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SeatGeek Reviews Summary

SeatGeek has a rating of 2.2 stars from 2,561 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with SeatGeek most frequently mention customer service, credit card and phone number. SeatGeek ranks 18th among Concert Tickets sites.

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New York
1 review
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THE WORST experience ever. I bought 2 tickets for Billie Eilish over $769+, right there at the concert the code did not work, it was "not found", I called them for 1-2 hours and they pretended sending me new ones and at the very end refunded the money when the concert already started so they sold the same tickets several times. DO NOT USE SEAT GEEK.

Date of experience: October 16, 2024
California
1 review
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Charge buyers up to 40+%
September 5, 2024

The seller pay 10% and buyers pay up to 40% and you don't see the break down unless you put in the search price without fees. Can't reach a human to speak with This is the official site of MLB contact you team to tell them that fans are being ripped off

Date of experience: September 4, 2024
Illinois
1 review
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Shut down SeatGeek
August 11, 2024

Purchased tickets in April for concert in August. Platform says tickets will be released 48-he before concert. Checked 48hr before - no tickets. Platform now says 24hr before concert. Checked for tickets 24hr before - no tickets yet. But money withdrawn in April. It is now less then 10hr before concert, I've been on the phone with 3 representatives and I still don't have the tickets I paid for. Will never use this platform and it should be shut down. Instead of having fun for what was supposed to be my brothers best bday gift, I'm having 48 hours filled with frustration, stress, anxiety and no help.

Date of experience: August 11, 2024
New Jersey
1 review
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Seatgeek is a fraud
August 9, 2024

Seatgeek sold me 2 day tickets to a concert, when I only received 1 day! I have been trying to receive a refund for a week with countless emails and phone calls which are never returned. Seatgeek confirmed with me that I had a 2 day ticket before the show, but was unable to get into the show the 2nd night, while spending the entire night on chats and phone calls with them continuing to lie to me that the tickets were coming. They never arrived and we missed the entire show.

Date of experience: August 9, 2024
Wisconsin
1 review
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I paid for a parking pass for a concert, and they never sent an email with the link to the ticket. I contacted them through live chat and talked to 3 different people who promised they would have the ticket seller re-transfer the ticket to me, which they never did. I spent about three hours trying to track down my ticket. What a waste of time. I will never fall victim to this bull$#*! again!

Date of experience: August 7, 2024
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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An absolutely horrible experience
August 8, 2024

An absolutely horrible experience. I tried to buy tickets, but their system told me they were no longer available even after several attempts, so I bought other tickets, only to learn later that my first purchase went through.

Having double the tickets I wanted, the saga continues with bad customer service. I was told they won't help without a screenshot, which I didn't have, and I should sell, so I did, but at a loss, and they refused to reimburse me for their fees, because they said I should have sold them for more money, even though their system recommended the price to me as the best price to sell.

Bad product and support!

Date of experience: August 7, 2024
Pennsylvania
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Avoid Seat Geek
July 22, 2024
Updated review

I purchased tickets to Frankie Valli last night and another couple were in my seats, they had identical tickets. The venue let me stay but we were moved to the back of the venue. I paid dearly for 3rd row seats.
SeatGeeks responce was that they only sell the tickets and the problem lies with the third party seller or the venue.
I purchased the tickets from SeatGeek not the venue or the third party.
I am seat geeks customer and a responsible company should exceed the customers expectations. That is not the case with SeatGeek.
To make it worse the tickets were purchased with a credit from Seat Geek. They had refused to give me a refund, only offered a credit.
This gave them the opportunity to screw me over again.
Save yourself the aggravation, do yourself a favor and AVOID SEAT GEEK!
Thank You,
Robert Dugan

