It is insane lol. My sister missed out on the first round of tickets due to Ticketmaster's glitches but they offered people chances to get more and they got to name the price, she ended up getting two tickets for $200 each that other people were buying for $15K each.
...because people are dumb enough to validate scalpers. Leaving the WalMart today I saw the first panhandlers in years at the lot entrance, where they used to stand at the exit side. They're never locals and people who drive here and park in the lot somewhere, You can find these people's clan if you look. The local police started arresting and processing them, which stopped the problem. On the way out I was behind a few cars and the light was green. Well the idiot in front of me stopped, and it wasn't because the person was blocking the road out in front of them. I started going around them and then they started going. The idiots were going to validate the person and give them something, which is the worst thing you can do. I saw the religious bumper sticker on their car and thought you idiots, you're just validating this nonsense and getting it going again if you stop and give to them
@@billg7205met a homeless guy on a grayhound bus once. Dude had about 20k in cash. Says he's makes about 36 or so from Thanksgiving to Xmas and just lives off of it. This was in a small town too that he was doing it in.
@@louistournas120 Everyone else gets it including you. It's not "Christian" to be validating those people by funding them. They're just inviting those people to return and create uncomfortable and potentially worse situations for the rest of us.
X showed a lot of honor by giving back to victims. I'm sad he got caught up in this scam. Be careful when working online. If something looks shady, it probably is.
No way he didn’t fucking know. That shit didn’t make any business sense. You’re just going to handle my money and I’ll pay you a percentage just don’t ask a lot of questions 🙄🙄
Scarcity and really wanting something will make you do that. During the chip shortage people well overpaid for graphics cards for their PCs; same idea for Swift tickets.
As a Nigerian, am disappointed at my brothers and sisters scamming people, yes the country is hard but we can channel this out scamming skills into something productive.
@@chiefobi4341 Don't call them "your brothers and sisters" mate, reject such people from your society, make them feel they are not part of your country, as they work hard to build a bad image for Nigeria. Do you think many Germans would associate themselves with Hitler ... no, as the nazis those scammers are just scum.
It’s so sad that there are so many dishonest people who take advantage of people and that so many honest people aren’t trusted and get really offended if you ask for proof of their honesty
@@PennyWise-eu9nz I wouldn’t be able to sleep if I took advantage of people like that but as my Grandmother would say God Bless You Child as she firmly believed that everyone is a child of God
I heard people paying 10 20 grand for these tickets. I understand people love music so do I. But I would never pay a life changing amount of money for a ticket.
I feel like it's kind of awful that people have that kind of money and that's what they spend it on, or they're teaching their kids that that's a good use of money. Although it's all relative, I have more stuff than someone living in poverty might think I would need.
@@sarahberkner yeah true someone poor might not think you need something’s you have and I’m fine someone spending their money how they please I like to just like anyone else. But in saying that most of these people don’t have that kind of money I mean it’s called the one percent for a reason. These people are going into debt for a concert and most are doing it to say they went instead of actually enjoying it. It’s like people going to cochela they’re not doing it for the fun of it they’re doing it to make others jealous.
@@afriend6286 Watch the very next video uploaded after this. He is promoting the mystery box undelivered mail scam for quick buck. Doesn't even reveal he is sponsored(we know he is). There's no such thing as easy money. Edit: He deleted that video, due to all the negative feedback he received... let's see what happens next.. will he adress his wrong doing and apologize, or will he pretend nothing ever happened.
There is a phrase of "There's a sucker born every minute". Scamming will always be a thing, just have to get better at the techniques (I'm not advocating for scamming but explaining why scams are still a thing), not only that as newer kids get online, and are too hard headed to listen to the adults, you can scam newer kids with older techniques (I give it 10 years before NFTs are popular again lol)
@@Keith03820 "As a American I know who are scammers and hacked accounts" ==It is easy, you tell them to get on the webcam and you do a chat. That will tell you if it is a hacked account.
Your videos are so amazing, eye opening. Not everyone knows what goes on behind scenes and you do a great job showing them. This is a perfect balance of educational and entertainment content!
This only shows how FB is a trash platform. They allow these scams to happen but ban people left and right if they try to report felonies. META is a dying company.
