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This is one of the most perfect examples of a bank charge back situation I have ever seen.
No need, click bait headline.
"[They said] 'someone else has it, we don’t know who, we can’t check or track who has your ticket'," the 21-year-old said. "All they could do was issue me a refund, I have essentially had my ticket stolen from me."
After failing to get the situation sorted and her ticket reinstated by Ticketek's customer service, Rebecca went online to try to get answers on Sunday. This is about when the company was finally able to ensure she still had a ticket, despite apparently being told otherwise. "We have now reached out to Rebecca to confirm," the spokesperson said.
In a statement to Yahoo on Monday, Ticketek said the situation had been rectified and other customers needn't worry about any such glitches in their online marketplace.
You get your money back, sure, but the company has also profited off the theft of the ticket, so I think a reasonable jury/judge would find you're owed some money for that profit and maybe some more so they think twice about doing it again. You'd probably be able to take them to small claims court and get an easy settlement for the equivalent of upgraded seats on the secondary market.
Also, if they had booked flights, hotels, and made other commitments to travel to the concert that money might not be easy to get back.
You would think right? But look at airlines, they can overbook a flight, and tough luck. Rental car places can say they don't have the car you reserved... the law is not there to protect you, it is there to protect business.
pro tip: your insurance probably has a discount deal w/ a major rental company - USAA & Enterprise, for example. Partnerships like this keep the fuckers honest to retain the income stream.
$659? Is it a week long concert with hotel and food included?
You can get a week long hotel stay and food included for $659?
That's not so unreasonable. An extended stay hotel near me is $539/week, and that was just the first result. That leaves $120 for food, or $17/day. While it won't be living the high life, it can be done.
As someone who just tried to get a hotel near a concert, it won't work like that. The hotels know there is a show in town and price accordingly. When I tried, rooms that were typically $75-$150 per night were at $400-$1000 per night. I'm talking Hilton and Marriot all the way to econolodge and motel 6, all raised their prices by 5-10x. Anything I found that was decent was an advertisement for a general price. Then you try to reserve and they say "Oh you wanted it for THOSE nights? The price is $700 a night for those nights." Even though I clicked on $125 a night search results. This was 8 months before my stay, within a week of the concert being announced.
Ended up renting an RV for 4 days and parking it at a cheap rv place. Still cost over a grand after everything.
The rates you mention are... ridiculously foreign to me. I cannot even conceive only dropping half a grand and having somewhere to sleep for a whole week. Not saying it doesn't happen, but not near me for damn sure.
Not sure where you live, but any big city is likely to have (as a whole) more than enough hotel capacity that a single big event won't cause that much demand. You just won't be able to find a room nearby. Add a 20 minute (or 60, depending) Lyft to the suburbs and they're barely aware that the event is happening.
Also, to get that price you need to look at extended stay hotels. These blur the lines between a hotel and a short-term rental apartment. They do not offer a stay for a single night. They are often sold by the week, or at least with a 1-week minimum
Depends where, obviously.
Limited view tickets were $1500 a piece when TS came to Levi stadium. Bonkers
Well, if they paid me this money I'd be willing to tolerate the concert.
But how could anyone justify spending this amount on one f*king concert (of Taylor Swift on top of it) is beyond me.
Those are only the "VIP" tickets. One Google search and it turns out that normal tickets range from 49-499 depending on where you're stood/seated. This $659 is meant for the best seats for the richest people.
People are fucking insane for spending that sort of money for an opportunity to spend a couple of hours in extreme crowd just to barely see a billionaire singer and barely hear the songs. Its even worse since they are clearly getting fucked by corporations at the same time
I mean... I wouldn't do it. But I have spend insane money on other stuff I feel like it's a not that crazy amount. And to each it's own....
The fees they charge as part of it... that's another thing that I agree they are bastards.
I am thinking about spending that much in 4 hard drives 😂
Just a guess, but I bet what they do is post the same tickets for different prices and then give it to the highest price that sells, and "oops our bad, there was some kind of a glitch" + refund to all the lower price ones.
Then they can guarantee the lower but still profitable sale while still having a chance at the ridiculous price for someone who really really wants it and is willing to pay a crazy amount.
I bought tickets like 4 months in advance for an event. Like a week before the event, I get an email that they don't have my seats, and offered tickets a section over. I was actually relieved because prices had dropped, so I just said no thanks, I'll take a refund, and bought better, cheaper seats.
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$659 for a one night gig....
You can get a week pass to a festival for cheaper....
A fool and his money are easily parted
full
The irony in that typo is palpable. Some real KenM energy
I guarantee that there is entertainment that you spend money on that other people find foolish.
Not that much money though.
Sure, but chances are, relative to much of the world, you are actually pretty wealthy and most people would scoff at you spending even 1/10th of that on a single event. Remember, there is much of the world where the median yearly income is under 1k a year.
touche
I think the "full" here is the one who can't fathom that others value things differently from themself.
Also, her money*. It's in the summary
The average ticket price for her tour 2023 was 1088$
Whoever pays prices like this is completely lost
Gross
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 :-)
When someone rich and powerful wants to go to a concert, there's always a way...
Release now! Patch never
why is this girl suddenly everywhere? I hadn't heard of her for the last 5 years, and since this week I've seen her daily.
Taylor Swift?
yeah, I know she's a singer but I don't like pop and I hadn't read so much of her til now. I guess that people that like pop music might have heard of her more
I don't get why they are downvoting you. It's absolutely true that last month she's been more on the news than at any other given time the last 5 years.
Basically the manager of Tyler Swift spread around a conspiracy theory so now MAGA is talking about her all the time which makes anti-maga talk about her all the time which increases her CD sales.
But this is just the tip of the iceberg!
Refund the ticket, fix the bug, and move on.
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