Home / News / Viral & Trending Godspeed to everyone navigating the nightmare of buying Taylor Swift tickets right now Catherine Powell / Stringer/@abiwilk_/Twitter Fans are begging Taylor Swift to intervene with Ticketmaster. By Cassandra Stone November 16, 2022 Catherine Powell / Stringer/@abiwilk_/Twitter Rectangle It shouldn’t be this hard to buy tickets to see a concert, but here we are. If you’re hoping to snag a seat for the Taylor Swift Eras Tour and you’re not a millionaire, you’re pretty much SOL—or so it seems, anyway. Pre-sales for a handful of dates for the tour began Tuesday, but infuriated Swifties are reporting that Ticketmaster has been crashing and freezing during the purchase phase. Customers have taken to social media to complain about Ticketmaster not loading or allowing them to access tickets, despite having a pre-sale code for verified fans. Related: Taylor Swift’s new song ‘Bigger Than The Whole Sky’ is helping moms process miscarriage Oh, and if you’re a Capital One cardholder and you thought you were going to be able to get your tickets on Tuesday (it’s me, hi, I’m the problem it’s me), you’re also SOL because the system crash means you have to wait until today, Wednesday, at 2 p.m. local time to try again. Ticketmaster told CNN Business that the “site is not down” and that “people are actively purchasing tickets.” Ticketmaster released a statement Tuesday afternoon on Twitter, writing that “there has been historically unprecedented demand with millions showing up” to buy tickets for Swift’s tour. It told customers still waiting in the virtual queue that it is moving and to “hang tight.” pic.twitter.com/JHhpZ8UlVy— Ticketmaster (@Ticketmaster) November 15, 2022 “Fans who have received a code to the TaylorSwiftTix Presale should login and access the queue through the link they received via text rather than entering through the Ticketmaster homepage,” the company said. “This will ensure an optimal shopping experience.” Basically, at this point, even if you’re “lucky” enough to be #2,456 in line, you have to be willing to sign over your life savings, your firstborn child, and give the Ticketmaster witch doctors a vial of your blood if you’re hoping to buy tickets. But you’re not alone! So that’s…something, I guess. Be gentle with the Taylor Swift fans in your life tonight. They've had a hard day.— Brian Mansfield (@brian_mansfield) November 15, 2022 i would like taylor swift herself to try to get tickets to her own show— brie 🌈🌙✨ (@bettykissitbttr) November 15, 2022 taylor swift walking onto stage with no one in the audience, because that ticketmaster queue never did move. pic.twitter.com/BEjNEB1G6N— sarah (Eras era!!) (@thisismenotryin) November 15, 2022 8 billion people in the world and every single one of them is ahead of me in the taylor swift ticketmaster queue apparently— shawty lynn (@HereComesShawty) November 15, 2022 what is joe biden’s plan to unpause the ticketmaster queue for taylor swift’s eras tour— kay (@slutforfeelings) November 15, 2022 swifties just discovered that taylor swift is a hypercapitalist whose #1 priority is making money and in fact not being their best friend— rawr (@lustforboobs) November 16, 2022 Daily reminder that Ticketmaster is a monopoly, it’s merger with LiveNation should never have been approved, and they need to be reigned in. Break them up.— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) November 15, 2022 So are @taylornation13 and @taylorswift13 going to address the @Ticketmaster debacle that was yesterday? Ride or die fans left ticketless, verified fans stuck at the end of the queue, constant errors, insane fees, etc. #Swifties deserve to at least hear a statement from them.— Down Bad for TTPD. (@NuuSunshine) November 16, 2022 The US leg of “The Eras Tour” begins March 18 in Arizona and wraps August 5 in Los Angeles. Maybe if we’re all lucky enough, we can stand in a nearby stadium parking lot for less than $500 and hear the soft echoes of all the more fortunate people living out our Swiftie dreams. Related: Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ is all of us right now If you need me, I’ll be playing the role of Pathetically Hopeful Capital One Cardholder/Crypt Keeper Refreshing Browser until 2 p.m. today until I give up and plan a big speech for my daughter about how Santa can’t guarantee concert tickets. May the odds be ever in your favor! Categories: Viral & Trending Related articles Celebrity News Taylor Swift is humbled by clubbing with her parents February 13, 2024 Celebrity News Katie Couric shares the moment she found out she’s gonna be a grandma—and it’s great December 18, 2023 News ‘This is equal custody’: Viral video captures heartbreaking co-parenting moment January 28, 2025 News Katy Perry keeps an unusual pregnancy keepsake next to iconic prop from fiancé Orlando Bloom’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ January 24, 2025 News Why 35 million people are obsessed with this dad and daughter dance party to ‘Despacito’ January 23, 2025