Editorial Policy

Who publishes this site

Ticketmaster Simulator is an independently published practice tool. It is run by a small team of ticket buyers who got tired of learning the onsale flow the expensive way. It is not a news organisation, it does not employ a newsroom, and it takes no funding from ticketing platforms, resellers, or promoters.

How the guides are produced

Each guide starts from a question a real buyer asks before an onsale — what the waiting room actually does, how a fallback section gets chosen, why a cart timer runs out. The answer is assembled from two kinds of input:

• Hands-on use of the simulator. Every drill we describe has been run in the practice tool, including the failure cases: letting the checkout timer expire, picking a fallback too late, and holding a queue session open on a second device.
• Public platform documentation. Where a guide states how a documented flow works, we read the platform's own help material rather than repeating what a forum post claims.

The writing and the tool are maintained together. If a drill changes, the guide that explains it is revised in the same pass, so the instructions and the interface do not drift apart.

What we refuse to publish

• Statistics we cannot source. If we cannot point at where a number came from, the number does not go on the page. This is why you will not find claims like “practising makes you 8× more likely to get tickets” here — nobody has measured that, including us.
• Event facts we cannot verify. We do not list tour dates, face values, seat maps, or presale codes for specific shows. Those change constantly and getting them wrong wastes a reader's onsale.
• Guaranteed outcomes. No guide says a method will get you a ticket. It cannot know that.
• Paid placement presented as editorial. If something is sponsored, it will say so. Nothing on this site is currently sponsored.
• Encouragement to game a platform. Bypassing queues, buying bots, or evading purchase limits are not covered, because they are against platform terms and often against the law.

Use of writing tools

Drafting may be assisted by software, including AI writing tools. That does not change what is published: every factual claim is checked against the source it cites before the page goes live, and a person is responsible for the final text. Where a sentence is an opinion rather than a sourced fact, it is written as an opinion.

Corrections

If you find something wrong, use the Contact page and include the page address and what you believe is incorrect. We check every report. When a factual error is confirmed, we correct the page and, where the error was material, note that it was revised. We would rather be corrected than left looking confident and wrong.

Updates and review

Policy pages such as this one, the Privacy Policy, and the Terms of Use carry the date of their last revision at the top. Guides are revised when the flow they describe changes, or when a reader report shows they are out of date.

Advertising and independence

This site is funded by advertising served through Google AdSense. Advertisers buy space through Google; they do not buy influence over what is written here, they cannot see articles before publication, and they cannot have a page removed. No advertiser has ever asked us to change a guide, and if one did, the answer would be no.

Ad units are placed so they are clearly separate from the body of a guide and are never styled to look like a navigation link, a download button, or a recommendation from us. See the cookie section of the Privacy Policy for how advertising cookies work and how to switch them off.

Independence from ticketing platforms

We hold no commercial relationship with Ticketmaster, Live Nation, any resale marketplace, or any ticket broker. There are no affiliate links to ticketing sites on this site. See the Disclaimer for the full statement of non-affiliation.