2023-05-28 18:43:32
A Massachusetts dad is spending $21,000 on last-minute tickets for his daughter and her friends to Taylor Swift’s sold-out May 19 concert. The original tickets were never mailed.
In November, Anthony Silva bought four tickets for Taylor Swift’s ‘The Era’s Tour’ at Gillette Stadium, located in Foxborough. It was a Christmas present for her 19-year-old daughter, Katlyn, according to news outlet New York Post.
The four tickets to the show purchased on StubHub cost him a total of $1,800, but he was still empty-handed days before the show.
A few days close to the show date, he decided to look on a different ticket sales page, where he found the price of $21,000. This happened to be 11 times more expensive than the original amount.
The ticket exchange and resale company used by the father, StubHub, has a policy that tickets are sent to the buyer only after the day before the event and no alternative tickets were available.
“It’s just not fair,” Silva said in an interview with WCVB. “In my opinion, they shouldn’t wait until the day before before the tickets are sent by the retailer,” he comments.
For Mr. Silva, paying $21,000 for tickets for better seats proves StubHub’s incompetence.
He still wanted to give his daughter an extraordinary experience by renting a limousine for the evening.
“When we pranked the girls the night before that the tickets were lost, you should have seen the look on their faces. I never want to see that again”, expresses the father.
Katlyn was disappointed and outraged at the situation when she learned that the tickets had not been delivered to her doorstep.
“I came home hitting things in my path, I was so angry! It’s something I’ve been waiting for nine months,” says the 19-year-old girl.
Taylor Swift was scheduled to perform three shows at Gillette Stadium, with 200,000 people hoping to be there.
The Friday, May 19 show received more than 60,000 spectators, according to information from CBC.
“Due to extreme demand on the ticketing system and insufficient inventory of remaining tickets to meet demand, the public sale for tomorrow’s tour has been cancelled,” StubHub announced.
Following the incident, more than 25 Taylor Swift fans took legal action against TicketMaster in December, saying the company was a fraud.
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