Is it even possible to buy Taylor Swift Tickets

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I'm probably one of many millions after tickets for TS Eras Tour. Is there a secret to being able to hear if tickets become available? So many scams about, and I'm obviously not going to pay £900 a ticket through sites like viagogo.

Willing to travel. Would need 4 tickets.

What's the best way to be in with even a slight chance?? DD has cried so many tears over not seeing her, I at least want to tell her I've tried my best at getting tickets. Most of her friends went to the gig in Glasgow so now I've got terrible mum guilt

I'm so clueless

It seems next to impossible. I have a code for AXS but every time I check it says no tickets are available. I think the only way now is resale sites if you're desperate enough to spend a small fortune (I'm not) or possibly looking at dates elsewhere in Europe like pp's have said.

But I think you will be pushed to find 4 tickets - everyone I know who has managed to go has only secured 2.

Lots of 10 year olds are starting puberty and have all sorts of hormones going on, I'm surprised you don't know that being a teacher 🙄

When I was 10 I cried for days because my favourite band split up. It's completely normal for children that age to be upset/disappointed about something like this.

You don't fit Sir Keir's definition of a working family!

She never claimed to be, as far as I'm aware. Pack it in 🙄

Was it Take That? That was me also 🤣

Wow there are some real bastards on this thread 😆 And all TS threads I've seen. Which is sad, because Taylor herself seems like a nice woman, and there is real joy to be had being a part (tickets or no!) of such a big cultural moment especially as a teen. Something about it has tapped into the schoolgirl mean streaks many still harbour, don't worry op!

Back to the tickets.. the mum guilt is real here too. No tears, and I've managed the expectations since before Christmas so no expectation either. But the reality is she is now a huge fan, but barely noticed her when the tickets came out. If they were going on sale now I'd have done my best to get some. I accept that short of dropping a stupid amount of cash or spending hours and days AND getting incredibly lucky this ship has sailed now.

Love to your dd. Remind her that most adults have a story of childhood disappointment like this. Personally I've never really got over my friend going without me to see Jason Donovan in Joseph 😄 Also, I've reminded my dd that TS will tour again. And by then she will be old enough to go with whoever she wants - that seemed to please her!

It’s tough on the younger teens as the parent likely clueless and so is the child. Dh and dd 17 were all over this this time last year got codes both trying (as was everyone in dh law office). Some didn’t get them even then. So to say the night / month before “oh my child fancies going where can i get tickets “ seems pretty naive. Lesson learned for next time.

A friend got her Dd a ticket by networking another friends student Dds student friend had a ticket she could no longer use and sold it to them for no profit. Was a single ticket though and an older teen who could tag along with another group though weren’t sitting together. Chance of 4 that way pretty slim.

@malachitegreen you are right we wouldn’t be friends and I am not sure I would be impressed if you were my children’s teacher either - an emotional response is normal and perfectly fine it is simply crying - tantrums or demands are not and the two shouldn’t be confused

i agree it is hard for the younger ones or the ones who are new to liking her due to the age - we went at the weekend and the planning on going started with a midnights sale code back in October 2022 and then beyond that signing up for other codes last year

I would have a sleepover with some friends watch the film and do friendship bracelets.

It’s bad luck though dd2 was 10 when we went to the Reputation tour it was incredible. There were loads of empty seats! Shows how stratospheric she’s gone since then.

I really want tickets (no did as an excuse I’ve just loved TS since I was 15 and unaccountably missed sorting everything last year in the haze of having a new baby).

I’m checking axs every day as there’s a rumour you don’t need a code for their resale tickets but there’s never any on there to test the theory.

I’ve got a horrible feeling I’m going to cave and pay the inflated prices on viagogo or stubhub, I would hate getting all dressed up and getting turned away but I do live in London so as long as we got the money back for the tickets (which it looks from the websites guarantees) we wouldn’t actually lose money on getting there/accommodation etc. But every time I’ve got close to buying them I’ve backed out at the last minute - it’s pretty close to a months mortgage for two tickets.

Ignore people saying dd shouldn’t be disappointed - I’m disappointed I probably won’t get to go and I’m 34! If I was ten I would probably have a little cry about it too.

I miss the days when you just rocked up to Our Price and asked for tickets and got them then and there. Nothing is fun anymore.

I tried to get Paul McCartney tickets last week but by the time I'd waited in the virtual queue they only had £600 ones left. Thanks but no thanks Macca.

How a 10 year old behaves 'at school' and at home will, of course be very different. One is a safe emotional space and the other a place where rightly they are expected to regulate behaviour if they are NT. Your point is irrelevant to the OP.

I am sure you run a great, calm classroom where kids feel safe. My DCs are really fortunate to have had good teachers like this. But if my child when at home wanted to be a bit teary about missing out on a TS experience - or any other; it could be the local panto that many friends were going to and yakking about - well, that would be OK too.

Bit of a con really when you think about it. Figure head for girls apparently and creaming as much coin out of them as possible.

That’s not fair. The tickets were standard price pretty reasonable commensurate with other artists / theatre. We paid well under £400 for 4. She can’t help being so popular she can’t do more shows than she is doing.

Wow, who hurt you so much you feel the need to be so very unpleasant to someone you’ve never met?

@gamerchick although it was advertised as such you didn't have to buy the album. You could just register. Point was you had to do it 18 months ago.

I knew plenty of teenagers and even grown women who sobbed over Take That splitting up! Let alone preteens.

Sounds like they are a bit bitter because they can't afford to go. What an utter dickhead...!

Not true. I bought my tickets face value from someone I met on a vetted social media group. We had a long facetime call and she couldn’t go to the concert anymore for exam reasons. She is a Student based in the US and just wanted her tickets to go to someone with a child who would enjoy the gig. I paid face value, she transferred and we went to the concert.

Just saying not everyone is a scammer but obviously you can’t join some facebook site called Taylor SWift tickets and post an ISO as you will get 30 scammers reply to you within 1 minute.

You could also get outfits, make bracelets and go to a Boxpark event at wembley. Costs £10 and is on every day that she performs in August. Apparently super fun with lots of swifties and glitter stations etc.

I so agree. I went to so many amazing concerts in London that were £30 and less. Now you have to register for codes or fanclubs and then have to go online and exactly 10am to find that the only tickets lefr are £500 each plus a ton of fees.

tears over this indicate a limited emotional range, not a normal one.

Have a fun weekend in Amsterdam or Vienna (where she is playing 3 times each), do some sightseeing etc and even if you pay tickets on third party sites it will be cheaper and more likely than trying for London. Lots of Paris, Stockholm and Lyon tickets went back on sale for face value and less a few days before the shows.