I was helping a friend list some Lana del Rey tickets on Stubhub the other day and I told him to list it at $155, which was the lowest price. However, he told me the lowest price was $144. I told him to list it at $155 anyway and we can work down to $144 if that’s really the lowest price. So he listed them for $155. See:
I then told him to click on ‘compare prices’ and sure enough, he was the lowest at $155.
But then when he tried to go buy them, he saw $144:
You see, there are different prices when you are logged in (pic on left) and when you’re incognito (pic on right). See:
What’s going on? Well it seems once you’re logged in, SH gives you some sort of buyer discount. It’s very confusing though. Now you may be wondering why this all matters. Well because if my friend really thought $144 was the lowest, that means instead of $155->$144 that we had listed at, he’d probably be listing his tickets at $144->133 or so, which would have cost him $10 per ticket.
So what to do -> to be on the safe side, always list your tickets high (say 20% higher than what you want. Then AFTER you’ve listed them, click on compare prices and see where you are in the listings. If you’re say $20 away from being the lowest, you can then drop your price by $20 to be the lowest. Don’t leave money on the table due to this stupid SH “feature.”