TikToker ‘accidentally’ spends $10k on Taylor Swift tickets amid fan frenzy
The Australian fan has revealed the simple mistake that cost her an eye-watering sum to secure tickets to Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour.
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An Australian woman has revealed she accidentally spent $10,000 on Taylor Swift tickets ahead of the superstar’s Eras Tour.
The pop sensation’s Australian leg of her tour will begin on February 16 and run to February 26.
She will perform her almost three hour set at Sydney’s Accord Stadium and Melbourne’s MCG to thousands of screaming fans.
When tickets went on sale this week millions of fans battled to score one of the 630,000 tickets released, setting a new national record for online demand.
Georgia Rose logged on on Monday for the American Express VIP package pre-sale, with tickets ranging in price from $349.90 to $1249.90.
The dedicated Swiftie was hoping to get her and her sister the most expensive package, which includes a reserved seated floor ticket, special merchandise, and perks such as priority check-in and early venue entry.
But she made one crucial error which saw her dad’s credit card charged $10,000.
“I am a moron,” she said in a TikTok video.
She explained that her desperation for tickets combined with the chaos of the morning meant she didn’t realise how many tickets she had in her basket when she went to pay.
“If you tried for tickets or got tickets in the AMEX pre-sale you know that it was a crazy morning,” Ms Rose said.
“The site crashed, AMEX released a separate link, but only on Facebook and Twitter, and like just before the tickets were going on sale at 10am.”
The fan said the process was so stressful that she was “literally shaking”, having descended into “full drama queen vibes”.
“I had four windows open, I was not expecting to get tickets in any of them,” she said.
“It hits 10am, nothing’s happening, it was literally just that cursed Ticketek lounge ticking over and over and over.”
The Ticketek lounge is a digital waiting room potential purchasers must stay in before they are able to buy available tickets.
“10.04am comes around and tickets ended up showing up in all of them so I was assessing my tickets and the Ticketek timer is counting down,” she said.
“It gets to two minutes, I’m like okay, I’m going to go with those tickets, (closed) all the other windows.
“At this point I’m not signed into Ticketek, I’ve crossed out of all the windows that I don’t want the tickets from.”
Ms Rose said she was only looking to purchase two tickets, which is what she thought was in her cart.
She was wrong.
“So I go through the next steps, write in the CVV number, and then click check out and as the wheel is spinning to process the order I look in the background and it says $10,000,” she said.
“I froze, my heart literally stopped.
“Next minute I’m hyperventilating, literally sobbing, (and) my dad messages me and says, ‘Hey, did you get in through the lounge, um, someone charged $10,000 to Ticketek on the AMEX account’.”
In the end Ms Rose was able to sell the additional tickets to friends and family members who missed out in the pre-sale.
“Now we have amazing tickets right on the diamond,” she said of the ordeal.
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