Massachusetts dad pays $21,000 for last-minute tickets to Taylor Swift

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by Nicholas McIntyre

May 21, 2023 | 1:48 a.m

Look what I made him do, ticket sellers.

Massachusetts dad Anthony Silva was forced to spend $21,000 for his daughter and friends to see a sold-out Taylor Swift concert because his original tickets never arrived, according to a report.

In November, Silva bought four tickets for Swift’s “The Era’s Tour” leg at Gillette Stadium on May 19 as a Christmas gift for his 19-year-old daughter, Kaitlyn.

The complete set, purchased through StubHub, cost Silva $1,800, but he was still empty-handed days before the show.

He chose to go to a different ticket site where he was met with the whopping $21,000 price tag – 11 times the total amount he had paid.

“this is not true ,” Silva told WCVB. “In my opinion, they should not wait until the day before tickets are sent by the seller.”

StubHub, a third party ticket exchange and reseller, has a policy whereby tickets are not sent to the purchaser until after the day before the event and replacement tickets are not available.

“Almost $21,000, for better seats but of course you can see that sets me back quite a bit,” Silva told the outlet. “I think it is for no reason other than incompetence through the third party or through StubHub.”

Silva, who also rented a limousine for the all-inclusive experience, was having fun at Catelynn’s expense before telling her about the newly acquired tickets.

“We played a prank on them by telling them yesterday, telling them the tickets were already gone, and the look on their faces I never want to see again. One girl had a trembling lip,” said Silva.

Catelyn is disappointed to discover the tickets have not been delivered, causing a small tantrum over the fiasco.

She told the outlet, “I came home playing stuff, I was so angry, so disappointed because I had been looking forward to this for nine months.”

Swift is set to spend three nights at Gillette Stadium, home of the NFL’s New England Patriots, where 200,000 fans are packed. He is expected to attend.

The Friday show received more than 60,000 people. According to CBS.

Ticketmaster canceled Swift’s “The Era’s Tour” general audience sale in November, claiming “historically unprecedented” demand for pre-sale events.

“Due to extremely high demands on ticketing systems and insufficient stock of tickets remaining to meet this demand, TOMORROW ON SALE FOR Taylor Swift | Eras Tour CANCELED,” the ticket company tweeted at the time.

Twenty-five Swift fans took legal action against Ticketmaster in December, suing the company for fraud and intentional misrepresentation in the wake of the fiasco.

Likewise, other Swift fans have been burned by the third-party ticketing site.

A Maryland family had to shell out $2,100 when their tickets to a concert last weekend in Philadelphia weren’t delivered — compared to $700 initially paid.

“I wanted Taylor Swift to be my first party,” said 15-year-old Leila Mahoney. We say WTOP About the tickets her parents got from StubHub for Hanukkah “…. I was so excited. Everything was packed. “

with wire