Lucky Taylor Swift fans celebrated cautiously on Monday after receiving an email from ticket collectorconcert background behind the catastrophic failure of the “Eras” tour pre-sale.
next week cancellation Regarding the pop star’s highly anticipated general tour sale, Ticketmaster is offering a chance to a limited number of “Verified Fans” ticket request through a staggered series of invitations to be sent out by December 23.
For selected fans, Ticketmaster will “send you an email summarizing the details of the show and the ticket(s) you have requested to purchase,” the platform explains. in a blog post.
“Your card will not be charged at this time. After the request window closes, we’ll send you an email to let you know if your request has been confirmed. If confirmed, your card will be charged and you will receive instructions on how to claim your tickets so they appear in your Ticketmaster account.”
All sales are final, but if your request is not approved, your card will not be charged, The ticket seller said.
“We apologize for the difficulty you may be experiencing and have been asked by Taylor’s team to provide this additional opportunity for you to purchase tickets,” said Ticketmaster’s. statement continues.
Amina, a Taylor Swift fan, was selected to participate in the upcoming limited sale after an unsuccessful pre-sale experience.
Amina told The Daily Beast: “I waited in line for four hours and got nothing. “I walked in and all the seats were gone, just nosebleeds and since I was flying in from Uruguay just to see Taylor, the actual nosebleed wasn’t enough to make it through the whole trip.”
In the end, she paid $900 for bowling tickets at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. She will try to claim tickets through Ticketmaster, but “I think the chances of getting tickets are still very low,” Amina said.
Ticketmaster canceled the Taylor ticket general sale after the pre-sale Their original Verified fans entered the draw unprecedented trafficWebsites crashed and malfunctioned, many fans were kicked out of the ticketing line empty-handed, and over 2 million tickets were snapped up on the first day, prompting a backlash from Swifties, 26 of them. filed a lawsuit against Ticketmaster’s holding company.
After the failure, The New York Times reports that the Justice Department has opened an antitrust investigation into Live Nation, Ticketmaster’s parent company, to determine whether the company’s dominance in the industry is an abuse of power. Sources tell time that the investigation has been launched before the Eras pre-sale. The Department of Justice did not immediately respond to The Daily Beast’s request for comment.
“It’s really hard for me to trust an outside entity with these relationships and allegiances, and it’s frustrating for me to just watch mistakes happen without any recourse, ” Fast wrote on Instagram after news that the general sale was cancelled.
With so many tickets already purchased through Ticketmaster and resale sites, there is still the question of how many tickets to “Eras” can still be purchased at face value.
TikTok account estimate fixthetswifttix that after assessing recorded ticket sales and including tickets likely to be held for company guests and radio partners, approximately 722,000 tickets are still available for sale. Ticketmaster did not immediately respond to The Daily Beast’s request for comment.
