Bending Spoons Buys Eventbrite For $500 Million

IMHO Yes and no….Online ticket sales ok, but with a hefty 20% mark-up. I just pulled two random events in my area $20 face value, plus $5.55 for Eventbrite fee. Another was $40 ticket price, plus $8.85 Eventbrite fee.

Next, the Eventbrite search is abysmal. Search for events, put in a date time range, geo location, and type (Theater, music, comedy) and it’s a random output of sponsored slop, incorrect matches (dates waay out of the range, etc) and even missing options that are actually using…