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The face-value router
Official onsale time, every presale window, where its code lives, and the published face-value range. Then the whole tour ranked by all-in cost per seat, with drive time.
Face Value
Hip hop and rock, outside the big metros
The only ticket site with no ticket to sell.So the only one that will tell you not to buy.
Onsale times, presale codes and the one date on the tour that still sells at face value. Then we hand you to the official seller and take nothing.
Fee Check is free and needs no email. Tour Watch is $4 once, and nothing renews.
Read the arithmeticRiverbend Music CenterFri 12 Jun
Sec 202 / Row G1 seat
- Face value
- $59
- Service fee
- $92
- Facility charge
- $23
- Order processing
- $12
All-in$186
Multiple3.2x
Same tour, Tue 9 Jun, Louisville. $59 all-in. 1.0x. 96 miles.
Illustrative example. Every live number names its source and the date it was read.
The arithmetic left off everyone else’s page
A fan outside a big city has no honest path to a seat.
- 1.4x
- Ticketmaster's mandatory fees have run as high as 44% of the ticket price.
- $16.4B
- Fees the FTC says the pair charged fans between 2019 and 2024. It sued in Sep 2025.
- 2.0–5.0x
- What resale asks once the general onsale is gone, which takes minutes.
FTC v. Live Nation / Ticketmaster
FTC complaint, filed Sep 2025
Face Value, reading public listings
Every other site earns money per ticket sold. So every other site wants you to buy the ticket in front of you.
The row a marketplace can never print
Same tour. Same seats. 96 miles further.
This is the table, ranked by all-in cost per seat. The cheapest date is pinned at the top. Green means at or below face value.
- 9 Jun1.0x
KFC Yum! Center
Louisville, KY
$59 all-in96 miat face value
- 21 Jun2.1x
Alpine Valley
East Troy, WI
$121 all-in341 mi - 14 Jun2.5x
Ruoff Music Center
Noblesville, IN
$148 all-in112 mi - 12 Jun3.2x
Riverbend Music Center
Cincinnati, OH
$186 all-in4 mithe show you searched
A site paid per ticket can never print that top row. It ends the sale it was hired to make.
Illustrative example. Live tables are read from the official seller, with the date read printed beside every number.
One venue, one catchment, one price
We are the map, not the toll booth.
The show comes to one amphitheatre within driving distance, and that venue prices like the monopoly it is. We never buy, hold or resell a seat. We show you the door and the number on it.
Data comes from the official Discovery API. We never automate a purchase and we never break a seller’s terms.
What Face Value will do
Four things, and none of them sell you a ticket.
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Fee Check
Paste what you are being asked to pay. We set it against the printed face value and name the multiple, then point at the cheaper date on the same tour.
03
Tour Watch
Follow an artist and we watch the whole tour by email. Presale codes the hour they surface, onsale reminders before the clock, and every added date.
04
The Ledger
What fans reported actually paying, by show and by venue. Every Fee Check makes it sharper. No marketplace has a reason to publish it, so we will.
What we sell
Two prices, paid once, and nothing per ticket.
- Search, tour pages, the onsale calendar, Fee Check
- Free
- Tour Watch
- $4
- All-Access
- $19
Forever, with no account
One artist, watched to the final date
Every tour, one payment, forever
We earn nothing on your ticket. This $4 is how we stay on your side.
What we will never take
The list that keeps the advice honest.
- A cut of your ticket, at any price
- A commission from a seller, disclosed or not
- A resale listing, at any multiple
- A countdown clock, or a seats-left number
- A password, because there is no account
- Your money for a ticket, because we hold none
Taking money per ticket would destroy the only thing we sell, which is being on your side.
Two numbers, one verdict
Find out what they charged you for the seat.
Paste the printed price and the total you were quoted. Fee Check gives you the multiple, and your number joins The Ledger. No account, no email, no charge.
