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Oct 30, 2009 6:57 pm US/Central
Taylor Swift Xcel Show Sold Out In Minutes
ST. PAUL (WCCO) ―
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The 2010 Fearless Tour, starring Taylor Swift, with special guests Kellie Pickler and Gloriana, will hit the stage at Saint Paul's Xcel Energy Center at 7 p.m., May 7.
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Tickets for Taylor Swift's May 7 show at the Xcel Energy Center sold out Friday morning in a matter of minutes. Country fans were singing the Taylor blues and wondering what happened to all those tickets.
Lisa Overman was ready right at 10 a.m. to snatch up Taylor Swift tickets, but she and her two friends seemed to be shut out in just seconds.
"We were very surprised, especially since we had three of us all online right at 10 o'clock trying to get tickets and there was nothing," said Taylor Swift fan Lisa Overman.
So what happened? Was it ticket brokers, now that it's legal here to sell above face value? Not necessarily.
"I was on Ticketmaster right when it went on sale and I didn't get a ticket. We had eight people in our office trying it, we got one single," said Ticket King co-owner Michael Nowakowski. "We don't have any secret way of getting tickets, unfortunately. We buy tickets just like the fans do."
It turns out shows like this typically have blocks of tickets: some for presales for fan clubs, which, incidentally, also sold out fast. Some for radio stations, suite holders and promoters. Thousands of seats can be lost for stage design. All that may leave a small chunk of the house for general sales and in this case, it sold fast.
With the change in the scalping law, everyday buyers know that they can resell what they don't want for a profit, and that also drains the ticket supply.
"I just think it's so frustrating. I mean I don't know what else we could do to actually get tickets," Overman said.
Taylor Swift's tour directed Ticketmaster to put a seven-day delay on all orders to make sure they all complied with the six-ticket-per-order limit.
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