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I'm 16 and I've never been to a concert, whilst at my age my parents had been to plenty. With a combination of inflation and these crazed fans and companies, it's just not accessible anymore
Hey it’s not something to worry about, I didnt go to my first concert till I was 16 in 2018, and that was seated with my dad. Even though all my mates had been going solo standing. When it comes to inflation and cost, big bands are always gonna be crazy expensive, a lot of the time slightly smaller artists will have way cheaper tickets and play at smaller venues (which I’ve found are always better than huge stadiums). If you’re struggling to get tickets in the mad rush, I’ve got a technique that works 75% of the time and that’s just having 4 tabs open, rotating between all of them just constantly refreshing, managed to get my sister 4 harry styles tickets an hour after they’d been sold out that way.
Idk if you live in a place that has it but if you do, Local music!!! Where I live for example have great local indie, rap, and metal scenes. you can get a full 4-5 hours of music and connecting with your community for like $10. I find it so so much more rewarding to support local artists that are honestly probably gonna put on a better show than most arena acts and finding people around you that could be new friends. All you really need is to dig around on Instagram and you can easily find artists in your area
18 and never been one. I would love to see a concerto, a BTS concert, and more. However, I just don't have the money and hate crowded places. It does not help that if the demographic is mainly young adults to teenagers it might be crazy because they don't know how to act. (Of course this only goes for pop artist. I sometimes hear this happening in many kpop concerts. I never hear it from classical concertos)
I‘m so glad that I live in Germany where we have policies about resale pricing! It absolutely blows my mind how “normalized“ paying over 500$ for a concert in the US
I promise it’s not normal. The most I paid was 295 for The 1975, and that’s because it was at the money pit that is Madison Square Garden. Their concerts not in NYC were cheaper. It’s for giant artists like Taylor Swift that the prices go insane. Most people have at least a couple artists they love that wouldn’t cost this much.
@@beautifulveinsI paid even less for pit at msg for Billie eilish. I also went to rep tour. The process of buying tickets was so smooth and affordable, I bought a pair of tickets to a second show. Of course, for rep, they had measures in place to ensure as many fans got them as possible. In fact, scalping was historically low. So Ticketmaster axed that setup because it hurt their side hustle.
Bro I still couldnt get any Kendrick Lamar tickets for less than 100€ (not even mentioning I was not going to be able to see sht from that far away) 😭😭
As a K-pop fan, I have had my fare share of ticketing problems with ticketmaster. I think a good solution would be, AT LEAST making sure that the website can handle massive amounts of traffic and possibly artists just having their own ticketing system like ticketmaster or smth.
i think the big issue is the fact that tick providers are decided through the venue. ticketmaster usually makes deals with each venue in order to be the only ticket provider there
I’m Gen X and just to add a little perspective, Ticketmaster has always been terrible. Pearl Jam sued Ticketmaster for being an illegal monopoly in 1994 because they couldn’t control fees/how much their fans would pay and cancelled tours because of it and testified to a congressional committee about this. In the 90s it was still very difficult to get tickets to high in demand shows, in fact, it was super common place for people to camp out at the venue/record stores where the tickets would go on sale to get a good place in line cause it was very common for high demand shows to sell out in something like 3 minutes. You had to buy in person. Different times. I don’t think AXS is any better. They are owned by AEG which is the second biggest promoter/venue owner. Very similar to Ticketmaster, huge fees, trapped artists into exclusivity deals.
Yes I remember I always saw in tv and heard people talking about having to wait in line for their tickets. Like 6 years ago an artist that came to Mexico did something like that and it was way better. Since you could only buy his tickets in the venue, that time a lot of fans actually were able to attend the show without having to buy from resellers.
There were resellers that negatively impacted ticket prices back then as well. They would pay people to stand in line and buy tickets. I'm sure they are more effective now with bots, but it was still a big issue back then.
at this point ticketmaster and axs run everything, they are one in the same :( i don’t know how tm still goes on because they clearly have a monopoly over ticketing
as someone who saw taylor front row in a 700 person venue for $30 in 2008... this was a PAINFUL experience i had presale access, verified fan boost, still missed out
If anything good came out of the Taylor Swift mess, it's the fact that people now know how fucked up Ticketmaster is. It exposed a lot of their terrible practices and the illegal loopholes they take. Like if you're a big artist, like Taylor Swift level, you have to use Ticketmaster. They own most of the big stadiums and if you don't use Ticketmaster for ticket distribution you can't use most of the U.S. stadiums. Also when Ticketmaster works with an artist, they have the option to use 'dynamic pricing', which means prices can fluctuate whether or not the demand is high or low. A lot of people thought Taylor agreed to use it because of how high some of the prices of non-resale tickets were getting during the sale. The general public was mad at her and saying she was 'money hungry' for just wanting more money. Turns out she did not agree to dynamic pricing. Ticketmaster found a new loophole in which as long as they stayed in the agree price range ($49-$499) then they could technically make nosebleed seats for $400+. That nonsense plus the resale ones going for $10,000+... insane.
from what i saw, tickets were still ridiculously expensive even without ticketmaster gouging/the loophole. $120 for the front of the outermost section of the bowl!
They also flipped an abnormal amount of seats to vip. I watched in real time seats go from $225 to $700. The site glitched and wouldn’t let me buy any affordable tickets (there were a lot). When the “glitch” corrected, vip seats were the only option. It was definitely shady.
it’s gotten SO bad, i tried getting tickets for phoebe bridgers and mitski, waited in the ticketmaster queue for an hour. the moment i was in, scalpers had already taken all the tickets, it was all GONE. they were selling the tickets three times the price which should be illegal.
Here is my Ticketmaster theory: Years ago, presale used to be just for people who were in the official fan club or had something like an American Express card. Now, pre-sales are for everyone. I don’t think Ticketmaster can handle high traffic on there website so if they don’t do a presale, there website crashes. They have been completely useless for many years now (1D fans will confirm this) but they get away with it because they are the most popular website.
concert tickets are such a status symbol at this point- whenever people post ab going to a concert it reminds me sm of that 2016 hype beast flex culture😭
i have been to every taylor swift concert since fearless. i’m not a huge fan anymore (ironically i’m a huge edm fan now) but it’s become a tradition with me and my mom. she literally had my younger sister skip school to try and get tickets (she did have a presale code) and we couldn’t. my mom was so distraught. we had tickets to the lover’s tour which was postponed then canceled due to covid. she held on to the tickets instead of getting a refund (she did eventually but held out as long as possible) and she brought up that the people that held on to the tickets should’ve got priority and i kinda agree.
i work in the box office at a local venue in delaware, so i could go on and on about how difficult ticketmaster is for both fans and venues. the conclusion i've kind of come to over the years as a concert goer and box office attendant is that buying physical tickets might be the move when it comes to trying to solve these problems. that way there wouldn't be bots, ridiculous fees, and could control traffic when tickets go on sale- like for the taylor shows, you wouldn't have 14 million people showing up in person for tickets. it's kind of like that defunctland video on disney fast passes, sometimes paper systems are just better
While agree this is a good idea and that there are fans who might drive, lots of people can't just take the day off like that. On top of that, who knows how far they will have to drive lol I just wish there was a better system.
@@BlAcKhairblackdress yeah that’s true i think there’s gonna be drawbacks either way but in person sales at least can potentially minimize scalpers and such
@@alexisw8662 Interesting enough, Taylor has done a big stadium tour like this before and fans who were getting tickets said that it was great because they had a boost system where you basically verify you are a person by watching a bunch of videos. I think there were also staggered dates to buy tickets so that probably helped too. Not sure what the reason was for not doing that again, but this whole situation is wild.
I got Arctic Monkeys tickets for a concert happening in a different country, travelled there, stayed there for a full week and got merch, all for less than 1k, what are people on when they think paying 9k for a ticket is reasonable💀
The way that tickets used to work was that you literally had to go to the venue and buy them and they were all the same price. GA and nosebleeds were all the same price so to get good tickets for big artists you had to camp out and wait so only people who were super dedicated could get the good tickets. I honestly think first come first serve is the way to go and we should find a way to legally deal with scalpers because they are ruining live events, technology, etc by artificially inflating prices.
