They tried to repeat the magic for her upcoming "Eras" tour, which was expected to be the biggest tour of her career and one of the highest-grossing musical tours ever.
Either Ticketmaster could not keep up with the demand or too many Swift fans were getting "cheap" tickets so Ticketmaster shut down pre-sales (those tickets that are set aside for fans who have jumped through hoops to get on the list). Both accusations are being made.
And now the government is taking another look at the 2010 Ticketmaster/Live Nation merger to see if there are any antitrust violations.
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My son and his friends recently tried to get tickets to some kind of comic book or super hero convention.
All tickets were immediately sold out by the venue and were then being sold on Ticket Master for over $500/each. They had to watch the convention on Zoom.
Nice malapropism, Leila. What is your major?
Melis, another UT student, "I do not agree with people that both buy tickets and then resell them and price gouge,"
Ah, a deep thinker in the group. She has considered the situation and has enriched us with her assessment. She does not "agree."
How capitalistic of her. I hope she makes huge donations to displaced Twitter employees and other leading liberal causes to atone for her money-grubbing ways.
A world of f’d up priorities.
***instead of making money hand-over-fist for the scalpers who got rich on her “1989” tour.***
I remember the Elvis tour in the 1977. Many people first in line to buy tickets found all the first row seats had already been sold. someone in the ticket office had already bought them and sold them to scalpers.
I was in Las Vegas back in 2001. Driving down the street suddenly a sign flashed about the “Madonna Show” soon to be in town. We went to the end of the row, turned around and passed the same sign with a “SOLD OUT!” sign flashing.
I would swat the person who wrote this with a brick for being so confusing. I guess she named an album “1989” because she was born in that year. The 1989 tour was the 2014-5 tour.
It will all lead back to Live Nation! They Suck.
Ending scalping? No. Raping the fans? Yes.
Swift gets a kickback (rebate) from Ticketmaster from the service fees. Crocodile tears. All the big selling acts get the Ticketmaster fee kickbacks. Hush money for years.
For this tour Swift is probably receiving 50-60% of the Ticketmaster fees as a “rebate”.
1981 - Atlanta paid $40 each for Willie Nelson tickets, face value was $20 each, good value IMO. This was Willie’s ‘big band’ era when he had about 10 people on stage, including two drummers. He opened and closed with ‘Whiskey River’ and at the end a huge Confederate flag dropped down behind the stage. Jimmy and Rosalyn were on the side stage and came out and sang on the encore of ‘Will The Circle Be Unbroken’, in front of the Stars and Bars. Different times
The good news is they will not have to hear her “sing” using autotune or lip syncing at a concert.