If you missed out on tickets to see Taylor Swift in Sydney or Melbourne you may still be able to see the show – by keeping an eye out on resales.
Reseller is almost a dirty word in the industry, thanks to bots and scalpers, but there are some legitimate operations you can consider.
The key thing is to remember ‘the tickets don’t exist yet’ and won’t until the week before the concert.
Ticketek confirmed people with tickets would have to download the app and wait until February for them to be delivered electronically.
This is an anti-scalping measure – because most people want to ‘see the tickets’ if they are paying $3000 for them.
If you missed out on tickets to see Taylor Swift in Sydney or Melbourne you may still be able to see the show – by keeping an eye out on resales
Swift has smashed records in Australia – with over 4million punters logging on to get tickets during the pre-sale event on Wednesday.
The only 100per cent ‘safe’ way to buy resale tickets for the concerts is through Ticketek’s own site Tmarketplace.
Fans who can no longer make it to the show can list their tickets there – but can only charge 10percent on top of the ticket price.
The resale rules have been rehashed by event company, Frontier Touring.
‘Any Taylor Swift, The Eras Tour ticket offered for resale elsewhere, either on or offline (including Viagogo, The Ticket Merchant, Tixel, Trade Me, eBay, and Gumtree, or any other unauthorised source including all secondary ticket retail websites, and social media Buy Swap Swell pages), may result in all your orders and tickets cancelled without notice to you and your ticket price refunded,’ the company warned.
‘The original purchaser and their party will be refused admission and any other orders and tickets they hold will also be cancelled without notice to them and their ticket price refunded.’
Buyers mobile numbers are linked to their Tiketek accounts – which means they have to match the ticket holders.
Any tickets which don’t match could be cancelled at the door.
‘Any Taylor Swift, The Eras Tour ticket offered for resale elsewhere, either on or offline (including Viagogo, The Ticket Merchant, Tixel, Trade Me, eBay, and Gumtree, or any other unauthorised source including all secondary ticket retail websites, and social media Buy Swap Swell pages), may result in all your orders and tickets cancelled without notice to you and your ticket price refunded,’ the company warned
But some people have listed tickets on alternative sites, trying to make a profit, already.
Ticket resale platform Viagogo has reportedly listed Australia Eras tour tickets for up to double what they should cost fans.
A Viagogo spokesperson confirmed the platform does not sell tickets, but is a ‘marketplace that connects ticket sellers with fans on an open, secure and transparent platform’.
‘In response to Victoria declaring the Taylor Swift tour a major event, we have taken the necessary measures to ensure our platform is in full compliance with federal and state law in Australia,’ the spokesperson told the ABC.
On Tuesday, the Victorian government declared the Eras tour a major event.
It is against the law to resell and advertise tickets to a declared major event at over 10 per cent of its original price.
Individuals can be fined $109,044 while companies can be fined $545,200.
The NSW government has pledged to crack down on ticket scalpers with Fair Trading this week reminding several online sales platforms like eBay, Ticketek and Gumtree of their obligation to protect consumers under current legislation.
Scalpers took advantage or more lax security measures during the US stint of the tour.
Some tickets were being resold at $17,000.
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