Goldstar Events is a privately-held company in Pasadena, California

Pasadena, California

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 that sells half-price tickets

Ticket (admission)

A ticket is a voucher that indicates that one has paid for admission to an event or establishment such as a theatre, movie theater, amusement park, zoo, museum, concert, or other attraction, or permission to travel on a vehicle such as an airliner, train, bus, or boat, typically because one has...

 to leisure activities such as live entertainment, theatre, concerts, dance, film screenings, sporting events, and spa services. The company serves markets in the metro areas of San Diego, Los Angeles

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, San Francisco, Las Vegas

Las Vegas, Nevada

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, Chicago

Chicago

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, Washington, D.C.

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, New York City

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, Boston

Boston

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, Seattle, Minneapolis – Saint Paul, Sacramento, Portland, Houston, Dallas, and Philadelphia. It focuses on young people who may not ordinarily choose to go to live events instead of movies, and creates preference profiles for its members based on post-event surveys.

Goldstar is the leader in selling half-priced tickets online, Goldstar’s business is web-based and the company sells only to its members, which number more than 1.9 million.

It is free to join Goldstar.

Goldstar debuted February 14, 2002 and was launched by e-commerce experts Jim McCarthy, Richard Webster and Robert Graff. The web site was the first to introduce user reviews and event rantings online for the live entertainment industry - and continues to host the largest collection of "astroturf free" reviews. In April 2011, Goldstar appointed Neil Patrick Harris

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, Sean Moriarty and Matt Coffin

Matt Coffin

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to the Advisory Board.
In September 2011, Goldstar sold it's 5 millionth ticket and introduced it's patent-pending "Sit with Friends" feature.