i literally feel like i got smacked by a train. i got tickets yesterday during the literal middle of my therapy appointment, my therapist sat there talking me down from an anxiety attack as i rushed to find decent seats and paid roughly 650$ for two lower bowl seats & ticket insurance, which i won’t lie, I don’t even know if I needed
i was on from 9:44 am until 2:33 pm. four hours and forty nine minutes. and that’s not counting my time struggling to log onto ticketmaster, trying to get the homepage to work, and struggling because the email i received said something different then what they posted on twitter. I woke up at 8:30 am, and began getting ready then. so, fuck. Let’s be generous and say five and a half hours just to get tickets.
then another 45 minutes just trying to calm down from the literal anxiety that i got because it only gave me 10 minutes to ‘hold’ those spots, and their processing of my credit card took almost 8 minutes straight.
& I was so nervous because there was no guarantee that actual fans were buying tickets; there was no communication from ticketmaster nor taylor. I had no idea going into it how much tickets were going to be, I was not told if a show was sold out, and I had absolutely no idea what ‘paused queue’ meant for me as a fan or buyer. I wasn’t able to get any VIP packages, not that i could find any real information on those btw: i had to find out through fan pages on twitter? Seriously, with the lack of communication & the lack of knowledge going in, my anxiety & excitement are the only reason I managed to even stick it out yesterday. I’m also lucky in that I didn’t have any plans yesterday either, and that my therapist was so accommodating because she knew how much it meant to me, and I’m lucky that I was not paying for the tickets alone, because there is no way I could’ve afforded it otherwise.
Anyway, take this and do what you want with it. This is mostly just me venting out the frustration, the anxiety, the disappointment, and coming out the other side with the expectation that the show better be worth all of this. Also, with the expectation that the swifties will find a way to tear down ticketmaster lol
i’m gonna go nap and recover now <3