Review my startup: NivNav, fan friendly ticket resale
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1966696http://www.nivnav.com/hello/hn
With NivNav you can sell your tickets above cost, and both sides save 5% over StubHub. Or you can sell your ticket at-cost, the seller's fee is reduced to $0, and the seller also receives Fan Points that they can use to get first dibs on the at-cost tickets being made available by other users. There are other ways to earn Fan Points as well, the mechanics are similar to Listia. The site is currently in private beta, and from a group of 450 test users (Phish related), 80+ tickets have been listed and 50+ tickets sold. All tickets first go through a 3 day Fan Point auction and are only made generally available to "Buy Now" if nobody bids any points.
I'm interested to hear any thoughts you have on the site, the prospects of ramping up a sustainable marketplace and if it happens to catch your imagination, drop me a note at lerhaupt at gmail. Apart from logo design and legal, the work is my own, and I'm looking to bring on a founder level first-hire (deeply technical, data-crunchy) in the sf bay area to really get things moving.