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Ticketek ‘glitch’ appears to re-sell fan’s $659 ticket for Taylor Swift concert — “They said, ‘someone else has it, we don’t know who, we can’t check or track who has your ticket’” (au.news.yahoo.com)
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Ticketek ‘glitch’ appears to re-sell fan’s $659 ticket for Taylor Swift concert — “They said, ‘someone else has it, we don’t know who, we can’t check or track who has your ticket’”::A Taylor Swift fan believed her VIP ticket was 'stolen' from her account by Ticketek after an apparent system 'glitch'.

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[–] pete_the_cat 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I went to go see Pantera and Lamb of God on Saturday and all of the 4 sites I checked had at least a $30 fee per ticket, with zero explanation of what that fee was for. The tickets were priced from $60 on up and then once you select a ticket they slap on the $30 fee! Parking was also $45, and beer was $20.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I just had a ticketmaster subsidiary charge me taxes on two tickets in a state where we have zero sales tax.

[–] pete_the_cat 1 points 10 months ago

Fuckers. I was expecting to pay the sales tax on top of their fee, but I guess they were nice and rolled that in for me.

I did see one site that had the $30 fee per ticket and then a $2.50 service charge for the e-delivery.

[–] Son_of_dad 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I saw Megadeth front row for like $30 in the early 2000s 😭 their goodbye tour was like $400 a seat

[–] pete_the_cat 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah, that sucks balls. I wanted to go to The Big 4 Tour but upper level tickets were in the hundreds.