Anonymous
Post 11/16/2022 07:58     Subject: Taylor Swift Tour
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Anonymous wrote:Someone already said it but I couldn’t agree more…time to kick it old skool and camp out for tickets. If you really want to go to a show, sleep in a tent for a day or 2 and take the days off work. Only way to stop the bots!


Where can you go buy in person?


You'd have to go back to 1989.


Was just discussing this with DH today. I was able to go to a lot of great concerts back then and my family didn’t have a lot of $. The regular pricing for concerts and sporting events today is absurd. I don’t know how an average family can afford this. Between tickets and hotel I’m already out almost $800.


They can't. That's why every free event you see in the DMV area is packed full of families.

If I take my family of 5 to the movies, it's $75 just for tickets. Add in drinks and snacks and it's easily $150.

My wife and I took our teen sons to a Nats game and it was $450 for the tickets in the 200-level. Add in food, parking, etc. and that fun weekend outing was $700.

My youngest DD wanted to go to the Harry Potter Experience in Leesburg for her birthday. The tickets that weekend were $75 each for those over 14 or 15. Under that age was still $65 each. $400 in tickets for the whole family and from what I'm hearing, not worth it.



You must be a Mormon family who has never heard of Stubhub. Did you pay full price for those Nats games? You don't have to.
Anonymous
Post 11/16/2022 07:06     Subject: Taylor Swift Tour
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Someone already said it but I couldn’t agree more…time to kick it old skool and camp out for tickets. If you really want to go to a show, sleep in a tent for a day or 2 and take the days off work. Only way to stop the bots!


Where can you go buy in person?


You'd have to go back to 1989.


Was just discussing this with DH today. I was able to go to a lot of great concerts back then and my family didn’t have a lot of $. The regular pricing for concerts and sporting events today is absurd. I don’t know how an average family can afford this. Between tickets and hotel I’m already out almost $800.


It’s also such a privilege to be able to sit at a computer all day and do this. I’ve pretty much given up on going to concerts.


+100

You can give your employees a day off for Juneteenth and put that into the press and then you’re going to make seats available at 2 pm on a weekday—except they are not really available. So now you need to take time from a *second* day. Definitely a game for the rich and privileged.

Cap1 is here to make money. They pay Taylor $$ as a way to earn more revenue themselves. They are not here to make longtime customers happy through their Taylor Swift partnership. 😂 Not one customer will leave over allowing new cardholders to enter a presale so Cap1 has the upper hand plus $$.
Anonymous
Post 11/16/2022 06:49     Subject: Taylor Swift Tour
Anonymous wrote:Ticketmaster is a monopoly and needs to be broken up. They control the venues and the ticketing.


Absolutely agree! I am old enough to remember when Pearl Jam tried to boycott them in the 90s.
There needs to be a better way.

And to echo a PP I am also annoyed that Capital One is allowing new customers access.
All that said, I bought tickets to Reputation a week before the show with no problem. I know a lot of us are either desperate to get tickets for our kids for whom her music is very important or for ourselves.
I hope that everyone with a genuine desire to attend a show is able to get to one.
Good luck!
Anonymous
Post 11/16/2022 06:41     Subject: Re:Taylor Swift Tour
Anonymous wrote:I have had a Capital One card for decades and am annoyed that the company is allowing people to open a new account just for this and giving them the card info immediately. I guess it's good business for them though, opening all these new accounts.


If you’ve had it for decades, you didn’t get it for the perk to get TS 2023 tickets. It’s a perk that was just announced and others are free to get it based on that. We got tix yesterday, so it’s not us, but it’s a great marketing ploy for Cap One.
Anonymous
Post 11/16/2022 06:37     Subject: Taylor Swift Tour
Ticketmaster is a monopoly and needs to be broken up. They control the venues and the ticketing.
Anonymous
Post 11/16/2022 05:48     Subject: Taylor Swift Tour
Anonymous wrote: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.


+1 this is the kind of thing Taylor could of been involved in. It was literally the most fk d up sales situation I’ve ever been a part of.
Anonymous
Post 11/16/2022 05:46     Subject: Taylor Swift Tour
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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.


