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Crowd Seats founder Justin Cener on how the site offers great deals for tickets to sporting events.
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Alright well once sports fan is taking on Groupon.
Living social and all -- -- those -- deal sites with his new site -- seats and when he expects to be the bigger players at their own gain.
-- targeting -- -- is the founder and CEO of crap seat.
-- so great to have you are right so -- crop -- -- taking on Groupon you're taking on living social.
What's unique about the daily deal type website that you've that you've launched.
Sure thanks for having me first north.
-- -- like to call crowd sees the sports fan's dream and cuts -- is the first and only flat -- safer sports tickets and we offer incredible ticket deals on.
The best the best sporting events in town with discounts for between fifty -- 90% off without any added fees so.
What what really sets us apart is that the simplicity we curator great sports experience.
We set it up with some great discounts -- really enable a lot of sports fans or more sports fans or just general consumers to experience -- sporting event I grew up going to.
Tons -- games and I I have great memories to -- I just really want to be able to spread that experience to as many sports fans and consumers as.
Possible at a fair rate -- just and I am thrilled I got to tell yeah I don't wanna advertise for you -- you you can do -- -- enough.
But New York luckily is one of those towns where you are in operation and I just what -- your website.
I didn't I didn't buy it because of fortune -- -- a conflict for this particular event but this is what you get.
You get essentially a 50% off deal this particular deal is firm well Baltimore plane yankees on May first.
66 dollar ticket go 133 box how do you get money out of the deal.
-- -- -- takes a percentage of each ticket sold so.
-- the the prices on their in this case 33 that's the price that a consumer would pay.
Bureaucrats -- -- just take a percentage of that that's how we make our from home though from from the team itself.
But we work with teams we also work with brokers really depends on on the -- the schedule.
Teams are gonna known investment and have some excess inventory so in some cases will work directly with them.
But I Casey we we're we work with brokers that have a lot of excess inventory or last minute inventory by either way the model for us still works the same -- take that same.
Percentage cut.
Just an outside of the excess inventory do ticket buyers have to take other concessions I mean thirty bucks for yankees -- -- that sounds fantastic you have to you.
Except though that killed seeded team against.
I'm not so successful -- or that the -- will be you know I'm at 2 o'clock after 2 o'clock in the afternoon on a Tuesday.
No not at all we we try to get.
Great games we try to get great match -- on -- locations sourcing locations -- have the best value conference and how I -- top offer such a deep discount.
There's there's just saw a lot of times there's lot of excess inventory going in there that's all -- are getting bigger yeah.
Just lot of excess inventory as a fan it's going to be no different experiences if you're gonna buy from.
Broker from what sort of from -- are going to be able to enjoy that great sports experience -- given it for really great discount -- How did you get up and running and how are you continuing to get new capital do you have cement Angel investors there.
Actually know it's I'm pretty much self funded on the developer and designer myself so I was able to offset a lot of those costs are sort of the development last may.
And just been pretty much running that way since then hopefully looking to expand but for right now -- -- -- -- -- self funded.
Well congratulations just it's I -- got to tell you it is a site that I'm gonna use and it is targeted that's probably part of the problem with the Groupon.
It's it's so broad that very often people kind of get fed up this is very targeted to a particular need of a particular audience.
Just in -- it's crowds seats we thank you for coming on Justin congratulate -- about what.
Appreciate it thank test and so.
