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Taylor Swift Can Stop Slagging Ticketmaster

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Taylor Swift Can Stop Slagging Ticketmaster

[ad_1] The much-maligned ticket seller isn’t perfect. But an intervention from Congress won’t help consumers — or stars like Swift. You'd think Taylor Swift would be happy with the way her 52-date “Eras Tour” has gotten underway. In November, in a presale for registered fans, Ticketmaster sold some 2 million tickets for Swift's shows in a single day, a global record. Thanks to a huge surge in traffic — including from bots and brokers — fans reported delays and error messages, while the resulting lack of inventory led the company to cancel a sale to the general public. Even so: This was the strongest demand for a concert series in history. Surely some hiccups could be forgiven. Not so. Swift said it was “excruciating for me to just watch mistakes happen with no recourse.” At a hea...

Ticketmaster cancels public sale of Taylor Swift tickets

[ad_1] "Due to extraordinarily high demands on ticketing systems and insufficient remaining ticket inventory to meet that demand, tomorrow's public on-sale for Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour has been cancelled," the ticketing broker tweeted. After days of glitches and long waits frustrated fans trying to buy Taylor Swift tickets during presale windows, Ticketmaster on Thursday said they were cancelling tomorrow's slated public sale."Due to extraordinarily high demands on ticketing systems and insufficient remaining ticket inventory to meet that demand, tomorrow's public on-sale for Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour has been cancelled," the ticketing broker tweeted. It was not immediately clear whether that sale would be rescheduled, or how many unsold tickets remained. Ticketmaster did not i...

Taylor Swift Crashes Ticketmaster Website as Fans Scoop Up Presale Tickets

[ad_1] Since Taylor Swift announced “The Eras Tour” earlier this month, it’s been something of a Hunger Games to land a ticket to one of her shows. Taylor Swift fans trying to score tickets to the singer's highly anticipated tour crashed the Ticketmaster website, with thousands reporting outages on the tracking site Downdetector.com Tuesday morning.Ticketmaster Fan Support tweeted that West Coast dates originally scheduled to go on sale at 10 a.m. local time would instead be taking place at 3 p.m., with queues opening 30 minutes before. “There has been unprecedented demand with millions showing up to buy tickets,” the company said in the tweet. “Hundreds of thousands of tickets have been sold.” Ticketmaster told Bloomberg that demand was more than twice the number of tickets availab...