Anonymous
11/15/2022 23:01
Subject: Taylor Swift Tour
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Tonight I say Fk her!! Like she says Karma is a relaxing thought. Karma is going to hunt you down Taylor.
Taylor isn’t personally overseeing ticketmaster presale. Ticketmaster is bad. Monopolies are bad and should be broken up.
Every time there's a big presale, Ticketmaster flops and releases a statement that includes the words "due to unprecedented demand".
It happened with BTS, Harry Styles, Reputation tour, etc.
The thing is, there's no alternative. There's no competitor who can even come close to handling the volume of sales that Ticketmaster does on even its worst day. Even if Taylor and other big acts pulled their tickets from TM, there's no service that could handle the volume of sales. The amount TM probably spends on server maintenance and upgrades on a presale release day is more than any single artist can do on their own.
The simplest solution is to kill the reselling market. The easiest way to do that is to a) allow ticket refunds and b) only allow admittance with photo ID & the cc used to purchase the tickets.
They could release each individual show on its own day. Like exactly 6 months out or whatever. There is not reason for them to all go at once. And I agree about the resale market needing to end.
Anonymous
11/15/2022 22:59
Subject: Re:Taylor Swift Tour
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I got tickets for the NJ show. They are nosebleeds, so I am considering selling them (at face value), but I see in my Ticketmaster account that I cannot resell them, just "transfer" them. How does that work? If I know the person I am selling them to, i.e. if I have their email address/phone number and they pay me offline, can I transfer them easily? Has anyone ever done that? I am hoping to have better luck with seats closer to the stage at the general sale.
Best bet is to find a local person to buy your tickets and meet in person at a secure location like a police department.
Or sell to someone you know.
Selling to a stranger is too iffy. You run the risk of them canceling their payment or the payment being fraudulent immediately after you transfer the tickets and there's no way to get them back. I have a friend that this happened to.
This is good advice, thank you. I wish I could sell them to one of you with tweens/teens at face value so your kid can enjoy them. But let me first see if I'll have better luck tomorrow or at the general sale. It's unlikely, but worth a shot.
Anonymous
11/15/2022 22:54
Subject: Re:Taylor Swift Tour
Anonymous wrote:I got tickets for the NJ show. They are nosebleeds, so I am considering selling them (at face value), but I see in my Ticketmaster account that I cannot resell them, just "transfer" them. How does that work? If I know the person I am selling them to, i.e. if I have their email address/phone number and they pay me offline, can I transfer them easily? Has anyone ever done that? I am hoping to have better luck with seats closer to the stage at the general sale.
Best bet is to find a local person to buy your tickets and meet in person at a secure location like a police department.
Or sell to someone you know.
Selling to a stranger is too iffy. You run the risk of them canceling their payment or the payment being fraudulent immediately after you transfer the tickets and there's no way to get them back. I have a friend that this happened to.
Anonymous
11/15/2022 22:52
Subject: Taylor Swift Tour
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Tonight I say Fk her!! Like she says Karma is a relaxing thought. Karma is going to hunt you down Taylor.
Taylor isn’t personally overseeing ticketmaster presale. Ticketmaster is bad. Monopolies are bad and should be broken up.
Every time there's a big presale, Ticketmaster flops and releases a statement that includes the words "due to unprecedented demand".
It happened with BTS, Harry Styles, Reputation tour, etc.
The thing is, there's no alternative. There's no competitor who can even come close to handling the volume of sales that Ticketmaster does on even its worst day. Even if Taylor and other big acts pulled their tickets from TM, there's no service that could handle the volume of sales. The amount TM probably spends on server maintenance and upgrades on a presale release day is more than any single artist can do on their own.
The simplest solution is to kill the reselling market. The easiest way to do that is to a) allow ticket refunds and b) only allow admittance with photo ID & the cc used to purchase the tickets.
Anonymous
11/15/2022 22:51
Subject: Taylor Swift Tour
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I tried to spend $1500 on two floors seats because that was available. Thank goodness it didn't work out. I lost my mind in the mania.
You really should have purchased them. Either to enjoy or for resale.
DP here. You don't understand. We tried. We couldn't check out with anything we put in our cart.
