Not for commercial events! Beware, do not use their Email Invite program! I was so excited, so very excited, to find an affordable option for selling tickets online. In the past, my company has used Eventbrite, with wonderful results but a large price to pay. We decided to try another option - therefore Ticketbud! I published our month long Harvest Festival on Ticketbud and pasted my 1,000 email subscribers to their online Email "Invite". Sending a large number of emails manually, is of course time consuming! Ticketbud's online feature looked so professional, I put up my 100% faith. Low and behold, after the mass email went out, I received many, many, many angry replies. Ticketbud failed to send the mass email as a "Blind carbon copy", instead each recipient could see the email addresses of all the other recipients!!! I can understand the concern of these folks, whose email addresses were exposed to 1,000 other people. Needless to say, Alderbrook Park received many bad reviews from this incident. I immediately contacted Ticketbud, explained my frustration and requested a refund of $138. They explained that their program is not designed for large events. It is mostly designed for small personal events and they were sorry for my misunderstanding! Furthermore, they refused to issue a refund. Can you believe it ? They don't mention these details at all on their website. Beware, event coordinators! Their website may look great, but behind the scenes, there is little, professional customer service. Today's online standards, require that emails be kept private, unless permission is given. Ticketbud basically violated trust of 1,000 people : (

Very disappointed We are a nonprofit organization raising money to help at-risk kids living below the poverty line. We used TicketBud for two years for our fundraising event for a flat fee of $99. The third year we noticed a fee of $1089 deducted from our account. When we contacted them we were told they had changed their policy. That's an outrageous increase, particularly because we had no idea they had raised their prices.

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.

Changed Pricing After Sign Up & Entering Info. I was attracted to their business model and pricing system. I believed it would be a great fit for me and my event. I went through the process of setting up my event, entering in tickets, entering different variations, adding descriptions and custom questions for some of the tickets. When I had everything ready I went through the payment process and they had changed it. I requested to use the payment method I had signed up under, but they replied no after waiting for a day, even though someone emailed me during my first day of setup to see if I needed help. They pulled the rug from under me. I will never use them again. Ticketbud use to be against fees and began to put an end to greed and fees from the ticket taking industry. Now it seems as though they've become what they hated. Article from WIRED: wired.com/2012/10/ticketbud/ Why the change? ..."the primary reason behind this change is that it allows us to align our resources to better serve you, the customer." Really? So, if I sold $200 tickets the extra $101 + 2% is for my better serve me, the customer?

False Advertising!!! I took the time to do a demo with a Ticketbud sales rep. He swore up and down that we would be able to rent POS credit card swipers to use with their app onsite during the event and that the fee would be waived after 5 uses. He even went so far as to say he could throw them in the mail in the next day or two for us. With such solid promises, we felt confident moving forward building out the ticketing site for our charity benefit. Two days later, when we asked to order the dongles for onsite registration, we were told that they were not available. They did not provide any explanation as to why. My experience with Ticketbud is that it was a complete waste of my time. They jerked me around and forced me to scramble to find a site that did suit our needs, one which is actually free to charities. I do not recommend Ticketbud to anyone and will not use them in the future.