First post, saw the low hanging fruit… hope your kids didn’t disown you if you didn’t score them. Share the parental glory if you did, or friendship bragging rights (soon to end in tears).
Taylor Swift Concert Tickets
LSnackbar on 27/06/2023 - 19:46
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Not too early
The first tickets went on sale via American Express Card presale on Monday, but they were limited to VIP packages
VIP apparently means anyone with $1250 to listen to songs for a few hours close to a stage.
Nah it's only $899 plus $6.something booking fee
Presale is pointless.. everyone is on presale
Get them, earn brownie points.
Dont get them, teach your kids multiple valuable life lessons about supply/demand, not always getting what you want, lifes not fair, disappointment is part of life, Ticketek website is garbage etc etcIts a win win
tay tay is fairly young, she'll be performing for decades yet.
Yeah but she's in her prime right now.
Yeah but she's in her prime right now.
You're saying her music will only get worse form now on? Oh god how is that possible!
this is her magnum opus tour i think
Wut, you get free icecream too?
Exactly. It’s been a philosophical lesson, like The Rolling Stones lyric “you can’t always get what you want”
Option 3 - make them try and get them and see how they go. You get brownie points for saying “if you get them we can go”, but when they fail to secure any, it’s not your fault, it’s theirs.
This is my scenario at the moment. Daughter took the day off school and its not working out… :(
and with the randomness of ticketek's idiotic system, guess the kid's going to be learning lesson #2 :)
Bit concerned on the seating plan for the MCG and the fact it kinda looks like there will be some A reserve and B reserve in the stands. At that point may as well get a cheaper ticket.
hope your kids didn’t disown you if you didn’t score them.
Mine would disown me if I did get them.
"Don't threaten me with a good time"
- JV, probably
Shows held at outdoor sports stadiums are always massive duds.
I've been to Foo Fighters at Suncorp in Brisbane twice, and whilst you couldn't see them too well from the stands (could see the screens fine) I felt the show was quite good, and worth the price of entry.
I saw Coldplay at Suncorp and it was a blast
It really varies. Saw Adele in Adelaide and there was horrid echoing from the scoreboard. Paul McCartney at Suncorp was very good however. My advice is sit within 100m of the stage, otherwise the sound lag becomes annoying.
I will be trying to get Swift tickets, and don't know whether to go with Melbourne or Sydney. Melbourne is closer, but less shows. And it goes on sale later, so people who missed out on Sydney may pile into Melbourne.
Agree. I took dad to see Billy Joel at the MCG, but we were 10 rows off stage. Only way to get a decent show in an outdoor stadium.
So I have been on the "waiting" page on 3 browsers simultaneously for the last 2.5hrs.
Wondering if this actually works and take you to the booking page when its your turn.anyone got in? how much time do you get to purchase the tickets once you are in?
Yes, it does actually work as I got tickets today - apparently they allow access in batches (reportedly some were waiting 5 hours for Amex presale).
Ah thanks, how much time do you get once your in the booking section?
Wondering if a coffee break may ruin my chances7 minutes or so, it automatically starts the timer when you're in
How muc are they
their waiting room is just random luck
theres no 'queue' as such.well idk if that makes my chance better or worse.
apparently 800k people in that queue for 250k ticketsmanaged to get in but all were single seats
@Cluster: No luck here for Melbourne yet - 3 devices going (plus a few more with the colleagues next to me)
@Shadowsfury: Ah bugger, still trying for me too.
A work collegue of mine managed to snap up a couple of tickets through tickettek app. Not sure if using the App makes a difference!
@jedimaster: Man I really need to go do a number 2 - but knowing my luck, it'll let me in to purchase as soon as Mr.Turtlehead appears.
well idk if that makes my chance better or worse.
no idea
the fact Sydney is sold out but if i try and access it now even as a test, if I navigate there it just sits in a 'waiting room' seemingly indefinitely.I feel it must be random, but randomly weighted against something :)
just think of the productivity hours lost today while people stare at a 10s wait timer for hours on end. Its such an incredibly inefficient method
@SBOB: All general Frontier Pre-sale tickets for Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour in Melbourne are now sold out!
Some VIP + Hotel Packages are still available.
https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/music/tours/mistake-ta…
Tech savvy members here should already know it, but avoid using work computers on the same internet connection.
"Lisa Given, a professor of information sciences at RMIT University in Melbourne, explained to news.com.au Ticketek was likely registering users logged in on multiple devices in one home or workplace as just one user."
