With the college sports season just around the corner, people are looking for tickets, especially to the marquee games. While some sites are reputable and will help you buy or sell tickets, others are not. College students who don’t have the same cash flow as many established adults fall victim to not getting their tickets that they paid for or not getting the money that they sold their tickets for. Brady Stein, a University of Iowa student, and his crew at Seatstock.com, an Iowa based ticketing website, hope to flip the script on this problem.
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“I realized there is no dedicated marketplace for tickets”, Says Brady, the C.O.O. of Seat Stock. With this in mind, he and his counterpart Josh and many others on the Seat Stock team put together a plan and participated in the Iowa Startup Games Weekend to see if their plan for a secure ticketing site for students would gain traction. “Every time you fail, you get better” and it was this mantra that guided them to success in launching Seat Stock a month ago in July 2024.
The biggest service that Brady and his team offer is secure ticketing along with great customer service. Brady states that in their surveys, “25% of the students we surveyed say that they have been scammed”. Seat Stock holds all payouts until the tickets are in the hands of the buyer.
With college football season right around the corner, Brady hopes to get the word out about this new, “Iowa grown” site by first working with tickets in Iowa and then eventually the Midwest and other college conferences. They plan to get the word on the street near Kinnick Stadium during the first weeks of games by handing out water bottles with codes and instructions to get college students using the Seat Stock site for their buying, selling and trading of college tickets.