What Ticketmaster's Taylor Swift debacle reveals about the music industry's monopoly problem
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Congress has tried for years to reign in this ticketing monopoly. Will Taylor Swift Fans make all the difference? Krista Brown and Andre Barlow join Kimberly Atkins Stohr.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Kimberly Akkinstor and this is on point. |
| 0:04.3 | This was by far the most upsetting, unpleasant ticket buying experience I've ever had. |
| 0:11.2 | Last week, the pre-sale for Taylor Schliss 2023 tour broke ticket master. |
| 0:16.9 | I signed up for the pre-sale, did all the work, even had my computer on that website for hours, |
| 0:24.9 | at least 24 hours in advance and I kept refreshing. |
| 0:27.4 | And then it basically crashed. I was so worried and devastated and frankly really frustrated. |
| 0:34.4 | I assumed that they make tons of money and I would think that their apps, everything, |
| 0:39.4 | would be working a heck of a lot better than they did. |
| 0:42.7 | The most frustrating part is that ticket master supplied the verified fan codes. |
| 0:49.5 | So they knew how many verified fan codes they sent out. |
| 0:53.6 | They should have been ready for those numbers. |
| 0:56.4 | I've never experienced a thing like that where you would think that you had gotten pre-sale access. |
| 1:02.1 | That it shouldn't have been an issue at all to get tickets. |
| 1:05.0 | And here we are without anything after trying three separate times. |
| 1:09.2 | We had to pay at least $500 for tickets in the stand. |
| 1:15.1 | And we were at this point forced to get a VIP package because that's all there was. |
| 1:20.3 | Plus all the service fees, it ended up being $600 a ticket. |
| 1:25.5 | Like we paid it because we want to see her that bad. |
| 1:29.6 | But it's still wrong. |
| 1:32.2 | I couldn't even tell you the number of times I've been locked out a minute after ticket go on fail |
| 1:37.8 | because somehow ticket go on almost instantly for big shows. |
| 1:43.7 | I'm actually very grateful for this Taylor Swift inspired ticket master V-A-S-O |
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