'This caused some delays for fans which we know is frustrating and we worked as quickly as possible to adjust some on sale times to manage the volume, and queues are now flowing,' the spokesperson said. Some said they took a day off work and felt the process should have gone more smoothly.Ī Ticketmaster spokesperson said the number of people who registered for the early sale was more than twice the number of tickets available, and that millions of others also jumped online to buy. Other Swifties, the nickname for Swift's fans, said they were repeatedly dropped from queues and turned their ire toward Ticketmaster. 'The one time my daughter really needed me to come through for her, I ended up on the outside looking in, banished to the barren badlands of the Taylor Swift ticket waiting list wasteland,' he said. 'I'm a failure as a father,' wrote Dave Pell, author of the popular NextDraft newsletter. Ticket sales for West Coast shows were delayed by three hours.įans reported waiting in online queues for up to eight hours, and many finding they were too late to purchase tickets, which cost between $49 and $449 each. Later, Ticketmaster tweeted that there had been 'historically unprecedented demand' for Swift's 'The Eras Tour,' her first since 2018, from millions of people. The ticket-selling site told fans on Tuesday morning, via a statement on Twitter, that it was experiencing 'intermittent issues' that the company was 'urgently' working to resolve. LOS ANGELES, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Millions of Taylor Swift fans swarmed Live Nation Entertainment Inc's Ticketmaster (LYV.N) website on Tuesday seeking seats for her first tour in five years, causing periodic outages and long online waits that often ended in disappointment.

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