Taylor Swift tickets.. help me avoid being scammed again?!

Another hopefully helpful FYI - you can't screenshot the tickets in AXS. It blanks it out automatically, you just get a black screen. So anyone sending you screenshots of the tickets as proof is bullshitting too. You can only screenshot the front page, not the tickets themselves.

@Sammysquiz I hope so. I'm secretly hoping the album will come with a couple of tickets tucked inside - but I'm pretty sure they won't.

It’s weird because I’ve been checking Ticketmaster for weeks, and it’s only now it’s coming up with the necessity to ‘unlock’, usually it just searches the resale and says there’s no availability. Something to do with the new album perhaps? Are there new codes being released for people who pre-ordered that?

The best way to sniff out the scammer with the tix is to say you’ll meet them in person to transfer the tickets on to your ticket master account.

OP just look at it logically. Everyone seems to want tickets. I have three of them but if for some reason I couldn't go I wouldn't need to have to try to sell them to strangers. I'd be able to sell them in a second if I mentioned outside the school gates I needed to get rid of three tickets (DDs teacher is looking for tickets and mentioned several staff also looking) or DH would have work colleagues wanting them so I'd easily pass them on to someone I know and trust and they know and trust me and I imagine it's the same with most people so all the online sellers will be scammers

I just saw the same. So how can people without a code get genuine resale tickets?

I understand it is difficult, perhaps you may have to miss out. Better that than being scammed again.

Taylor Swift I am sure will be performing for many years to come, barring ill health or tragedy.

I've just gone to Ticketmaster and some dates are still asking for an unlock code.

I just had a look on Ticketmaster and there's availability for eg Wembley but you have to unlock - where is the open access resale site?

Pound to a pinch of snuff the OP gets scamming DM's for people on this site now.

OP, read the article posted above - you are a scammers dream.

This would be a great opportunity to teach your kids about what's realistic. You haven't so far and it's cost you £500.

You are no different to millions of other families with Taylor Swift daft kids. I have never known anything like the popularity she has at the moment, even with Bros , Take That and One Direction! .

The best we did for our DC was to take them to one of those cinema screenings of the Eras tour when they got memorabilia and could sing along with their mates.

You sound like a scammers dream!

I think listening to TS songs at every waking moment when my daughter home forced me to do crazy things!

I completely understand and empathise @Id02242730 , I went through it 2 years ago trying to get tickets to see Billie Eilish. I was successful in the end though concert was in Amsterdam and we spent a small fortune. But I would do it all over again to see my dds' awe and unbridled pleasure at getting to see her live.

I hope you manage to get tickets. Fingers crossed for you x

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68834390

You don’t for the resale. The codes were for the original ticket sales, you don’t need a code for the resale tickets on AXS/Ticketmaster.

It disgraceful that Facebook don't do anything about it. Many of the scam posts are extremely similar so I don't believe with Facebooks technology they can't do anything.

I also don't understand why they aren't forced to do something about it. They are making life so easy for the scammers.

There are tons of fb scams. OP the person who you think scammed wasn’t probably the real scammer. Scammers can duplicate or hack profiles so they look real. Sorry this has happened to you!

I know it won’t help you get tickets, but do you have evidence on your phone of how long you had to wait to get through to their fraud department to alert them to what was happening.

if you do I would appeal against their decision not to help you and if necessary escalate to the Ombudsmen.

I had to wait two hours (with them repeatedly dropping the call) to speak to the Barclaycard fraud department earlier this week. That just isn’t acceptable if you know you are in the middle of being scammed and have no other way to stop what is going on. When I did eventually get through the lady dealing with my issue told me they have numerous layers of information on every single transaction and can easily identify IP addresses and details of the recipient.

It is easy for the Banks to decline to help but I think persistence and the involvement of the Ombudsmen might possibly help you to recover your money

I was literally thinking the same thing. You’re better staying at home mate

Out of interest where did the fraudster advertise the tickets?

Hmm you could try the Taylor swift Swap thread on Mumsnet because they are all genuine posters. 😜 NOT .. I keep posting on the thread telling people they are being stupid (I try and phrase it more nicely) if they think they aren't risking getting scammed. No one genuine is going to try and sell tickets to a random person when they could sell them back to ticket master for a profit.

Sorry, OP, I know it's not your fault but some people are very gullible. We get Taylor Swift tickets on our local Facebook pages all the time. I've not seen a real one yet. If anyone actually had tickets they wanted to sell they could and for some weird reason didn't want to use ticketmaster don't you think they would be able to find friends or colleagues to sell them too.

You can gat tickets on ticketmaster etc with some luck and with an awful lot of persistence.

Good luck OP.