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LurkerDan

Since I signed up for the presale I'm now getting emails. They added dates but not Vegas yet.

Decker

She is offering $20 tickets at random via lottery that are scattered throughout the venues. Very cool idea.

dex14

I think it was the Stones that had done something similar in past tours.

Why So Blu?

That video from the new single was supposedly shot on the new iPhone. Good song, too.

LurkerDan

I tried to get tix trhough both the amex presale and the regular presale.

Amex: the cheapest seats simply didn't exist, the least expensive available was $100 (with fees). Was just more than I could justify.
Regular: got waitlisted

For those who like to shit on Taylor Swift and somehow think she deserves blame for the prices her tickets were selling for (on the secondary market), she had thousands and thousands of tickets available for every show that after fees were only $65. Rodrigo's cheapest advertised price was probably going to be more, and those seats seemed non-existent to me, as nosebleed seats were still $100.

dex14

I saw $79.50 before fees.

Re: Swift comparison... $100+fees in a 20k arena doesn't really equate to $65 in a stadium with 70k+ capacity to me.

Obi-Wanma

I also had no chance to even buy those TSwift tickets at that price if I wanted to.

I wanted tickets,and I probably would have paid that, but I don't really want to sit a mile away from the stage and watch on TV either.

LurkerDan

The advertised lowest price was quite a bit lower than $79.50, it was (IIRC) $49.50. But it pretty much didn't exist, because the nosebleed sections were all $79.50 (maybe they did something like make the last row $49.50).

You seem to be suggesting that stadium concerts are cheaper, but that's not generally what I have seen. But I will admit I haven't been going to either in a long time (having a tween kiddo is making me go now), so maybe they are these days? And a nosebleed seat in an arena is still super far away and "requires" a big screen to see the action.

LurkerDan

that's a ticketmaster problem and a "too many fans" problem, that doesn't mean Taylor shouldn't get credit for having thousands and thousands of more affordable tickets available for every show.

and how does a crazy popular artist solve the "I don't really want to sit a mile away from the stage and watch on TV either" problem? You don't want to see shows in stadiums unless you can be super close, and what should be done about that? Even if every ticket in the stadium was $50, you still wouldn't have gotten tickets, they still would be selling for thousands on the secondary market, and you'd still be in this forum finding a reason to complain.

OldBoy

I love her. It was only $6.99 on iTunes.

Obi-Wanma

They should perform in my backyard. Problem solved.

Honestly though, getting tickets to a show I really wanted to attend at face value was never a problem until the last 5-10 years or so.