If I was running Ticketek I would do the same. 1 IP = 1 customer. Otherwise people could setup dozens of virtual machines and hammer away from one IP.
haha yeah I was just telling my cousin exactly this before. She has like 5 devices going but all on her home Wi-Fi. If anything, it'd make her chances of getting tickets lower.
I’ve got a static ip, made no difference
5 hours waiting to get nothing from sydney pre-sale.
likely wont get anything from melbourne show.
The sad reality is that looking by the number of people who want a ticket, and the limited number available, that ticket prices should be a lot higher so that supply meets demand.
At least $800 for A Reserve, $700 for B, etc. But Swift would be labeled greedy and Twitter set on fire…
A lot of people are going to be disappointed after Friday.
ticket prices should be a lot higher
More shows would be the OzBargain solution.
It would, but she's already doing five here and has a show in Singapore the week after. Hard to fit in more shows without wearing her out.
Frontier Marketing Executive is gonna get a promotion to increase record member numbers with one event.
Frontier membership should have made it ineligible to get pre-sale code for those registered after a certain date such as the day prior to the announcment of the tour dates.
Was the code even unique?
Still nothing here, losing hope at this point
All general Frontier Pre-sale tickets for Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour in Melbourne are now sold out!
Some VIP + Hotel Packages are still available.Oh well, same time on Friday then. Will repeat the same cycle of disappointment.
What's the deal on Friday? More tickets for sale?
General sale. 10am Sydney, 2pm Melbourne
@Mingles: I don't know. Depends what the allocation to the AMEX and presale was. I would suspect we're going to see the dregs of the tickets available on Friday, plus maybe single tickets elsewhere. I won't be buying an $80 ticket to sit almost in the last row, 150m away from the stage.
I finally got through to…
Service Unavailable
HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable.Yay…
Had the same - I'm so bummed right now ahhhhhh!
Don't they have 3 day camp outs in lines outside the ticket office by hardcore fans anymore?
That is very 90s now
Fortunately that's not a thing any more. I did the overnight line up once, and it's a terrible waste of time. And then the person in front of me held up the entire line because they wanted 12 tickets together and the Computer Said No. Plus you had no choice in the tickets. 'Best available' was the only choice.
It's past 10pm, everyone knows all but the VIP tickets are sold out, but the concert link still takes me to a waiting queue page that never ends.
Is Ticketek sure their site works correctly? Surely there can't be thousands of people waiting to buy $1200 VIP packages?
It's possible… maybe the time limit has extended now once you're in. Someone said it's open for 24 hours.
Yep very strange/annoying
Even now if I follow the link as a test I end up in the waiting room
Additional shows added to syd and Mel, unlikely to make Friday's waiting room any less waity
Great to see new shows added, but with just two extra shows and potentially a million people still wanting a ticket, the chances of success aren't great.
true
Im perplexed because even doing a test now a visit to ticketek ends up in the waiting room for however long i leave a browser open for.Was looking at web page scripts trying to see if theres something getting blocked or broken on my end/dns :/
I managed to get one yesterday. So lucky.
got thru on friday general sales for sydney and forgor my ticketek password FML
I saw Amex had a presale and offered to use my card to get my brother four tickets for him, his mrs and a friend. I didn't realise it was for VIP tickets at first so I didn't think he would be interested. Boy was I wrong. He wanted the $900 tickets. I waited about twenty minutes in the queue before getting in and could only get 4 tickets in the $1250 package. Asked him what he wanted to do (he turned up at my house just before the sale started to make sure I didn't forget lol) and he said buy em straight away. I double checked and he told me to go ahead. Blew my mind. I knew he was a big fan but he turned into a teenage girl and was annoying as hell playing TikToks and talking about feeling sick if he missed out. The guy is in his forties for crying out loud.
Being a Swifty has no age limit :-)
I got two of the $1250 VIP packages on Monday.
I could care less about Taylor but my wife, like everyone else in Australia, thinks otherwise…
https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/music/tours/taylor-swi…
All shows are now sold out, apart from VIP packages.
The 'queue' pages have not been updated yet.
Yep my daughter is pretty gutted about missing out. Seems like there's many disappointed people. The Taylor Swift money machine is off the charts!
"The Frontier Members presale starts on Wednesday 28 June, and will run for 24 hours from 10am for Sydney shows and from 2pm for Melbourne shows, or until the pre-sale allocation is exhausted" You're a bit early