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EARLY ACCESS: Taylor Swift's Ticketmaster Troubles
🕑 Added 2022-12-09 17:00:16 +0000 UTCVIDEO LINK: https://youtu.be/LFyRfJDHrXg
Hey everyone, it's Early Access Day, and I'm going to keep reminding everyone: The Worst Songs of 2022 will be released next Saturday, December 17th. I'm going to do the Super-Early-Access Premier on December 13th via Discord, so make sure you're in there, I'll make an announcement this weekend as to the time(s) that I'll run that (I'll try and do 2 "screenings" so as many people in different timezones as possible can participate). It'll be up in regular Early Access on the 16th, and as I mentioned previously, I'm very seriously considering uploading it directly to Patreon so I have a backup, but I'll provide a YouTube link as well. Anyway, that's next week, this is this week, and we have this video about Taylor Swift being upset that Ticketmaster could ONLY manage selling 2 million tickets in one day to her upcoming tour. Enjoy!
Tickets went on sale recently for Taylor Swift's upcoming tour, and many fans were shut out of getting a chance to see her. While many blame Ticketmaster for not being able to handle the demand (the site apparently "crashed", and people were booted out of line or had tickets removed from their cart before they could check out), Buckley wonders if Taylor's not simply a victim of her own success, and looks at how she could have solved the scalping problem if she just took the advice of an old creepy comedian (no, not Buckley, a different one). Plus: fans sue, because of course they do.
Comments
Adam Buckley
I think it's just more about actual fans getting first crack over resellers. Scalping tickets, at least physically, used to be illegal in many places. Now it's standard, and you have the goobers who say they're actually providing a service. But they'd provide an even bigger service by staying out of the way. If someone kicks me in the groin and then offers me an ice pack, and says "I'm doing you a favor you know!" they aren't. Yes, "real fans" will probably spend $1000 a ticket, and that's who they're taking advantage of.
The_Storm_Unleashed
So I was someone who tried to get these tickets because I genuinely wanted to see Taylor in concert. To become a "verified fan" you went on the website before the pre-sale and waited like 3 hours to put in your email and the number of tickets you wanted. Then when the pre-sale came, we got a code and a link. After waiting 6 hours I got in, picked my tickets, typed in the code, and then the site crashed. Was it annoying? Yeah. Did I sue? No. I think fans are overreacting about how tedious it was. I just moved my mouse every twenty minutes and cleaned my house. I'm bummed that I didn't get my tickets and I'm pissed that some asshole got one and is selling it for 5x the amount. You're right in that she should have said you can't allow resale of tickets past the face value of them. But like hell I'm going to pay 2k to see her! But hey, at least now I can say I know what it feels like to get mauled by a bear! 🤷♀️😑
Pim
The thing about how only "real fans" should be getting tickets, where that refers to people buying them first-hand rather than through scalpers, is kinda dumb. Like who do you think is gonna be buying them from the scalpers for ten times face value? In fact, while I'm not saying the people buying tickets at inflated scalper prices are _bigger_ fans than the people just paying a reasonable price, but I'm also not not saying that.
Pim
Used to be you'd camp out at the place where you get the tickets, right? That's a system.
Ash Archer
I really don’t think there is anyone or anything more bloody toxic in this world than Taylor Swift, her fans and their bloody victim complexes. I’d rather go through “several bear attacks” than endure twenty minutes of Taylor Swift and her fans.
Evan
Agree 100%
Adam Buckley
Yeah. I guarantee with the amount of pull she has, she could probably tell Ticketmaster and Stubhub "my tickets can't be sold for a higher price than face value, if you allow resellers to list for higher prices, I will stop doing business with you and sell tickets through my own site directly". And considering the fees they likely collected from 2.4 million tickets sold, they want that business.
Fiz Gig
Gauntlet of grizzlies nearly made me choke! I think I need to sue - after all, it's the American way!
Evan
Taylor won’t do anything about scalping because then it dissolves her victim narrative and she can’t come out as a hero for making brave social media posts about evil mean Ticketmaster
Jacob T Kitty
A few years ago I wanted to see a concert in my city, but the ticketmaster fee was 15 dollars on a 40 dollar ticket. Absolutely outrageous. Instead, I took the bus downtown to the venue, and bought the ticket physically. No fee necessary. I'm not sure if that's something that's still possible these days, but it may be something worth looking into for those who don't wanna deal with ticketmaster-livenation.
Jacob T Kitty
The Ticketmaster Livenation merger has created a monopoly and should never have been allowed to happen. They didn't have the server capacity to handle booking the biggest tour perhaps of this decade, but they went ahead with it because whose gonna stop them. This lawsuit (imo) is justified and can hopefully undo this merger and bring competition back to booking concert tickets.
