Ticketek ‘glitch’ appears to re-sell fan’s $659 ticket for Taylor Swift concert — “They said, ‘someone else has it, we don’t know who, we can’t check or track who has your ticket’”::A Taylor Swift fan believed her VIP ticket was ‘stolen’ from her account by Ticketek after an apparent system ‘glitch’.
This is one of the most perfect examples of a bank charge back situation I have ever seen.
Just a guess, but I bet what they do is post the same tickets for different prices and then give it to the highest price that sells, and “oops our bad, there was some kind of a glitch” + refund to all the lower price ones.
Then they can guarantee the lower but still profitable sale while still having a chance at the ridiculous price for someone who really really wants it and is willing to pay a crazy amount.
I bought tickets like 4 months in advance for an event. Like a week before the event, I get an email that they don’t have my seats, and offered tickets a section over. I was actually relieved because prices had dropped, so I just said no thanks, I’ll take a refund, and bought better, cheaper seats.
People are fucking insane for spending that sort of money for an opportunity to spend a couple of hours in extreme crowd just to barely see a billionaire singer and barely hear the songs. Its even worse since they are clearly getting fucked by corporations at the same time
I mean… I wouldn’t do it. But I have spend insane money on other stuff I feel like it’s a not that crazy amount. And to each it’s own…
The fees they charge as part of it… that’s another thing that I agree they are bastards.
I am thinking about spending that much in 4 hard drives 😂
Ticket prices are obscene and I hope Swift isn’t gouging her fans. The last concert I went to pre pandemic, cost me $70 a piece, now those same tickets are easily triple that price. Who can afford this anymore?
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She totally is, ticketing agencies’ take is the service and delivery fee, base price is still driven by the artist/their management.
I doubt it’s her. I mean, it could be. But more likely it’s going to TM rather than her.
Doubtful. TicketMaster is there to take the bad PR but was designed to get as many fees and funnel part of those fees to the artist. Yes TM has deals with Live Nation that basically force big artists to use them because they have the big stadiums, but Taylor Swift is a massive artist she has tons of lawyers and can negotiate fees.
As much as I love Taylor Swift, I have no doubt that she is massively benefiting from the high ticket prices.
True
I can’t speak for the arrangement between the artist and the venue, but generally the agency just makes money from the fees.
They’re not cheap if you get them first hand but they’re not insane considering who we’re talking about. Bands like The Eagles, Rolling Stones,etc were commanding $150+ tickets two decades ago. But good luck getting a non-resale ticket, between bots and the companies themselves buying the tickets solely to mark up for resale it’s nearly impossible to get a ticket at face value.
Man, I remember paying $30 in the late 90s for a front row seat at a Megadeth concert in a smaller venue. Ozzy Osbourne and Rob zombie with slipknot cost me like $40
I went to go see Pantera and Lamb of God on Saturday and all of the 4 sites I checked had at least a $30 fee per ticket, with zero explanation of what that fee was for. The tickets were priced from $60 on up and then once you select a ticket they slap on the $30 fee! Parking was also $45, and beer was $20.
I saw Megadeth front row for like $30 in the early 2000s 😭 their goodbye tour was like $400 a seat
Yeah, that sucks balls. I wanted to go to The Big 4 Tour but upper level tickets were in the hundreds.
I remember seeing nosebleed Metallica seats for like $200. Instead got a VIP festival weekend ticket for $200 with Metallica doing 2 shows that covid cancelled! 🤣
lol I did some volunteer work on a festival once and carried their stuff.
It’s me, I have it, I’m the problem
When someone rich and powerful wants to go to a concert, there’s always a way…
Release now! Patch never
$659 for a one night gig…
You can get a week pass to a festival for cheaper…
A fool and his money are easily parted
full
The irony in that typo is palpable. Some real KenM energy
I guarantee that there is entertainment that you spend money on that other people find foolish.
Not that much money though.
Sure, but chances are, relative to much of the world, you are actually pretty wealthy and most people would scoff at you spending even 1/10th of that on a single event. Remember, there is much of the world where the median yearly income is under 1k a year.
touche
I think the “full” here is the one who can’t fathom that others value things differently from themself.
Also, her money*. It’s in the summary
The average ticket price for her tour 2023 was 1088$
Whoever pays prices like this is completely lost
Refund the ticket, fix the bug, and move on.
Oooo Taylor scissor me timbers! If I ever pay over 200 for a concert ticket boys…go ahead and let the hammer drop.
Bruh $200 for a show is still an absolute fleecing.
why is this girl suddenly everywhere? I hadn’t heard of her for the last 5 years, and since this week I’ve seen her daily.
Basically the manager of Tyler Swift spread around a conspiracy theory so now MAGA is talking about her all the time which makes anti-maga talk about her all the time which increases her CD sales.
But this is just the tip of the iceberg!
I don’t get why they are downvoting you. It’s absolutely true that last month she’s been more on the news than at any other given time the last 5 years.
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