Key Features
- Tickets purchased from this site carry a one hundred per cent purchase price refund if event is cancelled and not rescheduled.
- Barrystickets is an exhibition participant and an active member of the Los Angeles Convention and Visitors Bureau.
- This service has been in business for more than twenty years; no complaints have been filed nor are pending with the Better Business Bureau.
Favorite Feature
Tickets for any event at any venue in any city within the state of California may be picked up at the Los Angeles location at no additional charge. This feature is outstanding since it eliminates the tedious wait on the never-ending will-call line.
The Experience
barrystickets.com offers one-stop shopping regardless of your area of interest. They offer tickets for an infinite variety of events, including major and minor league sport experiences, concerts, and theater performances. Event specifics may be searched by team, venue, artist, or name of show.
Their primary area of concentration is sports, with a specific dedication to the Los Angles Lakers. Their main office and ticket pick-up location is next to the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles. They have four additional locations in their home state of California, including Calabasas, Encino, Costa Mesa, and San Francisco.
Orders may be placed with a credit card either online or by telephone for any event listed on their website, including those in Ft. Lauderdale, Vancouver, Greece, Germany, Las Vegas, Washington DC, Vail, London, any city, any country. You may expect a call from a representative of Barrystickets within twenty-four hours, confirming your order and securing arrangements for delivery.
All Features
- BarrysTickets.com does not charge a service fee.
- They are a member of the National Association of Ticket Brokers, and enjoy an A rating from the Better Business Bureau.
- Free e-mail alerts on upcoming events can be narrowed down by area of interest. i.e. sports, concerts, theater.
- Tickets can be ordered via iPhone application.
- An online seating chart site for every arena for which they provide tickets is readily available on their website.
Pricing
Pricing is determined by market supply and customer demand. A price comparison of same section, same row seats for the James Taylor & Carole King concert at the Hollywood Bowl in May 2010, between barrystickets.com and a second online independent broker, resulted in a price difference of $20 for every two tickets ordered.
Shipping via Federal Express ranges from $15 for standard delivery to $30 for priority overnight.
Customer Service
Customer service for Barry’s Tickets can be reached at 866-708-8499. Our call was answered immediately by a representative named Bill who was extremely friendly. We inquired about hours for pick-up at the various California locations, and he advised that, except for the downtown Los Angeles office, the locations do not have regular Sunday hours, but are open on those Sundays for which an event is scheduled. He offered to provide direct contact phone numbers for those offices, as well as a direct line to the downtown LA location. That office, just a few steps from the Staples Center, is open seven days per week from 10:00am until 9:00pm. This experience at Barry’s Tickets gave us the impression that customer service is a top priority of this online ticket broker.
A vast amount of information is offered on their FAQ site at: http://www.barrystickets.com/faq.php. That site contains more than thirty-five detailed answers covering topics including shipping charges, ordering via telephone vs. online, identification required for pick-up, etc.
Upside
Barry’s Tickets is a reliable online ticket broker that has been around for a very long time and that provides all tickets to all events in any city without a service charge.
Downside
None