My mom was luckly able to get tickets but only three… there are four of us tho… luckily my youngest sister was okay with not going and in return she is currently at a Pentatonix concert :)
I got Taylor tickets as a Christmas gift. My mom waited FIVE HOURS in that queue. She had to cancel work to get me those tickets. I might be in the nosebleeds but I’m just so happy that I got those tickets and that my mom went through that for me. Love u mom.
a big issue too is that a lot of the venues for these bigger shows are full on stadiums and if you are a season pass holder at these stadium venues, you automatically get a code for the presales so many of the people that get these tickets are super sports fans of the venue, not even the artists fans. they purchase these tickets thinking they can make a big buck outta them by charging the thousand dollar resale prices. when i saw BTS in la last year, the only way I was able to get tickets to see them was to actually go through the stadium and get a stadium suite with a whole bunch of other people. while it was a fun experience in the end, fans should not have to go through all these loop holes to see their favorite artists live. plus it was sad to see full on rows in the stadium empty because these scalpers didn’t want to lower their prices for the seats
So true bestie. My sister waited from 11am to 3pm to get tickets and the website froze so she never got them. Then I waited in the queue for another 3 hours and then they cut off the sales when I finally got in :) I even had a verified presale code and the fact that bots got to the tickets first is so upsetting.
Honestly, I think the bots and scalpers are the worst because I literally tried to buy tickets for Lizzy McAlpine's show which were SUPPOSED to be 24$ per ticket. I was on the site trying to pay the second they went on sale. They sold out in 3 minutes and the cheapest resale tickets I found were 80$. She was using Point of Sale too.
Another issue is all the resellers. Obviously resellers have been around for a long time. But within the past 10 years, it’s become extremely saturated thanks to social media. Every other person thinks they’re a small business, while doing the absolute minimum.
halfway into the video but i can say that ticket concert buying is also really difficult here in the Philippines, especially for ones held by Live Nation. i've seen ticket prices for Be The Sun (Seventeen) and Blackpink and it's just soaring high, they also split the general admission section in an already huge ass arena, and the gaps between the prices are insane. hopefully they won't be the ones to handle Taylor's tour if ever she announces dates here bc im already sure they will milk the shit out of us. not to mention they prioritize giving tickets to influencers and celebrities, and they block fans who complain about their system lol
it’s even been tricky getting tickets to small(er) bands lately on ticketmaster :( my favorite band is doing a tour here; all 3 nights in one venue sold out in 2 seconds and now theyre all being resold for almost 100x the price (org price was $70 being resold for $550+
seen multiple tickets for enhypen’s (kpop group) show in nyc for $1k+. face value was $60-260, $260 being vip. the cheapest tickets were $200ish for balcony😐 it was cheaper to fly to their texas show and get vip there + travel/lodging, than the price of pit tickets alone in nyc. i’d also have to travel to nyc to go regardless. my favorite group i love those bitches so fucking much i went into a month or so long depression over not getting tickets, like nausea and concert vids being actual triggers i couldn’t think abt it for too long without crying. i will never let that shit go
But it's always been like this. It's just a lot of young people are beginning to experience how competitive it is for tickets to major shows. Concerts have always been a race but now that it's majorly digital, prices are even more manipulated due to access to stats and wider audience.
so i was *somehow* able to get tickets to both of the nights she’s performing in my city (i am indeed a swiftie) but it was hell and i’m shocked that i got them. at my college, there were girls walking to class with their laptops open to the queue screen with 2000+ people ahead of them while it was SNOWING. and the ticket prices were *significantly* higher than initially advertised, leading myself and many to believe that ms swift had dynamic pricing on despite saying that she didn’t. the biggest issue is that ticketmaster didn’t have you enter your presale code until you got through the queue, meaning that those 14 million other people were quite literally clogging the line up for the intended 1.5 million who were supposed to be able to buy tickets that day. anyways, i’m holding on to my tickets for dear life now. great video!!!!
I don't want to start anything and I'm happy you get to see a favourite artist of yours, but with how many people are distraught they couldn't get a ticket, you might want to at least consider selling one of them at original price to someone else who otherwise won't get to go. I'm not speaking out of bitterness here - I like Taylor Swift's music fine but not enough to want to go to a concert, so I don't have a horse in this race, but while of course many of the flaws in the system lie with technology, I also think if the system has any chance of working it depends on each of us acting in the most considerate manner possible. Idk, of course I get why you're doing it, there are artists where I'd love to see every single live show, but just because it's understandable doesn't actually mean it's the best course of action.
internationally, the ticketmaster issues have just started a couple years ago and I'm already sick of fighting to see any artist I love, pre-sales still kind of work, but there's 0 hope for general sale nowadays :c
i got tickets to taylor's rep tour in 2018 a month before the show, 2 floor seats for a total of ~$400. so easy and simple. but this tour? i didnt even get a presale code so my only hope was the general sale, but ticketmaster fumbled so hard with this ticket sale that even the general sale couldnt happen, AND they jacked up the prices so much that all the floor seats were vip; 1 floor ticket was like $800. luckily i found a face value ticket for a nosebleed seat on twitter for my desired city, but jesus christ ???? they sold every single ticket during a PRESALE. i hope this whole fiasco will be ticketmaster's downfall lmao
my local bigger venue (20k ppl) typically has reserved seats for citi cardholders to purchase on Ticketmaster and that’s what I’ve relied on a few times bc these ‘pre-sales’ are turning into general sales now
I'm a huge BTS fan and I don't even want to imagine how stressful buying concert tickets to their next tour will be 😢 There has to be a way to control ticketmaster and livenation constantly abusing their power
Hopefully by the time they come back from military service there’ll be new laws or a diff ticketing company that’ll be able to prevent scalpers from screwing us over. For the Las Vegas shows scalpers were SUCH a huge issue it was honestly infuriating
@@aaron4876 Yeah exactly!! I’m desperately hoping there’s a new distributor or more regulation in 2025. It was significantly too expensive for me to go to the LV show, but watching the scalpers and resellers running wild from afar was so infuriating 😢 Especially since the tickets were initially priced pretty fairly!
For the one and only concert ticket I've bought so far, I used axs and it was so easy. My friend spent hours on Ticketmaster to get Taylor tickets instead of going to class and she didn't even end up getting any. SO long story short stan axs
thinking abt when i bought arctic monkeys tickets in october it was literally so scary, the night before i was literally so anxious bc the re-sellers are SO quick 😭😭 pit ticket prices jumped up so fast within minutes…😐 i ended up getting tickets but not good seats (not nosebleed either) but for like $90 each. 😓
im a huge taylor stan, i know her whole discography and i have a few speeches memorized - i had a presale code, two boosts in line, and a capital one card to access the capital one presale. yet i came out with zero tickets and this sounds dramatic but im literally devastated. like that girl said i would whole heartedly take a bullet for taylor swift. thank you for coming to my ted talk.
Taylor and her crew literally asked Ticketmaster if they could handle the high demand that was going to happen (which they said they could), and then days later they cancel everything. How pathetic.
Nicoleeee, just hopping on here to say I found your channel the week my husband in the military was sent off to Germany. I was a month postpartum when was sent, and it was really nice to find your channel, it’s helped me a lot the past two months when I feel lonely. I always feel like a friend is on the phone when I watch your videos 😅🥲 you’re great, and thanks for being yourself!
Recently, I waited in queue and attempted to purchase tickets when the BP tickets dropped for Sydney. Couldn’t manage to get any and sold out in seconds- the next day I saw someone on TikTok selling 5 TICKETS FOR SYDNEY, AND BRAGGING ABT IT. God it was so infuriating
Had the same experience trying to get Paramore tickets a few weeks back. There were 5 of us in different households with a bunch of devices set up and not one of us got a ticket lol
They came to the city nearest me this fall and I didn't get tickets that time because of ticketmaster's bullshit, but with their big tour for the spring I had FLOOR SEATS and TM refused to accept my card 3 times then kicked me out of line and I lost my seats, I got back in and had okay-ish seats and the same thing happened with a different card I got booted from line and lost those, I ended up with nosebleeds and had to resort to using paypal because that was the only form of payment TM would take.
off topic but the strokes are my favourite band and i found your channel back in 2020, through your new abnormal album review video. and ever since ive been a fan of both you and the strokes, that i often associate the two together. Anddddd im going to see them live in Jan 2023 for the first time and I have never been more excited !! thats all i love your videos byeee
6:08 just a small detail but that pic is the house they moved to in Nashville when she was a teen, the house she mostly sings about is her house in Pennsylvania, which had a Christmas tree farm. (the one from the mv of "the best day")
Here in mexico, ticketmaster fucked up so bad with bad bunny tickets. Like people bought tickets from THEIR platform, they appeared fine on the website (like, it didn't notify them they were cancelled or that there was an issue) and they tear those tickets apart outside of the stadium bc they were cloned lmao. And a lot of people that attended were from outside mexico city, they spent ridiculous amounts of money on tickets, and add to that plane tickets, hotels, ubers, etc.
