Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why people are acting so entitled over this. We lucked out and got a code the first time around and then lucked out again and purchased tickets. After paying normal concert prices, we drove there and drove home. I paid for an overpriced pizza of pizza at the stadium. I don’t know anyone who paid thousands for resale.
Weren’t you ever a kid and disappointed because you didn’t get tickets to the sold out concert? This isn’t any different except people think it’s their right to go. -Gen X mom
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Its no different than going to the Olympics, World Cup, World Series, Super Bowl, Stanley Cup, or even a beach vacation for that matter.
My family had an amazing time going to see her. I value the experience and memories 3x over the $ spent. Its bucket list stuff.
And we'll do it again before the tour is over. I don't know a single person that has gone to see her that said afterwards "that wasn't worth it" no matter how much of a stretch it was for them to go.
Do you have any idea how someone can get tickets to these events? Because they are not similar.
They actually are pretty similar. You can be really lucky and get them for a low face value or you can pay the actual worth on the secondary market
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
Because your daughter can buy the shirt and talk to her friends who have the shirt or the hoodie about how great the show was and then look down on the kids whose parents didn't pay for them to attend
Being in a stadium of 60-70K fans all singing in unison is a pretty cool experience. It’s not all about the shirts.
+1 to this. The opening number of the show, when the crowd's wrist lights (in LA) all come on in unison, the full-throated roar of the 70 thousand strong crowd, the amaziing lighting and props . . . gives you chills, actually. Kind of mind-boggling the power/sway over multitudes this young woman has! Perhaps the Romans gathered in the Coliseum felt the same when the gladiators came out in full regalia.
Anonymous wrote:It always was. The tickets were always expensive and people had to book flights and hotels. It was always very expensive.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
Because your daughter can buy the shirt and talk to her friends who have the shirt or the hoodie about how great the show was and then look down on the kids whose parents didn't pay for them to attend
Being in a stadium of 60-70K fans all singing in unison is a pretty cool experience. It’s not all about the shirts.
+1 to this. The opening number of the show, when the crowd's wrist lights (in LA) all come on in unison, the full-throated roar of the 70 thousand strong crowd, the amaziing lighting and props . . . gives you chills, actually. Kind of mind-boggling the power/sway over multitudes this young woman has! Perhaps the Romans gathered in the Coliseum felt the same when the gladiators came out in full regalia.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why people are acting so entitled over this. We lucked out and got a code the first time around and then lucked out again and purchased tickets. After paying normal concert prices, we drove there and drove home. I paid for an overpriced pizza of pizza at the stadium. I don’t know anyone who paid thousands for resale.
Weren’t you ever a kid and disappointed because you didn’t get tickets to the sold out concert? This isn’t any different except people think it’s their right to go. -Gen X mom
The difference between then and now is that now scalping is legitimized and anyone with enough money can go
Come on, enough money could buy you anything back then too. Don’t be so naive. We all knew people who bought tickets from scalpers.
Back then you had to know how to do it, now anyone with parents willing to pay can bid what it takes.
How old are you? Yes, if your parents were savvy you could meet up ahead of time but with enough cash you could walk up and buy tickets from the scalpers for any concert, game or event outside of the gate. They were always there. It’s the same thing. Enough cash gets what you want.
Yes, they were there, but my parents weren’t. Parents weren’t involved. I wanted tickets, I camped or got them at the event. It didn’t involve savvy parents, but savvy KIDS. And that is what is jacking up the price as well. Parents have more money than kids, so the tickets are now more as well.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why people are acting so entitled over this. We lucked out and got a code the first time around and then lucked out again and purchased tickets. After paying normal concert prices, we drove there and drove home. I paid for an overpriced pizza of pizza at the stadium. I don’t know anyone who paid thousands for resale.
Weren’t you ever a kid and disappointed because you didn’t get tickets to the sold out concert? This isn’t any different except people think it’s their right to go. -Gen X mom
The difference between then and now is that now scalping is legitimized and anyone with enough money can go
Come on, enough money could buy you anything back then too. Don’t be so naive. We all knew people who bought tickets from scalpers.
Back then you had to know how to do it, now anyone with parents willing to pay can bid what it takes.
How old are you? Yes, if your parents were savvy you could meet up ahead of time but with enough cash you could walk up and buy tickets from the scalpers for any concert, game or event outside of the gate. They were always there. It’s the same thing. Enough cash gets what you want.
Anonymous wrote:I'm not into Swift and neither are my boys but I've noticed this ugly undercurrent of "look how much I love my kid and how far I'll go to make her happy" running through much of what gets posted on social media (by grown adults!) and to some extent here, too. Seems like it's blind luck who is actually able to purchase tickets to this tour (excluding the insane resale market).
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
+1000
Got front row seats to Pink instead. Great person and artist. Better performer.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
Because your daughter can buy the shirt and talk to her friends who have the shirt or the hoodie about how great the show was and then look down on the kids whose parents didn't pay for them to attend
Being in a stadium of 60-70K fans all singing in unison is a pretty cool experience. It’s not all about the shirts.