Is this discount website legit?

[ambader]

https://www.broadtickets.com/once-island

It seems REAL sketchy and suspicioius. Has anyone bought tickets from this website before and had it work out? How does it work?

[Wee Thomas2]

TripAdvisor thinks they are legit, but that they charge crazy fees and you don't know your seat location until you get the tix

 

https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g60763-i5-k10044166-Tkts_Broadway-New_York_City_New_York.html

[ambader]

It doesn’t even seem like there are crazy fees. I went through the motions of putting two tickets to Once on This Island in my cart and orchestra seats were around $110 each. Which is way below face value. And then on the checkout page there was a minor processing fee and it didn’t look like anything else. Seems too good to be true?.

[TheSassySam]

Maybe you could just do the price-match with the theater if you are considering buying from this site? Then you'd avoid the fees. 

[ambader]

I reached out to the OOTI price guarantee email and got the following response:

 

Thank you very much for reaching out, and for your interest in Once On This Island. Broadtickets.com is an unauthorized ticket broker. Since we did not give them permission to sell our tickets at those prices, this is not covered in our price guarantee. 

But we are selling tickets in Row K for the cheaper price of $99.50 directly through our website, and in this theatre every seat is a good seat!

Best,

Once On This Island

 

The whole thing seems super weird. How/why would this random website be offering tickets at such a substantial discount?

[LizzieCurry]

For identity theft?

[Melanie73]

I actually tried them once maybe a year or so ago.  I purchased the cheapest option (I think it was maybe $70-something?) for the show I wanted to see, and I paid with PayPal, and it actually worked out very smoothly for me.  I found out what seats I got maybe a day or so after the purchase, and the tickets were at the box office for me to pick up on the day of the show.

I can't make any promises that it works this way all the time, but my one experience was very smooth and pleasant!

[Bill196]

I've used broadtickets.com too. Their price was almost $25 cheaper than other sites(I had received my seat number in an hour and checked the price in several sites). They booked my name on theater and I received tickets at theater. It seems they are totally legit, the theater held my tickets and I received with my ID.

[WayTooBroadway]

Bill196—and this is your first post?

[BroadwayConcierge]

A good rule of thumb: if you wonder whether your ticketing vendor is legit, you probably shouldn't buy from 'em.

[Anakela]

Hard pass from me on buying from a business that uses a 'virtual office' address as their mailing address. 

With several years experience and growth, we have now blossomed into a multi-national joining over hundreds of thousands of tourists across world.
- what does this even mean?

[msmp]

Anakela said: "Hard pass from me on buying from a business that uses a 'virtual office' address as their mailing address.

With several years experience and growth, we have now blossomed into a multi-national joining over hundreds of thousands of touristsacross world.
- what does this even mean?"

You missed my favorite line: "Just like our customers, broadticket.com employees (from the company president to the security guards) must have itchy feet."

I would give this site a hard pass, OP. The face value of tickets isn't too bad for OOTI if you look past the front row, and there really isn't a bad seat. I sat in the second-to-rearmost row on the right side twice and had a spectacular view of all the action.

[Anakela]

Haha, I mean the entire site (except for the parts that are directly stolen from Citypass, MTA, etc.) reads like one of those exercises where you take a sentence in English, feed it through Google Translate into another language, and then feed it through a second time into English again. 
 

How does it works?
Our system is something like hotel booking system. Your name will be booked to theater and you can receive entrance tickets at theater. Everything will be done by electronically and the voucher will be sent by email. (Will Call Tickets)


Sure. Seems legit. Here, take my money.