AXS is also not the answer. They are right behind Live Nation in size and own a number of venues so I am sure their practices align. I also absolutely HATE AXS for forcing customers to download their app in order to get tickets. I should not have to give over a bunch of my data to get tickets to a show that I purchased.
hi not what this video is even about but your last video on the perks led me to buying the perks of being a wallflower book again after not having read it since middle school and I’m about halfway done w it now and it’s my favorite thing right now, so thank you for that slay mama
Its not just ticketing thats an issue through them its also the way that they have taken charge of dealing with venue requests whilst knowing nothing about how the venues can support people. Over the last year or so ive noticed that I cant get tickets for my nearest arena as they sell out instantly. Because of this im having to fly to take my mother to see the Cure as shes been trying to see them for 35< years and we didnt realise when i brought the tickets a year ago, she would have had a temporary disability when we are due to go. The venue said speak to ticketmaster and ticketmaster didnt want to know, and told us at first that we couldnt get nearer to the event (we had standing tickets anyways and at this point we just wanted some form of seating be it seats or a wheelchair for my mother) and then told us that they didnt have any information about the venues accessibility information. Since they have taken away box offices, this adds to the range of problems that all people face as even if you can get hold of a ticket, you dont know if you can physically go due to the way in which ticketmaster is dealing with these queries
Living in Australia, using bigger ticketing sites like Ticketmaster or ticketek isn’t all that common except for international artists or bigger events (like sport or comedy) in general. I’ve personally never had issues with Ticketmaster but I’ve also only used it probably 3 times? A lot of smaller artists use smaller, more reliable (and cheaper) ticketing sites which is really convenient
I don't think I've ever had to buy a ticket through ticketmaster (I've prob used etix the most if I had to say) and I didn't even know what the verified presale thing was, so a lot of this is brand new info to me. I'm very grateful that the artists I love put on cheap, small shows, so I know I'll never miss out on their performance just because of ticket prices
I think honestly the only way to stop bots or scalpers is to have people buy the tickets in person. That way it might get into the hands of dedicated fans
that would be one way to deal with it but not everyone has access to ticketing outlets either in their city or can take time to get to one vs getting tickets at home or work
I don't know much about it but looking at the way ticket selling works in America, the monopoly that Ticketmaster has there is insane. In Australia we primarily buy through a company called Ticketek, and then Ticketmaster is the next biggest, but I still know of 2 or 3 smaller ticket sites that I have bought through for smaller venues. The inflation of ticket prices by Ticketmaster based on demand is also so disgusting to me; only recently has that been implemented here and its to nowhere near the same scale - but the fact that the official seller boosts prices up 100x or more is so gross and really shows how much they're in it for the money. It also seems like there really isn't that much of a difference in scale for how huge America is vs the size of Australia - I'm sure there are some differences but the way I've heard people talk about buying tickets sounds near identical to the process I go through whenever I buy tickets in a country with 10x as less people. I feel bad for yall because the industry has clearly been taken advantage of
I recently bought tickets to Stray Kids after wanting to go for years but them not coming to Australia and it was the worse, I had signed up for presale (which was different since it was Live Nation and Ticketek) but I talked about it for like a week making sure my friends knew where they wanted to sit, I made sure I was signed up for it daily, made sure I had the credit card ready, made sure I was at the house with the best wifi and woke up at like 3am for tickets that didn't go up till 12pm because I was so scared to miss them, I press the button to get in at 12 exactly and when I was put in queue and I had a panic/anxiety attack cause I was convinced I had missed the tickets, it was the worse thing I've ever experienced, I wish it wasn't this stressful
im honestly glad australias ticketing system isnt as awful as the usa, tho saying that they sat me in the queue for skz for a straight ten minutes or more and i managed to get through at least before they sold out presale
@@str4yk1dsw0rldd0minati0n I only had my phone and ipad and dropped my ipad once my phone was getting in quicker but yeah it was the hardest ticketing I’ve done in a while and I was right to be stressed over it since they decided to sell everything
@@bbanglix yeah, I had my phone and laptop which think God I had my phone cause I couldn't select how many tickets and stuff I wanted on my laptop but I saw people with like 5 laptops, 7 phone, 3 iPad and that annoyed me
Yes I think it's kinda odd how venues don't just sell their own tickets. But maybe then, they wouldn't be as connected to the music industry considering they'd probably be a private business. But yes, this whole situation is out of control. I'm also not a Taylor Swift fan, but something definitely needs to change. (Also ticket scalpers are awful!)
Well, I'm merely a 24 year old humble construction worker man, but I have managed to see a few concerts this year like Paramore! I haven't had many issues getting tickets though!
The real Nichole Rafiee would never message me like this. She's too scared of men. Especially tough blue collar construction worker men like myself. (probably) I also don't have telegram. Although I must admit I was excited there for a second
What I hate about this situation is that there are other artist who’s gone through the same problem and have even went to court for it, yet now they’re paying attention to it. (No hate to Taylor it’s not her fault)
I can't imagine being so much fun of someone to not just pay for multiple tickets, but also paying the travel and mentally being able to travel that much, it's just so stressing. I think half of the fun is just being there with friends and meeting other people who love the same music, not just the show...
I think if you’re resaling, you should only be able to resale your ticket at face value of when you bought it. Or maybe you can go up $25 since fees are ridiculous (or we can just get rid of fees). I despise Ticketmaster.
Highly recommend John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segemt about ticketmaster. It's a few months old and hits a lot of the problems highlighted in this video, plus it's research supported!
This is bringing up actual trauma from me trying to get a ticket to Blink-182 a few months ago, doing presale, being the the cue for an hour, then all of them selling out in 30 seconds and me never even getting in to the site. Then general sale came around, and the exact same thing happened. Literally I was so emotional, crying all day because of it. Then they announced a second date in my city and I managed to snag one second time around. It’s a shitty overpriced seated ticket with a bad view when I wanted GA, but whatever. I was just so thankful that I got one at all, because heaps of people still missed out.
I do believe some venues only sell their tickets thru Ticketmaster. I really love the band grayscale and when they tour some of the dates will be thru Ticketmaster and other dates will be thru AXS. I have beef with AXS tho because their website never works for me, only their app.
I’ve always been a casual swiftie and applied for the presale in case my sister and cousin didn’t get presale codes cause they are huge fans; I wouldn’t have if it hadn’t been for them. I did end up getting a code and they didn’t. I got the three of us tickets. I feel like I shouldn’t be looked down on for being a casual fan tho cause it’s an eras tour that appeals to anyone that has been a fan anytime in her whole career… her team knows what they were doing with that and it was brilliant. I can’t imagine they’d have predicted this outcome tho.
I’ve only been to one concert which was like a year ago already, it was the last day of the BTS LA concerts. Was only able to go cause of my sister who got a code sent to her since she has a membership, literally two days before the concert! The total was less than $700 and we don’t live too far from LA and bc of this experience I thought getting tickets to a Joji concert would be somewhat easy…it wasn’t. For Joji it made you believe you were gonna be specially picked for a presale code but they literally gave that shit out to anyone. Got in line to get tickets, was like #1,000+, and once I got in tickets at literally the SECOND FLOOR were like $300-$500. Fortunately I waited around to see if I could find a cheaper ticket and although it wasn’t as cheap as I wanted it to be, was like about $300, it was better than $500+, and they were also floor seats but overall I believe joji tickets should never have been or should never be more than $200! Second experience buying from Ticketmaster was earlier in March I think? It was for Agust D or better know as Suga/yoongi from BTS. I knew it was gonna be rough getting tickets especially since people found out a couple days later before sales started that floor seats would be general admission😐which means you would definitely have to camp out to get barricade or a close enough view to the stage. Both me and my sister were thankfully chosen for presale as we both have an army official fan membership. My sister signed up for an Oakland tour date while I had signed up for an LA tour date. We got in “line” (was mostly waiting on the website until the actual sale started) AN HOUR before sale started and we both were like in the 800s of the queue line so not that bad. We got in to choose our tickets and then Ticketmaster did that stupid by ass platinum pricing shit and since no one wanted them general admission tickets, first floor tickets were the most in demand! While both me and my sister were choosing tickets, tickets had already reached NINE HUNDRED DOLLARS PLUS FEES SO A THOUSAND FOR EACH TICKET! When original price was supposed to be within like $90-$450. Fortunately me and my sister got in to choose our tickets earlier than others and got original face value prices for both LA and Oakland on the kind of front seats for the first floor. Then after this official army fan membership presale, due to all concerts being sold out, the other two sales that were supposed to happen the next days were canceled. From what I know the only good thing was that if people got official platinum tickets they were unable to resell them so that in some way helped reduce resellers from selling overpriced tickets that were already overpriced to being with. So technically you would most likely have to go to the concert cause you can’t resell those expensive ass tickets.
