Lucky Taylor Swift fan nabs 2 tickets in Vancouver for $16.50 each — but there’s a catch

Just a few fortunate Taylor Swift followers in Vancouver managed to seize seats for the most well liked ticket on the town on Monday — the pop star’s final three reveals of her Eras Tour—  for $16.50 every.

Provided that tickets to the record-breaking tour are being resold for tens of hundreds of {dollars}, one fan who scooped two low-cost tickets — one for herself and one for her grandmother —  only a week earlier than the concert events referred to as it a “loopy adrenaline rush.”

The catch? They’re all behind the stage with subsequent to no view.

However for Eme Naumann, a type of fortunate Swifties, simply being in B.C. Place to listen to one of many final concert events of Swift’s Eras Tour is sufficient. 

“We’re sitting not fairly behind the stage, however virtually, however we’re within the constructing and overjoyed to only have the ability to hear it if nothing else,” Naumann instructed CBC Information.

If she’s actually fortunate, Naumann says she could possibly catch Swift on the massive display, however she’s not banking on it.

Naumann says that she hopes followers in her part are among the many most devoted Swifties, given they “aren’t going for the Instagram picture.”

“Even if you cannot see something, you are still going to listen to, you are still going to have the ability to dance, commerce bracelets, and the environment at her concert events is simply such a optimistic and welcoming house,” she stated.

Naumann says an “adrenaline rush” got here with realizing she was in a position to purchase tickets on Monday, given how so many followers have complained of scalpers snapping up tickets earlier than precise followers do.

On-line listings present that tickets in Naumann’s part at the moment are being bought for upwards of $1,800.

“It’s kind of of survivor’s guilt in a means of, like, I do know there’s individuals who actually need to be there and who’re going to finish up paying these excessive costs,” the Swiftie stated.

Naumann is recommending that fellow Taylor Swift followers preserve an eye fixed out on TikTok, Discord and X accounts, which monitor when tickets to the highly-anticipated concert events are launched.

The Vancouver dates that shut out Swift’s two-year world tour come after six sold-out concert events at Toronto’s Roger’s Centre, which spanned two weeks and concluded Saturday.

Greater than 150,000 Swifties are anticipated to attend B.C. Place over the three Taylor Swift reveals from Dec. 6 to eight. The Eras Tour has touched down on 5 continents and could have clocked almost 150 performances by the point it is over.