• VividSeats

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VividSeats

Overview

VividSeats has a rating of 4.05 stars from 2,362 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Reviewers satisfied with VividSeats most frequently mention customer service, purchase tickets, and parking pass. VividSeats ranks 7th among Tickets sites.

  • Service
    318
  • Value
    306
  • Shipping
    203
  • Returns
    181
  • Quality
    253

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Positive reviews (last 12 months): 39.6%
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What reviewers want you to know

Positive highlights

  • I was ready to hit enter and order online but decided to call VividSeats customer service.
  • She gave me a little discount which was super nice and helped me to purchase tickets for the concert of my dreams!
  • 2022 Customer Choice Winner

Critical highlights

  • I called my credit card company with which I purchased the voucher and lodged a complaint disputing the charge.
  • We went the box office where they confirmed this and told us not to trust any site except Stub Hub.
  • The discounted ticket price is a scam because you pay the difference in "service charges" once you check out.
How would you rate VividSeats?
Top Positive Review

“Very easy ordering process!”

Kelly N.
5/1/23

I found a great deal on four tickets for an upcoming concert. I was wary of the additional fees as I couldn't see them until after entering payment info. However, I called customer service to ask about final price before committing and found customer service to be immensely helpful! I was immediately provided the final cost and then generously offered a promotional discount. I was sold! My tickets were delivered to my email within five minutes and are already in my TM account. Thank you!

Top Critical Review

“Buyer Beware”

Stacey H.
1/17/24

12/23 Headed to a concert. Decided to purchase online. I googled it and vivid seats is what came up. The parking was $80. I made the purchase thinking this was how you had to pay. We get to parking garage. Parking was $40! I payed $80. My bad, I'll use the tickets I paid for. They would not accept vivid seats as payment. We had to pay again. Vivid seats will not give me a refund. Life is expensive enough, with out being cheated by this company.

Reviews (2,362)

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Thumbnail of user staceyh563
1 review
0 helpful votes
January 17th, 2024

12/23
Headed to a concert. Decided to purchase online. I googled it and vivid seats is what came up. The parking was $80. I made the purchase thinking this was how you had to pay. We get to parking garage. Parking was $40! I payed $80. My bad, I'll use the tickets I paid for. They would not accept vivid seats as payment. We had to pay again. Vivid seats will not give me a refund. Life is expensive enough, with out being cheated by this company.

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Was not able to use it

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Thumbnail of user veronicagant4
1 review
1 helpful vote
November 13th, 2023

Terrible company! My concert was postponed/rescheduled twice. One of the artists cancelled all together and replaced. Vivid seats will not refund. For a company that charges a 329.00 service fee on top of the ticket cost their service absolutely sucks. Customer service reps are basically robots. Do not buy from this company! Scammers. Look online very low scores on multiple review websites.

Tip for consumers:
Horrible!

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Thumbnail of user mehrzad.bazyar
1 review
1 helpful vote
December 3rd, 2023

Horrible customer service, overcharging and fraud company that steals your money right in front of your eyes!
Let me tell you what exactly happened: I got 4 tickets (etch 47$) through Vivid seats. The total charge became 261.64$ at the end. When I got the ticket's pdf, the price on tickets was actually 30$ only. Vivid seats not only overcharged me for 17$ for each ticket (total 68$ extra) but also charged me 10$ for delivery (just an email) and on top of all charged me 63.64$ for service fee. For those 4 tickets that I should be charged something around 150$ with the service fee, I paid 261.64$. This means they overcharged me about 110$ with no reason.
The story did not end up here!
When I asked for cancellation, the Indian outsourced customer service representatives who could not speak English well, refused to connect me to the manager and said that they are not allowed to cancel, or connect me to a manager!
AVOID this company, please. If you dont want to get robbed.

Tip for consumers:
Avoid Vivid seats. Please.

