Look what you got him to do, ticket sellers.
Massachusetts dad Anthony Silva was forced to spend $21,000 so his daughter and friends could see a sold-out Taylor Swift concert because his original tickets never arrived, according to a report.
In November, Silva bought four tickets to Swift’s “The Era’s Tour” stop at Gillette Stadium on May 19 as a Christmas present for his 19-year-old daughter Katlyn.
The entire set purchased by StubHub cost Silva $1,800, but he was still empty-handed days before the show.
He decided to go through another ticketing site, where he was met with a whopping $21,000 – 11 times the total amount he paid.
“It’s Just Not Right” Silva told WCVB. “In my opinion, they shouldn’t wait until the previous day for the reseller to ship the tickets.”
StubHub, a third-party ticket exchange and reseller, has a policy that tickets are not shipped to the buyer until the day before the event, and alternative tickets are not available.
“About $21,000 for better seats, but of course you can see that’s setting me back a bit,” Silva told the outlet. “I think this is happening for no reason but because of the incompetence of a third party or StubHub.”
Silva, who had also hired a limousine for all this, toyed with Katlyn’s expense before telling her about the newly acquired tickets.
“We made a joke of them telling them yesterday, telling them that the tickets really are gone and the look on their faces that I never want to see again. One girl had a trembling lip. I won’t tell you who,” Silva said.
Katlyn was disappointed to find out that the tickets had not been delivered, which caused a mini fury over the fiasco.
“I went home slamming things, I was so angry, so disappointed because I’ve been looking forward to this for nine months,” she told the outlet.
Swift is set to spend three nights at Gillette Stadium, home of the NFL’s New England Patriots, where 200,000 fans attendance is expected.
Friday’s program welcomed over 60,000 people, according to the CBS.
Ticketmaster canceled Swift’s “The Era’s Tour” general sale sale in November, claiming demand was “historically unprecedented” during pre-sale events.
“Due to extremely high demands on ticketing systems and not enough tickets remaining to meet that demand, tomorrow’s Taylor Swift Public Sale | The Eras Tour has been cancelled,” the ticket distributor tweeted at the time.
In December, twenty-five Swift fans took legal action against Ticketmaster, suing the company for fraud and intentional misrepresentation after the fiasco.
Other Swift fans were similarly burned by a third-party ticketing site.
A Maryland family had to pay $2,100 when their tickets were not delivered to a concert in Philadelphia last weekend – up from an initial $700.
“I wanted Taylor Swift to be my first concert,” said 15-year-old Lyla Mahoney. says WTOP on the tickets her parents bought her from StubHub for Hanukkah “…I was so excited. I packed everything.
With postal wires