#looking at the new La date the only sale is for verified fans

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Taylor should bring back the rep verified fan style prep and then use ticketstoday for the smaller group of fans and then like a general sale or something for the next tour

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Pokemon Day is here, and it seems the franchise is throwing everything it can at fans. From television updates to video game reveals, we have been given a lot to look forward to in the last 24 hours. That also includes a bonkers auction that's now underway featuring Pokemon's rarest trading card on the market. Yes, that is right. The 1998 Pikachu Illustrator card is back on the market. The much-coveted Pikachu collectible is now up for auction on eBay, and the starting bid proves how much money collectors will spend on a card this rare. According to eBay, the verified sale is happening thanks to Tomoya Ohno (Shangri-la Inc) as they are parting with pieces from their vast collection. The 1998 Pikachu Illustrator card is now up for auction, and the bid will close on March 6th. The collectible, which carries a PSA 8 grade, began bidding at $480,000 USD. And by the time of this article's release, the item has yet to be bid upon. Of course, there are other PSA-graded cards up for auction on eBay in celebration of Pokemon Day. You can find a number of first-edition holographic cards including Charizard, and there are plenty more to browse if you have a few hundred to spend. As for Ohno's ultra-rare trading card, fans will have to spend a lot more if they want to take it home. After all, the Pikachu Illustrator card is often called a 'holy grail' item for collectors. Only 41 winners were gifted these cards in Japan between 1997 and 1998. To date, 24 of these cards have been PSA graded, and the fate of the unaccounted ones is far from clear. As such, this card demands a lot of cash at any auction, and PSA 7 version of the card was sold on eBay for $375,000 previously.⚡️🍿🍿🍿👍🏼 #comiccon #spoilermagazine #news #losangeles #podcast #magazine #art #instagram #galaxy #film #tv #hollywood #feature #movies #fandom #graphicdesign #nyc #spoiler #comicconradio #comicbooks #pokemon #pokemoncards #auction #pikachu #collectibles (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpQI-BSpc2M/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Beyoncé tour sales are off to a smoother start. What does that mean for Ticketmaster?

February 7, 2023 "...presale is a lottery."

"Ticketmaster announced last week that it would be dividing cities into three groups, each with its own staggered registration deadlines and presale dates, in addition to using its Verified Fan system to try to minimize bots. (It ended up closing registration for the last two groups on Sunday, citing outsize demand.)

Ticketmaster itself sought to temper fans' expectations, explaining in advance how the ticketing process would work and warning that many would likely end up empty-handed because demand exceeded the number of available tickets by more than 800% for Group A cities alone.

"It is expected that many interested fans may not be able to get tickets because demand drastically exceeds supply," it cautioned on Friday.

Politics

The Senate's Ticketmaster hearing featured plenty of Taylor Swift puns and protester

And the company kept communication going as the first round of tickets for Group A — with cities including Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Las Vegas, Toronto and Washington, D.C. — went on sale on Monday."

Politics

The Senate's Ticketmaster hearing featured plenty of Taylor Swift puns and protest

"Carolyn Sloane, a labor economist at the University of California, Riverside — whose "Rockonomics" class is currently studying the Ticketmaster drama — says while Ticketmaster's approach to the Renaissance tour is a step in the right direction, these changes alone won't solve the problems we're seeing.

Politics

The Senate's Ticketmaster hearing featured plenty of Taylor Swift puns and protesters

Sloane tells NPR that external pressures like political oversight and the threat of enforcement are mirroring the kind of pressure that Ticketmaster (which controls more than 70% of the market for ticketing and live events) would face in a more competitive landscape, and that's forcing it to invest more in things like communication with customers.

But she says it's not realistic to think that there will be much change in the market without some sort of structural remedy (in the form of something like forced divestment or an updated consent decree from the U.S. Justice Department).

"Absent enforcement activity, you're probably just going to see some kind of status quo with how the ticketing market looks right now," Sloane says — adding that in a perfect world there would be less consolidation in all parts of the music industry, including streaming."

Sloane says every part of the music industry is "extremely consolidated," with the exception of music publishing, and she thinks that will continue to be an issue regardless of what happens with Ticketmaster.

"Plus there's only so much Ticketmaster can do to meet the outrageous demand for certain concerts, which she says can be explained in part by years of demand pent up during the pandemic and the fact that younger consumers are increasingly experience-driven.

But even if getting tickets for big-name performances continues to be high stakes and high stress, Sloane says there's reason for hope.

"People should get out there and see shows that are not just stadium shows," she says. "There's a lot of great theater shows and local venue shows that you can get tickets for and have that experience of going to a great show and maybe discovering some new music. So in that sense, there's always going to be stuff to go to. It might just be more expensive to go to the top 1% of performer shows."

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Stacey Bedford Visits UCR Rockonomics class with Dr. Carolyn M. Sloane

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