Vegas was hit by bots because I spent an hour picking seats only for them to be taken by someone else. Like the second they flashed I clicked. It was a complete joke. I’m not flying across the country for nosebleeds level 4.
Anonymous
Post 11/16/2022 04:27     Subject: Taylor Swift Tour
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Someone already said it but I couldn’t agree more…time to kick it old skool and camp out for tickets. If you really want to go to a show, sleep in a tent for a day or 2 and take the days off work. Only way to stop the bots!


Where can you go buy in person?


You'd have to go back to 1989.


Was just discussing this with DH today. I was able to go to a lot of great concerts back then and my family didn’t have a lot of $. The regular pricing for concerts and sporting events today is absurd. I don’t know how an average family can afford this. Between tickets and hotel I’m already out almost $800.


It’s also such a privilege to be able to sit at a computer all day and do this. I’ve pretty much given up on going to concerts.
Anonymous
Post 11/16/2022 02:00     Subject: Taylor Swift Tour
PP here just realized we bought VIP package Tix for $505 ready for it package haha had no idea
Anonymous
Post 11/16/2022 01:51     Subject: Taylor Swift Tour
Our experience wasn't that bad

We got in the queue at 10am and it stalled like everyone else's but when it started moving it was fast. We got to the front around 1pm for NJ Sunday show.

We found 4 seats together. Section 134, row 13, right hand aisle for $505 a piece.

It was more than we wanted to spend but it was brutal clicking and watching seats disappear. Also most seats were grey besides upper 300s.

No idea if we got a decent deal or seats. Seems like it though. We will probably try to get in for the cap one seats to see what they have. Ideally hoping for middle front 100 section. But really can't complain.
Anonymous
Post 11/15/2022 23:58     Subject: Re:Taylor Swift Tour
Anonymous wrote:I have had a Capital One card for decades and am annoyed that the company is allowing people to open a new account just for this and giving them the card info immediately. I guess it's good business for them though, opening all these new accounts.


Everyone wants to make their $$$.
Anonymous
Post 11/15/2022 23:53     Subject: Re:Taylor Swift Tour
I have had a Capital One card for decades and am annoyed that the company is allowing people to open a new account just for this and giving them the card info immediately. I guess it's good business for them though, opening all these new accounts.
Anonymous
Post 11/15/2022 23:04     Subject: Re:Taylor Swift Tour
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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).


What people don’t get is that these are VERIFIED FAN tickets, so they have different restrictions than regular tickets. You need to read the t&c for the ticket. Or post here and we will help you interpret.
Anonymous
Post 11/15/2022 23:04     Subject: Taylor Swift Tour
Anonymous wrote:
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.



Yes, Ticketmaster should only allow resale at face value + taxes or lower, but not higher. And no option to resell on Stubhub.
Anonymous
Post 11/15/2022 23:02     Subject: Taylor Swift Tour
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Someone already said it but I couldn’t agree more…time to kick it old skool and camp out for tickets. If you really want to go to a show, sleep in a tent for a day or 2 and take the days off work. Only way to stop the bots!


Where can you go buy in person?


You'd have to go back to 1989.


Was just discussing this with DH today. I was able to go to a lot of great concerts back then and my family didn’t have a lot of $. The regular pricing for concerts and sporting events today is absurd. I don’t know how an average family can afford this. Between tickets and hotel I’m already out almost $800.


They can't. That's why every free event you see in the DMV area is packed full of families.

If I take my family of 5 to the movies, it's $75 just for tickets. Add in drinks and snacks and it's easily $150.

My wife and I took our teen sons to a Nats game and it was $450 for the tickets in the 200-level. Add in food, parking, etc. and that fun weekend outing was $700.

My youngest DD wanted to go to the Harry Potter Experience in Leesburg for her birthday. The tickets that weekend were $75 each for those over 14 or 15. Under that age was still $65 each. $400 in tickets for the whole family and from what I'm hearing, not worth it.