Anonymous
07/12/2023 06:25
Subject: Taylor Swift tickets
Anonymous wrote:Are people seriously considering traveling out of the country to see a concert? Not asking snarkily - more power to you if you can afford it - but this is so wild to me!
Yes. Apparently Australia is counting on Taylor Swift to reverse their recession.
Anonymous
07/12/2023 01:23
Subject: Re:Taylor Swift tickets
Anonymous wrote:My teen daughter registered for the Stockholm presale using her US ticketmaster account.
I got through and got tickets in my cart but then when I tried to login to purchase (using her US ticketmaster account) it didn't recognize it as an account and required me to open a Ticketmaster.SE (Swedish ticketmaster)
account to purchase. However, then the tickets were not in the cart in this account. It was a catch 22.
The only way around this would have been to know to register for a Swedish Ticketmaster account prior to registering for the presale.
Even if I had done this I'm not sure they would have allowed me to pay for the tickets with a credit card linked to a US address.
I imagine there were some US purchasers who found loophole or another to make this happen but it definitely wasn't as easy as entering the sale from US ticketmaster and then purchasing from this account.
They are doing their best to avoid tickets being sold to US buyers (understandably).
Tyvm for sharing this experience. I am waiting for UK sales and I didn’t even think I of this.
Anonymous
07/12/2023 01:22
Subject: Re:Taylor Swift tickets
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Don’t most hotels not book more than a year out? For the Vienna shows at least, they aren’t until August
I can’t get a room in Vienna. They’re not open for booking yet.
In the Marriott app, bookings are currently allowed through June 2024. it appears they will book about 11 months out, meaning August 2024 reservations should be available soon. I would jump on it as soon as you can. Other hotel chains or independents might allow booking further out. You’ll save yourself money and headaches by taking care of this at the earliest opportunity.
Anonymous
07/12/2023 00:25
Subject: Taylor Swift tickets
Argh I am one of the unlucky France code people… anyone have any sense of when this rescheduled sale will be?
Anonymous
07/11/2023 19:10
Subject: Re:Taylor Swift tickets
Anonymous wrote:Don’t most hotels not book more than a year out? For the Vienna shows at least, they aren’t until August
I can’t get a room in Vienna. They’re not open for booking yet.
Anonymous
07/11/2023 17:27
Subject: Re:Taylor Swift tickets
Don’t most hotels not book more than a year out? For the Vienna shows at least, they aren’t until August
Anonymous
07/11/2023 17:19
Subject: Taylor Swift tickets
I'm happy for all of you ticket grabbers! Advice: lock your hotel down ASAP. Hotels around the UK venues are already sold out. It has also been a problem on the US tour.
Anonymous
07/11/2023 16:43
Subject: Re:Taylor Swift tickets
For those who got the message about not being able to transfer tickets, I read through the Terms and Conditions plus some threads on Reddit. It looks like they will eventually allow resale but only through their own resale platform that does not allow you to sell at a markup like Stubhub. But you should be able to at least recoup your costs.
Really makes you wonder why Ticketmaster won't do the same thing here in the US...
Really makes you wonder why Ticketmaster won't do the same thing here in the US...
Anonymous
07/11/2023 13:16
Subject: Re:Taylor Swift tickets
I got through for Stockholm in about an hour, and it was largely painless. I had to create a new Ticketmaster.SE account, but since I used the same email address it seemed to work seamlessly.
A few pages didn't auto-translate, so I did have trouble understanding exactly where I was buying tickets, and to be honest, they're not in the best spot, but I'm OK with that. I had a google translate page open and a currency converter page open, so there was a lot of toggling and I was afraid I'd accidentally close out. I declined the insurance as well, hopefully I don't regret that. I noticed on the confirmation page there were buttons to sell or transfer, and they were greyed out--but only temporarily, it seemed.
All in all, I'm happy, it will be a great show and fun to have a reason to visit Sweden.