Props to X for really trying to get out of the shady business, that’s not terribly common these days. Also loved how you really leaned into using as many Taylor Swift lyrics as possible 😂 well done.
Yeah, I was like totally sus of him to begin with. Like so many of them just straight up lie to keep going. So refreshing to see one of the few people with a legit conscious say no to the scammers!
Something similar to this happened to me in 2018, except at first, I was accepting payments for tarot and astrological readings for a reader overseas, then it turned into accepting payments for building materials. I eventually started getting messages demanding their money back and I found out that he was doing a rental scam and having the potential renters send the money to me. I immediately refunded their money and blocked the scammer. Then I closed my bank account and opened a new one.
The only way to ever stop ticket scalping is to sell the tickets themselves at these ridiculous prices. It's impossible to stop scalping unless they take your ID at check out and compare that ID to the person entering the venue or something ridiculous like that.
if we all had an implant i our necks , this wouldnt happen shes doing a world tour how can they be so hard tp get wheh the 1st thing people do is try to sell them ?
@@stigmaoftherose personalized/named tickets, at checkout you fill in your legal name, this name will be on the ticket. Easiest way to stop this mess. But Ticketmaster of course makes big money of reselling (Resale)… what business wouldn’t sell the same product twice…
@@stigmaoftheroseThese ticket sellers take your proof of identification, as well as payment information (credit card/debit cards) as you register with them.
I feel bad for kids whose parents will spend that kind of money for them, they're going to be surprised when things are no longer handed to them on a silver platter and they don't know how to manage your finances (I'm 28 lol but I wasn't spoiled rotten). Before Covid I went to a free concert and a Christmas concert for $70, both by well-known Christian groups, and also worked security at several concerts so I got to enjoy the music for free. And then Wicked (the traveling broadway show) 2 years ago was about $80. So not $20, but much closer to that than $10,000.
Another terrific video showing more of how scammers operate & manipulate their mules & victims. Loved your editing to include Taylor's music clips! Thanks Ben 💜
It could happen to anyone, but not everyone is going to pay that much for tickets, and being desperate about getting tickets to a show is a problem. A first world problem.
X - your honesty and actions will not go unnoticed. It takes a lot to allow someone access into your accounts. Surely you will be rewarded for doing the right thing.
Thank you for calling this out! I wanted to go to another concert this summer and they are pulling this same scam with that artist too smh. Scammers are buying up all the tickets then reselling them for ridiculous prices on fb & instagram smh. They announced the tour and two days later several cities were already sold out but surprise surprise, the scammers were under the artists comments reselling tickets for those exact cities and ppl were falling for it!!🤦🏾♀️
All this mess could be easily fixed, with personalized/named tickets, at checkout you fill in your legal name, this name will be on the ticket. Easiest way to stop this mess. Ticketmaster even already has personalized tickets! But artists have to want it too…
That's how the Statue Of Liberty tickets go. To go to the crown you have to buy tickets months in advance and you have to put your name on the ticket when buying them so that scalpers can't just sell them to anyone.
@@anuvette you clearly misread or misunderstood. You don’t have to show your id at purchase, or submit it to some website. You only show it at the entrance to the human checking your ticket. To see if the name matches.
The evil part of me is glad that they got scammed Seriously 500 dollars !!!! For a ticket Yeah you don't deserve that money because you are not responsible adult
The consumer used to hold all the power for the price of goods/services - "The Power of the Purse", and then we lost that most awesome power when the well-to-do guy next door said he'd pay any price, even the most ridiculous price, and the seller never regarded the consumer as in control ever again.
I’d understand hundreds of dollars if the artist was actually good but Taylor swift is pop garbage. Never understand thousands.. and how an artist can even justify thinking they’re worth that much per ticket.
I'm scambaiting someone right now, they're harmless to me. It's a romance scam that I have 0% chance of falling for and I'm not going to send them any money obviously.
Blame the bots and scalpers who use these bots. Ticketmaster and other companies who sell tickets to concerts should up their game against these bots and scalpers.
