I don’t like that attending the Eras Tour has become an elitist activity

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t understand the need to pay those prices to then have to watch the broadcasted screen to even see the show from your way-up-there seats. Add in the traffic, long lines and being around fanatical people, no thank you.

Because your daughter can buy the shirt and talk to her friends who have the shirt or the hoodie about how great the show was and then look down on the kids whose parents didn't pay for them to attend

Being in a stadium of 60-70K fans all singing in unison is a pretty cool experience. It’s not all about the shirts.

+1 to this. The opening number of the show, when the crowd's wrist lights (in LA) all come on in unison, the full-throated roar of the 70 thousand strong crowd, the amaziing lighting and props . . . gives you chills, actually. Kind of mind-boggling the power/sway over multitudes this young woman has! Perhaps the Romans gathered in the Coliseum felt the same when the gladiators came out in full regalia .

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Anonymous wrote:With tickets being impossible to purchase the only way one can attend the concert is buy paying the exorbitant resale prices and/or flying to another location.

A trip that will cost about $5k or more.

This is ridiculous

+1000

Got front row seats to Pink instead. Great person and artist. Better performer.

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I don't know anyone who literally flies over the crowd doing acrobatics while singing - phenomenal!

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not into Swift and neither are my boys but I've noticed this ugly undercurrent of "look how much I love my kid and how far I'll go to make her happy" running through much of what gets posted on social media (by grown adults!) and to some extent here, too. Seems like it's blind luck who is actually able to purchase tickets to this tour (excluding the insane resale market).

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why people are acting so entitled over this. We lucked out and got a code the first time around and then lucked out again and purchased tickets. After paying normal concert prices, we drove there and drove home. I paid for an overpriced pizza of pizza at the stadium. I don’t know anyone who paid thousands for resale.

Weren’t you ever a kid and disappointed because you didn’t get tickets to the sold out concert? This isn’t any different except people think it’s their right to go. -Gen X mom

The difference between then and now is that now scalping is legitimized and anyone with enough money can go

Come on, enough money could buy you anything back then too. Don’t be so naive. We all knew people who bought tickets from scalpers.

Back then you had to know how to do it, now anyone with parents willing to pay can bid what it takes.

How old are you? Yes, if your parents were savvy you could meet up ahead of time but with enough cash you could walk up and buy tickets from the scalpers for any concert, game or event outside of the gate. They were always there. It’s the same thing. Enough cash gets what you want.

And now no one has to be savvy because there are publicly traded companies happy to sell you a ticket if you can afford it. No dealing with the sketchy guy who may or may not be selling real tickets

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why people are acting so entitled over this. We lucked out and got a code the first time around and then lucked out again and purchased tickets. After paying normal concert prices, we drove there and drove home. I paid for an overpriced pizza of pizza at the stadium. I don’t know anyone who paid thousands for resale.

Weren’t you ever a kid and disappointed because you didn’t get tickets to the sold out concert? This isn’t any different except people think it’s their right to go. -Gen X mom

The difference between then and now is that now scalping is legitimized and anyone with enough money can go

Come on, enough money could buy you anything back then too. Don’t be so naive. We all knew people who bought tickets from scalpers.

Back then you had to know how to do it, now anyone with parents willing to pay can bid what it takes.

How old are you? Yes, if your parents were savvy you could meet up ahead of time but with enough cash you could walk up and buy tickets from the scalpers for any concert, game or event outside of the gate. They were always there. It’s the same thing. Enough cash gets what you want.

Yes, they were there, but my parents weren’t. Parents weren’t involved. I wanted tickets, I camped or got them at the event. It didn’t involve savvy parents, but savvy KIDS. And that is what is jacking up the price as well. Parents have more money than kids, so the tickets are now more as well.

Plenty of parents were doing it back then and plenty aren’t now. I was lucky and got a code and tickets in the fall. We didn’t brag or post on social media. My daughter tells me a lot of her friends parents were not willing or able to even try.

