Ticketmaster Angers Taylor Swift Fans as AOC Calls Company a ‘Monopoly’
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Ticketmaster has Taylor Swift fans singing “This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things” on Tuesday as they wait for hours for presale tickets for Swift’s upcoming 2023 Eras Tour, which is set to begin March 18 in Glendale, Arizona, and wrap up on August 5 at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles.
Fans all over the nation followed steps prior to Tuesday to be considered “verified fans” in order to get special access codes for purchasing, and on November 15, the presale tickets went on sale at 10 a.m. local venue time.
However, shortly after the start of the sale, an innocent bid for concert tickets turned into an all-out war, as Ticketmaster began experiencing freezes and reported crashes on the website due to “historically unprecedented demand with millions showing up to buy tickets for the TaylorSwiftTix Presale,” Ticketmaster wrote in an update on Twitter. It added in the statement that “Hundreds of thousands of tickets have been sold.”
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The ticketing service stated that West Coast sales in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Santa Clara and Seattle will be moved to 3 p.m. PT, and the Capitol One presale will be moved from Tuesday to Wednesday, November 16, at 2 p.m. local time.
Still, the process and the delays have angered Swift fans, who have made Ticketmaster a trending topic on Twitter while they express their outrage.
“8 billion people in the world and every single one of them is ahead of me in the Taylor Swift Ticketmaster queue apparently,” user @HereComesShawty wrote.
“When Taylor said ‘meet me at midnight,’ I wasn’t anticipating that meaning I’d be in the Ticketmaster queue until then,” another user wrote.
Netflix even responded in an apparent dig towards Ticketmaster after Pop Crave tweeted that the world’s population hit 8 billion people on Tuesday. “And they’re all waiting in a ticket queue right now,” Netflix wrote.
“When Taylor Swift wrote ‘the great war’ she was actually preparing us for the Battle of Ticketmaster,” another user joked. “Her mind!”
With Ticketmaster trending high on Twitter, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted out her own calls against Ticketmaster.
On Tuesday, she wrote, “Daily reminder that Ticketmaster is a monopoly, it’s [sic] merger with LiveNation should never have been approved, and they need to be reigned in.
“Break them up.”
Ticketmaster merged with Live Nation, an events promoter and venue operator, in 2010, and it has long since been a system of concern, especially after Congress urged President Joe Biden in 2021 to break monopolies in America.
Newsweek reached out to Ticketmaster and a representative for AOC for comment.
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