I had a chance to see Paula Abdul in concert and do a meet and greet before the show. The total package would cost $650.00 per ticket. I said, "Forget it." Nobody on this planet is worth it for me to pay $650.00 to meet them for a few minutes.
if it was me. I think I would rather risk the messages happening & tell them I am changing my account payment info & blocking you in X days & what ever happens, happens. The end. I would not want to keep accepting $ knowing it is a scam & having proof & keep getting pushed around. Yet I am glad you could help him.
Zelle is VERY clear on the app and their website that your must NOT use their service to buy and sell with strangers. They practically scream it at you
Maybe not these ticket scams, but if you’re dumb enough to fall for all the other ridiculous scams then you’ll ignore those warnings if the scammer tells you to!
These scams are popping up basically every time you mention “tickets” on social media. For any musician really, but with the Taylor Swift tickets mess they have found gold, unfortunately 😢
@AnDr3w066 Scalpers and scammers only exist because people pay thousands for tickets. This whole situation would not have occurred if people were more financially responsible. This is not to excuse low-lifes who scam and scalp, but if we show just a little restraint in our purchasing decisions we can very quickly stop that entire shady industry.
Online tickets can be handy for reselling, but it also opens the door to scams like this. I went to a concert last week where I didn't have the ticket until three days beforehand, and it was only via my phone app. It worked out okay, but it was unnerving to only have the _promise_ of a ticket for several months.
I got scammed with baseball tickets before, the tickets were to a Phillies game, one of the semi finals games before the World Cup. I was 21 when this took place, I bought the tickets online from a guy, I met him to pick up the tickets, I got to the gate to go in & one of the tickets had been canceled, apparently he sold them to me then printed out new copies & used them to get in himself (at the time I didn’t know this was something you could do), I showed all proof to the stadium, they let my mom in free for her birthday as they felt bad, then when we got to our seats the staff had me identify the guy & they kicked both him & his friend out with no re-entry, even if they were to buy other tickets. All in all I appreciated what the stadium did for us but it still put a damper on her birthday. I will NEVER buy tickets for anything from an individual ever again.
Same thing happened tona lot of people who are looking for Oogie Boogie Bash tickets at Disney's California Adventure. They joined a few Facebook groups and all the admins on those pages are scammers. They promise tickets, steal your money, and then block you from the page.
When i went to concerts, they cost $12-$16!! I'm sorry, but people are crazy to spend so much money on any singer!! But I'm not a Taylor Swift fan and I really don't get all the hype.
One thing i've realized about a lot of these facebook scammers and hackers, is they never change a certain thing. I'm not going to say what it is just in case they are watching. But, iykyk, and i know that PG knows because he talked about it in a video, but its so small that it's often overlooked.
If facebook took responsibility and helped people to quickly reclaim there accounts most of these scams would be short lived Facebook are a greedy self interested company. If you provide a product take responsibility
True. Their system is real bad. I have reported stolen Facebook accounts of people I have known through Facebook for different companies in my Province, and Facebook does nothing but look at the hacked profile page and say it looks fine, and they see nothing against TOS. It is ridiculous, and Facebook has become a very well known haven for scammers. It takes them a VERY long time to get caught, and by then the scammer can convince a victim to go off of Facebook and talk via mobile app or text or Google Chat. It is all very common. I remember the first Facebook account I reported was pretending to be the USA Government offering government grants during the 2020-2021 years, and the photo and name was taken from the FBI website from the contacts page. Reporting the page did nothing, so as a Canadian I actually found myself having to contact the USA FBI, which was crazy. Facebook just does not seem to care. They just are only interested in how much money they get from ads on their platform. What they say and do are two different things.
In my opinion ticket master is still to blame for this. They royaly screwed up the initial sale and all of this could have been prevented with a staggered sale and linking rhe tickets to your identity like big music festivals do which almost entirely removes the 2nd hand market of these ticket touts and scammers
I want to know why the Taylor Swift team didn't take advantage of the face value resale option. It seems like they also contributed to this issue because they didn't opt in.
Every one has people they're fans of. Also if you earn $100 k or $200 k spending a thousand on a ticket is reasonable. Plus you get to meet fellow fans.
