{"id":20109,"date":"2022-11-18T21:22:12","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T21:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/18\/taylor-swift-addresses-ticket-sale-cancellation-chaos-it-really-pisses-me-off-national\/"},"modified":"2022-11-18T21:22:12","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T21:22:12","slug":"taylor-swift-addresses-ticket-sale-cancellation-chaos-it-really-pisses-me-off-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/18\/taylor-swift-addresses-ticket-sale-cancellation-chaos-it-really-pisses-me-off-national\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift addresses ticket sale cancellation chaos: \u2018It really pisses me off\u2019 &#8211; National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>If attempting to purchase tickets to <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/taylor-swift\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2018s upcoming tour felt like \u201cgoing through several bear attacks,\u201d the <em>Blank Space<\/em> singer agrees with you.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d21y75miwcfqoq.cloudfront.net\/70c8fc80\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In an announcement posted to Swift\u2019s Instagram account on Friday, the singer criticized <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/ticketmaster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ticketmaster<\/a>\u2018s messy handling of ticket sales for her upcoming The Eras Tour.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Ticketmaster <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/9285588\/taylor-swift-resale-ticket-prices-ticketmaster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cancelled the general public sale<\/a> after hellish presales left fans experiencing technical difficulties on the company\u2019s web site and ready a number of hours in queues, solely to be unable to make a purchase order.<\/p>\n<div class=\"l-article__part\" data-shortcode=\"readmore\">\n<p class=\"c-readmore\" id=\"recirc_test_read_more\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"c-readmore__label\"><strong>Read extra: <\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"c-readmore__link\" href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/9289023\/ellen-pompeo-greys-anatomy-leaving-meredith-grey\/\" data-track-region=\"content-read-more\" title=\"Ellen Pompeo leaving \u2018Grey\u2019s Anatomy\u2019 after 19 seasons as Meredith Grey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tEllen Pompeo leaving \u2018Grey\u2019s Anatomy\u2019 after 19 seasons as Meredith Grey\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<section id=\"recirc_test_inline_stories\" class=\"l-inlineStories l-inlineStories--tile is-hidden l-inlineStories--abTest\" aria-label=\"\">\n<p>\n\t\t<span class=\"l-inlineStories__title c-heading c-heading--strikethrough\">Read More<\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<ul class=\"l-inlineStories__posts c-posts c-posts--inline\">\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/9289023\/ellen-pompeo-greys-anatomy-leaving-meredith-grey\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-posts__media \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" data-src=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/cans6439-1023_2018_023153.jpg?quality=85&amp;strip=all&amp;w=336&amp;h=224&amp;crop=1\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-posts__details\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-posts__headlineText\" data-title=\"\">Ellen Pompeo leaving \u2018Grey\u2019s Anatomy\u2019 after 19 seasons as Meredith Grey<\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p>In her assertion, Swift, 32, wrote that she requested Ticketmaster \u201cmultiple times if they could handle this kind of demand and we were assured they could.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\">\n<p>Story continues under commercial<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>She claimed it was \u201cexcruciating for me to just watch mistakes happen with no recourse.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"l-article__part\" data-shortcode=\"caption\">\n<figure class=\"c-figure c-figure--alignnone c-figure--expandable c-figure--contained c-figure--containedPortrait\">\n<div class=\"c-figure__inner\"><figcaption class=\"c-figure__caption c-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-caption__desc\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tTaylor Swift posted an announcement to her Instagram account about Ticketmaster\u2019s sale cancellation on Nov. 17, 2022.\t\t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"c-caption__cite\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tInstagram \/ @taylorswift\t\t\t\t<\/cite><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The singer stated she has at all times been \u201cextremely protective\u201d of her followers. She claimed to have introduced a number of parts of her profession to her personal in-house staff over the previous few years \u201cSPECIFICALLY to improve the quality of my fans\u2019 experience by doing it myself with my team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Swift and her groups are presently working \u201cto figure out how this situation can be improved moving forward,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>She additionally echoed earlier information offered by Ticketmaster that stated greater than 2.4 million tickets had already been offered for The Eras Tour. She stated those that did acquire tickets will need to have felt like they \u201cwent through several bear attacks to get