, who chairs the House Subcommittee of Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law, described Ticketmaster's wait times and fees as"the symptom of a larger problem."Rep. Bill Pascrell wasted no time weighing in on the Swift fiasco., reiterating comments he made on Tuesday."Break up the Live Nation-Ticketmaster monopoly."In its Thursday statement, Ticketmaster explained how it prepared for the pre-sale period, noting that 3.
"The staggering number of bot attacks as well as fans who didn't have invite codes drove unprecedented traffic on our site, resulting in 3.5 billion total system requests – 4x our previous peak," it said, adding that it slowed down some sales and pushed back others to stabilize its systems, resulting in longer wait times for some users.
It estimates that about 15% of interactions across the website experienced issues, which it said is"15% too many." But it also said a record-breaking number of fans were able to buy tickets: More than 2 million were sold on Tuesday for Swift's tour, the most ever for an artist in a single day. Ticketmaster acknowledged that in-demand sales pose technical challenges, and says that even if that were not the case, many fans would still be left without tickets.
"For example: based on the volume of traffic to our site, Taylor would need to perform over 900 stadium shows ," it said."That's a stadium show every single night for the next 2.5 years."
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The real question everyone should be asking is why the vast majority of tickets for Ticketmaster events end up in the secondary market.
You mean Taylor Swift found out that greedy technology companies lie about their capabilities?
I hope tickmaster gets this fixed before the Beyonce tickets go on sale.
Why anyone is interested in this no-talent hack is mind boggling 🤢🤮
stubhub should also be investigated for this tour for speculative ticketing/market manipulation by brokers pre-listing tickets brokers did not yet own, driving up the “tulip frenzy” and pulling out the rug after tickets were actually sold- illegal per stubhubs own policies.
Nevada and Arizona can't count ballots why should this be a surprise
Pearl Jam warned us in 1995.
You must be new here. That’s just monopolies work - by not working. See PGE4Me
While I don’t have a dog in this fight it does seem a good time to point out the obvious: Rich white guys always lie cheat and steal to get their way. Ticketmaster was never gonna tell her it might be problematic because they knew they’d never suffer any consequences for lying.
I wish Democrats weren't so fearful of nationalizing critical industries/markets.