Although I will never understand the desperation in getting any tickets for any concerts (nothing against Taylor Swift), Kudos to you for bringing all of this to the awareness of the population
Unfortunately, this is nothing new. While it's human nature to want what's popular, scarce or unavailable, what your friends (or online "friends") got, FOMO, etc., for some odd psychological reason, a subset of people get extremely desperate about such things. They'll go to incredible lengths and do shockingly risky or even immoral things to get them. I'm old enough to remember the Cabbage Patch Kids craze, and later, the Beanie Babies and Elmo crazes. More people than you would ever dare think would trample their own mother to get one of these meaningless things. Frickin' dolls! So, am I surprised when this happens during the Taylor Swift craze? Unfortunately, no. What's really sad is that the ticketing companies could solve (or at least greatly decrease) these problems. But since it doesn't affect their bottom lines - and in many cases, it enhances it - they do nothing other than make useless token gestures.
Great job Mr Ben! I'd also like to point out that 2 step verification on your social media is very important, I have had several attacks on mine, and the 2 step saves me
Sadly I have always felt that Facebook enforcing real names being used is not helping as scammers use fake names and real people are getting their names used along with info from posts they post and last name of close family members to have enough info to put in for a "lost password" and hack accounts easily.
Honestly, I was paying around £5-£10 through the 90's too. I don't know how anyone can even afford these prices. I paid £80 to see Rush on their last UK tour and I thought that was insane.
@@time2132 Not entirely true nor a valid comparison. Wasn't uncommon before the industrial crash for people in the 70s without college degrees to make 30k+ working in industrial facilities. If you can get a job like that today, it will likely be more specialized and skilled, and likely not pay much more. The middle class has been being destroyed ever since then
I was looking for a job the other day. It wasn't for your series I would have been scammed. Thanks for making this content. Actually it was kind of funny. Once I realized what it was. It's interesting how a scammer will continue to push you to click a link or sign up with them even after you've told them you have zero interest. They often out themselves when they feel like they're not going to win but it's funny when they try and recover to continue the scam anyway
The amount of people who are putting the attention on the victims here in the comments is embarassing. No one deserves to be scammed, whether it's old people losing their savings or teenage girls spending their own cash to see a concert. Whether you approve or not the way they spend their money is absolutely irrelevant in this situation.
😂😂😂😂😂😂. The way you read that Nigerian pigin got me rolling on the floor.😂😂Lol . I am a Nigerian and in my country Nigeria 🇳🇬, we do not support fraud.
Thanks scammer for doing this. i support you on this. go go go, keep observe with this young generation. we need you help too keep scammer keep growing at same time you can help this channel grow
I think Taylor Swift missed a real opportunity to protect her fans here by not taking advantage of the programme offered by Ticketmaster that prevented sellers from reselling the tickets higher than face value.
From what I understand the performer gets blocks of tickets for free to give out or sell and many music artists sell to the brokers to get even more $$. They're in on the act. I'm not sure if Swift does it she's so crazy rich to begin with.
Do you honestly think that she is concerned about PR?!? All she has to do is post about her new boyfriend or recent breakup and millions of mindless girls, of all ages, with be throwing money at her. What does she care about what Ticketmaster does!
Ben, I once had a class with you! I am also a local musician. If you ever read this, you might consider looking into some of the scams around small time musicians. I have encountered quite a few anytime I post a song with hashtags on IG, Twitter, Etc. and they get pretty elaborate from fake record labels/executives to random “wealthy” people asking to write a song for their daughters birthday.
Two kinds of scammers in this situation the people saying they have resell and don't and then the people who do have resale and are charging stupid prices for them both are equally messed up
I mean, at least Kiss actually good music lol (Despite you being scammed in thinking it was a farewell tour when they've gone on tour many times after lol)
@@nostalgicumbry3279 hahaha yes you are right. But at least I got to say goodbye to the original members on that tour. The other farewell tours after that are just filled with scabs. 😄
time was you queued at a ticket office just buy from ticket master shes doing aa WORLD tour its not Pink Floyds last 4 songs ,theres too many tickets to start with
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That someone is willing to pay 10k or more for a ticket is bejond me...
Yep the world is effed!
Theres families (including me and my daughter) going to foodbanks and then there's people buying tickets for thousands...
Please tell me those weren't real girls crying over tickets.tell me you just pull stock video of girls crying.
