At what income does one pay thousands of dollars for concert tickets?

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Anonymous wrote:I want to take my elementary daughter to the Taylor swift concert. The absolute cheapest tickets are $1500-1800. These would be around $2k each after fees. These are for very bad tickets. Better tickets are more like $3-5000 PER ticket.

I’m just wondering who pays this much for these tickets. I’m guessing a lot of moms are taking their children? We can afford it but it seems excessive.

Well those are last minute tickets, they’re $$$$$

They were posted at these prices 24 hours after ticket sales. They were never lower.

Yeah, Taylor swift crashed Ticketmaster. Is she really this popular???

Clearly, umm, yes. She is.

+1. She is a 34 year old self-made billionaire.

Since when are rich, trust fund kids self-made? Yes, she is successful but she is no more self made than the Kardashians.

What? No. She is not a rich trust fund kid. Why are you even on this thread? And sorry, the Kardashians ARE self-made. I happen to think their profession is as stupid as they come. But I can't help it if idiots watch their dumb show and buy their product placements.

Dude, her father is a millionaire wealth investment manager. He is the principal founding member of the Swift Group and has done incredibly well for himself. Taylor, with the aid of her millionaire father, was able to tour and secure contracts as a young child, who supported and bolstered her career. She was not and has never been a struggling artist. On the contrary, she is a rich kid, with rich parents, who is able to take risks and be an artists precisely becuase she has so much money to fall back on.

Swift, Kardashians, and Donald J have all done well for themselves - but the loans from parents equaling over $1M is easily what sets them apart from other budding entrepreneurs.

But sure, self-made.

This is not true. Her father was a wealth manager. At times he did well. She grew up MC and then UMC. Her father was not rich if by rich you mean 10 million worth. In fact he was close to broke when she started. That is why he had the time to manage her. She did not grow up rich. And there was nothing to fall back on.

Ah, yes. The age-old story of the struggling wealth manager and his ailing children. LOL.
There are loads of other truly self made artists that you could use as a poster child for rags to riches success (see Eminem, Jay Z, Oprah, James McAvoy, Jim Carey, etc.) but Taylor Swift is most definitely not one of them. Why do her fans feel the need to legitimize her that way? It is unnecessary. She is an extremely privileged rich kid who made it BIG. Let that be enough.

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Dh bought tickets for me and my daughter for $3k each. We have a $2m HHI.

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I think a lot of people were able to buy tickets for face value and that was more reasonable.

Many young professionals will splurge on this experience.

For other teens, this splurge is their birthday or graduation or other big gift.

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Anonymous wrote:Dh bought tickets for me and my daughter for $3k each. We have a $2m HHI.

Obviously you can easily afford this splurge and more power to you. Absolutely no snark. But doesn’t it still bother you just a little that it’s $6k? Just because I can afford something doesn’t mean I don’t find it somewhat obscene that it costs as much as it does.
And the fees! I absolutely hate Ticketmaster.

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Anonymous wrote:Dh bought tickets for me and my daughter for $3k each. We have a $2m HHI.

Obviously you can easily afford this splurge and more power to you. Absolutely no snark. But doesn’t it still bother you just a little that it’s $6k? Just because I can afford something doesn’t mean I don’t find it somewhat obscene that it costs as much as it does.
And the fees! I absolutely hate Ticketmaster.

Dh was originally going to buy 6k tickets. I told him that was too much even though we could afford it. The 3k tickets were more like $2200 before fees. I don’t know the exact price since he bought it.

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Anonymous wrote:I want to take my elementary daughter to the Taylor swift concert. The absolute cheapest tickets are $1500-1800. These would be around $2k each after fees. These are for very bad tickets. Better tickets are more like $3-5000 PER ticket.

I’m just wondering who pays this much for these tickets. I’m guessing a lot of moms are taking their children? We can afford it but it seems excessive.

Well those are last minute tickets, they’re $$$$$

They were posted at these prices 24 hours after ticket sales. They were never lower.

Yeah, Taylor swift crashed Ticketmaster. Is she really this popular???

Clearly, umm, yes. She is.

+1. She is a 34 year old self-made billionaire.

Since when are rich, trust fund kids self-made? Yes, she is successful but she is no more self made than the Kardashians.

What? No. She is not a rich trust fund kid. Why are you even on this thread? And sorry, the Kardashians ARE self-made. I happen to think their profession is as stupid as they come. But I can't help it if idiots watch their dumb show and buy their product placements.

Dude, her father is a millionaire wealth investment manager. He is the principal founding member of the Swift Group and has done incredibly well for himself. Taylor, with the aid of her millionaire father, was able to tour and secure contracts as a young child, who supported and bolstered her career. She was not and has never been a struggling artist. On the contrary, she is a rich kid, with rich parents, who is able to take risks and be an artists precisely becuase she has so much money to fall back on.

Swift, Kardashians, and Donald J have all done well for themselves - but the loans from parents equaling over $1M is easily what sets them apart from other budding entrepreneurs.

But sure, self-made.

This is not true. Her father was a wealth manager. At times he did well. She grew up MC and then UMC. Her father was not rich if by rich you mean 10 million worth. In fact he was close to broke when she started. That is why he had the time to manage her. She did not grow up rich. And there was nothing to fall back on.

Ah, yes. The age-old story of the struggling wealth manager and his ailing children. LOL.
There are loads of other truly self made artists that you could use as a poster child for rags to riches success (see Eminem, Jay Z, Oprah, James McAvoy, Jim Carey, etc.) but Taylor Swift is most definitely not one of them. Why do her fans feel the need to legitimize her that way? It is unnecessary. She is an extremely privileged rich kid who made it BIG. Let that be enough.

You know what is unnecessary? You’re continuing to comment on this thread when you clearly just dislike her. She is self-made, by many objective definitions. She isn’t less self-made because you dislike her.