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CashorTrade Fills Madison Square Garden and Dick's

September 18, 2017 - By Brando Rich

This summer was a huge year for both Phish and CashorTrade. The use we had on the website were the highest that they have ever been. We wanted to not only say thank you but we wanted to share some statisics with you about both of the runs and the impact this community had on the ticket market.

First we will share with you the information from the most recent of the shows at Dick's this past Labor Day weekend. For the three day dicks run there were a total of 6,674 posts on the website. 4,362 of these posts were actual tickets. This means that each night there was an average of of 1,400 people who were at the shows either bought or traded tickets on the website and most importantly were there for face value, even if they were lucky enough to get the tickets the night before or even that day.

Next was The Baker's Dozen, which was such a huge event for Phish. For the run at Madison Square Garden there was a total of 36,720 tickets that were bought or traded on the website. There was a total of 17,645 tickets purchased and 19,075 tickets were traded. This means that each night there was an average of 2,825 people each night got their tickets by using the website. This is huge. This means that each night people were able to get into these shows for the right price and were purchasing these tickets from real fans. Regardless of why people need to sell or trade their tickets these people were either able to get their money back for shows they could not attend or trade for tickets that they needed. The Phish community is truly a special one because there are so many people who get their tickets regardless of being 100% sure that they are going to the show or not. This is a good thing. More fans with tickets means that they are able to use tools like CashorTrade to make sure that even if you personally can't go another fan can help you out by buying your ticket and you can make someone who maybe thought it wouldn't work out when the tickets went on sale and for whatever reason it did end up working get into that sold out show.

The unfortunate reality with events like these is that the amount of people who need to go to a secondary ticket website and over pay for their tickets is far higher. The amount of tickets purchased and traded on the site is an enormous step in the right direction. This is how we change this industry. Slowly but surely we are taking over more and more seats in venues. We are purchasing tickets with the hopes of going but redistributing them fairly, to fans. We are disrupting an extreamely corrupt and money hungry industry. Together we can take the music back and get these tickets in the hands of fans when they first go on sale. This year approximately 17% of Madison Square Garden each night was filled with people who used CasshorTrade to get into these shows for face value. Together we could triple the amount of people.