Quote Originally Posted by SunshineGirl View Post
Here are a couple of general tips that I can give. They won't protect you 100%, but they should help:

1) Get tickets in your hand as soon as possible. Make sure that you verify that tickets are legit. For events, if you have them in your hand, you don't have to worry about the broker going belly up.

2) Use a good credit card for purchases. In particular, make sure that they protect your losses over X amount. For example, people who paid ATA in cash are probably out of luck. But people who used credit cards might get some of their money back.

3) Set up a Google Alert on companies that you use frequently--airlines, hotels, ticket brokers, etc. You will get an alert every time they are mentioned in the media and blogs. Just scan through each time you get an alert and see if anything jumps out that indicates they are in trouble--stock prices going down drastically, board members jumping ship, "reorganizations", etc. You'll stay ahead of the curve in knowing if a company is in trouble.
Thanks tricia.
I found out it doesn't matter where you buy Nascar tickets, they don't release the tickets until 2 weeks before a race. Isn't that stupid. We went with a company that is in good standings with the BBB, so hopefully Nascar doesn't go bankrupt.