TicketsNow, established in 1999 and based in Rolling Meadows, Illinois

Rolling Meadows, Illinois

Rolling Meadows is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 24,607 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Rolling Meadows is located at ....

, is a marketplace for event tickets.

TicketsNow was named in 2004 and 2006 to the Inc. 500 Index of the fastest-growing privately held companies in the U.S. and is a founding member of the National Association of Ticket Brokers (NATB), which promotes ethics in the secondary ticketing marketplace.

In February 2008, TicketsNow was acquired by Ticketmaster

Ticketmaster

Ticketmaster Entertainment, Inc. is an independent American ticket sales and distribution company based in West Hollywood, California, USA, with operations in many countries around the world. In 2010 it merged with Live Nation to become Live Nation Entertainment...

 for $265 million and currently operates as a wholly owned, independently operated subsidiary.

TicketsNow has a few major competitors. These competitors include Stubhub

Stubhub

StubHub is an online marketplace owned by eBay, which provides services for buyers and sellers of tickets for sports, concerts, theater and other live entertainment events....

.

2009 Controversy

In 2009, Suspicion arose when attempted consumers of tickets to a concert by Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen , nicknamed "The Boss," is an American singer-songwriter who records and tours with the E Street Band...

were instantly redirected from Ticketmaster's own site to TicketsNow, only to see the same tickets being sold at premium prices. As a ticket broker owned by Ticketmaster, rumors were abound that Ticketmaster conspired to divert buyers away from the main site at normal prices towards the broker site at inflated prices.

Ticketmaster claims it was a glitch.