It is insane lol. My sister missed out on the first round of tickets due to Ticketmaster's glitches but they offered people chances to get more and they got to name the price, she ended up getting two tickets for $200 each that other people were buying for $15K each.
Whatever makes them happy it's there money not yours they can spend it on what they want
I have seen it with sport events ..2 hours before it starts a guy offer 1 ticket x 4 time more than cost and he gets it..😲
Reselling tickets has always been a warm bed for scammers.
...because people are dumb enough to validate scalpers. Leaving the WalMart today I saw the first panhandlers in years at the lot entrance, where they used to stand at the exit side. They're never locals and people who drive here and park in the lot somewhere, You can find these people's clan if you look. The local police started arresting and processing them, which stopped the problem. On the way out I was behind a few cars and the light was green. Well the idiot in front of me stopped, and it wasn't because the person was blocking the road out in front of them. I started going around them and then they started going. The idiots were going to validate the person and give them something, which is the worst thing you can do. I saw the religious bumper sticker on their car and thought you idiots, you're just validating this nonsense and getting it going again if you stop and give to them
@@billg7205met a homeless guy on a grayhound bus once. Dude had about 20k in cash. Says he's makes about 36 or so from Thanksgiving to Xmas and just lives off of it. This was in a small town too that he was doing it in.
I have teh exact same globe as in his room....
@@billg7205 "I saw the religious bumper sticker on their car and thought you idiots, you're just validating this nonsense"
==What?
@@louistournas120 Everyone else gets it including you. It's not "Christian" to be validating those people by funding them. They're just inviting those people to return and create uncomfortable and potentially worse situations for the rest of us.
X showed a lot of honor by giving back to victims. I'm sad he got caught up in this scam. Be careful when working online. If something looks shady, it probably is.
"He got caught up" NO he got caught. He knew it was a scam.
At least he realized his mistake and stopped participating in the scam.
No way he didn’t fucking know. That shit didn’t make any business sense. You’re just going to handle my money and I’ll pay you a percentage just don’t ask a lot of questions 🙄🙄
ITS TWITTER
@@nedflanders4158doubtful if he did he would of ignored people asking for money back and probably make a fake telegram
Could never understand how desperate people can get to cough up well over $1,000 for a ticket to a concert.
I was turned into HR at my job when i said i didnt like taylor swift
But it's Taylor Swift tickets /S
Scarcity and really wanting something will make you do that. During the chip shortage people well overpaid for graphics cards for their PCs; same idea for Swift tickets.
@@ClassicGuy2004 Bruh that's messed up. In my eyes she is no different from a regular human being.
@@ClassicGuy2004
She’s beyond overrated and her fangirls are NPCs.
As a Nigerian, am disappointed at my brothers and sisters scamming people, yes the country is hard but we can channel this out scamming skills into something productive.
Why does no ogen go kill your papa trigger your people so much?
True, tons of Nigeria are extremely smart an intelligent. They could help businesses or help people.
@@oldmanballs Ogun is god, so when we say Ogun go kill your papa, this means that the god Ogun will kill your father it’s just our own swear word 😂😂
@@chiefobi4341Be the change.. yeah it's hard.. I know from my own experience, not even regarding scamming...
@@chiefobi4341 Don't call them "your brothers and sisters" mate, reject such people from your society, make them feel they are not part of your country, as they work hard to build a bad image for Nigeria. Do you think many Germans would associate themselves with Hitler ... no, as the nazis those scammers are just scum.
It’s so sad that there are so many dishonest people who take advantage of people and that so many honest people aren’t trusted and get really offended if you ask for proof of their honesty
@@PennyWise-eu9nz
I wouldn’t be able to sleep if I took advantage of people like that but as my Grandmother would say
God Bless You Child as she firmly believed that everyone is a child of God
Well people simp thats what happens
I mean Ticketmaster themselves is a giant scam, but a legal scam
haha. there are so many of these "legal scams" nowadays
At least you get a ticket after paying way too much for it.
How??
I been tryna make it out the hood so on my TH-cam channel i do food reviews while I’m high cx
As far as I am aware Ticketmaster is a legitimate business. I don't think they go around scamming people even tho ticket prices are sky-high!
I'm still trying to wrap my head around why there's so many people being overly obsessed with a single celebrity.
