What do resale tickets actually sell for?
The typical US concert ticket that sells on StubHub goes for 70% more than the cheapest ticket listed for the same show today, across 137 upcoming concerts with sales. For 8% of them (about one show in twelve), the typical sale was below today's cheapest listing.
The typical US sports ticket that sells on StubHub goes for 149% more than the cheapest ticket listed for the same show today, across 412 upcoming sports events with sales. For 1.5% of them, the typical sale was below today's cheapest listing.
StubHub has not confirmed to us whether its sold prices include its booking fees. Our listed prices do not, so part of the gap may be fees: read it as an upper bound until we have checked.
Typical sale against today's cheapest listing
The cheapest listing for each show is 1×; the bar below it is the median of what tickets sold for, as a multiple of that listing.
Concerts
Sports
The figures
| Category | Typical sale vs cheapest listing | Sold below the listing | Median sold price | Shows |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Concerts | 1.70× | 8% | $364.15 | 137 |
| Sports | 2.49× | 1.5% | $179.04 | 412 |
How we measured this
- Listed price: StubHub resale listings only, the cheapest ticket listed for each show when we last checked it (we check prices every hour). Per ticket, before StubHub's booking fees.
- Sold price: StubHub's own sold-price summary for each show, from its seller service: the lowest, median, average and highest price per ticket of the tickets it reports as sold for that show. We use the median. StubHub does not say what period a summary covers; we read it as the show's sales so far. We re-read it daily for the most-visited shows and weekly for the rest.
- We first fetched these summaries on 20 October 2026 and hold them for 1,936 shows so far, in every country, so this is an early sample (summaries dated 20 October 2026 to 30 October 2026).
- For each upcoming US show with both figures in dollars, we divide the median sold price by today's cheapest listed price. Each figure is the median of those ratios across the shows; "sold below the listing" counts shows whose median sold price is under today's cheapest listing. A category is shown with at least 100 shows.
- The two prices are not from the same moment: sales happened earlier, the listing is today's. A gap either way can mean prices have moved since.
- We have not yet confirmed whether StubHub's sold prices include its booking fees; our listed prices do not. Until we have, treat the gap as an upper bound. This page is not offered to search engines until then.
- Football matches whose tickets may not legally be resold are left out. Updated 30 October 2026.
Source and download
Source: NeedATicket, "What resale tickets actually sell for", https://needaticket.net/data/sold-vs-listed, updated 30 October 2026.
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