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Though it's been sold out for many months, a few lucky fans say they have been able to get tickets to the first two nights of Swift's Eras Tour residency in Toronto this week, without having to pay sky-high resale prices.
Fans online are posting about how Ticketmaster has made their wildest dreams come true.
Ahead of Swift's first performance in the city on Nov. 14, fans say the ticket agent opened up the queues for new batches of tickets.
TikTok user Liz Park posted that she was able to successfully get tickets through the new Ticketmaster drop — though it took until 35 minutes before Swift went onstage for them to get to her. Park shared that she got the tickets for face value, meaning she avoided the sky-high resale tickets floating around.
But it wasn't without effort. In a video about how she got the tickets, Park explains that she logged into the Ticketmaster queue at around 4:10 p.m. Nov. 14 using her mom's 'verified fan' registration. She says there were around 10,000 people in the queue when she joined, and around 5,000 an hour later.
She eventually got in, only to be redirected to a sold-out page. She refreshed and joined the queue again, this time with 13k people in front of her. Shortly after 7 p.m. she accessed tickets, and after persevering through several error notices she was finally able to purchase — just in time to show up at Rogers Centre as Swift took the stage.
@lizpark does anyone want a story time or tips on how we made this happen? 🥹🫶#erastour #taylorswift #toronto #taylorswifterastour #torontoerastour #lastminutetickets #ticketmaster
Toronto fitness instructor Sam Clarke also posted that she got last minute tickets through Ticketmaster on Nov. 14. She initially tried to join the queue using her own account but found her access was blocked. She had success, though, using the account of a friend who already had tickets for the same night and was previously verified. Others on TikTok have been theorizing that in order to access the last minute drops, fans need to have originally signed-up for those dates when tickets first went on sale.
Clarke says she had an advantage because she was watching the Ticketmaster site when the queue opened — after teaching a Taylor Swift-themed spin class that morning — instead of waiting for news to spread through social media that queues had opened up. She was number 525 in line and secured floor seat tickets for $600 each.
@sam_clarkey how i got last minute floor tickets to taylor swift N1 Toronto — through Ticketmaster #etastour #lastminutetickets
Other fans haven't been as lucky. Some having been turning re-sale sites like Stubhub and Seatgeek, where tickets are selling for thousands of dollars (in some cases, tens of thousands) There's also always a risk that tickets might not be real when purchasing outside of Ticketmaster. The Reddit page for Eras Tour Tickets is full of fans trying to get a second opinion on whether they're about to be scammed.
With five performances left to go, Ticketmaster might continue to release new batches of tickets sporadically. Fans who registered with Ticketmaster when tickets first went on sale should keep an eye on the site — and their text messages — for potential drops. For everyone else, there's no shortage of Swift events happening throughout the city.
The Eras Tour continues in Toronto this weekend on Nov. 15 and 16, followed by three more dates from Nov. 21-23.
