Ticketbud - Getting Better! I've used Ticketbud for my bar's concert venue space since mid-2014 and was initially attracted to their inexpensive "one-price" option as opposed to some of the other competition out there. At the time their service was alright, it wasn't anything great but I didn't expect it to be for the price that they were charging. For my ticketing and event management needs, they were fine. However, then in late 2014 they announced a pricing change where they were moving towards an entirely fee-based model. While it's a fairly big change, it wasn't one that made me angry. I've talked with their customer service reps before when I had an issue and they've always been very good about helping me. They've also been working hard to add new features so it's definitely been fine. One new thing I really enjoy is that you can add the very small service fee to the price of the ticket so it doesn't even show up as a service fee, and as an organizer I don't have to pay at all. So in effect, I'm saving money. Ticketbud still has a ways to go but I do applaud them for working hard to keep my business.

Embarrassing I set up the site and everything looked great. It was easy to set up and the page looked good. We wanted to sell sponsorships for our site ahead of the sale, seemed easy enough. So we started selling and had people upload their logos. Then Ticketbud did an update and all the sponsorships were no longer visible. I reported the problem 5 days ago and it's still not corrected. There is no contact number so you have to send a service ticket and wait. My sponsors who paid money to have their logos seen during ticket sales are going to be quite disappointed tomorrow morning when tickets go on sale and there is nothing shown for them. This also meant we had to stop selling the sponsorships which cost us money for our fundraiser in the end. So disappointing when it had such great potential.

I still have yet to receive my refund … I still have yet to receive my refund for the scam event that was hosted on TicketBud's website. I would steer clear of using their service as their due diligence is clearly still in it's infant stages. Furthermore, they decided to create 7 transfer phone lines that all lead to a voicemail so you could not communicate with a real person. All things said and done your platform hosted a scam event. It's now December 8th and I have not received a refund nor any follow up from you or the aforementioned vendor.

Ticketbud is useless for virtual events Just a heads up if you are using Ticketbud to ticket your virtual event, they take up to three business days to approve all emails you send via the website. So promotional emails or personalized emails that you would like to send to your attendees would take up to three business days to be approved and they do not work on weekends. I wish I had known that before I decided to send the link to my weekend-long virtual event to all attendees by simply using their "email attendees" tool. Instead, I ended up having to copy and paste everyone’s info into my personal email, editing out any non-email information, right before the event went live. Adding to this, the website, over the weekend, also didn’t approve my redesign of the confirmation email so that late buyers would simply get the link automatically in there. Instead, I spent the entire weekend continually checking to see if there were new purchasers so that I can send them the link, and receiving angry emails and phone calls from people who didn’t receive their’s when I happened to be busy doing something else, or if my personal email wound up in their spam. Even as my event extended until Monday, I pleaded with ticketbud to please resolve this issue so I may be relieved of my duties and they did not. Ticketbud is ill-prepared for the world of virtual events which happens to be one of the few types of events possible right now. Again, had I at least been warned about the long approval process clearly on the website I would have prepared the emails days before, pre-loaded with a link that would work when the event went live on the weekend. The whole thing was so ghetto, I may as well have used Venmo. At least that way I would’ve been able to keep all my money. I’m not exactly sure what their website did and why they are deserving of a percentage of my ticket sales. So you can try your luck with ticketbud but I hope you at least have this warning about the approvals or that your event takes place on a weekday during work hours when they are sometimes working. I did not receive any of the great customer service I heard so much about. Ahead of the event, they often took days to respond to my questions and not even responding appropriately to them.

I tried buying a ticket from this site… I tried buying a ticket from this site but never received my tickets. I tried buying them the same day as the event. Since it was a Saturday, I was not able to directly contact them and they did not respond to my email. My sister got a ticket but I did not. We were suppose to go together. It was to be special time spent together.