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Thanks lgray! Those were definitely the early days of pogoseat and I don't think we had quite fleshed everything out well enough at the time.

Correct. We don't just grab seats that are empty and sell them. We currently offer only the venues unsold seat inventory. In the future we plan to allow fans and other third parties to upload their inventory into our system as well.

It may not always be about getting a better view, at times you may just want to escape a bad seating situation or impress a date/client/etc

So far we have had a positive response from the various ticketing services in regards to partnering. We are currently deeply integrated with Ticketmaster's Archtics ticketing system and are working on completing the same for Tickets.com.

hit the nail on the head nlh. finding that equilibrium price is something we are constantly analyzing data to refine. we need to be careful not to have the upgrade cost so cheap that it cannibalizes ticket sales but also need to make it cheap enough that it makes sense. currently we take into account your original seat value plus time-based price decay. it's up to a venue what percentage discounts they want to apply across their inventory.

Depending on what ticketing system the venue is using we either have fans input their seat location manually or input their ticket barcode (scan feature to be released shortly).

gz5, great thinking. This is something we are working on doing soon for both corporate seats as well as individual fan seats. Venues of course want to push their unsold inventory first and so there are still some details to be hashed out here.

love the line "put real fans in the best seats".

Zach from pogoseat here. You guys bring up a great point about connectivity and it certainly is something worth noting. To help address we do our best to make the app as lightweight as possible. Additionally we look to partner with venues that have solid connectivity and thus far have had no issues in this area with our deployments at Stanford and the GS Warriors.

Cisco is helping improve the situation as well although it is expensive as was noted earlier. http://www.cisco.com/web/strategy/sports/stadium_wifi.html