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’.

  • LordOfLocksley@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    $659 for a one night gig…

    You can get a week pass to a festival for cheaper…

    A fool and his money are easily parted

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      9 months ago

      I guarantee that there is entertainment that you spend money on that other people find foolish.

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          9 months ago

          Sure, but chances are, relative to much of the world, you are actually pretty wealthy and most people would scoff at you spending even 1/10th of that on a single event. Remember, there is much of the world where the median yearly income is under 1k a year.

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      9 months ago

      I think the “full” here is the one who can’t fathom that others value things differently from themself.

      Also, her money*. It’s in the summary

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      9 months ago

      The average ticket price for her tour 2023 was 1088$

      Whoever pays prices like this is completely lost

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      9 months ago

      I got drawn in the lottery to be able to buy tickets for athletic events at the Olympics in Paris. For the events I liked to see, I had the choice of a 860 and 980 euro ticket… so with the two of us, that would be as much as a week long holiday to the Canaries. So we passed. We’re gonna watch the marathon, which is free :-)