I heard that the tickets were hard to get but I just thought it was because she hadn’t been on tour in awhile, and everyone wanted to go plus the new album. But I had no idea what happened with Ticketmaster, that is disgraceful and really sad!! And I agree, something does need to change because that is insane 😳🤯😱👎🏾
I’m 14 and I’ve never been to a concert, no big deal. But when my friend who has never listened to TS got 3 tickets to her concert to go with her cousins (who I’ve met) who also don’t really listen to her. I’m a huge fan and me and my mom have been planning for tickets. Again no big deal, i can wait a few years, but tickets sold out way to fast just to see Taylor Swift.
ive never had a bad experience with ticketmaster, but i've only been to two shows lol (billie eilish & wallows) i hope they sort this shit out for international, and hope she actually comes to my country because so many people have done wOrLd ToUrS and never gone to new zealand lmao
As a European who saw Justin Bieber for 90€ and Lorde for 45€ (they were good seats) I'm not going to spend more than 100-150€ for TS tickets. It's a matter of principle. I'm a big fan but this is not normal.
Forreal more than 100€ it's literally a scam, the european laws are there for something and if prices are higher It's the artist team that raises the prices, not ticketmasfer
Aw Honey, buying concert tickets was an Olympic sport when my fifth grade self desperately wanted seats to see Hannah Montana in 2007, and it will continue on until the day we realize that these celebs are regular folks just like us, trying to navigate this cold, cruel, world. (Btw I never got to see HM in concert so check your privilege yo)
Ticketmaster has somewhat of a deal with many of the major venues that they get a cut of the ticket sales, so when artists try to take a stand against ticketmaster, the venues will no longer allow them to play there. For artists and their fans it is basically a lose lose situation.
Just came to say that I love The Strokes too and I was so happy to see them in concert on NYE 2019 in Barclays especially after cancelling their Gov Ball performance. Was really worried I’d never get a chance to see them again!
As a swiftie who did not get tickets, i am so heartbroken. I never got a code for verified fan and then I tried to do the capital one presale and the tickets sold out before i got in :')
I mostly listen to moderately popular Australian bands so concert tickets are usually really cheap and don’t sell out very quickly when I want to go to one.
bought a ticket for my first concert and when i tell you ITS A RUSH AND A HIGH I HAVENT FELT BEFORE. i totally agree wit what you said about having a good internet connection because for some of us out here that has bad internet providers, even if you get in the presale website ON TIME, u still become 15,000th in line💀💀 got 💩 seats but i still get to see Harry in march!!
its sad bc i was thinking of going to an Arizona, Cali or Nevada show but couldn't get a presale code bc im from mexico, and then there was no general sale and resold ticket prices are through the roof. Taylor has never been to LATAM and i dont think she has any plans to change that soon so i guess i will just wait for the netflix doc :l
this is the great thing about most of my favorite artists still playing in theatres and smaller venues. but man i paid $300 to get seats behind the pit for a Ghost concert. not even like a really huge artist (dont get me wrong they are decently known but its rock). so i still feel it. i usually get lawn seats or nose bleeds though because i cant see anyway.
to eliminate scalpers tickets selling should go back to before the internet and you have to either call or go to the box office to get tickets. throwback!
I have used AXS for a Funk on the Rocks at Red Rocks CO., It was listed as 64$ which isn't bad for good seats and 4 acts. However, the hidden service fees made the tickets way more expensive than I thought. My friend and I also battled for our lives to get Taylor Swift tickets. We had to deal with Seat Geek though because we got a pre-sale code for Arlington TX and the AT&T stadium has a deal with them. It took 6 hours to get 3 tickets in the nose bleeds. The base cost for each ticket was 150 which is dirt cheap compared to what others are paying. Service fees also made the tickets way more expensive than necessary. My friend called out from work and I just did my schoolwork online. I haven't seen anyone really talk about Seat Geek after the pre-sale. I want to know the fellow Arlington and Glendale swifties' experiences.
I work in the music industry, and it's a knooooown fact that TM is absolute trash. I literally had a college class that can basically be summed up with the phrase "TM is the worst, and they always have been." ETA: it definitely is a thing for certain venues to only work with TM for ticketing. It's all just really f*cked up lmao
I've only been to one concert in my life, years ago when I was a teenager. Myself and anyone who wanted to get the tickets had to go to the venue in person, thus it was just first come first serve.
i have an uncle who is very rich and his daughter is 10. he could totally buy her those tickets if she wanted them. price gouging is fucking infuriating (i am aware this also has to do with demand but price gouging always has some level of demand involved otherwise it wouldnt work)
i even remember back my sophomore and junior year of hs which was like almost five years ago now, getting tickets to conan gray was like hell, and this was before he blew up for kidcrow/heather, and when i went it was so fun, but now after covid and the catalized excellaration of tiktok's success due to the pandemic, i feel like concerts are just a social status thing now, which sucks because people who genuinely enjoy artists no longer have access to witness their art live
It’s always been tricky to get concert tickets for famous artists, and honestly it sucked back in the day as well. I queued outside hmv for four hours to secure Radiohead tickets when I was a teenager, and we weren’t anywhere near the front of the queue. The people up there had camped overnight! Trying to get tickets probably worse now because ticketmaster is terrible, but people have always gone to crazy lengths to get tickets for popular artists!
Haha so I tried to get Harry tix back in May... my friend and I waited about an hour or so for the queue and sure, a lot of people were queued in front of us... but when we got off queue and the option of buying tix opened, we couldn’t even choose a seat bc it already fully sold out. Crazy how it works. Then tix were going out for $800+ CAD and I was like yeah no I can’t pay for that.. on the bright side instead of going to one whole concert, I ended up going to 4 other ones that were A LOT more affordable and I’ve had a good and varied experience at each one. So I’m fine with the outcome, but seeing your fav artists who are very popular is becoming increasingly unattainable and idk what there is to be done about it. Also, I had Harry tix from the tour that actually got cancelled in 2020 (they were WAY more affordable also) and this wasn’t even accounted for when the new tix released. I also don’t find this fair bc we’ve wanted to see this artist for kind of a long time and it just didn’t even count almost. I got to see other artists which I am happy about and grateful, but the whole ticketing industry makes u think..
It’s the same thing with the SZA tour 😢 I checked the site the same day as they went on sale and 90% of available tickets are resale which is just so insane and horrible
2:20 “swifties own personal January 6th”😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 I gave up and I’m letting fate decide if I’m going or not. I’ve been a fan since she first came on the scene, we share the same age, her albums have literally shaped my life and influenced who I married even....but WE NEED TO CALM DOWN, fellow swifties. I believe she’s going to make a way to make it up to us and it’s going to be OKAY❤️ 2/19/23 update: I got tickets😇🎉 I have a dream she will show up at Swift dance nights to make it up to the ones who didn’t get a ticket and surprise show up to her favs concerts so you might see her by proxy. Okay, I need to calm down again lol
wow that's wild going to multiple shows. Like my fave band only came to our country for the first time in the 2 decades they are a band and that's my only chance to see them. But I finally did it was great! and thank god live nation didn't handle the sale
the smoothest ticket buying process i’ve encountered was on axs. i bought ga pit tickets to see dayglow for his show in chicago for $40. i wasn’t able to attend and the resale process was really easy. i resold my tickets within 2 hours and got charged a $9 fee but pretty much recouped all my money.
i will forever hate ticketmaster. i got a super early presale for bts tickets in las vegas bc my last bts concert got cancelled bc of covid,,, and man those queues are so pointless bc they would time me out over and over again
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I'm 16 and I've never been to a concert, whilst at my age my parents had been to plenty. With a combination of inflation and these crazed fans and companies, it's just not accessible anymore
THIS! Same with my grandma when she was younger 😭 she was telling me she went to lots of concerts at my age but I haven’t even been to one 💀
Hey it’s not something to worry about, I didnt go to my first concert till I was 16 in 2018, and that was seated with my dad. Even though all my mates had been going solo standing.
When it comes to inflation and cost, big bands are always gonna be crazy expensive, a lot of the time slightly smaller artists will have way cheaper tickets and play at smaller venues (which I’ve found are always better than huge stadiums).
If you’re struggling to get tickets in the mad rush, I’ve got a technique that works 75% of the time and that’s just having 4 tabs open, rotating between all of them just constantly refreshing, managed to get my sister 4 harry styles tickets an hour after they’d been sold out that way.
Idk if you live in a place that has it but if you do, Local music!!! Where I live for example have great local indie, rap, and metal scenes. you can get a full 4-5 hours of music and connecting with your community for like $10. I find it so so much more rewarding to support local artists that are honestly probably gonna put on a better show than most arena acts and finding people around you that could be new friends. All you really need is to dig around on Instagram and you can easily find artists in your area
thanks for the tips guys ❤️
18 and never been one. I would love to see a concerto, a BTS concert, and more. However, I just don't have the money and hate crowded places.