Date of experience: July 22, 2024

Good Luck if you need help from Seatgeek
March 25, 2024
Previous review

I'd suggest avoiding Seatgeek!
Due to a family conflict I had to "swap" tickets I had for a Frankie Valli concert on June 21,2024. I had the tickets transferred from Ticketmaster to SeatGeek, which was extremely easy. I proceeded to swap the tickets on seatgeek with the intent to use the "discount code" on another date for a Frankie Valli event. I chose July 21. I went to checkout after I saw the discount code and attempted to add it and finished the payment process. After finishing I saw the code wasn't used and my card was charged the full price of the tickets.
I immediately started chatting with 3 different support people getting the same standard book response from each. After 2-3 hours of typing and getting disconnected I got a phone number for support. The support employee, just like all the others said that he would help. After another 45 minutes on the phone he also was no help. I've now paid $800, $390 more than I have the money for but got a "discount code" so I can go through this fiasco again if it doesn't work. Close to 4 hours of runaround with absolutely no resolution whatsoever.
I will use the "discount code" on something and never use the seatgeek service again.

Date of experience: March 25, 2024
California
1 review
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On 5/5/24 I ordered a parking ticket through Seatgeek for an LA Dodgers game. I purchased the ticket while I was waiting in line to enter the stadium parking lot. When I got to the front of the line, I clicked on the email confirmation, but the parking ticket had not yet been available. They let me wait for a while, but after a few minutes they told me I needed to purchase a new parking ticket or exit the stadium parking lot as they could not allow me to wait any longer. The man explained this often happens with Seatgeek tickets, as they're not always delivered for immediate use.
I reached out to Seatgeek for a refund (since I had to purchase a new parking ticket for use), and they refused to provide a refund. I explained to them multiple times that while I received the ticket, I did not receive it in time to use it. They have been incredibly difficult to work with - awful customer service. They can see that the parking ticket I purchased through them was never used, but they refuse to support. I will NEVER use them again. Highly suggest paying for parking through the event venue for another ticket service - DO NOT UES Seatgeek.

Date of experience: July 8, 2024
Maine
1 review
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The suck
July 5, 2024

All I know is they suck at customer service. I bought two tickets back in April, they got confirmed and money was pulled from my account. Day of the show I still had no tickets. I spent 9 hours on the phone, email, and chat with them. They kept saying they would contact the seller and get back to me, which they never did. They also claimed I was covered under their "buyers guaranteed" so they would compensate us with new tickets or even better ones. Such BS. Comes showtimes they claimed they couldn't do anything but a refund, mind you ticket prices are double now.

Let's just say it's going to be an awesome night in after blowing hundreds of dollars on travel expenses for a show we won't even see.

I've bought from them before, recommended them to many friends. Definitely going to play it safer moving forward and buy off of Ticketmaster, I'd recommend you do the same

Date of experience: July 5, 2024
Florida
1 review
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Can't choose your seats
June 29, 2024

Bought 2 tix from a group of 8 and we were unable to choose the seats we wanted and ended up with the worst seats in the group. Never again - use Stub Hub instead.

Date of experience: June 29, 2024
California
1 review
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This company stole 1700 bucks from my account for tickets i never bought never inquired about or wanted to an event that i have never been interested in. I don't know why it is forcing me to select a star it shouldn't even get a half star. I can't show proof of purchase because i didn't buy anything.

Date of experience: June 24, 2024
Texas
1 review
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Rating of ZERO
June 14, 2024

Listed my tickets by clicking sell in the MLB app and it takes you to SeatGeek. My tickets sold and were removed from my MLB app but I never received payment and SeatGeek says they have no record. They basically stole the tickets!

Date of experience: June 13, 2024
Alabama
1 review
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Garbage.
May 23, 2024

Garbage! Bought wrong date and the policy says it doesn't matter. The owner of the ticket hadn't even confirmed the tickets yet, I immediately contacted them and they said nothing they could do. I was still going to buy tickets for the date I meant to!

