Ticketmaster puts bots and scalpers before fans | Corporate Casket

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Blair Zoń

Documentary, Education, Business, Society & Culture

4.4 • 961 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Go to http://Blueland.com/casket to get 15% off your first order. Go to http://hellofresh.com/casket22 and use code casket22 for 22 free meals plus free shipping! Welcome to the Corporate Casket, a weekly series where bad businesses go to die. When Live Nation and Ticketmaster joined forces over a decade ago, they promised that the new partnership would benefit consumers. The new powerful relationship has, unfortunately, proven to be anything but beneficial to the public. Connect With Me: https://linktr.ee/iilluminaughtii’ Sources: https://justpaste.it/cnv5v Writers/Researchers/Helpers: Ali Z-B This episode was edited and mixed by: G. Thomas Craig Album cover art created by: Betsy Primes Intro Song Credits: Trauma- Will Van De Crommert Outro Song Credits: Electronica Punch- Oleksandr Koltsov Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This morning, Taylor is giving us a GMA viewers a huge exclusive with a very, very special
0:08.3	surprise announcement and here it is, everyone. Good morning America, it's Taylor. is one of the most well-known
0:13.0	Good morning America it's Taylor I wanted to tell you something that I've been so
0:16.7	excited about for a really long time I've been planning for ages and I finally
0:20.6	get to Taylor Swift is one of the most well-known pop stars out there, and she hasn't been on tour in about four years.
0:27.0	Whether you love her or hate her, or maybe somewhere in between, there's absolutely no denying the impact she's had on the music industry.
0:34.5	So expectedly when she announced the eras tour,
0:37.1	fans were scrambling to buy tickets. They paid exorbitant prices and
0:41.7	these are the ones that even got the chance to buy tickets in the first place.
0:45.2	Julia told her followers on YouTube that she paid $600 for a ticket that was in line with a side of the stage
0:51.1	and she wasn't sure it was going to even have a good view.
0:54.4	Others shared videos of their screens where tickets were on sale for upwards of $20,000.
0:59.4	Timeouts, waits of nine hours to get tickets, or waiting six to eight hours just to be told that they were
1:04.4	sold out was all common. You'd think that with this much chaos to get tickets, there would
1:09.7	be an apparent reason. Maybe the site went down or the general public just broke it, right? Well, no, not exactly. Instead, the website where this all took place, Ticketmaster, wasn't even open to the general public at this time.
1:23.0	All of this mayhem and madness happened during the pre-sale
1:27.0	when fans were invited to buy tickets absolutely swarmed Ticketmaster. About 3.5 million people pre-registered during Taylor Swift's
1:34.6	verified fan sale. And of those 3.5 million, one and a half were invited
1:39.7	while 2 million were just waitlisted. And this was done to prevent bought attacks
1:43.6	though this plan clearly didn't work out all that well when the site was flooded with
1:47.2	them to the point that Ticketmaster blamed bought attacks for this fiasco in the
1:50.7	first place and truthfully it just sounds like they weren't prepared at all,
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