Anonymous wrote:There are plenty of us who paid face value for tickets. I go to a lot of concerts and while her face value was higher than most, I didn't feel it was astronomical. I had fantastic seats for $275 (that was the total with fees....which are ridiculous). Just because someone got tickets doesn't mean they were paying resale prices.
Anonymous wrote:Agree so I talk with my wallet by not buying her tickets when I can go to 6 other concerts instead.
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.
Anonymous wrote:I don't think the fact that tickets are expensive or very hard to get is de facto elitist.
I think the culture that has evolved around it, where people brag about going on their social media, people with lots of money are going to multiple shows in multiple cities and bragging about that, and also this whole thing in wealthy communities where cliques of parents are buying tickets for their teens and then being very showy about taking them -- all that stuff is elitist.
Someone spending their savings on tickets to the show, or getting lucky in the lottery, or whatever, is not elitist. It's the bragging, one-upsmanship, and extreme conspicuous consumption around it that is elitist. Especially when it involves teenagers.
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
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I am constantly shocked by how much money there is everywhere and people seem to somehow have an endless supply of it. And not just rich people but all the “normal” people too. We make a very good living and I am not complaining but everyone around us seems to always have more. We do try hard to keep gratitude and perspective but it requires constant effort and vigilance to do so.
Same. I see this too. It’s the endless supply of money that I don’t understand. We also make a decent living, but in this economy our income is down whereas everyone else seems entirely unaffected. They just can afford endless things!
It's not an endless supply. A lot of people have debt, but they are willing to incur more to "enjoy" their lives. Then they will complain about how they can't retire, or how it's the POTUS fault that they can't save, or that their taxes are too high.
Yeah, but you can only have so much debt, and with interest rates going up it will be hard to service that debt. In many instances, I think people truly just have a crapload of money.
Anonymous wrote: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
Nobody is forced aboard the Taylor Swift hype-train. I assure you, the vast majority of people in the world do not care if you went or not.
Anonymous wrote:We are going to Asia to see her. Resale VIP tickets were only a bit over face value and we will spend a week on vacation in addition to the show. It’s fine.