searched for already so that there are results, and hopefully, ticket purchases. :P

Are you hoping to add NBA?

Besides that, congrats.

That sounds like something Tom would do on purpose, but yes we'll fix that.

NBA schedule is released today so we'll be adding the NBA shortly thereafter.

I already reported this to Tom over AIM, and he said he thought it might be a caching issue, and he might have fixed it...

Something I'd really find useful for this service would be an API. If I were working on an app (totally hypothetically, of course) where people can meet each other by connecting over shared interest in events, it would be great to automatically associate TicketStumbler results with the events where applicable.

Just a thought.

This is planned, though in the beginning we're planning on it being a sort of private API so we can know who's using it. From there, we'll see what happens. I totally agree though, I love APIs ;)

Private works too, as long as I get a key. :P

Pius can you please email us if you're still interested in testing our future API. Email is in my profile. Thanks!

Done and done. :)

For the event I was looking at (a Cubs game @ Wrigley, if it matters) 3 of the 4 links I clicked went to tickets that were no longer available at StubHub. You obviously have no control over third-party content, but the result is that I simply closed the tab your site was in and continued my search directly on StubHub.

Oddly enough we'd still get credit for the sale.

So right now that's a result of the frequency of our crawler runs. We're in the process of ramping that up to provide as close to real time results as possible.

Unfortunately, most of our ticket providers are stuck in the dinosaur age so it's difficult to provide close to real time results (like the airline industry).

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