them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These tickets have been offered as part of presales on Tuesday and Wednesday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\">\n<p>Story continues under commercial<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"l-article__part\" data-shortcode=\"tp_video_gallery\">\n<section id=\"inline-carousel\" class=\"l-videoCarousel l-videoCarousel--embed c-carousel\" data-video-carousel-play-inline=\"true\" data-video-carousel-init=\"false\" aria-label=\"Video carousel contains 3 videos. First video: Fall fairytale fashion trends inspired by Taylor Swift\">\n<div class=\"l-videoCarousel__inner\">\n<div class=\"l-videoCarousel__featured\">\n<div class=\"c-video c-videoPlay \" data-iframe-receiver=\"\" data-autoplay=\"\" data-displayinline-featured=\"true\" data-displayinline-type=\"video\" data-displayinline-player-id=\"inline\" data-displayinline-video-id=\"9221554\" data-displayinline-ratio=\"16:9\" data-displayinline=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/video\/embed\/playlist\/9221554,9279111,9224541\/?poster=https%3A%2F%2Fi1.wp.com%2Fmedia.globalnews.ca%2Fvideostatic%2Fnews%2F5e3u3kx9sz-udkycqd04t%2FTMS_LISA_KISBER_STILL.jpg%3Fw%3D1200%26%23038%3Bquality%3D70%26%23038%3Bstrip%3Dall#autoplay&amp;stickyiframe=inline\" data-displayinline-playlist=\"9221554,9279111,9224541\" data-displayinline-sticky=\"true\">\n<div class=\"c-video__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-video__placeholder\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Fall fairytale fashion trends inspired by Taylor Swift'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/media.globalnews.ca\/videostatic\/news\/5e3u3kx9sz-udkycqd04t\/TMS_LISA_KISBER_STILL.jpg?w=1200&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, \" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/media.globalnews.ca\/videostatic\/news\/5e3u3kx9sz-udkycqd04t\/TMS_LISA_KISBER_STILL.jpg?w=450#038;quality=70&amp;strip=all 450w,https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/media.globalnews.ca\/videostatic\/news\/5e3u3kx9sz-udkycqd04t\/TMS_LISA_KISBER_STILL.jpg?w=720#038;quality=70&amp;strip=all 720w,https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/media.globalnews.ca\/videostatic\/news\/5e3u3kx9sz-udkycqd04t\/TMS_LISA_KISBER_STILL.jpg?w=1040#038;quality=70&amp;strip=all 1040w,\" data-sizes=\"(min-width: 1040px) 1040px,(min-width: 720px) 720px,450px\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-video__overlay\"><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<time class=\"c-video__duration\">5:35<\/time><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-video__title\">Fall fairytale style tendencies impressed by Taylor Swift<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"l-videoCarousel__glide glide \">\n<div class=\"c-carousel__buttons glide__arrows\" data-glide-el=\"controls\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"l-videoCarousel__prev c-carousel__button c-carousel__prev glide__arrow glide__arrow--left\" data-glide-dir=\"&lt;\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"sr-only\">Previous Video<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"l-videoCarousel__next c-carousel__button c-carousel__next glide__arrow glide__arrow--right\" data-glide-dir=\"&gt;\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"sr-only\">Next Video<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"c-carousel__goto\" data-glide-dir=\"=0\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t<!-- video stream item --><\/p>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p>In her assertion\u2019s conclusion, Swift addressed the 1000&#8217;s (if not thousands and thousands) of disenchanted followers who didn&#8217;t rating tickets. It didn&#8217;t provide another technique of buying tickets, or actually another choice apart from accepting that you simply received\u2019t be seeing her on tour.<\/p>\n<section id=\"content-dynamic-trending-stories\" class=\"l-inlineStories l-inlineStories--tile u-hide-tablet-landscape\" aria-label=\"Dynamic trending stories section\">\n<p>\n\t\t<span class=\"l-inlineStories__title c-heading c-heading--strikethrough\">Trending Now<\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<ul class=\"l-inlineStories__posts c-posts c-posts--inline\" data-sophi-feature=\"article-all\">\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/9287041\/canadian-military-uniforms-courts\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-posts__media \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" data-src=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220920090940-2e209996706daf63083927de836067fa806d75486e7c2547896541d21fb441c5-5-e1668717439191.jpg?quality=85&amp;strip=all&amp;w=336&amp;h=224&amp;crop=1\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-posts__details\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-posts__headlineText\" data-title=\"\">Canadian navy members banned from carrying uniforms, medals in civilian courts<\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/9289146\/buffalo-snowstorm-blizzard-new-york-lake-effect-snow-photos\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-posts__media \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" data-src=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/buffalo-snow-storm.jpeg?quality=85&amp;strip=all&amp;w=336&amp;h=224&amp;crop=1\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-posts__details\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-posts__headlineText\" data-title=\"\">Buffalo, Western New York completely slammed by lake-effect snowstorm<\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<p>\u201cAnd