Ticketek ‘glitch’ appears to re-sell fan’s $659 ticket for Taylor Swift concert — “They said, ‘someone else has it, we don’t know who, we can’t check or track who has your ticket’”::A Taylor Swift fan believed her VIP ticket was ‘stolen’ from her account by Ticketek after an apparent system ‘glitch’.
This is one of the most perfect examples of a bank charge back situation I have ever seen.
You get your money back, sure, but the company has also profited off the theft of the ticket, so I think a reasonable jury/judge would find you’re owed some money for that profit and maybe some more so they think twice about doing it again. You’d probably be able to take them to small claims court and get an easy settlement for the equivalent of upgraded seats on the secondary market.
Ticket prices are obscene and I hope Swift isn’t gouging her fans. The last concert I went to pre pandemic, cost me $70 a piece, now those same tickets are easily triple that price. Who can afford this anymore?
I went to go see Pantera and Lamb of God on Saturday and all of the 4 sites I checked had at least a $30 fee per ticket, with zero explanation of what that fee was for. The tickets were priced from $60 on up and then once you select a ticket they slap on the $30 fee! Parking was also $45, and beer was $20.
I just had a ticketmaster subsidiary charge me taxes on two tickets in a state where we have zero sales tax.
Fuckers. I was expecting to pay the sales tax on top of their fee, but I guess they were nice and rolled that in for me.
I did see one site that had the $30 fee per ticket and then a $2.50 service charge for the e-delivery.
I saw Megadeth front row for like $30 in the early 2000s 😭 their goodbye tour was like $400 a seat
Yeah, that sucks balls. I wanted to go to The Big 4 Tour but upper level tickets were in the hundreds.
