withrosered replied to your photoset “jhenne-bean: igglooaustralia: WOW. TtHIS HAS TO BE THE MOST GREEDY...”
other bands do this too + people going to the concerts would already do this
Plenty of bands do bundling, sure but this is where it gets unusual and out of hand:
from TS’ website:
Taylor Swift is committed to getting tickets into the hands of fans...NOT scalpers or bots. So she’s collaborating with Ticketmaster #VerifiedFan to create an exclusive program to help YOU get the best access to tickets in North America, in a really fun way.
the jezebel article explains why this is shady:
this whole thing is being framed as a way for Ticketmaster to weed out bots. It would be one thing to have fans register and be vetted as non-scalpers before they buy tickets, but I’m not sure how getting fans to buy merch (one item is a $60 snake ring plated with 24K gold) does anything to stop bots (which, by the way, is not the fans’ job, it’s Ticketmaster’s).
Scalpers use bots to buy tickets en masse and then resell them to fans at inflated prices. Ticketmaster, instead of trying to stop this unethical practice, is actually profiting from it. They’re using scalpers and their bots to create an artificial scarcity of tickets, and then having fans take part in what is essentially a bidding war, in order to access these artificially scarce tickets.
