An Ottawa household has been left heartbroken after they bought tickets to Taylor Swift’s much-anticipated Eras Tour for his or her household and associates, spending greater than $22,000, solely to find they had been victims of a rip-off.
It was presupposed to be a weekend of sisterhood, bonding and magical music for Mel Keogh, her 15-year-old daughter Jordan and her family and friends at Swift’s last Toronto present on Nov. 23.
Keogh says her daughter and 5 associates had spent the final yr making bracelets and selecting their outfits.
“(It is) all we have been speaking about for over a yr,” Keogh mentioned. “They’re completely ecstatic. My daughter, I can converse to her particularly, is aware of each Taylor Swift tune, each phrase, each album, each period, the whole lot.”
However Keogh says a number of weeks in the past, she realized the tickets they booked final August had been by no means actual.
The 14 and 15-year-olds had been half of a big cohort of household, associates and neighbours who bought tickets collectively via a ticket dealer, who they are saying has now turned out to be a rip-off.
“To interrupt it to the women that we weren’t going – was horrendous,” Keogh mentioned whereas preventing again tears.
In all, 32 folks bought tickets collectively via the identical dealer, mentioned Patricia Keogh, Mel’s sister-in-law, with a complete lack of about $25,000. The household bought 28 of these tickets, with 4 tickets being bought by neighbours who misplaced out on $3,000.
Patricia says nothing was amiss when she purchased the tickets for the group final August. She had used the dealer many instances earlier than, she says, for each live shows and sporting occasions.
She says there had been affirmation codes and seat numbers all despatched to them, related because it had been prior to now. She says she thought they’d executed their due diligence.
“And that is actually upsetting that we let our household down,” she mentioned. “How may we have now not seen this? How did we get duped? We’re sensible folks.”
The household has filed a police report and contacted legal professionals however they are saying, it is not concerning the cash. Plans for a limo and motels and a as soon as in a lifetime live performance expertise is now gone for the household, says Patricia Keogh.
“It is gone, it is all gone.”
The Eras Tour is formally bought out via Ticketmaster and resale tickets on websites like StubHub are promoting for between $3,000 and $5,000 a ticket – out of attain for Melanie Keogh and her daughter.
The faux tickets had been bought to them for $788 every.
Nonetheless, Keogh says she searches for an opportunity as a result of she will’t shake off letting down the Swifties.
“I nonetheless hope there is a strategy to get them to the live performance,” she mentioned.
“I nonetheless hope.”
