Ticketmaster Cancels Taylor Tix Public Sale
• Ticketmaster has canceled the public ticket on-sale for Taylor Swift‘s insanely popular “The Eras Tour” that was set to happen on Friday, Nov. 18.
The company cited both “extraordinarily high demands on ticketing systems” and “insufficient remaining ticket inventory” as the reasons it was pulling the plug on the general sale. On noon PT Thursday Ticketmaster broke the bad news on Twitter in a post that reads, “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’s ‘The Eras Tour’ has been cancelled.”
As Variety reports, “Ticketmaster’s decision to cancel the public on-sale follows a week of outrage involving ‘The Eras Tour.’ The Verified Fan pre-sale that took place on Nov. 15 descended into chaos after Ticketmaster’s website crashed because of the fan demand, while the fans who did get into the queue had to wait for over two hours to get a chance at purchasing tickets. Other fans were sent to a wait list.
“The Eras Tour” ended up breaking a Ticketmaster record as over two million tickets were sold for Swift’s shows on Nov. 15, the most tickets ever sold for an artist in a single day. Ticketmaster has not yet announced a new date when the general public sale will happen.
