#tickets for swifties

[didi-in-wonderland]

Disappointed.

I awaited impatiently the announcement of European dates,

Then we got two dates in Paris, Then I got excited, Then we got two additional dates in Paris

I was even more excited

Surely with 4 dates, I would finally be able to see Taylor Swift live, the eras tour

But Ticketmaster announced that you had to register to get the chance to not get tickets mind you, but receive a link to access the sale,

I registered but I didn’t get picked, and just like that I had no chance whatsoever to access the sale

Luckily I had this possibility in mind, so I asked my boyfriend and my sister to register as well

They both got picked so we started to plan, they needed to connect at different times and try to secure tickets for different dates

I was on the phone with both on them, watching as the queue moved but we never got out of the woods

I was ready for it, to tell the story of us

My wildest dream about to come true

But everything has changed

I like to think that I am a Mastermind

If this was a movie, the tickets would have been Mine

But all I am left with is a Cruel Summer

And now my tears ricochet

Invisible in the chaos of a ticket concert sales

This is why we can’t have nice things

Ticketmaster, I knew you were trouble

[jewreallythinkthat]

I just watched the production of Fiddler on the Roof on at the moment in London. If you're UK based, I 100% urge you to go - the run has been extended.

What really hit me, as I have never seen it before which is shocking as I'm Jewish and a musical theatre person, is how my family fled Lviv and Kharkiv to escape pogroms and expulsions and I sat there watching the show and all I could think was "that would ahve been me".

I don't think people understand how much we, as Jews, do not forget the persecution we have faced. Not because we are here "holding grudges" or whatever but because it was literally our grandparents where are offer STILL ALIVE who were survivors of european antisemetism. My grandfather's family came by foot from Kharkiv to the UK and I will absolutely be telling my children how resilient their foreparents were.

People may have forgotten what their grandparents did to ours, but don't worry because we never will.

[shitswiftiessay]

Someone come get their grandma

[tswiftupdatess]

🚨 Tickets will be refunded to fans who are not able to make it to Monday's postponed show.

Visit taylorswifttheerastour.com.br for more info.

[usermaroon]

[florida3exclamationpoints]

🚨 selling one ticket to Eras Vienna night 2!!!! 🚨

I bought this ticket during the verified fan presale last year because I want to go to Austria more than anywhere else in the world but I unfortunately can't make the travel arrangements work :( but I'm excited to help someone else have the experience now :)

The seat is upper bowl: block O, row 1, seat 146, for the Vienna, Austria Eras show on Friday August 9th, 2024. It's a VIP ticket with the It's A Love Story package. I'm selling for face value aka Exactly what I paid for it originally. Please message me for more details!! Signal boosting is also appreciated 🫶 let's go swifties

[laurarobert2]

Hey fellow Swifties! I'm thrilled to share an amazing opportunity with someone who will truly appreciate it. I have extra tickets to Taylor Swift's concert at Rogers Centre in Toronto, Ontario, on November 14th, and I'd love to find them a new home.

My incredible mom surprised me and my siblings with tickets, and I already had some, so I'm spreading the love! These tickets are genuine, and I have proof of purchase ready.

If you're a true Swiftie who's been dreaming of seeing Taylor live, I'd love to hear from you! I'm open to negotiating the price, and I just want to make sure these tickets go to someone who will cherish them as much as I do.

Let's make some magic happen! Send me a message or comment below, and let's get ready to sing our hearts out to Taylor's amazing songs🥰

[cairsns]

so I love the idea of the marauders and the slytherin skittles being swifties but what I love even more is keeping their d.o.b canon which would make them in their 40s when she starts her career.

Can you imagine them being in their 60s with grey hair and wrinkles dancing and singing along to 'Love Story' ?? gold

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

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[purrincess-chat]

Gale has informed me my response time to him commenting on a Swiftie post was 13 minutes. I am one with the swiftie-verse, what can I say?

[jewishbarbies]

real bold of tree to describe rumors taylor could easily ignore or never see if she wasn’t obsessed with herself as “pain and trauma” when taylor found out a fan died at her concert from her own greed and lied about contacting the family and about when it happened, then invited the family to her show like that would bring their daughter back in order to absolve herself.

