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Massachusetts dad spent $21,000 so his daughter and friends can attend Taylor Swift concert
The purchase happened after his original tickets never arrived.
A Massachusetts dad spent $21,000 so his daughter and friends could see Taylor Swift’s sold-out concert.
Anthony Silva told WCBV-TV that he originally bought four tickets last November on StubHub for around $1,800. However, the tickets never arrived, with the ticket reseller telling him replacement seats weren’t available.
“That’s just not right,” Silva told the station. “In my opinion, they should not wait until the day before for the tickets to be sent out by the re-seller.”
As a result, Silva opted to go through a different ticket site so that his daughter and friends could watch Swift at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts. However, it ended up costing him $21,000 - 11 times more than the total amount he initially paid.
“Approximately $21,000, for better seats but of course you can see this puts me back a little bit,” Silva told the outlet. “I think it’s for no reason but for incompetence through the third party or through StubHub.”
He even played a trick on his daughter
Silva, who also rented a limousine for the occasion, explained that he also played a joke and his daughter after securing tickets and telling them he couldn’t get new ones.
“We played a joke on them telling them yesterday, telling them the tickets were really gone, and the look on their faces I never want to see again. One girl had a quivering lip. I won’t tell you who,” he said.
His daughter, Katlyn, even threw a tantrum when she found out she believed she wasn’t going to the show.
“I went home slamming stuff, I was so angry, so disappointed because I was looking forward to this for nine months,” she explained.
Her friend, Alyssa Camara, was even “getting ready to cry” until she found out they had gotten even better tickets.
“I was so excited. I was like freaking out!” she added.
Tickets for Swift’s ‘Eras Tour’ have been hard to come by, especially after Ticketmaster canceled the general public on-sale in November after claiming “historically unprecedented” demand at is presale events.
“Due to extraordinarily high demands on ticketing systems and insufficient remaining ticket inventory to meet that demand, tomorrow’s public on-sale for Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour has been cancelled,” the ticket company tweeted at the time.
This prompted 25 fans to take legal action against Ticketmaster, suing the company for fraud and intentional misrepresentation following the fiasco.