‘Pisses Me Off’: Taylor Swift Slams Ticketmaster for Sales Bungle as Reports Swirl of DOJ Probe

Taylor Swift arrives at the MTV Video Music Awards at the Prudential Center on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022, in Newark, N.J.Singer Taylor Swift dug into ticket-selling giant Ticketmaster on Friday after the company bailed on selling tickets to her forthcoming music tour. Meanwhile, rumors are swirling that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) has opened a new probe of Ticketmaster’s parent company, Live Nation Entertainment.On Thursday, Ticketmaster suddenly announced that because of “extraordinarily high demands on ticketing systems and insufficient remaining ticket inventory to meet that demand,” sales for concerts on Swift’s “The Eras” tour would be canceled. The company did not say when they might be rescheduled for.The decision came after a mixture of unexpectedly large numbers of fans and bot attacks combined to overload the ticket pre-sale event earlier that week, which was intended to be restricted to “Verified Fans” with a special code.Swift responded to Ticketmaster’s decision with grace in a Friday statement posted to her Instagram* account.