Taylor Swift releases $16 tickets with ‘no view’ for final Eras tour show but fans are left FURIOUS as scalpers snap them up to sell for over $1,000
Taylor Swift has released a new batch of $16 ‘no view’ tickets for her final three shows in Vancouver next month.
The singer is wrapping up her Eras tour through the city and the new tickets behind the stage have gone on sale to the delight of fans.
Despite having no view of the stage, fans were undeterred as they wrote: “Imagine paying $15 for a seat with no view and still hearing the best concert of your life.”
However, ticket scalpers have already acquired the tickets and are reselling them for more than $1,000.
Swifties took to Twitter to express their frustrations and were furious to discover tickets were being resold for as much as $1,638.
Furiously they wrote: ‘scalpers have everything’; ‘They should ban the resale of tickets. These are now ridiculously priced.”
Taylor Swift has released $16 ‘no view’ tickets for the final Eras tour show, but fans are furious as scalpers snap them up to sell for more than $1,000
Even though there is no view of the stage, ticket buyers are reselling the seats for astronomical prices
‘Hey f*** everyone who bought $15 Taylor Swift tickets to Vancouver backstage and is now reselling them for over a thousand dollars, I hope you choke’;
“They’ve been snatched and already listed on resale sites. I was in line and was kicked out telling me the online sale was complete. StubHub had about 200 tickets available for resale last night and that number has doubled in the last hour.’;
“How can $16 Taylor Swift tickets without a view of the stage/screens be resold for $700++++? I only want to go once’;
‘but now people are selling them again for thousands of dollars so what’s the point’; “And there are so many on stubhub for $1k.”
One fan even discovered that tickets were being resold for as much as $2,349 each, writing, “Glad more people could get tickets and mail them in right away for $2,500. I was 43rd in line when tickets sold out.” ‘
Although fans can only listen to the show and not see the full spectacle, Swifties loved the idea.
The excited fans wrote: ‘I would do anything to buy $16 eras tickets if I can’t see anything’;
‘We’re going! I don’t care if we can’t see the stage, great price and I just want to be there on the closing night to hear those last surprise songs live’.
Tickets originally went on sale for just $16 for her final three shows in Vancouver next month as the Eras tour comes to a close.
Swifties took to Twitter to vent their frustrations and were furious to discover tickets were being resold for as much as $1,638.
One fan even discovered that tickets were being resold for as much as $2,349 each
Furiously they wrote: ‘scalpers have everything’; ‘They should ban the resale of tickets. These are now ridiculously priced
Although fans can only listen to the show and not see the full spectacle, Swifties loved the idea
Another begged: ‘Can someone please help me with a ticket’ and another asked: ‘They couldn’t have done this earlier in the tour’.
It comes after a Canadian family was left distraught last week after purchasing counterfeit Taylor Swift tickets that cost them $15,600 USD.
Ottawa mom Mel Keogh purchased 28 tickets for a group of Swiftie family members who were excited to experience the Toronto Eras Tour show on Nov. 23.
She used an independent ticket broker, which she did not name but had used before, which turned out to be a scam.
“It was awful to tell the girls we weren’t going,” Keogh said CTV News Ottawa while fighting back tears.
Keogh said her family, including her superfan daughter Jordan, 15, were devastated by the news after weeks of making bracelets and choosing outfits.
“(It’s) everything we’ve been talking about for over a year,” Mel told CTV News.
‘They were absolutely ecstatic. My daughter, I can speak to her specifically, knows every Taylor Swift song, every word, every album, every era, everything.”
Keogh said she booked the tickets in August thinking it was the real deal.
Her group of 28 teamed up with four neighbors and spent $788 CAD on each ticket, or $561.89 in USD.
Keogh’s family suffered a total loss of $22,000 CAD ($15,687 USD), while her neighbors lost approximately $3,000 CAD ($2,139 USD).
They planned a magical evening for Swift’s final show in Toronto, including booking limousines and hotels for a unique experience.
Mel’s sister-in-law Patricia Keogh said she had previously used the independent ticket broker for various concerts and sporting events.
She said everything seemed legit during the purchasing process as they received confirmation codes and seat numbers by email and she felt like they had done their research.
“It’s gone, it’s all gone,” Patricia Keogh told CTV News.
“(It’s) really upsetting that we’ve let our family down,” she added. ‘How could we not have seen this? How have we been deceived? We are smart people.’