🎫 Robert Smith from The Cure tweeted about ticket prices and Ticketmaster's extra fees. He also tweeted about the verified fan process. 14/15 March 2023 x
New conspiracy theory that ticketmaster hires scalpers to make themselves look better so everyone pays them fees and they tighten their hold on their monopoly of ticket sales
Anything That Can’t Go On Forever Will Eventually Stop. By Cory Doctorow. The Taylor Swift/Ticketmaster debacle was an inevitable result of parasitical monopoly. “TicketMaster is a high-profile, extremely concrete example of a phenomenon that is everywhere in our society: a bloated, financialized conglomerate that extracts massive profits by wrecking everything it touches.” These monopolies are everywhere—in healthcare, publishing, even professional wrestling—and they “strip-mine useful and productive businesses” for profit. People are finally waking up and getting pissed off.
So I did the math, and Ticketmaster gave out 1.5 million presale codes at a 6 ticket max, equaling 9 million tickets in presale codes. The tour only supports 3,658,792 tickets total. Why on Earth would they hand out almost triple the codes than they had tickets for??
Making this post to spare anybody else the misery I almost went through. Since I don't have many irish followers, or followers from the uk (I think), maybe some of you could signal boost this post.
I bought tickets for Dublin N3 and paid them with my moms credit card. After receiving the eticket on my ticketmaster account I saw that my moms name was on the tickets. In germany the person that is named on the tickets needs to enter the venue with the group, otherwise you won't gain entrance. So I got suspicious and looked around on the ticketmaster website and it said, that this only counts for so called lead booker events. Lead booker event means, that the person on the ticket, that paid for the ticket, needs to be with the group in order to enter the venue. Ticketmaster Ireland stated, that there were currently no lead booker events. Since I never leave well enough alone, I wrote them an email though and asked if The Eras Tour will be a lead booker event and this is what they replied:
So, basically, I would have been screwed. I'm currently in the process of getting my tickets canceled, since I got some for Gelsenkirchen, but please be aware of this when ordering tickets in Ireland!!!