It does not help that if the demographic is mainly young adults to teenagers it might be crazy because they don't know how to act. (Of course this only goes for pop artist. I sometimes hear this happening in many kpop concerts. I never hear it from classical concertos)
I‘m so glad that I live in Germany where we have policies about resale pricing! It absolutely blows my mind how “normalized“ paying over 500$ for a concert in the US
I promise it’s not normal. The most I paid was 295 for The 1975, and that’s because it was at the money pit that is Madison Square Garden. Their concerts not in NYC were cheaper. It’s for giant artists like Taylor Swift that the prices go insane. Most people have at least a couple artists they love that wouldn’t cost this much.
@@beautifulveinsI paid even less for pit at msg for Billie eilish. I also went to rep tour. The process of buying tickets was so smooth and affordable, I bought a pair of tickets to a second show. Of course, for rep, they had measures in place to ensure as many fans got them as possible. In fact, scalping was historically low. So Ticketmaster axed that setup because it hurt their side hustle.
I live in Germany too and we still have the problem of bots buying all the tickets and then reselling them on ebay for 500€
@@beautifulveins I mean it’s still pretty “normal” tho :/ this has been a huge problem for years now.
Bro I still couldnt get any Kendrick Lamar tickets for less than 100€ (not even mentioning I was not going to be able to see sht from that far away) 😭😭
As a K-pop fan, I have had my fare share of ticketing problems with ticketmaster. I think a good solution would be, AT LEAST making sure that the website can handle massive amounts of traffic and possibly artists just having their own ticketing system like ticketmaster or smth.
i think the big issue is the fact that tick providers are decided through the venue. ticketmaster usually makes deals with each venue in order to be the only ticket provider there
I’m Gen X and just to add a little perspective, Ticketmaster has always been terrible.
Pearl Jam sued Ticketmaster for being an illegal monopoly in 1994 because they couldn’t control fees/how much their fans would pay and cancelled tours because of it and testified to a congressional committee about this.
In the 90s it was still very difficult to get tickets to high in demand shows, in fact, it was super common place for people to camp out at the venue/record stores where the tickets would go on sale to get a good place in line cause it was very common for high demand shows to sell out in something like 3 minutes. You had to buy in person. Different times.
I don’t think AXS is any better. They are owned by AEG which is the second biggest promoter/venue owner. Very similar to Ticketmaster, huge fees, trapped artists into exclusivity deals.
My mom always talks about buying tickets in person, I wish it was still a thing :/
Yes I remember I always saw in tv and heard people talking about having to wait in line for their tickets. Like 6 years ago an artist that came to Mexico did something like that and it was way better. Since you could only buy his tickets in the venue, that time a lot of fans actually were able to attend the show without having to buy from resellers.
There were resellers that negatively impacted ticket prices back then as well. They would pay people to stand in line and buy tickets. I'm sure they are more effective now with bots, but it was still a big issue back then.
at this point ticketmaster and axs run everything, they are one in the same :( i don’t know how tm still goes on because they clearly have a monopoly over ticketing
as someone who saw taylor front row in a 700 person venue for $30 in 2008... this was a PAINFUL experience
i had presale access, verified fan boost, still missed out
If anything good came out of the Taylor Swift mess, it's the fact that people now know how fucked up Ticketmaster is. It exposed a lot of their terrible practices and the illegal loopholes they take. Like if you're a big artist, like Taylor Swift level, you have to use Ticketmaster. They own most of the big stadiums and if you don't use Ticketmaster for ticket distribution you can't use most of the U.S. stadiums. Also when Ticketmaster works with an artist, they have the option to use 'dynamic pricing', which means prices can fluctuate whether or not the demand is high or low. A lot of people thought Taylor agreed to use it because of how high some of the prices of non-resale tickets were getting during the sale. The general public was mad at her and saying she was 'money hungry' for just wanting more money. Turns out she did not agree to dynamic pricing. Ticketmaster found a new loophole in which as long as they stayed in the agree price range ($49-$499) then they could technically make nosebleed seats for $400+. That nonsense plus the resale ones going for $10,000+... insane.
from what i saw, tickets were still ridiculously expensive even without ticketmaster gouging/the loophole. $120 for the front of the outermost section of the bowl!
They also flipped an abnormal amount of seats to vip. I watched in real time seats go from $225 to $700. The site glitched and wouldn’t let me buy any affordable tickets (there were a lot). When the “glitch” corrected, vip seats were the only option. It was definitely shady.
@@lily-pl6eo Still less than some of the other artists I've seen without the same demand
To be fair, ticketmaster has been shit for decades now.
it’s gotten SO bad, i tried getting tickets for phoebe bridgers and mitski, waited in the ticketmaster queue for an hour. the moment i was in, scalpers had already taken all the tickets, it was all GONE. they were selling the tickets three times the price which should be illegal.
Here is my Ticketmaster theory:
Years ago, presale used to be just for people who were in the official fan club or had something like an American Express card. Now, pre-sales are for everyone. I don’t think Ticketmaster can handle high traffic on there website so if they don’t do a presale, there website crashes. They have been completely useless for many years now (1D fans will confirm this) but they get away with it because they are the most popular website.
concert tickets are such a status symbol at this point- whenever people post ab going to a concert it reminds me sm of that 2016 hype beast flex culture😭
i have been to every taylor swift concert since fearless. i’m not a huge fan anymore (ironically i’m a huge edm fan now) but it’s become a tradition with me and my mom. she literally had my younger sister skip school to try and get tickets (she did have a presale code) and we couldn’t. my mom was so distraught. we had tickets to the lover’s tour which was postponed then canceled due to covid. she held on to the tickets instead of getting a refund (she did eventually but held out as long as possible) and she brought up that the people that held on to the tickets should’ve got priority and i kinda agree.
people who had lover tickets WERE supposed to get priority!
@@lily-pl6eo we might have been entitled to a presale code but obviously and unfortunately that didn’t make much of a difference
i work in the box office at a local venue in delaware, so i could go on and on about how difficult ticketmaster is for both fans and venues. the conclusion i've kind of come to over the years as a concert goer and box office attendant is that buying physical tickets might be the move when it comes to trying to solve these problems. that way there wouldn't be bots, ridiculous fees, and could control traffic when tickets go on sale- like for the taylor shows, you wouldn't have 14 million people showing up in person for tickets. it's kind of like that defunctland video on disney fast passes, sometimes paper systems are just better
agreed, I bet a bunch of randos are not willing to actually drive to and wait in line for tickets but a bunch of actual fans definitely would!
While agree this is a good idea and that there are fans who might drive, lots of people can't just take the day off like that. On top of that, who knows how far they will have to drive lol I just wish there was a better system.
@@BlAcKhairblackdress yeah that’s true i think there’s gonna be drawbacks either way but in person sales at least can potentially minimize scalpers and such
@@alexisw8662 Interesting enough, Taylor has done a big stadium tour like this before and fans who were getting tickets said that it was great because they had a boost system where you basically verify you are a person by watching a bunch of videos. I think there were also staggered dates to buy tickets so that probably helped too. Not sure what the reason was for not doing that again, but this whole situation is wild.
love that defunctland video
I got Arctic Monkeys tickets for a concert happening in a different country, travelled there, stayed there for a full week and got merch, all for less than 1k, what are people on when they think paying 9k for a ticket is reasonable💀
HOW
@@aathenaiz6151 life in europe babey
9k?
The way that tickets used to work was that you literally had to go to the venue and buy them and they were all the same price. GA and nosebleeds were all the same price so to get good tickets for big artists you had to camp out and wait so only people who were super dedicated could get the good tickets. I honestly think first come first serve is the way to go and we should find a way to legally deal with scalpers because they are ruining live events, technology, etc by artificially inflating prices.
My mom was luckly able to get tickets but only three… there are four of us tho… luckily my youngest sister was okay with not going and in return she is currently at a Pentatonix concert :)
Pentatonix is so fun!
I got Taylor tickets as a Christmas gift. My mom waited FIVE HOURS in that queue. She had to cancel work to get me those tickets. I might be in the nosebleeds but I’m just so happy that I got those tickets and that my mom went through that for me. Love u mom.
i've never been to a concert and this was simultaneously educational and terrifying
a big issue too is that a lot of the venues for these bigger shows are full on stadiums and if you are a season pass holder at these stadium venues, you automatically get a code for the presales so many of the people that get these tickets are super sports fans of the venue, not even the artists fans. they purchase these tickets thinking they can make a big buck outta them by charging the thousand dollar resale prices. when i saw BTS in la last year, the only way I was able to get tickets to see them was to actually go through the stadium and get a stadium suite with a whole bunch of other people. while it was a fun experience in the end, fans should not have to go through all these loop holes to see their favorite artists live. plus it was sad to see full on rows in the stadium empty because these scalpers didn’t want to lower their prices for the seats
So true bestie. My sister waited from 11am to 3pm to get tickets and the website froze so she never got them. Then I waited in the queue for another 3 hours and then they cut off the sales when I finally got in :) I even had a verified presale code and the fact that bots got to the tickets first is so upsetting.