It's pathetic.she dgaf about her fans
she does, otherwise she wouldnt thank them, make merch @@jameshollister8294
i think, for me, shes relatable, and i feel like i can relate
lol I mean you can also say the same thing to MJ during the 80s, the beatles during the 60s, and sinatra in the 40s.
Stan culture.
I heard people paying 10 20 grand for these tickets. I understand people love music so do I. But I would never pay a life changing amount of money for a ticket.
I feel like it's kind of awful that people have that kind of money and that's what they spend it on, or they're teaching their kids that that's a good use of money.
Although it's all relative, I have more stuff than someone living in poverty might think I would need.
@@sarahberkner yeah true someone poor might not think you need something’s you have and I’m fine someone spending their money how they please I like to just like anyone else. But in saying that most of these people don’t have that kind of money I mean it’s called the one percent for a reason. These people are going into debt for a concert and most are doing it to say they went instead of actually enjoying it. It’s like people going to cochela they’re not doing it for the fun of it they’re doing it to make others jealous.
🤣"Na ogun go kill your papa" Best line ever
Much credit to X. Takes a lot to realize you are in that position, and then to do something if anything about it. Respect.
You’re a good man. We need more people like you to help innocent people on the internet.
PG should join the X-Men.
Sadly on his new video he started promoting a scam on his latest video for quick buck.
@@harshnemesis Who?? X?
@@harshnemesisuh no he didnt
@@afriend6286 Watch the very next video uploaded after this. He is promoting the mystery box undelivered mail scam for quick buck. Doesn't even reveal he is sponsored(we know he is). There's no such thing as easy money.
Edit: He deleted that video, due to all the negative feedback he received... let's see what happens next.. will he adress his wrong doing and apologize, or will he pretend nothing ever happened.
as a Nigerian, this is one of the funniest videos i’ve ever watched, these guys never run out of formats😂😂
There is a phrase of "There's a sucker born every minute". Scamming will always be a thing, just have to get better at the techniques (I'm not advocating for scamming but explaining why scams are still a thing), not only that as newer kids get online, and are too hard headed to listen to the adults, you can scam newer kids with older techniques (I give it 10 years before NFTs are popular again lol)
@@nostalgicumbry3279 true!
As a American I know who are scammers and hacked accounts
No be small thing, Na Ogun go kill, the guy just dissappear like osuofia
@@Keith03820 "As a American I know who are scammers and hacked accounts"
==It is easy, you tell them to get on the webcam and you do a chat. That will tell you if it is a hacked account.
Your videos are so amazing, eye opening. Not everyone knows what goes on behind scenes and you do a great job showing them. This is a perfect balance of educational and entertainment content!
This only shows how FB is a trash platform. They allow these scams to happen but ban people left and right if they try to report felonies. META is a dying company.
Someone paying $10,000 for a ticket to a concert with a 30-something year-old woman who sings songs for teenyboppers is mind-boggling.
It means they have more money than they have brains.
"X" sounds like he's practiced that excuse in the mirror a bunch of times...knew it was a scam but kept "innocently" laundering money...👍🏼🥴🤣🤣🤣
Damn, people really freak out about TS huh? 🙄
This is when having the majority of your favorite musicians being dead comes in handy
I wouldn't even pay 4-5 figures to see them on their "I've been brought back from the dead" tour.
Props to X for really trying to get out of the shady business, that’s not terribly common these days. Also loved how you really leaned into using as many Taylor Swift lyrics as possible 😂 well done.
Yeah, I was like totally sus of him to begin with. Like so many of them just straight up lie to keep going. So refreshing to see one of the few people with a legit conscious say no to the scammers!
This video came at a convenient time because my friend recently bought Taylor Swift tickets off a X user and I always thought it was a scam.
I love being a member. Getting early access to your videos is the best!
highly recommend for everyone.
Thanks for being here!
@@PleasantGreen please do a video about discord?
Justanothergamer did video where he responded to link saying he had upset terms of service and such
Something similar to this happened to me in 2018, except at first, I was accepting payments for tarot and astrological readings for a reader overseas, then it turned into accepting payments for building materials. I eventually started getting messages demanding their money back and I found out that he was doing a rental scam and having the potential renters send the money to me. I immediately refunded their money and blocked the scammer. Then I closed my bank account and opened a new one.
