Our platform operates on
3 key principles

Price Transparency

On our platform, users have access to data points like sales history and current live offers on both sides of the market, regardless of their location.

Authentication

What makes FestFriends unique is the fact that we act as an intermediary to authenticate every transaction
and ticket.

Confidentiality

Users don’t have to worry about finding a person they’re comfortable interacting with, just a price they’re wiling
to pay or accept.

How It Works
Buying tickets is now as easy as 1, 2, 3...

Bid/Buy Now

Place a bid with a price that can be accepted by any seller, or purchase immediately at the Lowest Ask price available in the market.

Authentication

The seller ships us the wristband ticket. We check to make sure everything is legitimate and exactly as advertised, and release funds to the seller.

Thrive

You receive your ticket in hand. Start planning outfits and packing, knowing you’ll never have to worry about a fake ticket.

The smoothest way to securely .
buy and sell festival tickets

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Reviews

Hear what people have to say about their experience using FestFriends

Meet the
FestFriends Team

CEO & Founder

Shafqat Huq

Shafqat is a serial entrepreneur, adrenaline junkie, sports fanatic, and music festival lover, originally from and currently living in Southern California. Shaf graduated from W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University with three Bachelor of Science degrees in Finance, Economics, and Accounting. Prior to founding FestFriends, he had a practice as a Wealth Management Advisor.

COO & Co-Founder

Ed Sharp

Ed was born and raised in Pebble Beach, California and graduated from Arizona State University’s W.P. Carey of Business with a degree in Computer Information Systems. Since graduation, Ed has experience as a software consultant with major firms like IBM and Accenture.

When he isn’t attending festival events or working on FestFriends, he can usually be found in the gym or out on the golf course.

CMO & Co-Founder

Tom Sharp

Originally from Pebble Beach, California, Tom graduated from the W.P. Carey School of Business with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Information Systems. He has worked as a Salesforce Developer and Administrator with software consulting firms, as well as with the marketing departments of several major IT and Service providers.

When he’s not working on FestFriends, Tom is usually producing music, attending music festivals, or spending time with his two huskies, Lucy and Molly.

Riley Shasteen

Riley Shasteen

Originally from Laguna Beach, California, Riley is finishing up her last year as a Creative Writing major at the University of California, Riverside. At the age of 14, she discovered her love of writing and wrote a book that was then published a few years later. She fell in love with music festivals for this same reason and is happy to be able to combine both of her passions with FestFriends.

Riley has attended over ten music festivals, and some of her favorites include Coachella, EDC, and Life is Beautiful. When she isn’t working, studying, or attending music festivals, she can be found writing, reading, taking photos, or playing video games.

Our team
Frequently Asked Questions

General Info

FestFriends is a bid and ask marketplace designed for users to buy and sell tickets at a fair market price in a secure and convenient transaction. FestFriends fosters a safe environment for festival-goers to buy and sell tickets for popular music festivals. What makes us unique is that we act as an intermediary party in the transaction, and authenticate all tickets to ensure validity. Once a buyer and seller have been matched, the seller sends us the ticket in the mail to verify its legitimacy. Once we do that, we ship it off to the buyer and release the money to the seller. No more sketchy meet-ups in Walmart parking lots.
FestFriends is a bid and ask marketplace designed for users to buy and sell tickets at a fair market price in a secure and convenient transaction. FestFriends fosters a safe environment for festival-goers to buy and sell tickets for popular music festivals. What makes us unique is that we act as an intermediary party in the transaction, and authenticate all tickets to ensure validity. Once a buyer and seller have been matched, the seller sends us the ticket in the mail to verify its legitimacy. Once we do that, we ship it off to the buyer and release the money to the seller. No more sketchy meet-ups in Walmart parking lots. If there is an event that you think we should feature, you can submit a request. Please keep in mind that we will not make any exceptions for events (or products related to events) that are not featured. And no, we will not list Fyre Festival tickets.
Even though FestFriends does store information via your buying/selling profiles, transactions are completely anonymous. There is no way for a buyer to know from whom they are receiving a ticket from and vice versa.
Nope! The market prices of the festival tickets are set completely by you and other festival goers. This is what is so amazing about the FestFriend marketplace.
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