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t understand the need to pay those prices to then have to watch the broadcasted screen to even see the show from your way-up-there seats. Add in the traffic, long lines and being around fanatical people, no thank you.

Because your daughter can buy the shirt and talk to her friends who have the shirt or the hoodie about how great the show was and then look down on the kids whose parents didn't pay for them to attend

Being in a stadium of 60-70K fans all singing in unison is a pretty cool experience. It’s not all about the shirts.

+1 to this. The opening number of the show, when the crowd's wrist lights (in LA) all come on in unison, the full-throated roar of the 70 thousand strong crowd, the amaziing lighting and props . . . gives you chills, actually. Kind of mind-boggling the power/sway over multitudes this young woman has! Perhaps the Romans gathered in the Coliseum felt the same when the gladiators came out in full regalia .

+1 that it is amazing for the 60-70 K fans, but Taylor does not own this power- it has been around a LONG time before her. Other performers can also make that magic…. Well except for the wrist band thing which is creepy.

[Anonymous]

True but she did give all that money to her team of workers.

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Anonymous wrote:It always was. The tickets were always expensive and people had to book flights and hotels. It was always very expensive.

For Taylor Swift?

I've booked a hotel for other shows but have never booked a flight or spend thousands on tickets. Never needed to.

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t understand the need to pay those prices to then have to watch the broadcasted screen to even see the show from your way-up-there seats. Add in the traffic, long lines and being around fanatical people, no thank you.

Because your daughter can buy the shirt and talk to her friends who have the shirt or the hoodie about how great the show was and then look down on the kids whose parents didn't pay for them to attend

Being in a stadium of 60-70K fans all singing in unison is a pretty cool experience. It’s not all about the shirts.

+1 to this. The opening number of the show, when the crowd's wrist lights (in LA) all come on in unison, the full-throated roar of the 70 thousand strong crowd, the amaziing lighting and props . . . gives you chills, actually. Kind of mind-boggling the power/sway over multitudes this young woman has! Perhaps the Romans gathered in the Coliseum felt the same when the gladiators came out in full regalia .

It was one of the coolest things I've ever experienced with my daughter.

[Anonymous]

it's not expensive to go to the concerts, we had to wait a bit online but got them at face value. The people who didn't suddenly bash those who are seeing a great show at a great price.

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We had verified fan codes the first time around and were blanked on tickets. So we applied for verified fan codes this time and didn’t get them. The Ticketmaster monopoly infuriates me.

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Anonymous wrote:Its no different than going to the Olympics, World Cup, World Series, Super Bowl, Stanley Cup, or even a beach vacation for that matter.

My family had an amazing time going to see her. I value the experience and memories 3x over the $ spent. Its bucket list stuff.

And we'll do it again before the tour is over. I don't know a single person that has gone to see her that said afterwards "that wasn't worth it" no matter how much of a stretch it was for them to go.

Do you have any idea how someone can get tickets to these events? Because they are not similar.

They actually are pretty similar. You can be really lucky and get them for a low face value or you can pay the actual worth on the secondary market

You don’t enter a lottery to get a code to then get a time slot to get in a queue. So you don’t know

[Anonymous]

Concerts aren't fun anymore. Between the people holding their phones up, taking video/pictures, and singing over the artists... the whole experience is overrated.

Cell phones have ruined concerts, sadly.

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A huge part of it is luck, not money.

I just did the Ticketmaster sale because I was lucky and got a code and they were plenty of affordable tickets for those of us who did. They were no more than other concerts of that caliber.

The issue is scarcity due to demand. There’s only so much Taylor to go around.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why people are acting so entitled over this. We lucked out and got a code the first time around and then lucked out again and purchased tickets. After paying normal concert prices, we drove there and drove home. I paid for an overpriced pizza of pizza at the stadium. I don’t know anyone who paid thousands for resale.

Weren’t you ever a kid and disappointed because you didn’t get tickets to the sold out concert? This isn’t any different except people think it’s their right to go. -Gen X mom

It's the demographic that posts on this forum - affluent people who aren't used to being shut out of things and don't know what to make of it.