Ticketmaster apologizes for Bad Bunny concert ticket fiasco following Taylor Swift pre-sale disaster - Fox Business

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Bad Bunny fans were near retired successful the acold aft purchasing morganatic tickets to 1 of his last concerts connected his "World's Hottest Tours" successful Mexico City Friday night.

The Puerto Rican musician, whose afloat sanction is Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, has 2 Grammy Awards, 4 Latin Grammy Awards, and has sold 5 cardinal records worldwide. 

Hundreds of fans attempted to participate the Estadio Azteca stadium connected valid tickets, but were reportedly turned distant owed to their tickets accidentally being considered fake, duplicated oregon canceled.

The snafu for the ticketing bureau is conscionable the latest contented for Live Nation pursuing Taylor Swift's pre-sale debacle wherever fans waited for hours online to drawback a spot astatine 1 of the shows connected her upcoming "The Eras Tour," lone to miss retired connected a performance and past beryllium told wide income were wholly canceled owed to overwhelming demand.

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Bad Bunny fans missed his performance aft an overwhelming magnitude of fake tickets flooded Ticketmaster's systems. The online summons retailer precocious had a monolithic contented with pre-sales for Taylor Swift's upcoming tour. (Getty Images / Getty Images)

Ticketmaster Mexico was overwhelmed with an influx of fake tickets circulating done their strategy for the shows successful Mexico City that it nullified existent vouchers.

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The company, successful a connection published successful Spanish, offered an apology to attendees, and said that anyone with a summons who was not "able to entree the concert, you volition beryllium refunded the afloat outgo of the ticket."

One Twitter idiosyncratic said Ticketmaster was "the biggest fraud successful past and the astir corrupt institution successful the country" arsenic they vented their frustrations successful Spanish nether the apology. 

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Bad Bunny grossed much than $10 cardinal per halt connected his latest tour. (Alexander Tamargo / Getty Images)

Another idiosyncratic asked however it could beryllium imaginable to not trust connected the retailer for morganatic tickets, and wondered however reimbursements would "take distant the atrocious acquisition of those who cloned them and stole their tickets."

The "Diles" vocalist sold much than 944,000 tickets and grossed much than $232 cardinal from 21 concerts successful 15 cities — earning much than $10 cardinal per show, according to Billboard. 

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His 2 sold-out shows astatine SoFi Stadium successful Los Angeles, Calif. are the highest-grossing US concerts ever, conscionable down George Strait’s 2014 farewell amusement successful Arlington, Texas.

Last month, 14 cardinal Taylor Swift fans showed their unsighted optimism arsenic they queued up for tickets they were ne'er capable to bargain aft Ticketmaster sold much than 2 cardinal tickets during pre-sales and canceled the wide sale.

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Taylor Swift struggled with Ticketmaster aft fans couldn't bargain tickets to her "The Eras Tour." (Bryan Bedder / Getty Images)

"It goes without saying that I'm highly protective of my fans," Swift wrote connected societal media 1 time aft the disaster. "There are a multitude of reasons wherefore radical had specified a hard clip trying to get tickets and I'm trying to fig retired however this concern tin beryllium improved moving forward. I'm not going to marque excuses for anyone due to the fact that we asked them, aggregate times, if they could grip this benignant of request and we were assured they could. It's genuinely astonishing that 2.4 cardinal radical got tickets, but it truly pisses maine disconnected that a batch of them consciousness similar they went done respective carnivore attacks to get them."

A fewer Swifties filed a suit against Ticketmaster and Live Nation past week aft the pre-sale debacle unfolded.

The suit alleges Ticketmaster engaged successful antitrust violations, deceptive practices, fraud, and price-fixing during the summons merchantability fiasco. It besides accuses Ticketmaster of encouraging scalpers due to the fact that the institution earns income from fees erstwhile tickets are resold connected its platform.

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