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Tickets for shows

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Thumbnail of user naranr1
1 review
1 helpful vote
November 17th, 2023

Typical online reseller, so the general bad stuff is expected as long as you're aware of it.

But we bought a parking pass for $108 (including fees) for a recent concert in L.A. It turned out the lot was over 2 miles from the venue! And the venue had plenty of parking for $60.

When we called Vivid to complain about misrepresenting the proximity of the parking, the customer service agent was a total [insert your favorite expletive here because site fascists dont allow free speech].

Needless to say, we won't ever be doing business with Vivid again.

You've been warned!

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Thumbnail of user marylynnes3
1 review
1 helpful vote
February 2nd, 2024

I just bought 4 tickets at $282 each. With fees, the total came to $1662. I hit payment and I was invoiced $11,257! I tried a thousand times to recreate this scenario and find tickets at that price, even in the front section and nothing. Tickets in the same section I purchased are still selling in the 2-500 range. Vivid Seats says I knew what I was buying. Absolutely not! THERE IS NO WAY I CAN AFFORD THIS OUTRAGEOUS PRICE TAG. What a scam. Never buy from this site. I wish I had read the reviews. I would give negative stars if I could.

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Thumbnail of user martag137
1 review
0 helpful votes
February 2nd, 2024

They charged me with 41% of the tickets cost in fee charge and they only appear when you click to pay, be carefully

Products used:
Concert ticket

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Thumbnail of user anan181
1 review
2 helpful votes
October 16th, 2023
Verified purchase

The worst experience ever! I bought tickets since January for coldplay in September and I NEVER received the tickets, I was talking on the phone and online chat 3 days before every hour, and they assured me that they would arrive before the concert! I NEVER RECEIVED THEM! I have proof of the conversations telling me to worry! I don't understand how the 100% buyer's guarantee works? Now they tell me that it is under investigation and to wait 3-5 days and I have not received a response for 18 days. THIS PAGE IS FAKE, IS A SCAM!

Thumbnail of user jimc1918
1 review
2 helpful votes
September 24th, 2023

I bought expensive tickets with their huge fees over 5 days ago. I am unable to get the tickets on Ticketmaster with the link VividSeats provides. All I get is a blank screen. I've spent hours on the phone with Vividseats. BTW, they only let you talk to people in the Philppines that do nothing more than run through entry level scripts. They know about this problem and continue to sell tickets that people can not claim. They will NOT issue a refund. They just keep telling me to wait. I highly recommend you do NOT use them. I will likely have to seek legal action. Save yourself the hassle.

Products used:
This is a ticket broker. Everything is done online and they have huge problems

Thumbnail of user julianw176
1 review
5 helpful votes
September 9th, 2023

Worst customer service ever. Purchased tickets in advance. Spent a full week trying to get my tickets and it's hours before the game and still no resolution. They hang up in your face, the staff is completely clueless on how to do their job. This is no exaggeration, I've spoken to over 20 different representatives to whom all couldn't help. They refuse to put you in contact with management. They lost my tickets and pretty much told me oh well. Would never purchase another ticket through these crooks again. The worst part is that me and my 5 kids flew and traveled to be at this game and vivid seats took my money for 6 tickets. Worst company ever

Thumbnail of user sarahs3606
1 review
0 helpful votes
December 6th, 2022

I tried to order tickets online thought the vivid seats website. After entering all information and submitting…… the site froze and submit button went gray. I called the help number and spoke with Richard R. Who was not only super friendly and helpful, but saved me a bit of money as well!

Thumbnail of user sonym5
1 review
2 helpful votes
February 20th, 2023
Verified purchase

Purchased Celtics tickets in August 22($870 confirmed seats) for October 2,2022 game. Day of game they said only had 2 tickets available and sold my other 4. Disputed several times and no resolution till this day. Had rented a room just for this event. Credit care company is stating they rejected my dispute because all sales are final. It's not final unless I had the tickets available which I didn't. Never again. Don't use this site they are horrible.
Date of experience: October 02,2022

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Vivid S. – VividSeats Rep

Hi Sony, we recently reached out to you to discuss this order so we could reach a resolution. We had requested some additional documentation from you about the status of the dispute you had filed with your credit card company, and responded recently to follow up. Please refer to the most recent email from us so we can continue to work towards a resolution regarding your experience with these tickets.

