Anonymous
11/16/2022 20:07
Subject: Taylor Swift Tour
I just learned that my wonderful babysitter (former au pair) who is a huge huge huge TS fan thought she was shut out of the presale and getting tickets and her sweet new husband somehow was able to get them tickets with the verified status yesterday. She is SO excited and I’m so happy for her. So glad she found a good guy!
Anonymous
11/16/2022 20:01
Subject: Taylor Swift Tour
Anonymous wrote:Wow! Lots of Taylor ticket drama going down on Tiktok. My kid just showed me a bunch of videos and apparently someone who works in Dev for Ticketmaster leaked at that the wrong people got pushed to the front of the line.
The verified fans with boosted status got pushed to the back and the verified fans without boosted status got pushed to the front.
I believe this 100% because I got a boost and my sister did not. My sister was done and had moved on with her day by 11 am while in the queue for Philly tickets. I sat until almost 5 PM before getting in.
Several others are sharing similar stories and linking to videos of people who screen recorded their buying experience. One woman was like "I don't understand why people are complaining. It literally took me 30 minutes to get tickets and I didn't even have a boost." Someone called her a liar and she did a screenshot video of when she received her You've Got Tickets email at 10:34 am as proof of how fast it was for her.
WHAT A JOKE. I cannot believe Ticketmaster screwed up this badly! First the codes didn't work and then they reversed which group got priority?
My coworker literally bought her tickets for the Pittsburgh show and was done by 10:30. She couldn't believe the rest of us in the office raging about the line timeouts and long queue times.
I know she didn't have a boosted status because she didn't even know what that was. I asked if she'd ever bought anything off Taylor's website and she said no, her DD always got the Target exclusive albums. I had a boost from pre-ordering Midnights and I've bought lots of merch off her site for my girls.
I was already skeptical of if the boost even did anything since it took me until almost 6 PM to secure tickets and I wasn't even going for the most popular Philadelphia location. Now I know why.
Anonymous
11/16/2022 20:00
Subject: Taylor Swift Tour
Anonymous wrote:Im not sure I have the energy to try for the general sale after the past two days. Good thing I have a day to get rid of my rage.
Same. I am out.
Anonymous
11/16/2022 20:00
Subject: Taylor Swift Tour
My friend had tickets to the canceled 2020 show, which was supposed to give her priority access and she still ended up empty handed yesterday and today.
Anonymous
11/16/2022 19:52
Subject: Taylor Swift Tour
Anonymous wrote:Wow! Lots of Taylor ticket drama going down on Tiktok. My kid just showed me a bunch of videos and apparently someone who works in Dev for Ticketmaster leaked at that the wrong people got pushed to the front of the line.
The verified fans with boosted status got pushed to the back and the verified fans without boosted status got pushed to the front.
I believe this 100% because I got a boost and my sister did not. My sister was done and had moved on with her day by 11 am while in the queue for Philly tickets. I sat until almost 5 PM before getting in.
Several others are sharing similar stories and linking to videos of people who screen recorded their buying experience. One woman was like "I don't understand why people are complaining. It literally took me 30 minutes to get tickets and I didn't even have a boost." Someone called her a liar and she did a screenshot video of when she received her You've Got Tickets email at 10:34 am as proof of how fast it was for her.
WHAT A JOKE. I cannot believe Ticketmaster screwed up this badly! First the codes didn't work and then they reversed which group got priority?
Ok, now I’m mad. We had a boosted status. DH spent 5 hours trying Pitt first and then moving west every time a new window opened.
Anonymous
11/16/2022 19:46
Subject: Taylor Swift Tour
Im not sure I have the energy to try for the general sale after the past two days. Good thing I have a day to get rid of my rage.
Anonymous
11/16/2022 19:38
Subject: Taylor Swift Tour
Wow! Lots of Taylor ticket drama going down on Tiktok. My kid just showed me a bunch of videos and apparently someone who works in Dev for Ticketmaster leaked at that the wrong people got pushed to the front of the line.
The verified fans with boosted status got pushed to the back and the verified fans without boosted status got pushed to the front.
I believe this 100% because I got a boost and my sister did not. My sister was done and had moved on with her day by 11 am while in the queue for Philly tickets. I sat until almost 5 PM before getting in.
Several others are sharing similar stories and linking to videos of people who screen recorded their buying experience. One woman was like "I don't understand why people are complaining. It literally took me 30 minutes to get tickets and I didn't even have a boost." Someone called her a liar and she did a screenshot video of when she received her You've Got Tickets email at 10:34 am as proof of how fast it was for her.
WHAT A JOKE. I cannot believe Ticketmaster screwed up this badly! First the codes didn't work and then they reversed which group got priority?
The verified fans with boosted status got pushed to the back and the verified fans without boosted status got pushed to the front.
I believe this 100% because I got a boost and my sister did not. My sister was done and had moved on with her day by 11 am while in the queue for Philly tickets. I sat until almost 5 PM before getting in.
Several others are sharing similar stories and linking to videos of people who screen recorded their buying experience. One woman was like "I don't understand why people are complaining. It literally took me 30 minutes to get tickets and I didn't even have a boost." Someone called her a liar and she did a screenshot video of when she received her You've Got Tickets email at 10:34 am as proof of how fast it was for her.
WHAT A JOKE. I cannot believe Ticketmaster screwed up this badly! First the codes didn't work and then they reversed which group got priority?
