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8 August 2026 · 9 min read

"Healing the market": when higher fees are a decision, not bad luck

Ticket prices in Czechia are up 33% in seven years, organiser commissions sit near 8%, and the CEO of the group that now owns most of the market says the old low commissions weren't sustainable. The regulator declined to step in. Most businesses accept this as bad luck. One Prague fine dining experience treated it as a decision — and the thinking behind it applies well beyond ticketing.

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30 April 2026 · 9 min read

When build-vs-buy flips: a Prague music collective replaces Eventbrite

Around a tenth of every Czech ticket goes to the platform selling it — and the group that now owns most of the market says the old, lower commissions weren't sustainable. So we built this collective their own ticketing infrastructure — Stripe, PDF tickets with QR codes, door check-in, self-serve admin — for the price of a domain name. Here's the architecture, the numbers, and why this math now applies to a lot of small businesses.

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