Thumbnail of user knf773
1 review
2 helpful votes
October 4th, 2023
Verified purchase

Do not trust Vivid Seats. Both of my last two orders have been horrible experiences. Previously, I purchased tickets to a City SC soccer game in St. Louis. I was delivered tickets to a game in Minnesota against Colorado instead and it took an incredible amount of back and forth to get it correct. This current issue; I purchased tickets on 6/7/23 to a Chicago Fire game on 10/4/23. This event was one that required travel, and it was a little frustrating that the tickets were scheduled to be delivered on 10/3/23 but that is not the problem. 10/3/23 came and went and the tickets were still not received so I contacted Vivid support that afternoon. They said they contacted the seller to remind them to send the tickets and that they would still be delivered on 10/3. Still nothing, so I contacted Vivid to cancel the order at 10 a.m. on the 4th because I was not going to make the 6 hour trip to Chicago without tickets. They would not cancel the order and were not at all understanding of the issue. Beware that the delivery dates listed are meaningless and definitely do not plan a trip to an event relying on Vivid for tickets.

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Thumbnail of user thomasg506
1 review
0 helpful votes
January 22nd, 2020

Monique was super helpful, pleasant and efficient. She took my information which included a change of address and handled everything smoothly.

Thumbnail of user erino18
2 reviews
3 helpful votes
November 21st, 2023

I bought tickets through Vivid Seats. They charged my credit card. I received an email link to download the tickets. When I tried to download them, I received a message that the tickets were already down loaded to another email. I've been emailing and calling Vivid Seats for days. All they say is maybe they went to a different email, maybe you have 2 Ticket Master accounts, maybe someone got into your email.
None of these are true. Instead of just guessing they must have a process to handle this. Computers can track anything. They told me that they contacted ticket master and were told the tickets had been downloaded. When I contacted ticket master they couldn't find any downloaded tickets.

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None. I didn't receive the tickets

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Thumbnail of user gsdemarchi
1 review
1 helpful vote
October 19th, 2023
Verified purchase

This company is terrible they over charge you for seats, over a hundred dollars for service charges per ticket and then sell you an obstructed view seat and take a month to review and no refund Do Not Use This Company

Tip for consumers:
Do not use this company

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Thumbnail of user mforrest31966
1 review
2 helpful votes
October 14th, 2023

My daughter bought two tickets for Noah Kahan in Dallas Oct 15th and still no tickets. She spent 30 minutes on the phone with customer service with no solution yet. I recommended Vivid to her and we will tell everyone to stay away.

Thumbnail of user fuckyouf15
1 review
0 helpful votes
November 19th, 2022

Please fix your $#*!ing app, every single time o go to pay with a card, it's says my billing address is wrong and it's $#*!ing not

Thumbnail of user sethb590
1 review
2 helpful votes
August 14th, 2023
Verified purchase

Falsely advertised tickets for Red Rocks. Row 2. Used Vivid in the past, pretty straight forward. But now, I will never use again. They ignore, and they suggest they are waiting to hear from the seller, who is the one that that falsely labeled the tickets row 2. I want, and deserve a refund. Nobody responds. Bots through chat is the only customer service. Impossible to speak to a human. They "suggest" a customer service line, but it only takes you right to the the chat. This company does not care!

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Thumbnail of user jessicad1730
1 review
1 helpful vote
October 11th, 2022

They've had my money for months, changed the delivery date to the day of the event that's hours away so I just have to hope I actually get them instead if having to turn around and come back. Don't even try them. The customer service is terrible, they offer nothing, one rep suggested I put them up for sale on ANOTHER website (not risking that without actual tickets and putting someone else through the stress I'm dealing with). Trust the terrible reviews. It's a scam.

