Ticketmaster suspends Taylor Swift ticket sales set for Friday after chaotic early rollout
from the article:
"Ticketmaster announced Thursday afternoon that it was halting public ticket sales of Taylor Swift’s “Eras” tour on Friday due to “extraordinarily high demands on ticketing systems and insufficient remaining ticket inventory” to meet demand."
first off, calling off an onsale due to high demand isn't a thing. their business is literally to meet that demand, and TM constantly touts its supposedly unique ability to handle large onsales. buck up, TM, and deal with the surge. bring in temporary computing muscle if that's the issue.
second, "insufficient remaining ticket inventory"?? so they sold all the tickets during the presale? who effed up that one?? or, scenario #2: TM saw that demand from a limited portion of the market (those who got in on the presale) for a limited portion of the inventory (the fraction that was allotted to presales) was more than they could handle, so they bailed on facing off against the whole of the market for the larger portion of the inventory.
if scenario #2 is correct, there are still lots of tickets left. gee, i wonder what TM will do with a pile of the most in-demand tickets ever that need to be sold but they
won't "can't" sell them out the front door... hmmm.... i wonder...