Honestly, I think the bots and scalpers are the worst because I literally tried to buy tickets for Lizzy McAlpine's show which were SUPPOSED to be 24$ per ticket. I was on the site trying to pay the second they went on sale. They sold out in 3 minutes and the cheapest resale tickets I found were 80$. She was using Point of Sale too.
buying taylor tickets was a war and i have survivors guilt
well put.
i'm just glad my best friend got her tickets. she had been waiting anxiously for the code email to come through
“You are not the master of tickets. I don’t see you mastering any tickets at all that’s crazy” 😂
Another issue is all the resellers. Obviously resellers have been around for a long time. But within the past 10 years, it’s become extremely saturated thanks to social media. Every other person thinks they’re a small business, while doing the absolute minimum.
Leaving a comment for the algorithm and for the pretty interior design, this is sooo cozy and a nice backdrop to the drama
halfway into the video but i can say that ticket concert buying is also really difficult here in the Philippines, especially for ones held by Live Nation. i've seen ticket prices for Be The Sun (Seventeen) and Blackpink and it's just soaring high, they also split the general admission section in an already huge ass arena, and the gaps between the prices are insane. hopefully they won't be the ones to handle Taylor's tour if ever she announces dates here bc im already sure they will milk the shit out of us. not to mention they prioritize giving tickets to influencers and celebrities, and they block fans who complain about their system lol
it’s even been tricky getting tickets to small(er) bands lately on ticketmaster :( my favorite band is doing a tour here; all 3 nights in one venue sold out in 2 seconds and now theyre all being resold for almost 100x the price (org price was $70 being resold for $550+
seen multiple tickets for enhypen’s (kpop group) show in nyc for $1k+. face value was $60-260, $260 being vip. the cheapest tickets were $200ish for balcony😐 it was cheaper to fly to their texas show and get vip there + travel/lodging, than the price of pit tickets alone in nyc. i’d also have to travel to nyc to go regardless. my favorite group i love those bitches so fucking much i went into a month or so long depression over not getting tickets, like nausea and concert vids being actual triggers i couldn’t think abt it for too long without crying. i will never let that shit go
But it's always been like this. It's just a lot of young people are beginning to experience how competitive it is for tickets to major shows. Concerts have always been a race but now that it's majorly digital, prices are even more manipulated due to access to stats and wider audience.
so i was *somehow* able to get tickets to both of the nights she’s performing in my city (i am indeed a swiftie) but it was hell and i’m shocked that i got them. at my college, there were girls walking to class with their laptops open to the queue screen with 2000+ people ahead of them while it was SNOWING. and the ticket prices were *significantly* higher than initially advertised, leading myself and many to believe that ms swift had dynamic pricing on despite saying that she didn’t.
the biggest issue is that ticketmaster didn’t have you enter your presale code until you got through the queue, meaning that those 14 million other people were quite literally clogging the line up for the intended 1.5 million who were supposed to be able to buy tickets that day.
anyways, i’m holding on to my tickets for dear life now. great video!!!!
I don't want to start anything and I'm happy you get to see a favourite artist of yours, but with how many people are distraught they couldn't get a ticket, you might want to at least consider selling one of them at original price to someone else who otherwise won't get to go. I'm not speaking out of bitterness here - I like Taylor Swift's music fine but not enough to want to go to a concert, so I don't have a horse in this race, but while of course many of the flaws in the system lie with technology, I also think if the system has any chance of working it depends on each of us acting in the most considerate manner possible. Idk, of course I get why you're doing it, there are artists where I'd love to see every single live show, but just because it's understandable doesn't actually mean it's the best course of action.
internationally, the ticketmaster issues have just started a couple years ago and I'm already sick of fighting to see any artist I love, pre-sales still kind of work, but there's 0 hope for general sale nowadays :c
i got tickets to taylor's rep tour in 2018 a month before the show, 2 floor seats for a total of ~$400. so easy and simple. but this tour? i didnt even get a presale code so my only hope was the general sale, but ticketmaster fumbled so hard with this ticket sale that even the general sale couldnt happen, AND they jacked up the prices so much that all the floor seats were vip; 1 floor ticket was like $800. luckily i found a face value ticket for a nosebleed seat on twitter for my desired city, but jesus christ ???? they sold every single ticket during a PRESALE. i hope this whole fiasco will be ticketmaster's downfall lmao
there wasn’t even dynamic pricing?! i think the cheapest floor tickets i saw was $400
my local bigger venue (20k ppl) typically has reserved seats for citi cardholders to purchase on Ticketmaster and that’s what I’ve relied on a few times bc these ‘pre-sales’ are turning into general sales now
I'm a huge BTS fan and I don't even want to imagine how stressful buying concert tickets to their next tour will be 😢 There has to be a way to control ticketmaster and livenation constantly abusing their power
Hopefully by the time they come back from military service there’ll be new laws or a diff ticketing company that’ll be able to prevent scalpers from screwing us over. For the Las Vegas shows scalpers were SUCH a huge issue it was honestly infuriating
yeah i rlly hope smth gets figured out by their next tour bc.. i can't take another 'las vegas presale' ngl
@@aaron4876 Yeah exactly!! I’m desperately hoping there’s a new distributor or more regulation in 2025. It was significantly too expensive for me to go to the LV show, but watching the scalpers and resellers running wild from afar was so infuriating 😢 Especially since the tickets were initially priced pretty fairly!
antitrust regulation!!
still living in fear
For the one and only concert ticket I've bought so far, I used axs and it was so easy. My friend spent hours on Ticketmaster to get Taylor tickets instead of going to class and she didn't even end up getting any. SO long story short stan axs
thinking abt when i bought arctic monkeys tickets in october it was literally so scary, the night before i was literally so anxious bc the re-sellers are SO quick 😭😭 pit ticket prices jumped up so fast within minutes…😐 i ended up getting tickets but not good seats (not nosebleed either) but for like $90 each. 😓
im a huge taylor stan, i know her whole discography and i have a few speeches memorized - i had a presale code, two boosts in line, and a capital one card to access the capital one presale. yet i came out with zero tickets and this sounds dramatic but im literally devastated. like that girl said i would whole heartedly take a bullet for taylor swift. thank you for coming to my ted talk.
had to comment because that hair is GAWJOUS. omg what is that like copper, reddy, orangy? absolutely gorgeous
We have the same problems in South Africa with Computicket. I'm so glad people are starting to talk about this more often!
Taylor and her crew literally asked Ticketmaster if they could handle the high demand that was going to happen (which they said they could), and then days later they cancel everything. How pathetic.
Nicoleeee, just hopping on here to say I found your channel the week my husband in the military was sent off to Germany. I was a month postpartum when was sent, and it was really nice to find your channel, it’s helped me a lot the past two months when I feel lonely. I always feel like a friend is on the phone when I watch your videos 😅🥲 you’re great, and thanks for being yourself!
Recently, I waited in queue and attempted to purchase tickets when the BP tickets dropped for Sydney. Couldn’t manage to get any and sold out in seconds- the next day I saw someone on TikTok selling 5 TICKETS FOR SYDNEY, AND BRAGGING ABT IT. God it was so infuriating
Had the same experience trying to get Paramore tickets a few weeks back. There were 5 of us in different households with a bunch of devices set up and not one of us got a ticket lol
They came to the city nearest me this fall and I didn't get tickets that time because of ticketmaster's bullshit, but with their big tour for the spring I had FLOOR SEATS and TM refused to accept my card 3 times then kicked me out of line and I lost my seats, I got back in and had okay-ish seats and the same thing happened with a different card I got booted from line and lost those, I ended up with nosebleeds and had to resort to using paypal because that was the only form of payment TM would take.
off topic but the strokes are my favourite band and i found your channel back in 2020, through your new abnormal album review video. and ever since ive been a fan of both you and the strokes, that i often associate the two together. Anddddd im going to see them live in Jan 2023 for the first time and I have never been more excited !! thats all i love your videos byeee
6:08 just a small detail but that pic is the house they moved to in Nashville when she was a teen, the house she mostly sings about is her house in Pennsylvania, which had a Christmas tree farm. (the one from the mv of "the best day")
Damn as a new fan of the strokes and and old fan of Nicole I never noticed how many times she talks about them! Slay queen
Here in mexico, ticketmaster fucked up so bad with bad bunny tickets. Like people bought tickets from THEIR platform, they appeared fine on the website (like, it didn't notify them they were cancelled or that there was an issue) and they tear those tickets apart outside of the stadium bc they were cloned lmao. And a lot of people that attended were from outside mexico city, they spent ridiculous amounts of money on tickets, and add to that plane tickets, hotels, ubers, etc.