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Thumbnail of user lorimillevoi
1 review
2 helpful votes
September 8th, 2023

Horrible experience. The company decides when you get what you have paid for in full. They also dictate whether or not you can sell your paid for electronic ticket. Never again.

Tip for consumers:
I’ve never know a company could get away with taking your money but not delivering the product you purchased until they “secure the tickets” after the fact.

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Sporting event tickets

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Thumbnail of user bmvi
1 review
0 helpful votes
December 27th, 2019

Bought some tickets recently and Matthew did a real good job. He was very helpful and polite. Answered all my? The best he could. Still not 100% certain how these GA tickets are gonna work though. We'll see.

Thumbnail of user laurencew60
1 review
0 helpful votes
August 11th, 2022

I used the phone and spoke with a vivid seats representative to place my order. I was told that it was better to place my order by phone and that everything would be taken care of. An advantage of by buying by phone was that the purchase would be taken care of and there would be nothing more for me to do.
But later I received emails asking me to do other things which I did not understand.

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Thumbnail of user jsquared313812
1 review
1 helpful vote
November 24th, 2023

The second time they have stolen $800 from us. We bought tickets to a rodeo just before Covid, and the event was canceled obviously. They issued us an $800 credit, in spite our many attempts to get a refund. A couple of years later we bought tickets to a sporting event and attempted to use our credits. They charged our credit card instead. When we called the company to cancel the order, they insisted it could not be done and to take up the issue with our credit card company. We did, and the credit card company sided with vivid. Fast-forward to now, we are again trying to use our remaining $800 credits which they originally said never expired but now they claim expired in 30 days, and they immediately canceled our order saying that they will not sell tickets to someone who has disputed a charge with them in the past. Amazing how they can all of the sudden cancel orders (which they claimed it couldn't be done, but it can be done when it comes to stealing your money). We have attempted to resolve this with them multiple times to no avail. They are crooked and they will steal your money no matter what they have to do to get it. Do yourself a favor and buy tickets through another website.

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Thumbnail of user lorrainef214
1 review
2 helpful votes
October 8th, 2023

We purchased very expensive parking passes for the Billy Joel/Stevie Nicks concert. There was no parking lot on the address on the tickets. I called customer service; they did not even attempt to help. I paid over $400 (including their exorbitant service fees), and had to pay cash to park farther away and were very late for the concert!

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Thumbnail of user eugeneb87
1 review
0 helpful votes
January 25th, 2020

Joseph was a great representative. Despite my issues with the VividSeats mobile app and frustration that the company does not give phone reps ability to apply Rewards to compensate customers for mobile app technology issues, Joseph salvaged my experience by being really friendly, helpful, and patient in processing my orders. He also tried to help get me in touch with customer support after my orders were processed to see if they could address my mobile app issue (even though customer support did not get back to me).

Thanks Joseph!

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From the business

Vivid Seats is a full-service marketplace that facilitates transactions between fans looking to buy or resell tickets to their favorite sports, concerts, and theater events. We were founded on a passion for live events and a mission to improve and simplify the ticket-purchasing experience, which means we’re committed to helping you find tickets quickly and safely, so you can focus on what matters: enjoying your event.

Vivid Seats offers a premium shopping experience and the industry’s best ticket prices. Our superior relationships with trusted sellers give you an unmatched selection of tickets to the hottest and most exclusive events around the world. And we don’t stop there; we invest in technology to keep our costs low, and pass the savings on to you. Thanks to this commitment, our ticket prices average lower than those found on any other full-service marketplace.

In our commitment to your safety, we keep all of your personal information secure and back every order with our 100% Buyer Guarantee. Meanwhile, our industry-leading, in-house customer service team is available seven days a week to answer any questions, and ensure you have the best ticket-buying experience possible.

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