It’s been an enormous week for Swifties Down Under. Even with two pre-sales, a basic sale, and added tour dates, tens of millions of Australian Taylor Swift followers have missed out on an opportunity to get tickets.
But that does not imply that the journey is over! If you missed out via the common sale, there’s nonetheless an opportunity that you’re going to give you the option to see the Eras Tour when it comes to Australia.
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Though Ticketek is the one official ticket vendor for the Eras tour, I’d wager a signed Taylor Swift CD that there can be PLENTY of tickets up for resale via different distributors.
Let me begin off by being very clear: WE DON’T LIKE SCALPERS. But we do love individuals who resell their tickets for face worth once they realise they can not go.
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Thankfully, all her concert events have been deemed Major Events, defending each ticket from scalpers.
If anybody tries to promote their tickets on a web site like eBay, Gumtree, or Marketplace for greater than 110 per cent of the unique value, they are going to be penalised.
This is in an effort to cease ticket bots, automated applications which scoop up tickets throughout the official sale and resell them at an enormous mark-up on different websites.
For Swift’s US tour dates, this was an enormous challenge, with some tickets promoting on Stubhub for over $10,000.
I’ve already seen folks attempting to resell the tickets they purchased in Wednesday’s presale. If you are questioning to your self “now who the heck would sell their tickets after trying so hard?”, think about these examples:
- People who panic-bought VIP tickets, then managed to get cheaper tickets in one other sale and plan to resell their unique seats.
- People who tried for each Melbourne and Sydney, ended up with each and need to promote one set.
- Group chats who acquired over-excited – everybody purchased a set of tickets and now they’ve 16 tickets to one present but solely 4 folks.
- People who purchased tickets for members of the family who at the moment are saying “I don’t want to pay $300 sorry”.
- Girls who purchased tickets for his or her boyfriends, however they break up between now and February.
- Casual followers who solely know a pair songs from Folklore, that purchased tickets simply because they acquired via the queue, who out of the blue want cash in December for pageant season and determine to resell their seats.
Yes a few of these could also be tremendous particular – and I’m not wishing breakups for anybody, but it surely’s all to present that there are a ton of causes folks can be promoting their tickets
I’ve personally purchased two last-minute tickets to Eras reveals, each simply two hours earlier than she took the stage. This was within the US, so issues could also be completely different right here: take the whole lot I’m saying with a grain of salt!
The US ticket vendor, Ticketmaster, did random ticket drops of leftover tickets on the day of every present. This might be as a result of they cancelled their basic sale after the pre-sale had such excessive demand – that they had a pair hundred tickets left unsold for every present however not sufficient to promote in an enormous batch.
Will Ticketek do the identical factor right here? It’s unclear. I’d suggest following an area Taylor Swift replace account on social media to keep abreast of what is going on on – reminiscent of @TSwiftNZ which is run by a Kiwi.
As for getting resale tickets, you’ve gotten just a few choices: Facebook Marketplace, Gumtree, eBay, Viagogo.
There will most likely be devoted Eras Tour Resell Facebook teams – I’ve mates within the US who acquired tickets this manner.
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You’ve simply acquired to be SUPER cautious about scammers.
If you are severe about shopping for a ticket, message the vendor and ask them to present you a display recording of their affirmation electronic mail, somewhat than only a screenshot.
Ticketek will not be sending out digital tickets till only a few weeks earlier than the present. It’s an effort to cease scalping, but it surely’s form of annoying for people who find themselves legitimately attempting to promote tickets to different followers.
Just bear in mind that in case you do purchase a ticket by way of resale, you will not have it immediately –perhaps it is safer to pay the vendor a small deposit and ship the remainder when you’ve gotten the tickets.
The important factor is to not get too distraught. It would possibly really feel such as you’re the one one who missed out on tickets – particularly while you’re scrolling via Instagram tales at this time – however stats present that extra folks missed out than really acquired them.
Good luck and Godspeed.
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