Taylor Swift's Ticketmaster Nightmare
Rich and Weekly
Wondery
4.0 • 962 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
It's a difficult time to be a Swiftie right now. After pre-sale tickets for Taylor Swift’s “Eras” tour were released on Tuesday, the rush to snag seats was wild, resulting in a record-breaking sales day for Ticketmaster. The "historically unprecedented" demand caused fans to wait hours to get tickets, and resell prices from scalpers have rocketed upwards of $25,000. Of course ticketless fans are frustrated, and they're pointing blame at Ticketmaster. Even some politicians have chimed in to criticize the platform, calling it an "unchecked monopoly." So could this outcry cause change in the ticket-selling industry?
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| 0:00.0 | Brooke you and I can both attest to how much it sucks to be so dead set on trying to make something happen and then it doesn't work thinking about |
| 0:15.0 | our ETR launch party. |
| 0:16.6 | Oh I was thinking about our tour. |
| 0:18.2 | Oh my God, there's so many things we could have to happen. I know, God, it's sad. Well, poor went out for all of the |
| 0:27.6 | Swifties out there because no matter how hard Taylor Swift's most devoted fans may try. Getting a ticket for her |
| 0:34.6 | Erra's tour has turned out to be a complete and total shit show. Yeah I mean it |
| 0:39.3 | looks like people are basically having to take out a second mortgage on their house like if they even |
| 0:43.5 | want to get a ticket to this thing so Swifties are understandably pissed and |
| 0:48.6 | they know exactly who to blame. Yeah and I just got to say you know we know what to look for when we go on our tour you know like this is going to be the same |
| 0:57.5 | problem we'll have I'm sure yeah and now we know and we can prepare. Well, exactly. |
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