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Ticketek ‘glitch’ appears to re-sell fan’s $659 ticket for Taylor Swift concert — “They said, ‘someone else has it, we don’t know who, we can’t check or track who has your ticket’”::A Taylor Swift fan believed her VIP ticket was 'stolen' from her account by Ticketek after an apparent system 'glitch'.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

$659 for a one night gig....

You can get a week pass to a festival for cheaper....

A fool and his money are easily parted

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

The irony in that typo is palpable. Some real KenM energy

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I guarantee that there is entertainment that you spend money on that other people find foolish.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sure, but chances are, relative to much of the world, you are actually pretty wealthy and most people would scoff at you spending even 1/10th of that on a single event. Remember, there is much of the world where the median yearly income is under 1k a year.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I think the "full" here is the one who can't fathom that others value things differently from themself.

Also, her money*. It's in the summary

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The average ticket price for her tour 2023 was 1088$

Whoever pays prices like this is completely lost

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I got drawn in the lottery to be able to buy tickets for athletic events at the Olympics in Paris. For the events I liked to see, I had the choice of a 860 and 980 euro ticket… so with the two of us, that would be as much as a week long holiday to the Canaries. So we passed. We’re gonna watch the marathon, which is free :-)