[Ell]

Hello



I am thinking of starting a web site and was wondering what people thought of the idea.



The idea is just a web site of theatre offers. I am not sure at this stage if this will just be West End or regional as well.



When I am looking to see a show I have 4 or 5 sites that I look at to see what is on offer then go for the best off. What about if this was all on one site.

The idea would be that when I find an offer I would put details on the web site for anyone to click on a link and be taken to that offer.



Also anyone else could send me details and I would put link of those offers on it as well. Over time hopefully I would build up a good site that people look to for finding great offers to see shows.



Can you please let me know your thoughts. Is a good idea or bad? Any suggestions for the site?



Like I say I am just looking into the possibility of it and would really appreciate some feedback.


Thanks


Elliott

[Mark_E]

Im not sure

Enjoylondonforless already does this. You have to enter your details and they email you offers of all the shows at £10 or less, and then also any other cheap offers for shows.

I would probably never venture away from what im used to and im sure alot of others would too.

Go for it though, who knows what might happen!

[Robert Iles]

Nice idea ... but there's actually a few already out there - not least our own ;-)

SeatChoice (www.seatchoice.com) covers the whole of the UK for theatre, opera, dance, musicals, comedy and concerts - we collect together details from around a dozen ticket suppliers and can even do live availability and price searches across many of them giving you accurate "who has what and how much will I have to pay" details from all the main legitimate distributors.

The service is built on our what's on listings database (we have the advantage of having built up over 85,000 shows going back 14 years) and there's probably 25,000 links to tickets, offers, meal deals, hotel deals and other stuff available on any given day from a range of suppliers ... these are matched to the listings so that people can find, for example, all the Peppa Pig tour tickets in one place wherever they come from ... again, we have over a decade of technology development behind this.

There are also a number of other website doing different 'multi-supplier' services ... search for "theatre ticket comparison" and see what I mean ;-). "Comparison" in this context means "find whose got them, compare price and availability and go buy safely"

[Mark_E]

Seatchoice is really crap for special offers. It pulls up no offers from lastminute.com (where most of the best discounts are usually to be found) so it isn't the best of tools.

La Cage aux Folles for tomorrow
Lastminute.com - £15 for best seats
Seatchoice - Nothing less than £71 on fully checked tickets. Other is just ticketmaster standard price.

[armadillo]

Doesn't Theatremonkey already list all the newspaper special offers?

[Weez]

The London page of BroadwayBox.com already does its darnedest to list all available offers as well. If the original poster is trying to fill a niche in the market, perhaps it'd be best not try filling a niche that's already apparently quite full.

[Robert Iles]

Seatchoice is really crap for special offers. It pulls up no offers from lastminute.com (where most of the best discounts are usually to be found) so it isn't the best of tools.

La Cage aux Folles for tomorrow
Lastminute.com - £15 for best seats
Seatchoice - Nothing less than £71 on fully checked tickets. Other is just ticketmaster standard price.

I'm sorry you think that, we do carry all the information from lastminute.com and if you had clicked on "Ticket Offers" you would have found "La Cage Aux Folles tickets - Playhouse Theatre - from only £10, lastminute.com exclusive" that's £5 cheaper than you found! Unfortunately lastminute.com doesn't currently allow us to search live availability and price hence they don't come up in the live search listings (that was £71 for TWO tickets by the way) .... bit harsh to call us "really crap" me thinks but perhaps we do need to flag those offers better - I shall do that now, thanks for the feedback

http://www.seatchoice.com/tickets/pg:25/ac...show:L976143546

[RH1234]

Doesn't Theatremonkey already list all the newspaper special offers?

Theatremonkey already have a great list of offers from the web, newspaper and other promotional things: http://www.theatremonkey.com/CURRENTSPECIALOFFERS.htm