Anonymous
11/16/2022 18:40
Subject: Taylor Swift Tour
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Like how can she show her face and do her heart hands on stage after this??
Because she didn't do anything.
What's she going to do? Where's she going to sell her tickets? Go on. Tell me a website where she can sell her tickets.
There is none b/c Ticketmaster is a trashy fking POS monopoly.
You think taylorswift.com is set up with the servers and bandwidth to handle ticket sales? BFFR.
Let's face it: the only ones who can stop Ticketmaster are us, the fans & consumers. Until we band together and boycott, nothing is going to change. Mega artists have no other options for selling tickets. Smaller artists can "stick it to the man" and sell other ways because they're filling smaller venue spaces with max 2k people. Their website servers and smaller ticketing options can handle the web traffic.
Taylor Swift is a mega star. She could have made demands on how her tickets were sold if she cared about her fans.
She changed the face of ticket sales and introduced that dynamic pricing. So, yeah, she has a lot of power.
The "dynamic pricing" wasn't very dynamic. The cheap nosebleeds were $99 the entire time everything was selling out. Maybe someone somewhere paid the stated $49 for them, but I didn't hear of anyone actually getting that. But once it went to $99 it didn't keep going up. Same with all the other categories - maybe they made one price jump but it didn't keep going up after that.
Anonymous
11/16/2022 18:36
Subject: Taylor Swift Tour
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Like how can she show her face and do her heart hands on stage after this??
Because she didn't do anything.
What's she going to do? Where's she going to sell her tickets? Go on. Tell me a website where she can sell her tickets.
There is none b/c Ticketmaster is a trashy fking POS monopoly.
You think taylorswift.com is set up with the servers and bandwidth to handle ticket sales? BFFR.
Let's face it: the only ones who can stop Ticketmaster are us, the fans & consumers. Until we band together and boycott, nothing is going to change. Mega artists have no other options for selling tickets. Smaller artists can "stick it to the man" and sell other ways because they're filling smaller venue spaces with max 2k people. Their website servers and smaller ticketing options can handle the web traffic.
Taylor Swift is a mega star. She could have made demands on how her tickets were sold if she cared about her fans.
She changed the face of ticket sales and introduced that dynamic pricing. So, yeah, she has a lot of power.
Anonymous
11/16/2022 18:36
Subject: Re:Taylor Swift Tour
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I guess I can cancel the Capital One card now and go back to American Express. 😊
OMG babes, no!
It's going to tank your credit. Just keep the card open and use it every so often. Do not close that card. Especially don't do it if you have plans to buy a house/car in the near future or take out a loan for any other reason.
I nearly own my house and have, so far, paid cash for my cars. I closed my Macy’s card and survived. Why would this be different?
Anonymous
11/16/2022 18:35
Subject: Taylor Swift Tour
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Like how can she show her face and do her heart hands on stage after this??
Because she didn't do anything.
What's she going to do? Where's she going to sell her tickets? Go on. Tell me a website where she can sell her tickets.
There is none b/c Ticketmaster is a trashy fking POS monopoly.
You think taylorswift.com is set up with the servers and bandwidth to handle ticket sales? BFFR.
Let's face it: the only ones who can stop Ticketmaster are us, the fans & consumers. Until we band together and boycott, nothing is going to change. Mega artists have no other options for selling tickets. Smaller artists can "stick it to the man" and sell other ways because they're filling smaller venue spaces with max 2k people. Their website servers and smaller ticketing options can handle the web traffic.
Taylor Swift is a mega star. She could have made demands on how her tickets were sold if she cared about her fans.
Anonymous
11/16/2022 18:33
Subject: Re:Taylor Swift Tour
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I guess I can cancel the Capital One card now and go back to American Express. 😊
OMG babes, no!
It's going to tank your credit. Just keep the card open and use it every so often. Do not close that card. Especially don't do it if you have plans to buy a house/car in the near future or take out a loan for any other reason.
Its not going to "tank" her credit. And once people have a house and a car, they care very little about minor changes in their credit score.
Anonymous
11/16/2022 17:58
Subject: Re:Taylor Swift Tour
Anonymous wrote:I guess I can cancel the Capital One card now and go back to American Express. 😊
OMG babes, no!
It's going to tank your credit. Just keep the card open and use it every so often. Do not close that card. Especially don't do it if you have plans to buy a house/car in the near future or take out a loan for any other reason.
Anonymous
11/16/2022 17:56
Subject: Taylor Swift Tour
Anonymous wrote:Like how can she show her face and do her heart hands on stage after this??
Because she didn't do anything.
What's she going to do? Where's she going to sell her tickets? Go on. Tell me a website where she can sell her tickets.
There is none b/c Ticketmaster is a trashy fking POS monopoly.
You think taylorswift.com is set up with the servers and bandwidth to handle ticket sales? BFFR.
Let's face it: the only ones who can stop Ticketmaster are us, the fans & consumers. Until we band together and boycott, nothing is going to change. Mega artists have no other options for selling tickets. Smaller artists can "stick it to the man" and sell other ways because they're filling smaller venue spaces with max 2k people. Their website servers and smaller ticketing options can handle the web traffic.
Anonymous
11/16/2022 17:54
Subject: Taylor Swift Tour
Anonymous wrote:Denver moved fast but sold out in 29 min, everyone I know was locked out from buying anything, tickets looked avail but you couldn’t get them once you clicked. In the Vegas queue now and not moving.
This happened to me too. Agree with PP that Denver tix may be the way to go though and just make a vacation out of it.