A few pages didn't auto-translate, so I did have trouble understanding exactly where I was buying tickets, and to be honest, they're not in the best spot, but I'm OK with that. I had a google translate page open and a currency converter page open, so there was a lot of toggling and I was afraid I'd accidentally close out. I declined the insurance as well, hopefully I don't regret that. I noticed on the confirmation page there were buttons to sell or transfer, and they were greyed out--but only temporarily, it seemed.
All in all, I'm happy, it will be a great show and fun to have a reason to visit Sweden.
Anonymous
07/11/2023 13:09
Subject: Taylor Swift tickets
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I got 4 for Vienna. It was so painless. I logged in at 5:50 and was done by 6:08. Having to enter the code before you were admitted definitely reduced the number of people in the queue. I didn't like the blind purchasing but I think that helped to. You get what you get and you don't get upset.
I can't imagine that there won't eventually be a resale/transfer process. I know it says they will be matching IDs to the tickets but really.....how can they do that in an efficient manner. That would take so much time for someone to read your ID and then confirm it is the same name on the ticket.
I'm super excited. I bought the insurance as well. I have no idea what the insurance is for. It's going to be a lovely vacation.
By "blind purchasing" you mean you had no option to choose your seat? It was just best available and randomly assigned?
lol yes. When the sale first opened there was no seat map and no indication of what seats cost what amount. I picked an amount based on what I was comfortable spending and was taken to checkout where I was presented with the tickets allocated to me. The only way I knew I was buying a seat as opposed to GA was because I had followed the London sale yesterday and I based my selection off of the prices from that sale. My goal was to get through the purchase process. I wasn't going to dump the tickets and try again for something different that would be just as random.
My choices for purchase were something like Category A for $100, Category B for $90, Category C for $80 but there was no way to know what Category A meant. BTW---the $100, $90, and $80 are just example prices, they aren't the real prices.
Anonymous
07/11/2023 13:03
Subject: Re:Taylor Swift tickets
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My teen daughter registered for the Stockholm presale using her US ticketmaster account.
I got through and got tickets in my cart but then when I tried to login to purchase (using her US ticketmaster account) it didn't recognize it as an account and required me to open a Ticketmaster.SE (Swedish ticketmaster)
account to purchase. However, then the tickets were not in the cart in this account. It was a catch 22.
The only way around this would have been to know to register for a Swedish Ticketmaster account prior to registering for the presale.
Even if I had done this I'm not sure they would have allowed me to pay for the tickets with a credit card linked to a US address.
I imagine there were some US purchasers who found loophole or another to make this happen but it definitely wasn't as easy as entering the sale from US ticketmaster and then purchasing from this account.
They are doing their best to avoid tickets being sold to US buyers (understandably).
Yes, Paris and UK sales via TM required you to create an account for Ticketmaster.Fr or Ticketmaster.co.uk. My sister also had Paris. She didn't realize she needed a separate account until I told her. If you follow social media, the need to do this was all over twitter and reddit. The link to the site was in the email but I can see if you didn't click on it before hand and try to log in, you wouldn't have know that you didn't have an account and could have assumed that TM was TM worldwide.
This sounds like a Ticketmaster specific issue. The Vienna sale today (and Munich and a few others I think) are through a different vendor, which seems overall to have been much smoother of a process.
Anonymous
07/11/2023 13:03
Subject: Taylor Swift tickets
Anonymous wrote:I got 4 for Vienna. It was so painless. I logged in at 5:50 and was done by 6:08. Having to enter the code before you were admitted definitely reduced the number of people in the queue. I didn't like the blind purchasing but I think that helped to. You get what you get and you don't get upset.
I can't imagine that there won't eventually be a resale/transfer process. I know it says they will be matching IDs to the tickets but really.....how can they do that in an efficient manner. That would take so much time for someone to read your ID and then confirm it is the same name on the ticket.
