23 Tweets That Sum Up The Pure Stress Of Trying To Buy Taylor Swift Tickets
Monday mornings are rarely fun but for a portion of the UK and Ireland, today was even more stressful. Yes Swifties, we mean you.
US superstar Taylor Swift is finally set to bring her Eras tour to Europe next year and today, the pre-sales began taking place.
Given the drama when US tickets were released, Ticketmaster devised a system to lighten the load… which is also incredibly complicated.
To be in with a shot of buying tickets in one of this week’s 12(!) sales, fans needed to have pre-ordered Taylor’s latest album, Midnights, before its release last November. Everyone else needs to wait until next week.
The first batch of tickets were available to buy at 11am and with hours to go, #ErasTour and Ticketmaster were already trending on Twitter.
By the time it started, well, let’s just say it was all very stressful…
Happy hunger games to all my fellow swifties #ErasTourpic.twitter.com/pwpz6gnVC1
— Zack (@Zack3O12) July 10, 2023
And, of course, it wouldn’t be a ticket sale without a few technical problems:
Off to a raging start there Ticketmaster #ErasTourpic.twitter.com/nzE4u4uXBZ
— Ree (@ree_tweeting) July 10, 2023
Did this twice, showed me 1st in queue, then bounced me out and put me back into a 13k deep queue ???? Ticketmaster should lose the rights to sell tickets, coz it's the most inept ticket selling website ever #ErasTourpic.twitter.com/rdOMKxTB2V
— CJ ???? (@____CJ______) July 10, 2023
me @ the stupid waiting room button #erastourpic.twitter.com/H3FNLr6X5k
— angel (@sassybitchdiaz) July 10, 2023
Which led to – yes, you guessed it! – even more stress...
People trying to get Taylor Swift tickets on ticketmaster #TheErasTour#ErasTourpic.twitter.com/sK7JRXnAZf
— tasha louise | ✨???????? (@eds_afterglow) July 10, 2023
After half an hour of being in the online waiting room, fans were finally given queue numbers, and some people were seriously unfortunate:
Not this. WHAT IS THIS QUEUE NUMBER. IM GONNA BE HERE FOR DAYS #ErasTourpic.twitter.com/DxAAjupUne
— Izzy hopes to see Tay???? at Wembley (@Moswazowskinail) July 10, 2023
AAHH 286 in front of me #ErasTour#TheErasTour#taylorswift#TaylorSwiftErasTourpic.twitter.com/GUFt7aBr5m
— idk (@idk_dnx) July 10, 2023
Swifties in the UK and Europe looking at the queue #ErasTour#Taylorswifticketspic.twitter.com/842cCxhB5R
— AJ (@UtdBrunoJr) July 10, 2023
@TicketmasterUK#ErasTour Ticketmaster sort yourselves out will ya when big superstars put big concerts on your ticket system is a bleeding joke after a half hour in the queue and I joined the queue early as well pic.twitter.com/cdpMxU7uzT
— ciarand78 (@ciarand78) July 10, 2023
After anxiously watching their queue number reduce, some Swifties reported being unceremoniously chucked out of the Ticketmaster site:
@TicketmasterCS seriously? joined queue at 11am & waited patiently for nearly an hour. Then when i get in, you time me out of my account & make me rejoin to the back of a 30k queue? @taylornation13 how are fans meant to attend without paying scalpers when TM do this? #ErasTourpic.twitter.com/yNgAGvPhUv
— Daniel Sweet (@DragMeToDaniel) July 10, 2023
finally managed to get back in the queue after being kicked when i’d selected tickets ???? #ErasTourpic.twitter.com/zlw7gAhuWR
— hannah louise ???? (@moodswingshan) July 10, 2023
Meanwhile on AXS, the only other site authorised to sell tickets, the decision had been made to not bother with queue numbers at all. Readers, this did not go down well:
Anybody in AXS with no numbers on their queue? #erastour
— neri (will get London tickets for Eras Tour!)????????✨ (@loverare13) July 10, 2023
I can feel my hair going grey from waiting in the axs queue I’m so stressed #ErasTour#TaylorSwiftpic.twitter.com/E9bYQOnIZD
— pol ???? (@YELLOWBRlCK) July 10, 2023
HUN is the queue even moving?! #ErasTourhttps://t.co/YzcG8k8Kfo
— louisevictoriaaaa (@LVshuter) July 10, 2023
People getting to the front of the queue meant the ticket prices were finally revealed. Cue frantic WhatsApps and savings accounts being raided…
PSA THESE ARE THE TICKET PRICES IN THE MIDNIGHTS PRESALE BESTIES!! #TSTheErasTour#ErasTourpic.twitter.com/msxcze4AA8
— when dawson falls in love (@dawsonelong) July 10, 2023
Nothing can rival the sheer joy – and relief – of being successful:
OM- and I cannot stress this enough - G! #ErasTourpic.twitter.com/EKpK417Jbb
— And I’m Victoria, Malcolm... ✌???????? (@husseybyname) July 10, 2023
thank u jesus #ErasTourpic.twitter.com/RmmgGL8tvw
— kt (@ktjanewalsh) July 10, 2023
14 year old me is SCREAMING. We are going to see @taylorswift13#ErasTour#TheErasTourpic.twitter.com/HnfJtJfsZF
— kimberley ➰ (@kimmmxo__) July 10, 2023
I SURVIVED THE GREAT WAR #ErasTour#TSErasTourpic.twitter.com/S2dv85tdtD
— leah (@leahrobinsxn_) July 10, 2023
Just got #ErasTour tickets on my first attempt... feeling invincible right now! pic.twitter.com/OKDW9cSDIp
— Dr Laura Flannigan (@LFlannigan17) July 10, 2023
The sinking feeling on seeing the pre-sale sold out, on the other hand…
Another casualty of the war
— Cooper (@TheJuanCooper) July 10, 2023
Wembley night 1 sold out on AXS#ErasTourpic.twitter.com/jnhvRhZzWu
Thanks to the (complicated) sale structure, fans have two more chances to buy tickets for the UK and Ireland tickets today, followed by at least nine others later this week.
We shake it off, we snack and we go again at 1. #ErasTour
— L (@loustoryshort) July 10, 2023
If you missed out today and feel dejected, the spare a thought for the people who didn’t get a pre-sale code in the first place:
How it feels watching the #ErasTour presale when I don’t have a code and have to brave general next week pic.twitter.com/RlHVYsqkQX
— Molly Edwards (@mollycaroline7) July 10, 2023
It’s going to be a long two weeks.