Swifties set to buy the Eras tour presale tickets encountered long virtual queues, website crash and blink-and-miss sale|via Ticketmaster
Ticketmaster’s monopoly over concert ticket pricing has come under fire. Fans registered at the site to buy Taylor Swift's Eras tour presale tickets were stuck in hours-long virtual queues.
But that wasn’t it. Tuesday, the website saw several technical glitches further angering Swifties, who posted memes on Twitter complaining about the ordeal.
Before they could blink, the website crashed, the sale got over, and $49 to $449 tickets were on resale sites like StubHub for as much as $21,600 per ticket.
Eras tour will be Taylor Swift’s first tour in five years.
Ticketmaster released a statement claiming, “historically unprecedented demand” as the reason. Enraged fans are questioning Ticketmaster’s monopoly over ticket sales in the US.
Congress was quick to jump in
“Daily reminder that Ticketmaster is a monopoly, its merger with LiveNation should never have been approved, and they need to be reined in,” tweeted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Last month, President Biden said he would probe into sky-high processing fees on concert tickets.