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Add FIXR comparison page
Add pricing data and comparison page for FIXR, a UK student nightlife ticketing platform. Covers Pro tier (4.99% + £0.49) and Student & Charity tier (3.99% + £0.49) pricing, feature comparison, data ownership, and company background (VIPR Digital Limited). https://claude.ai/code/session_018624FS2ULRiastmnsSDkwM
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"fee_note": "Wix Events fees: 2.5% ticket service fee per paid ticket, plus Wix Payments processing (2.1% + 20p in the UK). Requires a Wix Business & eCommerce plan (from $29/month, approx. £23/month or £276/year). Free tickets have no service fee. Chobble Tickets: £50/year flat + Stripe processing (1.5% + 20p). Source: support.wix.com (March 2026)."
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"fixr": {
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"name": "FIXR (Pro)",
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"annual_cost": 0,
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"per_ticket_fee_percent": 4.99,
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"per_ticket_fee_fixed": 0.49,
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"fee_note": "FIXR Pro fees: 4.99% + £0.49 per ticket (£1 minimum) + VAT (includes payment processing). Student & Charity tier: 3.99% + £0.49. Fees are typically paid by the ticket buyer but can be absorbed by the organiser. Chobble Tickets: £50/year flat + Stripe processing (1.5% + 20p). Source: fixr.co/pricing (March 2026)."
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"name": "Chobble Tickets",
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layout: design-system-base.html
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competitor_key: fixr
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title: Chobble Tickets vs FIXR
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meta_title: Open Source Alternative to FIXR | Chobble Tickets
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meta_description: Looking for an alternative to FIXR? Chobble Tickets offers flat annual pricing with no per-ticket fees, full data ownership, and encrypted attendee data. Compare pricing and features.
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permalink: /compared-to/fixr/
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eleventyNavigation:
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key: vs FIXR
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parent: Compared To
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- type: hero
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title: Chobble Tickets vs FIXR
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lead: >-
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FIXR dominates UK student nightlife and event discovery. Here's how
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a small, open source alternative compares on pricing, features, and
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data ownership.
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content: |
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## Pricing comparison
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[FIXR](https://fixr.co) is free for organisers — ticket buyers pay a
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booking fee of 4.99% + £0.49 per ticket (£1 minimum) + VAT on the
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Pro tier, or 3.99% + £0.49 on the Student & Charity tier. These fees
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include payment processing, and organisers can optionally absorb them.
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Enterprise pricing is negotiated separately.
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Chobble Tickets is a flat £50/year (£25 for charities and community
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groups) with no per-ticket fees at all. You only pay Stripe or Square
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processing fees on top. If you sell more than about 100 tickets at
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£10 each in a year, Chobble Tickets is already cheaper.
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On higher-priced tickets the gap grows quickly. A £30 ticket costs
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£1.99 in FIXR platform fees alone — that's just 26 tickets to break
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even against a full year of Chobble Tickets.
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file: price-comparator.html
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content: |
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## Data ownership and privacy
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FIXR operates an event discovery marketplace — their website and app
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let attendees browse and discover events. This means your attendees
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become part of FIXR's audience, and your events sit alongside
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competitors' listings.
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With Chobble Tickets, attendee data is encrypted with hybrid RSA/AES
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encryption and stays under your control. There's no marketplace
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showing competing events next to yours, and no marketing emails sent
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to your attendees by the platform.
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## Payouts
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FIXR handles payment processing as part of their booking fee and
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manages payouts to organisers.
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Chobble Tickets uses Stripe or Square directly, so payments go
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straight to your account with standard processing times. You're
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always in control of your own payment processor account.
