A Massachusetts dad said this week that he was forced to spend $21,000 on 4 tickets to a Taylor Swift concert, after those he bought on StubHub last yr for his daughter as a Christmas present never arrived, based on a report.
Anthony Silva told WCVB-TV he originally spent around $1,800 for the 4 tickets last November on StubHub, a ticket reseller site, however the ducats were never delivered, and the corporate told him substitute seats weren’t available.
“That’s just not right,” Silva told the station, adding that he decided to shell out $21,000 on one other reseller site for the “Look What You Made Me Do” singer’s Saturday show that his daughter and her friends had their hearts set on at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts.
He said while StubHub plans to refund his original purchase, he doesn’t think resellers should wait “until the day before for the tickets to be sent out.”
Fox News Digital has reached out to StubHub for comment.
The dad, who even got a limousine for the big day, added that he played a joke on his daughter and friends this week after he secured tickets, telling them he couldn’t get latest ones, “and the look on their faces I never wish to see again. It was tough, it was tough. One girl, I won’t inform you who, had a quivering lip.”
His daughter Katlyn Silva, 19, told the station she was “so indignant” and “upset” in regards to the ticket mishap “’cause I used to be looking forward to this for nine months.”
She said when she came upon that they had seats she began jumping on her parents, thanking them.
Friend Alyssa Camara said she was “on the brink of cry” until she came upon Silva had gotten them “higher tickets.”
“I used to be so excited. I used to be like freaking out!” she added.
Silva said the upper price paid for higher seats but “in fact, as you possibly can see, this puts me back slightly bit, and I believe it’s for no reason but for incompetence through the third party or StubHub.”
Tickets for Swift’s Eras Tour have been notoriously hard to get and a botched presale on Ticketmaster last yr highlighted each her popularity and the issues with ticket-selling sites.
Ticketmaster ended its general sale for the tour last November, due to “extraordinarily high demand” and tickets were listed on resale sites for exorbitant prices.
The Ticketmaster fiasco even sparked lawsuits from fans and a Congressional hearing.
In Massachusetts, lawmakers have introduced the “Taylor Swift Bill” that might aim to makes online ticket sales more transparent.