[whydoifeelthisquiet]

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[savageswift13]

hello my friends I’m desperately in search of 2 London eras tour tickets 🙏🙏 so pls pls pls if you can help me out lmk 😭🥲🤍🤍

[tswiftupdatess]

🚨 | Swifties in Spain can now win 2 tickets for The Eras Tour by pre-ordering 'THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT'

You can enter here

[fridayiminlovemp3]

straight girls need to stop dragging their boyfriends everywhere around with them like he’s their purse dog. like stop bringing your boyfriends to the eras tour!!! he doesn’t even like taylor swift!!! HE DOESNT EVEN KNOW THE LORE those tickets should have gone to my weird gay friends online not to jakey poo. leave him at home!!!!!

[yeehawnatalie]

Let’s talk about what went wrong with Taylor Swift Presale today. By now, you should all (hopefully) be aware that today, November 15th, was the start of a war declaration for all swifties. I myself was fortunate to get tickets, but thousands upon thousands of other die hard taylor fans were not. There are quite a few things that went wrong, and I hope to make this post cover as many as I am knowledgeable about so that in the case of future panic, concert ticket buyers can navigate the absolute hellscape that is ticketmaster. Fair warning: this post is long and winded, read at your own risk…. Screenshots will be included

Ticketmaster placed all sales on the same day with only a 1 hour buffer

In all their genius and ingenuity, TM decided to place all 52 presales (not including cap 1) on the same day. with a one. hour. buffer. If you’ve been on Twitter, you’ve seen the panic and anger from all pre-sale goers (myself included) East coast encountered many crashes and 504 bad gateway errors, not even including the “code not working” errors that eventually caused all queues to be placed on hold for over 3 hours… People couldn’t even get into waiting rooms due to site overload. Around 1 hour after this, TM told us to join using the code from our texts, but recommended using a laptop or desktop device… make it make sense? It was not any better in Central nation however. Upon joining the queue, I found myself to be behind nearly 5k people while my mom (who had gotten a code too and was trying incase my night was sold out) was behind nearly 22k people. Within 5 minutes of the queue opening, it was paused. There was no communication at all from TM for about an hour to an hour and a half. Twitter was flooded with people panicking that their codes weren’t working and the lines weren’t moving. I sat there for 4 hours until TM posted the following image.

Absolutely ridiculous. There was little to no communication about known issues or why TM couldn’t get their sh*t together in the span of 4 hours. Keep in mind I waited almost 6 hours to get tickets and others waited even longer. Stadiums were completely sold out in some cases with no update in the queue lines.

Boosts were not recognized/supported

Towards the bottom of this section I have attached a screenshot of a twitter thread discussing this. I personally feel this rumor may have some truth to it. I had no boosts, have never bought merch, and was relatively high in the line. However, I have yet to see a loverfest ticket holder who had a high place in line. The theory is that TM placed the boost holders at the end of the queue. Why? The ongoing theory is that it is for profit - TM is notorious for scalping and ripping off buyers, and it does not surprise me in the slightest that they would do this thinking that all the more dedicated swifties would be willing to spend more $$$ than the “locals.” There is a ton of outrage rn due to this. What was the point of the boosts if they didn’t work? Many boosted fans did not get any tickets as pre-sale sold out quickly.

UPDATE 11/16

Apparently this rumor has been confirmed from TM. See the attached picture. Seems that TM is having trouble keeping all their information consistent. Makes me wonder what exactly the boosts and loverfest did bc they defiantly did not help people get presale codes or ahead in the queue….

Dynamic Pricing + VIP packages

This is a concert lovers greatest enemy. We’ve all heard about how Ed Sheeran opted out of this, and we thought Taylor did as well…. until we walked into the gates of hell. It is still unclear if dynamic pricing is confirmed, but the prices across stadiums and pre-sale times is insane. I paid 299+fees for an 8th row lower bowl while one of my friends paid 400 for a 10th row and another only 250 for a floor ticket. There is absolutely no reason this should exist. Not only does this not detour scalpers, it simply makes the concert less accessible to people who ACTUALLY want to go. Not to mention the insane number of VIP packages available. IMO VIP should be something you add on after, not sold as an individual seat. The prices for floor VIP were 800+ for houston, and when I went to check about 2 hours after getting my tickets, they were one of the last things to be sold. These VIP packages had no communication before presale, and limited the number of good seating for people who simply wanted to watch the concert.