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## Feature comparison
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**Both platforms share some features:**
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- Online ticket sales
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- QR code scanning for check-in at the door
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- Email confirmations to attendees after booking
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- Capacity management to prevent overselling
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- Free event support with no fees
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- Multiple ticket types
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- Embeddable ticket widgets for your own website
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FIXR has some features Chobble Tickets doesn't, and vice versa:
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**FIXR has features Chobble Tickets doesn't:**
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- **Event discovery app** — FIXR's consumer-facing app and website
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let attendees browse and discover events, with strong reach in
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the UK student nightlife market
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- **Rep/affiliate network** — a built-in system where promoters
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sell tickets on your behalf and earn commission, with tracking
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dashboards
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- **Student verification** — built-in student status verification
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for age-restricted or student-only events
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- **Ad pixel tracking** — retargeting and lookalike audience support
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for Facebook and other ad platforms
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- **Promo codes** — discount codes, presale codes, and hidden ticket
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access codes
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- **Fast checkout** — streamlined checkout with saved card details
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via the FIXR app
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- **Push notifications** — event announcements via push notification
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to followers
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- **Custom branded apps** — on the Enterprise tier, FIXR builds
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custom branded apps and websites for your events
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- **Business insights** — analytics on customer origination,
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journey, and lifecycle
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**Chobble Tickets has features FIXR doesn't:**
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- **[End-to-end encryption](/features/encrypted/)** — attendee data
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is encrypted at rest with hybrid RSA-OAEP + AES-256-GCM
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- **[Apple & Google Wallet tickets](/features/apple-wallet/)** —
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attendees can add tickets to their phone wallet
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- **[ICS calendar feeds](/features/rss-and-calendar-feeds/)** —
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subscribers get automatic calendar updates
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- **[RSS feeds](/features/rss-and-calendar-feeds/)** — syndicate
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your events to feed readers
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- **[Pay-what-you-want pricing](/features/stripe-and-square/)** —
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let attendees choose their price
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- **[Daily/recurring event support](/features/daily-events/)** —
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built for events that repeat on a schedule with per-date capacity
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- **[Custom domain support](/features/custom-domain/)** — get a
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nice host-provided subdomain instantly, or point your own domain
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- **Self-hosting option** — run the platform on your own servers
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for free
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- **[Open source](/features/open-source/)** — inspect, modify, and
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contribute to the code under AGPLv3
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- **[Custom questions](/features/custom-questions/)** — add
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multiple-choice questions to events and collect structured
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answers at checkout
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- **[Public & admin API](/features/public-api/)** — RESTful JSON
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API for building custom integrations, plus [authenticated admin
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API](/features/admin-api/) with full event CRUD via API keys
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- **[Webhooks](/features/webhooks/)** — outbound POST on every
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registration
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- **[Event groups with tiered ticketing](/features/groups/)** —
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organise related events into collections for multi-event bookings
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with a single checkout
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- **[Custom email providers](/features/email-providers/)** — use
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Resend, Postmark, SendGrid, or Mailgun so emails come from your
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domain
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- **[Customisable email templates](/features/email-templates/)** —
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full control over confirmation emails with Liquid syntax
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- **No marketing emails to attendees** — your audience stays yours
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## When FIXR might be better
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- You're running student events or university nightlife and want
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access to FIXR's audience and discovery platform
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- You need a rep/affiliate system to incentivise ticket sellers
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- You want your events listed on a marketplace where attendees
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browse and discover events
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- You need student verification for age-restricted events
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- You have very low volume and prefer buyer-pays fees over an
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annual subscription
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## When Chobble Tickets might be better
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- You want predictable, flat-rate pricing with no per-ticket fees
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- Privacy and encryption matter to you
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- You don't want a platform marketing to your attendees or showing
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competing events alongside yours
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- You're a community group, charity, or school (£25/year)
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- You want Apple/Google Wallet integration, calendar feeds, or RSS
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- You value open source and the ability to self-host
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- You're selling enough tickets that percentage fees add up quickly
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## Who owns FIXR?
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FIXR was founded in 2013 by Nick Stone and Edmund Glover (CEO),
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both former bankers. The company operates as VIPR Digital Limited
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([Companies House #08184813](https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08184813)),
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headquartered at 25-26 Poland Street, London W1F 8QN, with offices
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in Dubai and Cape Town. FIXR has raised $9 million in funding over
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five rounds, the latest in May 2021. The platform originally
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launched in UK universities in 2015 and has since expanded into
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nightlife, festivals, venues, and attractions.
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Chobble Tickets is run by one person as a
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[Community Interest Company](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/community-interest-companies-introduction)
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(CIC) — a UK legal structure that locks the company's assets for
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community benefit. All of Chobble's code is public under AGPLv3,
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and the platform can be self-hosted by anyone without depending on
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Chobble as a company.
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## Pricing sources
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The pricing information on this page was verified in March 2026.
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Fees may change — check the links below for the latest figures.
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- [FIXR pricing](https://fixr.co/pricing) — Pro: 4.99% + £0.49 per ticket; Student & Charity: 3.99% + £0.49
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- [FIXR for organisers](https://fixr.co/p/event-organisers) — event ticketing and promotion platform
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- [FIXR event ticketing](https://fixr.co/p/event-ticketing) — ticketing features overview
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- [Chobble Tickets features](/features/)
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- [VIPR Digital Limited on Companies House](https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08184813) — corporate structure
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title: Try Chobble Tickets
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description: Flat pricing, encrypted data, and no per-ticket fees.
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button:
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text: Get Started
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href: https://tix.chobble.com/ticket/register
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