AXS is also not the answer. They are right behind Live Nation in size and own a number of venues so I am sure their practices align. I also absolutely HATE AXS for forcing customers to download their app in order to get tickets. I should not have to give over a bunch of my data to get tickets to a show that I purchased.
hi not what this video is even about but your last video on the perks led me to buying the perks of being a wallflower book again after not having read it since middle school and I’m about halfway done w it now and it’s my favorite thing right now, so thank you for that slay mama
Its not just ticketing thats an issue through them its also the way that they have taken charge of dealing with venue requests whilst knowing nothing about how the venues can support people. Over the last year or so ive noticed that I cant get tickets for my nearest arena as they sell out instantly. Because of this im having to fly to take my mother to see the Cure as shes been trying to see them for 35< years and we didnt realise when i brought the tickets a year ago, she would have had a temporary disability when we are due to go. The venue said speak to ticketmaster and ticketmaster didnt want to know, and told us at first that we couldnt get nearer to the event (we had standing tickets anyways and at this point we just wanted some form of seating be it seats or a wheelchair for my mother) and then told us that they didnt have any information about the venues accessibility information. Since they have taken away box offices, this adds to the range of problems that all people face as even if you can get hold of a ticket, you dont know if you can physically go due to the way in which ticketmaster is dealing with these queries
Living in Australia, using bigger ticketing sites like Ticketmaster or ticketek isn’t all that common except for international artists or bigger events (like sport or comedy) in general. I’ve personally never had issues with Ticketmaster but I’ve also only used it probably 3 times? A lot of smaller artists use smaller, more reliable (and cheaper) ticketing sites which is really convenient
I don't think I've ever had to buy a ticket through ticketmaster (I've prob used etix the most if I had to say) and I didn't even know what the verified presale thing was, so a lot of this is brand new info to me. I'm very grateful that the artists I love put on cheap, small shows, so I know I'll never miss out on their performance just because of ticket prices
I think honestly the only way to stop bots or scalpers is to have people buy the tickets in person. That way it might get into the hands of dedicated fans
that would be one way to deal with it but not everyone has access to ticketing outlets either in their city or can take time to get to one vs getting tickets at home or work
I don't know much about it but looking at the way ticket selling works in America, the monopoly that Ticketmaster has there is insane. In Australia we primarily buy through a company called Ticketek, and then Ticketmaster is the next biggest, but I still know of 2 or 3 smaller ticket sites that I have bought through for smaller venues.
The inflation of ticket prices by Ticketmaster based on demand is also so disgusting to me; only recently has that been implemented here and its to nowhere near the same scale - but the fact that the official seller boosts prices up 100x or more is so gross and really shows how much they're in it for the money.
It also seems like there really isn't that much of a difference in scale for how huge America is vs the size of Australia - I'm sure there are some differences but the way I've heard people talk about buying tickets sounds near identical to the process I go through whenever I buy tickets in a country with 10x as less people.
I feel bad for yall because the industry has clearly been taken advantage of
I recently bought tickets to Stray Kids after wanting to go for years but them not coming to Australia and it was the worse, I had signed up for presale (which was different since it was Live Nation and Ticketek) but I talked about it for like a week making sure my friends knew where they wanted to sit, I made sure I was signed up for it daily, made sure I had the credit card ready, made sure I was at the house with the best wifi and woke up at like 3am for tickets that didn't go up till 12pm because I was so scared to miss them, I press the button to get in at 12 exactly and when I was put in queue and I had a panic/anxiety attack cause I was convinced I had missed the tickets, it was the worse thing I've ever experienced, I wish it wasn't this stressful
im honestly glad australias ticketing system isnt as awful as the usa, tho saying that they sat me in the queue for skz for a straight ten minutes or more and i managed to get through at least before they sold out presale
@@bbanglix Yeah, I think the only problem was people had 50 different stuff in the queue which made it longer, that was frustrating
@@str4yk1dsw0rldd0minati0n I only had my phone and ipad and dropped my ipad once my phone was getting in quicker but yeah it was the hardest ticketing I’ve done in a while and I was right to be stressed over it since they decided to sell everything
@@bbanglix yeah, I had my phone and laptop which think God I had my phone cause I couldn't select how many tickets and stuff I wanted on my laptop but I saw people with like 5 laptops, 7 phone, 3 iPad and that annoyed me
Yes I think it's kinda odd how venues don't just sell their own tickets. But maybe then, they wouldn't be as connected to the music industry considering they'd probably be a private business. But yes, this whole situation is out of control. I'm also not a Taylor Swift fan, but something definitely needs to change. (Also ticket scalpers are awful!)
Well, I'm merely a 24 year old humble construction worker man, but I have managed to see a few concerts this year like Paramore! I haven't had many issues getting tickets though!
The real Nichole Rafiee would never message me like this. She's too scared of men. Especially tough blue collar construction worker men like myself. (probably) I also don't have telegram. Although I must admit I was excited there for a second
What I hate about this situation is that there are other artist who’s gone through the same problem and have even went to court for it, yet now they’re paying attention to it. (No hate to Taylor it’s not her fault)
I can't imagine being so much fun of someone to not just pay for multiple tickets, but also paying the travel and mentally being able to travel that much, it's just so stressing.
I think half of the fun is just being there with friends and meeting other people who love the same music, not just the show...
I think if you’re resaling, you should only be able to resale your ticket at face value of when you bought it. Or maybe you can go up $25 since fees are ridiculous (or we can just get rid of fees). I despise Ticketmaster.
Highly recommend John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segemt about ticketmaster. It's a few months old and hits a lot of the problems highlighted in this video, plus it's research supported!
This is bringing up actual trauma from me trying to get a ticket to Blink-182 a few months ago, doing presale, being the the cue for an hour, then all of them selling out in 30 seconds and me never even getting in to the site. Then general sale came around, and the exact same thing happened. Literally I was so emotional, crying all day because of it. Then they announced a second date in my city and I managed to snag one second time around. It’s a shitty overpriced seated ticket with a bad view when I wanted GA, but whatever. I was just so thankful that I got one at all, because heaps of people still missed out.
I do believe some venues only sell their tickets thru Ticketmaster. I really love the band grayscale and when they tour some of the dates will be thru Ticketmaster and other dates will be thru AXS. I have beef with AXS tho because their website never works for me, only their app.
I’ve always been a casual swiftie and applied for the presale in case my sister and cousin didn’t get presale codes cause they are huge fans; I wouldn’t have if it hadn’t been for them. I did end up getting a code and they didn’t. I got the three of us tickets. I feel like I shouldn’t be looked down on for being a casual fan tho cause it’s an eras tour that appeals to anyone that has been a fan anytime in her whole career… her team knows what they were doing with that and it was brilliant. I can’t imagine they’d have predicted this outcome tho.
I’ve only been to one concert which was like a year ago already, it was the last day of the BTS LA concerts. Was only able to go cause of my sister who got a code sent to her since she has a membership, literally two days before the concert! The total was less than $700 and we don’t live too far from LA and bc of this experience I thought getting tickets to a Joji concert would be somewhat easy…it wasn’t. For Joji it made you believe you were gonna be specially picked for a presale code but they literally gave that shit out to anyone. Got in line to get tickets, was like #1,000+, and once I got in tickets at literally the SECOND FLOOR were like $300-$500. Fortunately I waited around to see if I could find a cheaper ticket and although it wasn’t as cheap as I wanted it to be, was like about $300, it was better than $500+, and they were also floor seats but overall I believe joji tickets should never have been or should never be more than $200!
Second experience buying from Ticketmaster was earlier in March I think? It was for Agust D or better know as Suga/yoongi from BTS. I knew it was gonna be rough getting tickets especially since people found out a couple days later before sales started that floor seats would be general admission😐which means you would definitely have to camp out to get barricade or a close enough view to the stage. Both me and my sister were thankfully chosen for presale as we both have an army official fan membership. My sister signed up for an Oakland tour date while I had signed up for an LA tour date. We got in “line” (was mostly waiting on the website until the actual sale started) AN HOUR before sale started and we both were like in the 800s of the queue line so not that bad. We got in to choose our tickets and then Ticketmaster did that stupid by ass platinum pricing shit and since no one wanted them general admission tickets, first floor tickets were the most in demand! While both me and my sister were choosing tickets, tickets had already reached NINE HUNDRED DOLLARS PLUS FEES SO A THOUSAND FOR EACH TICKET! When original price was supposed to be within like $90-$450. Fortunately me and my sister got in to choose our tickets earlier than others and got original face value prices for both LA and Oakland on the kind of front seats for the first floor. Then after this official army fan membership presale, due to all concerts being sold out, the other two sales that were supposed to happen the next days were canceled. From what I know the only good thing was that if people got official platinum tickets they were unable to resell them so that in some way helped reduce resellers from selling overpriced tickets that were already overpriced to being with. So technically you would most likely have to go to the concert cause you can’t resell those expensive ass tickets.