Weird error messages

This was a MAJOR problem during the presale that I haven’t seen many people talking about. I’ve attached a picture of my own error below. After finally getting through to purchase tickets, I found two amazing floor seats within my price range and immediately took them only to be met with the error below. I was literally freaking out while my mom kept on trying different tickets to no avail. I finally found someone on Twitter with the same issue who said they cleared cache and cookies and it worked. Luckily, I was able to do this, reenter my code, and get tickets (although not the amazing floor ones I had in my hand previously) TM has still not replied to my questions about the error messages, and it seems that more people are coming out with the same issue I encountered. I know TM was trying to prevent bots, but someone like me who has a verified email, phone, and clearly residential email handle should not have been flagged and given this code (still don’t know why tf I got it?) Some people are speculating these errors were to limit ticket buyers to cover up TM errors in calculating how many presale tickets were available.

Lack of support and ability to contact support

As I briefly mentioned earlier, I was not helped at all by TM support. There is no easily accessible number to call TM support, and even if there were, there is no guarantee they would pick up in time. Frankly, I was absolutely infuriated with how TM handled this. The lack of texts being sent, emails being sent late into the night with no waitlists in sight, no communication on how presale was going to work. Everyone was told completely different things and no one had any idea what was going on. Add this onto cap 1 presale being pushed back to tomorrow, this is going to make a lot of people really mad. I’ve heard of peoples cards not going through, codes declining, constant ticket disappearing, getting kicked to the back of queue, TM just dropping them - it’s a nightmare. Seriously, just look up some trending Taylor Swift tags on tiktok or twitter rn… And frankly, twitters TM support is just not helpful - the below twitter user received two completely different answers when asking about how codes can be used for different nights.

I sent TM support a message nearly 48 hours ago and still have no received a response - curious as to why, but I’m not entirely surprised. Haven’t heard too much about the situation over on seatgeek.

No Reputation Style Boosts

This is another speculation, but many swifties have said TM wouldn’t allow another reputation boost style system due to the low level of scalper activity during this sale. These boosts worked insanely well to get actual fans on the sale (unlike the verified fans) and it is inferenced that bc TM makes a lot of their money from resales and scalpers, they were against using this method for a popular artist like Taylor. This style of boost could have greatly benefited people who weren’t going to resell tickets, but because of cooperate greed TM has not allowed anyone to use it again.

Insane scalper prices

Literally what is says. 50k for a SINGLE floor ticket is just not it. don’t buy the resell tickets, wait it out for people to sell them at a slightly above face value. They knew people want this tour, and they’re taking advantage of that. How did so many tickets disappear and magically show up on stub hub during the queue pause? (hmmm I wonder it’s almost like that’s TM whole business model) This image is from chicago alone…. and look how many tickets are already here.

“Unprecedented” demand

*sigh* TM you were literally the ones who sent out the presale codes…. you cannot call this “unprecedented” when you literally knew the exact number of people who would be trying to get tickets. These overpriced service fees do what exactly? pay developers to pause queues and not send updates ever? People skipped work and school to buy these tickets and because of your oversight, they lost time and money and may have to miss more tomorrow to participate in Cap 1 presale. There is no other option for this volume of tickets being sold. Taylor has no option but to use this trashy, overpriced site to sell tickets to her loyal fans.

Overall, I am incredibly grateful to have even gotten a presale code. This is of no fault to Taylor or Taylor Nation - the blame lyes only on Ticketmaster. These past 48 hours have been brutal, and I know everyone is frustrated and mad at the shit show that happened today. I’m just asking any and all swifties to put your anger on TM not Taylor. She’s going to have a rough time responding to this, and I think we should make it as easy as possible for her. But most importantly, we need to hold TM accountable, there’s a reason monopoly is americas most hated game. Hopefully someone can crack down on this, but at the end of the day the only thing we can do is continue to support Taylor. Please let me know if there’s anything you think I should add to this post or want added. Thank you and I hope everyone recovers from today. <3