Our vision was a site based on ethics, community, and a shared passion for live music. Real fans deserve a safe place where they can buy concert tickets from other real fans at face value. Live music communities across the internet were trading tickets on a multitude of platforms and social networks, yet there was no means for accountability. We started because fans wanted an honest alternative to ticket scalping. This was becoming a very real problem, and we knew there had to be a solution. Although scalping is illegal in 13 states, it is unregulated on the internet. Live music fans were missing opportunities to attend shows just because they were unable to pay double or triple the original ticket price. The system was broken- dominated by scalping brokers using high-tech hacking programs to obtain tickets as soon as they went on sale. After searching high and low for tickets, it became very clear that scalpers had taken over the aftermarket. In 2009, we were just two brothers from Vermont who got shut out from seeing our favorite band. We want to thank all 250,000+ fans across the world who are in our social networks and registered members of the Cash or Trade family from the bottom of our hearts! When we began this project we had no idea how many lives it would impact.
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We have so much news to share! We just made the big announcement on SiriusXM JamOn Radio that the CashorTrade iPhone App is live and free for download. Wow! This has been a crazy year for us at Cash or Trade.