That also happened to us. It was crazy.
Happened to me many times for the NJ show. I had 100-level tickets at $600 each, then several 200 section tickets that were snatched up, and finally ended up with nosebleeds for $100 each. Oh well. We'll watch her on the screen I guess.
Anonymous
11/15/2022 22:49
Subject: Taylor Swift Tour
I’m mostly just upset they gave out codes giving people hope and we wasted a day. They gave out at least 2x as many codes as they should have.
Anonymous
11/15/2022 22:42
Subject: Taylor Swift Tour
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The same nosebleed section for the 5/14 show that I paid $125 per ticket is selling on stubhub for SEVEN HUNDRED per ticket. And floor seats are selling for $13,000. Wtf. Those tickets should be invalidated. Unbelievable greed. I think Philly must have been hacked by bots. I know very few people who had Philly codes that got tickets.
No way those tickets sell. She’s gonna have sold out shows with half the seats filled. Those fools better get a grip.
The prices will drop the closer it gets. I watched it happen with Lady Gaga this summer and Lizzo last month.
I waited and watched the tickets on reselling platforms drop as the shows got closer. I purchased Lady Gaga the night before at $95 plus fees. I made a snap decision for Lizzo and bought them the afternoon before and paid ~$220 for 2 tickets plus fees.
Anonymous
11/15/2022 22:27
Subject: Re:Taylor Swift Tour
Anonymous wrote:I got tickets for the NJ show. They are nosebleeds, so I am considering selling them (at face value), but I see in my Ticketmaster account that I cannot resell them, just "transfer" them. How does that work? If I know the person I am selling them to, i.e. if I have their email address/phone number and they pay me offline, can I transfer them easily? Has anyone ever done that? I am hoping to have better luck with seats closer to the stage at the general sale.
I’ve done that with Craigslist (purchasing).
Anonymous
11/15/2022 22:25
Subject: Taylor Swift Tour
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I tried to spend $1500 on two floors seats because that was available. Thank goodness it didn't work out. I lost my mind in the mania.
You really should have purchased them. Either to enjoy or for resale.
Well no. She should not of.
Anonymous
11/15/2022 22:25
Subject: Re:Taylor Swift Tour
I got tickets for the NJ show. They are nosebleeds, so I am considering selling them (at face value), but I see in my Ticketmaster account that I cannot resell them, just "transfer" them. How does that work? If I know the person I am selling them to, i.e. if I have their email address/phone number and they pay me offline, can I transfer them easily? Has anyone ever done that? I am hoping to have better luck with seats closer to the stage at the general sale.
Anonymous
11/15/2022 22:15
Subject: Taylor Swift Tour
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Tonight I say Fk her!! Like she says Karma is a relaxing thought. Karma is going to hunt you down Taylor.
Taylor isn’t personally overseeing ticketmaster presale. Ticketmaster is bad. Monopolies are bad and should be broken up.
Please she is in on this racket
Anonymous
11/15/2022 22:14
Subject: Taylor Swift Tour
Anonymous wrote:Tonight I say Fk her!! Like she says Karma is a relaxing thought. Karma is going to hunt you down Taylor.
Taylor isn’t personally overseeing ticketmaster presale. Ticketmaster is bad. Monopolies are bad and should be broken up.
Anonymous
11/15/2022 22:08
Subject: Taylor Swift Tour
Anonymous wrote:The same nosebleed section for the 5/14 show that I paid $125 per ticket is selling on stubhub for SEVEN HUNDRED per ticket. And floor seats are selling for $13,000. Wtf. Those tickets should be invalidated. Unbelievable greed. I think Philly must have been hacked by bots. I know very few people who had Philly codes that got tickets.
No way those tickets sell. She’s gonna have sold out shows with half the seats filled. Those fools better get a grip.
Anonymous
11/15/2022 22:07
Subject: Taylor Swift Tour
Anonymous wrote:Is anywhere sold out?
Met Life Stadium in NJ sold out minutes after I got through at 1:30pm.
Anonymous
11/15/2022 21:58
Subject: Taylor Swift Tour
Tonight I say Fk her!! Like she says Karma is a relaxing thought. Karma is going to hunt you down Taylor.