Just when fans thought that they would get to seek redemption in another wave of ticketing, Ticketmaster announced that they were canceling the general sale of Taylor Swift’s “The Eras Tour.” In a brief announcement on Twitter, the company wrote, “Due to extraordinarily high demands on ticketing systems and insufficient remaining ticket inventory to meet that demand, tomorrow’s public on-sale for Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour has been cancelled.”
Needless to say, the announcement enraged fans, with many saying that thousands of tickets went straight into the hands of scalpers who are reselling them at exorbitant prices. “so how are you going to get the thousands of tickets back from bots and resellers who jacked the prices up to couple thousands if not more per ticket?????” one fan questioned. Meanwhile, there are also fans who called out Swift for not doing anything to regulate the ticketing of her own tour. “she’s a willing partner in all of this and probably one of the few people on the planet with the power to change anything,” one person wrote. After all, Ed Sheeran made this happen in 2018 when he intervened and canceled tickets to his tour that were resold for inflated prices, per BBC.
As of this writing, Swift has yet to take action and issue a statement, but Ticketmaster explained that the deluge of fans trying for tickets made it impossible to provide a smoother buying experience. “While it’s impossible for everyone to get tickets to these shows, we know we can do more to improve the experience and that’s what we’re focused on,” Ticketmaster wrote in a statement (via Variety).
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