Date of experience: May 23, 2024
California
1 review
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WISH I COULD GIVE THEM ZERO STARS
April 30, 2024

In town for business and decided to go to a Mariners game. So I buy one single seat ticket. I get a confirmation email showing I ordered one ticket, I think I'm all set. The next day my wife calls me and asks why I bought 2 tickets - two charges pending on our account in the same amount. I contact their lame chat customer service, because you can't actually talk to anyone. This allows them to keep saying "sorry you bought two" over and over. When I sent them a screenshot of the confirmation showing one ticket they said, "well, two minutes later we sent you another confirmation so you bought another ticket two minutes after the first". I of course did not do so and I told them I'd like the 2nd charge removed. I'm by myself! Nope, nothing they can (or will) do. I will be disputing the 2nd charge and will continue to dispute it over and over until they give up. I will not be scammed and this was an obvious one.

I am an IT professional traveling alone and of course never would have ordered another seat two minutes later. This is a system glitch or a scam and the receipt proves it. They should have refunded the bogus transaction immediately. It's not a lot of money, it's the principal. SeatGeek does not care about it's customers, nor it's reputation. I will never use their service again and will advise others to stay away as well. Shame on you.

Date of experience: April 30, 2024
Ireland
2 reviews
8 helpful votes
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Rescheduled gig. Tix gone missing from seatgeek. Over a week back and forth and a polite c/care team just not able to help. DO NOT use seatgeek

Date of experience: April 5, 2024
Missouri
1 review
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Charged over $80 for $20 parking
April 4, 2024

I am pregnant and I was invited to the Tim McGraw concert in downtown St. Louis at the Enterprise Center by a work supplier. Typically, the parking garage sells out there for Blues hockey games, and I didn't want to be walking in downtown St. Louis at night pregnant, so I pre-purchased parking through SeatGeek for over $80. When I drove downtown and arrived to the parking garage, upon entry they were charging only $20. I took a picture of the $20 parking garage sign, and send it over to SeatGeek to ask for the difference in cost ($60), but they refused. It's highly disappointing they are taking advantage of customers.

Date of experience: April 4, 2024
Ohio
1 review
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Disappointed with Customer Service
April 4, 2024

Bought tickets minutes into a presale. Quickly realized tickets in my confirmation email were not the ones I had initially selected. So bought others as quick as possible. Then called my Bank to get phone number *******335 for SeatGeek as you can't find it on their site. Talked to customer service within hour after purchase and later received email that refund was denied. So instead of fighting with them I sold tickets, which they charged another $50 for. Now I find out my money will be delivered after event in 6 months. I have used SeatGeek in past without issue on purchase. Sad to say I'm no longer a SeatGeek fan.

Date of experience: April 3, 2024
Florida
1 review
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License to Steal
April 3, 2024

Do not sell your tickets thru Seat Geek. If you want to get paid for your tickets they require you to provide them with your bank account number and Social Security number. You would be crazy to do that. It is a license to steal from you. They should change the name of the company to Seat Jerk!

Date of experience: April 3, 2024
Arizona
1 review
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This is the worst service and experience I have ever had. I purchased tickets on SeatGeek and the sale was confirmed. The day of the event, I still had not received my tickets. I had to call/chat in 7 times. Each time I chatted in, the representative said they would call me back. Not 1 of them emailed or called me. I asked to speak to a manager 10 times but was unable to get them to connect me to a person who could resolve my issue. 2 hours before the baseball game, I was told that the seller backed out. I wanted to use their guarantee but they did not offer me comparable seats or better. I had tickets between first and home. They would only offer me outfield horrible seats. None of the seats they offered came close to where the seats I purchased were located. Since they would not give me a resolution until 2 hours before the event, there were not a lot of tickets left at a reasonable price. Because these were a gift for a friend, I wound up spending TWICE the amount to replace the tickets. The entire experience was ridiculous. DO NOT USE THEM. Their guarantee does not exist and there is ZERO accountability.

Date of experience: April 2, 2024
Mexico
1 review
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The worst experience
March 23, 2024

We flew from Mexico to see U2 / Sphere Las Vegas and the tickets did not work! A total scam.they sell the same tickets many times! Terrible experience.it has been more than a month and I still do not have my refund! FRAUD

Date of experience: March 22, 2024

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Founded in 2009
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