I heard that the tickets were hard to get but I just thought it was because she hadn’t been on tour in awhile, and everyone wanted to go plus the new album. But I had no idea what happened with Ticketmaster, that is disgraceful and really sad!! And I agree, something does need to change because that is insane 😳🤯😱👎🏾
was literally just checking ur acct to see if u posted this made my day i swear
I’m 14 and I’ve never been to a concert, no big deal. But when my friend who has never listened to TS got 3 tickets to her concert to go with her cousins (who I’ve met) who also don’t really listen to her. I’m a huge fan and me and my mom have been planning for tickets. Again no big deal, i can wait a few years, but tickets sold out way to fast just to see Taylor Swift.
ive never had a bad experience with ticketmaster, but i've only been to two shows lol (billie eilish & wallows) i hope they sort this shit out for international, and hope she actually comes to my country because so many people have done wOrLd ToUrS and never gone to new zealand lmao
As a European who saw Justin Bieber for 90€ and Lorde for 45€ (they were good seats) I'm not going to spend more than 100-150€ for TS tickets. It's a matter of principle. I'm a big fan but this is not normal.
Last month I got tickets to Louis Tomlinson for 50€ and I'm near stage
Forreal more than 100€ it's literally a scam, the european laws are there for something and if prices are higher It's the artist team that raises the prices, not ticketmasfer
I Terribly want you to deep dive into the MCR tour LOL
Aw Honey, buying concert tickets was an Olympic sport when my fifth grade self desperately wanted seats to see Hannah Montana in 2007, and it will continue on until the day we realize that these celebs are regular folks just like us, trying to navigate this cold, cruel, world.
(Btw I never got to see HM in concert so check your privilege yo)
can we talk about Nicole looking fresh af
love you
Ticketmaster has somewhat of a deal with many of the major venues that they get a cut of the ticket sales, so when artists try to take a stand against ticketmaster, the venues will no longer allow them to play there. For artists and their fans it is basically a lose lose situation.
any k-pop fan knows this struggle way too well TT
Just came to say that I love The Strokes too and I was so happy to see them in concert on NYE 2019 in Barclays especially after cancelling their Gov Ball performance. Was really worried I’d never get a chance to see them again!
that was the best show evaaaaa
spent 5 hours in queue for harry styles concert a couple months ago. it was hell
I am not a huge fan or even a fan of TS but I really wanted to see her opener’s Gracie Abrahams and Girl in Red😭
As a swiftie who did not get tickets, i am so heartbroken. I never got a code for verified fan and then I tried to do the capital one presale and the tickets sold out before i got in :')
I mostly listen to moderately popular Australian bands so concert tickets are usually really cheap and don’t sell out very quickly when I want to go to one.
bought a ticket for my first concert and when i tell you ITS A RUSH AND A HIGH I HAVENT FELT BEFORE. i totally agree wit what you said about having a good internet connection because for some of us out here that has bad internet providers, even if you get in the presale website ON TIME, u still become 15,000th in line💀💀 got 💩 seats but i still get to see Harry in march!!
its sad bc i was thinking of going to an Arizona, Cali or Nevada show but couldn't get a presale code bc im from mexico, and then there was no general sale and resold ticket prices are through the roof. Taylor has never been to LATAM and i dont think she has any plans to change that soon so i guess i will just wait for the netflix doc :l
this is the great thing about most of my favorite artists still playing in theatres and smaller venues. but man i paid $300 to get seats behind the pit for a Ghost concert. not even like a really huge artist (dont get me wrong they are decently known but its rock). so i still feel it. i usually get lawn seats or nose bleeds though because i cant see anyway.
to eliminate scalpers tickets selling should go back to before the internet and you have to either call or go to the box office to get tickets. throwback!
I have used AXS for a Funk on the Rocks at Red Rocks CO., It was listed as 64$ which isn't bad for good seats and 4 acts. However, the hidden service fees made the tickets way more expensive than I thought. My friend and I also battled for our lives to get Taylor Swift tickets. We had to deal with Seat Geek though because we got a pre-sale code for Arlington TX and the AT&T stadium has a deal with them. It took 6 hours to get 3 tickets in the nose bleeds. The base cost for each ticket was 150 which is dirt cheap compared to what others are paying. Service fees also made the tickets way more expensive than necessary. My friend called out from work and I just did my schoolwork online. I haven't seen anyone really talk about Seat Geek after the pre-sale. I want to know the fellow Arlington and Glendale swifties' experiences.
I work in the music industry, and it's a knooooown fact that TM is absolute trash. I literally had a college class that can basically be summed up with the phrase "TM is the worst, and they always have been."
ETA: it definitely is a thing for certain venues to only work with TM for ticketing. It's all just really f*cked up lmao
I've only been to one concert in my life, years ago when I was a teenager. Myself and anyone who wanted to get the tickets had to go to the venue in person, thus it was just first come first serve.
i have an uncle who is very rich and his daughter is 10. he could totally buy her those tickets if she wanted them. price gouging is fucking infuriating (i am aware this also has to do with demand but price gouging always has some level of demand involved otherwise it wouldnt work)
i even remember back my sophomore and junior year of hs which was like almost five years ago now, getting tickets to conan gray was like hell, and this was before he blew up for kidcrow/heather, and when i went it was so fun, but now after covid and the catalized excellaration of tiktok's success due to the pandemic, i feel like concerts are just a social status thing now, which sucks because people who genuinely enjoy artists no longer have access to witness their art live
It’s always been tricky to get concert tickets for famous artists, and honestly it sucked back in the day as well. I queued outside hmv for four hours to secure Radiohead tickets when I was a teenager, and we weren’t anywhere near the front of the queue. The people up there had camped overnight! Trying to get tickets probably worse now because ticketmaster is terrible, but people have always gone to crazy lengths to get tickets for popular artists!
Haha so I tried to get Harry tix back in May... my friend and I waited about an hour or so for the queue and sure, a lot of people were queued in front of us... but when we got off queue and the option of buying tix opened, we couldn’t even choose a seat bc it already fully sold out. Crazy how it works. Then tix were going out for $800+ CAD and I was like yeah no I can’t pay for that.. on the bright side instead of going to one whole concert, I ended up going to 4 other ones that were A LOT more affordable and I’ve had a good and varied experience at each one. So I’m fine with the outcome, but seeing your fav artists who are very popular is becoming increasingly unattainable and idk what there is to be done about it. Also, I had Harry tix from the tour that actually got cancelled in 2020 (they were WAY more affordable also) and this wasn’t even accounted for when the new tix released. I also don’t find this fair bc we’ve wanted to see this artist for kind of a long time and it just didn’t even count almost. I got to see other artists which I am happy about and grateful, but the whole ticketing industry makes u think..
11:41 YOURE NOT SUPPOSED TO STAND IN FRONT OF A MICROWAVE?? HELLO?? how else will i watch the corn pop pop pop
It’s the same thing with the SZA tour 😢 I checked the site the same day as they went on sale and 90% of available tickets are resale which is just so insane and horrible
2:20 “swifties own personal January 6th”😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 I gave up and I’m letting fate decide if I’m going or not. I’ve been a fan since she first came on the scene, we share the same age, her albums have literally shaped my life and influenced who I married even....but WE NEED TO CALM DOWN, fellow swifties. I believe she’s going to make a way to make it up to us and it’s going to be OKAY❤️
2/19/23 update: I got tickets😇🎉 I have a dream she will show up at Swift dance nights to make it up to the ones who didn’t get a ticket and surprise show up to her favs concerts so you might see her by proxy. Okay, I need to calm down again lol
kpop stans have been beefing with ticketmaster for a while now
wow that's wild going to multiple shows. Like my fave band only came to our country for the first time in the 2 decades they are a band and that's my only chance to see them. But I finally did it was great! and thank god live nation didn't handle the sale
the smoothest ticket buying process i’ve encountered was on axs. i bought ga pit tickets to see dayglow for his show in chicago for $40. i wasn’t able to attend and the resale process was really easy. i resold my tickets within 2 hours and got charged a $9 fee but pretty much recouped all my money.
Fun fact, I used to work at live Nation and they were teaching incorrect information about service animals and teaching employees to break ADA laws :)
i will forever hate ticketmaster. i got a super early presale for bts tickets in las vegas bc my last bts concert got cancelled bc of covid,,, and man those queues are so pointless bc they would time me out over and over again
i live in new zealand, we have 3 relevant concerts per year and they all cost upwards of 200 dollarsPLEASE I JUST WANT TO GO TO A CONCERT