In a blog post Thursday, Ticketmaster explained that a “record number of fans” wanted to buy tickets to Swift’s Eras Tour, which begins next year. That prompted a massive slowdown in its platform and sparked outrage among her millions of fans who couldn’t purchase tickets. Ticketmaster basically said that its “Verified Fans” system, a mechanism aimed at eliminating bots that gives presale codes to individuals, couldn’t keep up with the intense demand. Roughly 3.
” That unprecedented demand, combined with a “staggering number of bot attacks as well as fans who didn’t have invite codes” drove “unprecedented traffic” to its site, Ticketmaster said, and, essentially, broke it. “Never before has a Verified Fan on sale sparked so much attention – or uninvited volume,” Ticketmaster said in the blog post. “This disrupted the predictability and reliability that is the hallmark of our Verified Fan platform.
Kanye must be sulking
How many were sold at the listed retail price? My guess is ZERO!!!!
Is she going to strip during her the concert? I can't see how more than two million like her music.
How does Ticketmaster know that? Oh that’s because they monopolize the whole market and 3rd party sellers like Vivid Seat,Stubhub,Gametime,seatgeak,TickPick all go through TicketMaster and pay them a fee. The fans overpay and get screwed. Hopefully someone files a lawsuit.
And 1.99999 million of them were to the resale market. 🙄
Yaa at $32,000.00 a pop