8. A computer-implemented system comprising a computing device having a database storing a predefined catalog of venue attributes describing sections of a venue utilized for comparing tickets for the venue that are listed for sale in the database, wherein one or more ticket attributes of a ticket provided by a seller must match a venue attribute in the predefined catalog in order to display a ticket listing for offering the ticket provided by the seller to other users and executing an application for: presenting a graphical user interface to a computer of the seller for receiving a character string representing one or more ticket attributes of a ticket provided by the seller; accepting the character string as entered by the seller; comparing the character string as entered by the seller to the predefined catalog of venue attributes stored in the database; determining if the character string as entered by the seller corresponds to terminology for venue attributes utilized by the predefined catalog in the database for comparing tickets for the venue that are listed for sale in the database; if the character string as entered by the seller does not correspond to terminology for venue attributes utilized by the predefined catalog in the database for comparing tickets for the venue that are listed for sale in the database applying an initial rule in a set of pre-defined rules to the character string to edit the character string prior to reporting an unsuccessful match; and after applying the initial rule: determining if the character string corresponds to terminology for venue attributes utilized by the predefined catalog in the database for comparing tickets for the venue that are listed for sale in the database after applying the initial rule; if the character string does not correspond to the terminology for venue attributes utilized by the predefined catalog in the database for comparing tickets for the venue that are listed for sale in the database, applying one or more subsequent rules in the set of pre-defined rules to further modify the character string and determining whether the character string corresponds to the terminology for venue attributes utilized by the predefined catalog in the database for comparing tickets for the venue that are listed for sale in the database after applying each subsequent rule; and if all of the pre-defined rules have been applied and it was never determined that the character string corresponds to the terminology for venue attributes utilized by the predefined catalog in the database for comparing tickets for the venue that are listed for sale in the database, then reporting an unsuccessful match; and if the character string as entered or as modified by any one or more of the pre-defined rules corresponds to the terminology for venue attributes utilized by the predefined catalog in the database for comparing tickets for the venue that are listed for sale in the database: associating the character string with an identifier corresponding to a venue attribute utilized by the predefined catalog in the database for comparing tickets for the venue that are listed for sale that corresponds to the character string of the ticket provided by the seller; and determining a location for displaying the ticket listing for offering the ticket provided by the seller for sale to other users with ticket listings of like tickets that have been provided by other sellers and are listed for sale in the database.
8. A computer-implemented system comprising a computing device having a database storing a predefined catalog of venue attributes describing sections of a venue utilized for comparing tickets for the venue that are listed for sale in the database, wherein one or more ticket attributes of a ticket provided by a seller must match a venue attribute in the predefined catalog in order to display a ticket listing for offering the ticket provided by the seller to other users and executing an application for: presenting a graphical user interface to a computer of the seller for receiving a character string representing one or more ticket attributes of a ticket provided by the seller; accepting the character string as entered by the seller; comparing the character string as entered by the seller to the predefined catalog of venue attributes stored in the database; determining if the character string as entered by the seller corresponds to terminology for venue attributes utilized by the predefined catalog in the database for comparing tickets for the venue that are listed for sale in the database; if the character string as entered by the seller does not correspond to terminology for venue attributes utilized by the predefined catalog in the database for comparing tickets for the venue that are listed for sale in the database applying an initial rule in a set of pre-defined rules to the character string to edit the character string prior to reporting an unsuccessful match; and after applying the initial rule: determining if the character string corresponds to terminology for venue attributes utilized by the predefined catalog in the database for comparing tickets for the venue that are listed for sale in the database after applying the initial rule; if the character string does not correspond to the terminology for venue attributes utilized by the predefined catalog in the database for comparing tickets for the venue that are listed for sale in the database, applying one or more subsequent rules in the set of pre-defined rules to further modify the character string and determining whether the character string corresponds to the terminology for venue attributes utilized by the predefined catalog in the database for comparing tickets for the venue that are listed for sale in the database after applying each subsequent rule; and if all of the pre-defined rules have been applied and it was never determined that the character string corresponds to the terminology for venue attributes utilized by the predefined catalog in the database for comparing tickets for the venue that are listed for sale in the database, then reporting an unsuccessful match; and if the character string as entered or as modified by any one or more of the pre-defined rules corresponds to the terminology for venue attributes utilized by the predefined catalog in the database for comparing tickets for the venue that are listed for sale in the database: associating the character string with an identifier corresponding to a venue attribute utilized by the predefined catalog in the database for comparing tickets for the venue that are listed for sale that corresponds to the character string of the ticket provided by the seller; and determining a location for displaying the ticket listing for offering the ticket provided by the seller for sale to other users with ticket listings of like tickets that have been provided by other sellers and are listed for sale in the database. 14. The system of claim 8 , wherein if the character string does not correspond to terminology for venue attributes utilized by the predefined catalog in the database for comparing tickets for the venue that are listed for sale in the database, the application updates the terminology for venue attributes utilized by the predefined catalog in the database for comparing tickets for the venue that are listed for sale in the database to include the character string or an alternate version of the character string.