Swifties are suing Ticketmaster over presale mess

Swifties have taken Taylor Swift's advice to draw their cat eyes to kill a man. A group of Taylor Swift fans are trying to take down LiveNation, the company that sold tickets for Swift's tour.

Fans and artists are being forced to use its platform and secondary ticket exchange in order to buy and sell tickets, according to a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County. It claims that Ticketmaster deceived buyers in the way it promoted and distributed pre-sale codes, and that it failed to reveal that they had sent more codes than they could accommodate with tickets.

$2,500 per violation is the complaint's goal. 14 million people tried to purchase tickets to The Era Tour according to Greg Maffei. He estimated the number of people to fill the stadiums. If we assumed that only 10 million of those hits were legit, we'd still have to pay up to $25 billion.

The wait and frustrating errors that plagued the ticket buying process were talked about by Swifties. When I got to the next line, I was told to rejoin the queue. I was pushed back. Three times.

Barnett formed a limited liability company called Vigilante Legal to take on the mantle against the online ticket seller. Vigilante Legal acknowledged the lawsuit but did not involve it.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was interested in the ticketing mess and took to social media to voice her opinion. The chair and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust and Consumer Rights have decided to hold a Senate hearing on competition in the ticket industry. According to the New York Times, the Department of Justice was looking into Live Nation.

"America's most powerful rock band" Pearl Jam lost in court when they tried to take on Ticketmaster's monopoly in the 90's. A new generation has been changed.

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