To risk giving DD swift tickets for birthday without having any ???

[Numberalphablock]

Hi
I am probably being unreasonable 🤣🙈
DD turning 10 really wants Taylor swift tickets for her birthday.
birthday is very close to Xmas and as much as I tried I didn’t get tickets. Now my issue is the resale tickets are pricey. I would be able to buy resale tickets after Xmas financially but that would be after her birthday too.
with other kids to buy Xmas presents for and one birthday this month already paying that amount this month just isn’t going to happen.
is it too much of a risk to buy her like reveal tickets for her birthday and then find resale tickets later on ???
in guessing there will be resale tickets popping up.
I can’t get them additionally to other birthday presents because it would be completely unfair in the other children !

@OrigamiOwl i could not see them ? I tried and it just showed nothing 🤣

They are showing now but when you click to buy it asks for access code 😩😩😩

Hi - so a friend is in the situation that she wants to go on a different date so is selling hers to her friend/daughter and instead coming with me. Is this not allowed?

Not sure how I can see them and you can't! This was a out 5 minutes ago:

£795 Tickets. OMG!!!

Hey OP, I recommend checking AXS regularly, you might get lucky. I managed to get 2 tickets (for me and my DD) last week, £160 each.

We got tickets for a side view at £78 each last week. Dc will lose their minds as they know we really tried for the July dates and didn’t get them.

This is possibly the worst idea of all the bad ideas.

Some people in the US paid $4k for standing tickets.

I agree. A lot of people will be doing the same. Plus there will be people from other countries buying when they can't get hold of their own. I've seen threads on social media with people as far as US and Canada buying UK tickets and planning to fly over, because it actually works out cheaper than the resell prices there.

Missing the point probably, but why is everyone so obsessed with Taylor Swift? Is she really that good?

I saw these on Facebook recently, not sure if they have gone though or if they're even legit.

I'd worry massively about fake tickets.
There are so many scams about.

Regarding Ticketmaster, those are insane prices

How can that be an affordable or reasonable price?..

Scam. They are asking for direct message

@Fluffycloudsfloatinginthesky she would be lynched as she lives at a caravan park we stay at. But I suppose she could have been hacked. I was in the same boat as OP with Harry Styles tickets but I was too scared of being scammed that I didn't buy any eventually...and I certainly wouldn't have paid £600+.

I had never heard of Twickets before this post though, I'm after Liam Ghallager tickets for next year so thanks to whoever posted that. Perhaps worth keeping an eye on OP?

@itsallabitofamystery The ones I have seen look like hacked accounts, their posting history looks genuine but language used in the post doesn't tie up with the 'look' of the person.

I have heard that tickets ''are not transferrable'' anyway -so can't be sold on secondary market.

@Numberalphablock

Have you seen this:

https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/how-to-avoid-scams-when-buying-taylor-swift-tickets-an7cF0o6HFeL

Yes.

I think that you are far better off telling DD now that you cannot get tickets. At 10 she will be disappointed but will understand.
You could explain how much resale tix are, that you will try again on the resale market after Christmas. What does she want to do? Hold over birthday and Xmas presents and see? If you don't want to discuss the actual cost, you could say that more may become free nearer the date.

I can why you want to make her dream happen. But no. Anything could happen between now and then, that you need to spend money on. Also those tcmicketa can go for 500+ and shes 10, there are plenty of years ahead for her to go to concerts.

These tickets are ridiculously difficult to get hold of if not impossible at this point. Please don't promise your daughter this.

Someone on here a while back said to always try and buy from the venue direct, or at least from the venue's dedicated ticket seller, as apparently Ticketmaster is there to sell all the less desirable seats first, to make sure they get sold.

So if you go on Ticketmaster when a ticket sale opens and all you can see are tickets miles aways from the stage, you assume that's all that's left and buy them.

When actually the venue or their own ticket agency are selling all the decent tickets.

Try a make a wish foundatiion or similar
Write a personal story to the agent
Put your story in local paper

Don't do this. There is a very very high chance you won't get any.

I would say don’t do this incase you get stung by scouts who sell fake tickets and it’s all a shambles on the night. My son desperately wanted a whole Man U kit for Christmas but I’m a single mom whose working part time and he had the whole kit last year when me and his dad went halves. I can’t afford it this year to replace a new kit just cause the team have! 😂 so I’ve bought him the ‘training’ jacket (about £70-£80 I think!) and then some unofficial merch like water bottle, football, wooly hat, etc from Amazon. It’s not the same but I’m hoping it’ll do. Could you possibly by merch from the latest tour for her instead - although as I type this I think maybe it might upset her more that she got the merch and not the actual concert! Or is there another band/singer she likes that could be a sort of consultation prize? Or a spa day with treatments that cost about the same as the orginial Taylor tickets would have cost?