As for Taylor Swift fans, if they want to attend the concerts, they are now forced to buy tickets through resellers charging thousands of dollars for a single ticket.
The company is now the subject of a federal investigation. U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who chairs a committee focused on consumer protection, announced she wants the Department of Justice to investigate Ticketmaster after it canceled the general public sale of concert tickets for Swift’s upcoming tour.in an open letter, saying, “I write to express serious concerns about the state of competition in the ticketing industry and its harmful impact on consumers.
“It was millions and millions of people logged on to Ticketmaster because they were the only one selling tickets. So it was just completely overloading their system,” said Kelly Roy, who did get tickets. 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.“Ticketmaster takes the $490 out of my account, but it like crashed,” one TikTok user said.“I Registered for a presale using 6 different emails and accounts in attempt to be selected through 1 of them and was waitlisted on all. Fishy!” Jesse wrote.
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