to those who didn\u2019t get tickets, all I can say is that my hope is to provide more opportunities for us to all get together and sing these songs. Thank you for wanting to be there. You have no idea how much that means,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<div class=\"l-article__part\" data-shortcode=\"readmore\">\n<p class=\"c-readmore\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"c-readmore__label\"><strong>Read extra:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"c-readmore__link\" href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/9278921\/2023-grammy-awards-nominations-list\/\" data-track-region=\"content-read-more\" title=\"2023 Grammy Awards nominations \u2014 See the list of music contenders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t2023 Grammy Awards nominations \u2014 See the checklist of music contenders\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On Thursday, Ticketmaster broke the hearts of Swifties in every single place when the corporate tweeted out the information of the final sale\u2019s cancellation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\">\n<p>Story continues under commercial<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cDue to extraordinarily high demands on ticketing systems and insufficient remaining ticket inventory to meet that demand, tomorrow\u2019s public on-sale for Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour has been cancelled,\u201d the corporate wrote.<\/p>\n<div class=\"l-article__oembed embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Due to terribly excessive calls for on ticketing techniques and inadequate remaining ticket stock to fulfill that demand, tomorrow&#8217;s public on-sale for Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour has been cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ticketmaster (@Ticketmaster) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ticketmaster\/status\/1593333211769106433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>It stays unclear if the general public sale will probably be rescheduled sooner or later or if it\u2019s cancelled totally.<\/p>\n<p>During Tuesday\u2019s \u201cVerified Fan\u201d presale (an try by Ticketmaster to restrict the variety of scalpers and bots shopping for tickets to standard exhibits), followers skilled complicated technical outages and queue wait instances of as much as eight hours.<\/p>\n<p>A Ticketmaster spokesperson advised Variety the positioning\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2022\/music\/news\/ticketmaster-explains-taylor-swift-ticket-crisis-eras-tour-1235435673\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technical points<\/a> have been a results of a \u201cstaggering number of bot attacks as well as fans who didn\u2019t have invite codes drove unprecedented traffic on our site.\u201d The firm stated this led to \u201c3.5 billion total system requests \u2014 4x our previous peak.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\">\n<p>Story continues under commercial<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Wednesday, tickets had been pushed onto resale web sites like StubHub for tens of 1000&#8217;s of {dollars}. Reuters reported some early ticketholders have been <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/9285588\/taylor-swift-resale-ticket-prices-ticketmaster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attempting to promote<\/a> their seats for as a lot as US$28,000 ($37,430).<\/p>\n<p>Originally priced tickets ranged from US$49 ($65) to $449 ($600) every.<\/p>\n<div class=\"l-article__part\" data-shortcode=\"readmore\">\n<p class=\"c-readmore\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"c-readmore__label\"><strong>Read extra: <\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"c-readmore__link\" href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/9287316\/prince-harry-meghan-markle-documentary-netflix-december-2022\/\" data-track-region=\"content-read-more\" title=\"Prince Harry, Meghan Markle\u2019s documentary to hit Netflix sooner than expected\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tPrince Harry, Meghan Markle\u2019s documentary to hit Netflix prior to anticipated\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The upcoming tour will see Swift, 32, carry out 52 exhibits throughout the U.S. There aren&#8217;t any Canadian dates on Swift\u2019s upcoming tour, however many followers north of the border had deliberate on heading south to catch a present \u2014 however possibly not at these costs.<\/p>\n<p>Ticketmaster merged with Live Nation in 2010, leading to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-11-16\/ticketmaster-s-taylor-swift-presale-investigated-by-tennessee-ag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">management of greater than 70 per cent<\/a>\u00a0of the first ticketing and reside occasion venues market.<\/p>\n<p>Swift launched her newest album,\u00a0<em>Midnights<\/em>, in October. The U.S. tour is scheduled to start out in March 2023 and finish in August.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2022 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;appId=318812448281278&#038;version=v3.3\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] If attempting to purchase tickets to Taylor Swift\u2018s upcoming tour felt like \u201cgoing through several bear attacks,\u201d the Blank Space singer agrees with you. In an announcement posted to Swift\u2019s Instagram account on Friday, the singer criticized Ticketmaster\u2018s messy handling of ticket sales for her upcoming The Eras Tour. 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