Sick of missing out on concert tickets and having to pay touts over the odds at a later date? Reddit may have the answer.

One user from the bee-hive of internet activity has had enough of ticket mark-ups, following an attempt to buy tickets for this year’s Lollapalooza. “I went a couple years ago and it was a complete blast”, explains Reddit user jdd32, “so I figured I’d try and get tickets again for this year. I go to school Fall-Spring and work through the summers so when tickets first became available I didn’t have the cash on hand to get them. I did not see this as a problem originally, because two years ago I got my three-day passes well into the summer after I had made some money. This, of course, was not the case this year as I watched helplessly as each round of tickets sold out within minutes.

“Now the only ones I can find available are on sites like Stub Hub and are just too much for me to justify. I could wait to see if cheap last minute tickets show up, but I cant risk planning a trip on just the potential of getting tickets.”

After searching in vein for a Reddit sub-forum to trade tickets, jdd32 couldn’t find one, so he / she acquired the sub-Reddit concerttickets, with the aim of the forum “grow[ing] into a large and productive community for Redditors to buy or sell reasonably priced tickets for shows or events from other Redditors.”

Now, when we checked out concerttickets yesterday, there were only five posts, but that’s already risen to 20+ within a day, with tickets for Fall Out Boy, Fleetwood Mac, The Knife and more being traded. Now, this isn’t the first site that’s been launched with the aim of countering these sorts of mark-ups – Cash or Trade and others have been doing this for some time – but if ever a website’s users have the will-power to tackle the touting system full on, it’s Reddit. We’re intrigued to see how this will develop.

Alternatively, we could all take a cue from The String Cheese Incident, a band who tackled Ticketmaster mark-ups in a unique way last year.