I'm super excited. I bought the insurance as well. I have no idea what the insurance is for. It's going to be a lovely vacation.
By "blind purchasing" you mean you had no option to choose your seat? It was just best available and randomly assigned?
Anonymous
07/11/2023 12:52
Subject: Re:Taylor Swift tickets
Anonymous wrote:My teen daughter registered for the Stockholm presale using her US ticketmaster account.
I got through and got tickets in my cart but then when I tried to login to purchase (using her US ticketmaster account) it didn't recognize it as an account and required me to open a Ticketmaster.SE (Swedish ticketmaster)
account to purchase. However, then the tickets were not in the cart in this account. It was a catch 22.
The only way around this would have been to know to register for a Swedish Ticketmaster account prior to registering for the presale.
Even if I had done this I'm not sure they would have allowed me to pay for the tickets with a credit card linked to a US address.
I imagine there were some US purchasers who found loophole or another to make this happen but it definitely wasn't as easy as entering the sale from US ticketmaster and then purchasing from this account.
They are doing their best to avoid tickets being sold to US buyers (understandably).
This sounds like a Ticketmaster specific issue. The Vienna sale today (and Munich and a few others I think) are through a different vendor, which seems overall to have been much smoother of a process.
Anonymous
07/11/2023 12:44
Subject: Re:Taylor Swift tickets
Anonymous wrote:My teen daughter registered for the Stockholm presale using her US ticketmaster account.
I got through and got tickets in my cart but then when I tried to login to purchase (using her US ticketmaster account) it didn't recognize it as an account and required me to open a Ticketmaster.SE (Swedish ticketmaster)
account to purchase. However, then the tickets were not in the cart in this account. It was a catch 22.
The only way around this would have been to know to register for a Swedish Ticketmaster account prior to registering for the presale.
Even if I had done this I'm not sure they would have allowed me to pay for the tickets with a credit card linked to a US address.
I imagine there were some US purchasers who found loophole or another to make this happen but it definitely wasn't as easy as entering the sale from US ticketmaster and then purchasing from this account.
They are doing their best to avoid tickets being sold to US buyers (understandably).
I'm sorry this happened to you. I got presale codes for Paris, Milan, Vienna, and Zurich. All of them stated that I needed to create an account and provided me a link. There was no loophole. I ended up with Vienna today and I had no issues with my US credit card. I even remembered to use the card with no foreign transaction fees.
Anonymous
07/11/2023 11:36
Subject: Re:Taylor Swift tickets
My teen daughter registered for the Stockholm presale using her US ticketmaster account.
I got through and got tickets in my cart but then when I tried to login to purchase (using her US ticketmaster account) it didn't recognize it as an account and required me to open a Ticketmaster.SE (Swedish ticketmaster)
account to purchase. However, then the tickets were not in the cart in this account. It was a catch 22.
The only way around this would have been to know to register for a Swedish Ticketmaster account prior to registering for the presale.
Even if I had done this I'm not sure they would have allowed me to pay for the tickets with a credit card linked to a US address.
I imagine there were some US purchasers who found loophole or another to make this happen but it definitely wasn't as easy as entering the sale from US ticketmaster and then purchasing from this account.
They are doing their best to avoid tickets being sold to US buyers (understandably).
I got through and got tickets in my cart but then when I tried to login to purchase (using her US ticketmaster account) it didn't recognize it as an account and required me to open a Ticketmaster.SE (Swedish ticketmaster)
account to purchase. However, then the tickets were not in the cart in this account. It was a catch 22.
The only way around this would have been to know to register for a Swedish Ticketmaster account prior to registering for the presale.
Even if I had done this I'm not sure they would have allowed me to pay for the tickets with a credit card linked to a US address.
I imagine there were some US purchasers who found loophole or another to make this happen but it definitely wasn't as easy as entering the sale from US ticketmaster and then purchasing from this account.
They are doing their best to avoid tickets being sold to US buyers (understandably).