Angry and sad I'll probably never get to go to a Taylor Swift concert

I'm angry and sad I'll probably never get to go to a Taylor Swift concert because the ticket prices for her New Zealand concerts reached tens of thousands of dollars because of those **** ing Ticketmaster bastards holding a monopoly on ticket sales. She is my idol and I love her music and to go to a concert and have a chance of meeting her would be a dream come true.

a reply to: Conspiracyskeptic

Is it the farewell tour? Waning artists usually love to gouge their real fans on their way out the door.

As an aside, I'm a huge -TOOL- fan. I can relate as it seems like no matter where I live, there's a 500 mile radius around me where they simply refuse to come and play. So yeah, I understand your dilemma.

a reply to: Conspiracyskeptic

damn, one of my super powers, is i can get into any event for free or cheap lol.
i saw taylor at MSG paid 20 bucks. i was in a box seat, but at MSG, those seats are way too high up. so i moved down, and i where i ended up was first row stage left.
saw taylor like 10 feet from me, shes smokin!

dont dispair. they might fix tiketmaster for next time. she is young, you can see her next trip.

BUT there is a chance. i was in vegas, and i saw rod stewart. i paid 23 bucks for the tickets, via tiketmaster no less.
some girl showed me a trick where people sell the tickets last minute.

i hope i screenshot how to do it, cause ive been trying to find that button ever since lol

but i was on line to buy full price tickets, and some girl said dont pay, just buy using the ap.

and for rod stewart, i was stage left, like 15-18 rows back. great seats for dirt cheap.

just ask around, there are tons of tickets out there.

a reply to: Conspiracyskeptic

Tens of thousands for a ticket?

Are you being wayyyyy over board or is it the truth?

Got a link for it?

a reply to: Conspiracyskeptic

Dude………..

Just shake it off, shake it off

Here is a little secret....

Both the dayb4 the show, and the day of the show, go online and buy from the website.

I usually work shows, but a friend needed a ride t Slayer's last tour. He and his brother each paid $300 a ticket. Less than 24 hours b4 the house opened, I got mine for $12. Way better seats even. That was with the service fees.

The promoter doesn't want empty seats near the stage...it messes with the artist's ego. They already made their money on a non refundable ticket, so it goes cheap.

originally posted by: SecretKnowledge
a reply to: Conspiracyskeptic

Tens of thousands for a ticket?

Are you being wayyyyy over board or is it the truth?

Got a link for it?

It’s true I looked at them for relatives. The highest I saw were on EBay for 2 tickets in Chicago (great seats)
And it was 15K

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a reply to: SecretKnowledge

People in my area were re-selling theirs on eBay for 10K+ the day after they were released.

The op made it out to look like ticketmaster were charging those prices. He shoulda said scalpers are the ones charging thousands for a ticket.

So op, will you please explain how its ticketmasters fault that scalpers are charging those prices

Ticketmaster uses a concept called Dynamic pricing. When the tickets go on sale and the demand is super high the price goes way up. If demand is not there then the price is near the suggested price that the fans were expecting. There have been several big shows in the news this year where this has happened and the fans were not happy. Bruce Springsteen tickets for a New York show were hitting near 4k from ticket master. www.usatoday.com... . Of course Bruce said well we are getting old and may not be able to tour much longer so we decided to get as much as we could. (not his exact quote).

I am not specifically a Taylor Swift fan, but if I had to choose between her contemporaries or her thered be no chance Id decide upon the others. Funny thing, as a writer I am often faced with word choices, I could use Quick, Fast, Hasty, Speedy and then theres Swift. But now, when I choose to use swift it carries the connotation of this singer songwriter, but since theres nothing about her that I detest its a no brainer, why shouldnt I use the word swift? I dont listen to much music but Ive heard hers and saw a couple of her videos, hands down the best female entertainer of her generation. Glad to see shes doing so well right now. Hall of Famer.