Taylor Swift - Midnights (October 21, 2022) Album • Page 120

Yeah, there were definitely $49 seats. They were bad seats, but they existed.

 

I would have taken them. I just wanted to be there, I don't care if I can't see everything. Plus I'm real good at finding better places to sit once i'm at a show.

Before the 2nd half of the 1975 show, we moved over a section and up so we could dance around, smoke a joint and it was still the best seats in the house!

 

I know how they feel

 

Soldier field is 50% sold for each date from what I just found out.

so Taylor and Ticketmaster are full of shit

 

Heard from a friend or what?

 

Yeah.

 

Maybe they want time to beef up their server capacity before announcing a public on sale ?

 

that's just it, I got 2 rep tour tickets for 100 total 2 weeks before the show.

and as for the 2.5 million tickets sold....about half of that was scalpers and bots, not actual fans getting tickets and going to the show.

I hate it here, lol.

 

Surely there has to be a way to defeat the bots.

 

The hardcore way is doing verified fan for the exact number of seats they are selling, tickets are refundable but not exchangeable. Only verified fans even get in to the queue. After 24 hours of verified sale, remaining seats are counted and wait-list is invited to a second sale a few days later.

 

That’s roughly what I’ve been saying. Don’t allow for more than what is allotted to be selected. Make people state how many tickets they’re buying when submitting their application. Reconcile the difference once the sale ends and possibly open them up to more people who applied.

Tickets are refundable, transfers locked until 48 hours before so you can account for people not all arriving at an event at the same time.

If you really wanted to go for it, your party also need to provide email addresses and you’re selected as a group.

 

Yep, it's definitely not perfect but it's something.

 

So they're just burying this late on a Friday night, right?

 

What did they change since last time they posted it

 

Some random thoughts an comments:

Tickets are still available and will get sold at random times, random days, and just 'released'
90% less resale then usually sounds like a lie.
TM not reselling tix sounds like a lie.
This would be the biggest show since umm... ever, and TM should have realized. Better staggering should have helped.
I miss the days of standing in line for tix. Wouldnt that have been better than this? Wristbands?
TM/Live Nation a monopoly? Dynamic pricing (which didnt seem happenning here, but it did with Blink) ? is it legal?

Will anything come out of this for TM? Doubtful. They made their money. We all hate them for whichever reason and nothing can change that really.

 

This would be too logical

 

They could very easily have staggered the on-sale. I'm willing to bet they suggested that but either the artist or promotions team wanted to break single day ticket-selling records. It's of course on whoever at Ticketmaster said that they could handle the traffic, but there's some blame to go around on that point.

 

They also literally just had this exact problem for Bruce Springsteen like 3 months ago with far less overall traffic and tickets, so they should have had an indication that this wasn't going to go as planned from a traffic perspective.

 

Ticketmaster Q’s
Do you want to see Taylor Swift? Y/N
Do you want floor seats? Y/N
Do you want side stage? Y/N
Do you want lower bowl? Y/N

Not that hard to verify and let people in with that info…..?

 

That would require pricing transparency, which often differs from venue to venue based on demand. The assumption is that anyone logging in wants to see Taylor Swift...

 

Gotta have the meaningless record, rather than a halfway decent customer experience!

 

Remember when ticket scalping was illegal?

 

guys I love this so much

 

I think the earliest thing I can recall of ticket scalping was from a Home Improvement episode when Tim and Al try to buy Red Wings tickets from an undercover cop and get arrested.