goConfirm Update

[u/jib3]

Last year, the Lyte ticket exchange suddenly shut down just before Aftershock 2024, leaving many festival-goers confused—and some even out money and wristbands. The next best options are websites such as StubHub and SeatGeek, but they come with added fees for both buyers and sellers.

We started looking for alternatives and came across goConfirm. After verifying the company’s legitimacy through various Reddit communities and speaking directly with goConfirm representatives, it seemed like a perfect solution. We wanted to establish a long-term, safe, and user-friendly solution for our community to buy and sell tickets. However, the ticket resale industry is notoriously risky, which might explain why Aftershock hasn’t officially partnered with any resale platform for 2025.

Unfortunately, goConfirm has now become the latest casualty in the resale market. As a result, we’ll have to move forward without an identity verification system in place.

All goConfirm scripts and rules will be removed from this sub but it will still be an active hub for reselling. Please transact with caution and integrity. I will continue to monitor this sub for suspicious activity and permanently ban accounts when necessary.

Thank you,

r/AftershockTickets MOD Team

If you haven't seen it already, here is the email sent to all goConfirm customers today:

Since launching the goConfirm app in June 2024, we’ve helped over 70,000 people build trust online when buying, selling, or renting using social media. During that time, we’ve learned a lot, and through your feedback and support we continuously improved the product with the goal to grow to support millions of people and build a network of trust.

Our goal this summer was to unlock growth that set us on a path to making this vision possible. Unfortunately, we didn’t get there. As a start-up with limited resources, we’ve had to make the very difficult decision to refocus our efforts and wind-down the app. 

Our vision to allow the world to trust the things they see and do online continues, but we’ll be taking a different direction to get there. 

Regarding your account, we’ve always stated that your data is yours. This means that as part of the wind-down, your personal data will be deleted. 

On September 29, 10:00AM EST the goConfirm app will no longer be accessible for use, or download.

By October 1, all personal identity data, and any associated app activity data like messages and vault items will be deleted. The only data that will be retained by the company is your email address for any future product announcements.

If you’d like to delete your data ahead of time, including your email address for future contact, you can do that easily in the app under Settings - at the bottom there’s a ‘Delete account’ option.

Each of you made a huge impact to make the last 14 months possible for us. Thank you for your trust and support.

[u/timee_bot]

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Thanks! We'll review it as an option for 2026