after the viral Ticketmaster ‘Eras’ tour disaster last month. Now, Swifties are on their vigilante shit.
17.11.2022 - 23:41 / deadline.com
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), the chair of the Senate antitrust subcommittee, fired off a letter to Ticketmaster on Thursday amid concerns that the outages on its site for Taylor Swift concerts reflect a lack of competition in the business.
In a letter to Live Nation Entertainment CEO Michael Rapino, Klobuchar wrote that she had “serious concerns about the state of competition in the ticketing industry and its harmful impact on consumers. Reports about system failures, increasing fees, and complaints of conduct that violate the consent decree Ticketmaster is under suggest that Ticketmaster continues to abuse its market positions.”
Klobuchar has been a critic of the concert ticket market, and argued that Ticketmaster’s “power in the primary ticket market insulates it from the competitive pressures that typically push companies to innovate and improve their services. That can result in the types of dramatic service failures we saw this week, where consumers are the ones that pay the price.”
A Ticketmaster spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
But the company did issue a general response to the situation, explaining that the demand for tickets when they went on sale earlier this week, coupled with bot attacks, “drove unprecedented traffic on our site, resulting in 3.5 billion total system requests – 4x our previous peak.”
“It usually takes us about an hour to sell through a stadium show, but we slowed down some sales and pushed back others to stabilize the systems,” the company said. “The trade off was longer wait times in queue for some fans.” They estimated that about 15% of interactions across the site experienced issues, and “that’s 15% too many, including passcode validation errors that
after the viral Ticketmaster ‘Eras’ tour disaster last month. Now, Swifties are on their vigilante shit.
A group of Taylor Swift fans have sued Live Nation’s Ticketmaster over all the issues that occurred when tickets went on sale for her 2023 US tour because, well, of course they have.There was plenty of social media outrage, resulting in widespread news coverage and political commentary, after Live Nation’s Ticketmaster recently struggled to cope with the demand for tickets for Swift’s ‘The Eras Tour’, her first live shows in five years.Following the ticketing meltdown, Ticketmaster issued an apology to Swift and her fans, saying that unprecedented demand for ‘The Eras Tour’, as well as an army of bots trying to circumvent its Verified Fan system in order to buy up tickets to resell on the secondary market, put its platform under incredible strain.“Never before has a Verified Fan onsale sparked so much attention – or traffic”, the company stated. “This disrupted the predictability and reliability that is the hallmark of our Verified Fan platform.
The Swifties are seeking revenge!
No Taylor? No peace!
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. Well, can you even call it a presale when Ticketmaster has due to “insufficient ticket inventory” and “extraordinarily high demands”? began her statement by expressing her disappointment with Ticketmaster, noting her desire to protect her fans from outside parties. “It goes without saying that I’m extremely protective of my fans,” she began her Instagram story on November 18.
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Taylor Swift is clapping back amid the whole Ticketmaster fiasco!!
Ooooh, it’s time for some Vigilante S**t, Swifties!
for supposedly verified fans and Capital One cardholders desperate for a shot at seeing the artist's upcoming , Ticketmaster has come baring more bad news: Due to “extraordinarily high demands” on their site, the general sale planned for November 18 has been canceled. According to the company, which is owned by Live Nation Entertainment, there is “insufficient ticket inventory" to meet the public demand. They should have added, “I'm the problem.