Reselling tickets for such high price should be illegal, its a mess
The only way to ever stop ticket scalping is to sell the tickets themselves at these ridiculous prices. It's impossible to stop scalping unless they take your ID at check out and compare that ID to the person entering the venue or something ridiculous like that.
if we all had an implant i our necks , this wouldnt happen
shes doing a world tour how can they be so hard tp get wheh the 1st thing people do is try to sell them ?
You own the ticket you set the price. They set them high because people pay it.
@@stigmaoftherose personalized/named tickets, at checkout you fill in your legal name, this name will be on the ticket. Easiest way to stop this mess. But Ticketmaster of course makes big money of reselling (Resale)… what business wouldn’t sell the same product twice…
@@stigmaoftheroseThese ticket sellers take your proof of identification, as well as payment information (credit card/debit cards) as you register with them.
I remember when I was a kid you'd go to a concert for $20. Now it's $20K?? I feel so bad for these kids.
I have a Fictional Band called Cake 😢 Cream and Cake Cream tickets are $25. 😏
I feel bad for kids whose parents will spend that kind of money for them, they're going to be surprised when things are no longer handed to them on a silver platter and they don't know how to manage your finances (I'm 28 lol but I wasn't spoiled rotten).
Before Covid I went to a free concert and a Christmas concert for $70, both by well-known Christian groups, and also worked security at several concerts so I got to enjoy the music for free. And then Wicked (the traveling broadway show) 2 years ago was about $80. So not $20, but much closer to that than $10,000.
Another terrific video showing more of how scammers operate & manipulate their mules & victims. Loved your editing to include Taylor's music clips! Thanks Ben 💜
That last message about: "it happens to the best of us" it's so true. In moments of desperation, it can happen to anyone.
It could happen to anyone, but not everyone is going to pay that much for tickets, and being desperate about getting tickets to a show is a problem. A first world problem.
there are so many people in the world that there is most-likely someone that has fallen for each type of scam out there
X - your honesty and actions will not go unnoticed. It takes a lot to allow someone access into your accounts. Surely you will be rewarded for doing the right thing.
I call out scammers on FB all the time…but it’s like whack-a-mole!
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Thank you for calling this out! I wanted to go to another concert this summer and they are pulling this same scam with that artist too smh. Scammers are buying up all the tickets then reselling them for ridiculous prices on fb & instagram smh. They announced the tour and two days later several cities were already sold out but surprise surprise, the scammers were under the artists comments reselling tickets for those exact cities and ppl were falling for it!!🤦🏾♀️
I love how you knew their threat was related to a Nigerian deity.
All this mess could be easily fixed, with personalized/named tickets, at checkout you fill in your legal name, this name will be on the ticket. Easiest way to stop this mess.
Ticketmaster even already has personalized tickets! But artists have to want it too…
Yeah, after all this I don't think very much of Taylor Swift anymore.
@@athenatanyimin4035you would have to pay me to listen to crappy music like this
That's how the Statue Of Liberty tickets go. To go to the crown you have to buy tickets months in advance and you have to put your name on the ticket when buying them so that scalpers can't just sell them to anyone.
Idk I'd rather not have to show my id to buy a concert ticket
@@anuvette you clearly misread or misunderstood. You don’t have to show your id at purchase, or submit it to some website.
You only show it at the entrance to the human checking your ticket. To see if the name matches.
I love how you cover a wide arrange of topics so well pleasant! Youre one of the best. Keep it up
Thanks you are great helping people aware of scams !
I love watching him..
13:54 the most iconic sound effect on the Pleasant Green channel
OK Ben, you went crazy with the puns in this one
Your doing great work Pleasant Green ❤❤❤
"There is no such thing as fast money. Fast money comes with consequences. Always." - X
These ticket prices are a scam themselves 😂 Thanks for all you do Pleasant Green!!!
I wouldn't pay a dime for any of these performers or any over priced sports tickets!
The evil part of me is glad that they got scammed
Seriously 500 dollars !!!! For a ticket
Yeah you don't deserve that money because you are not responsible adult
i mean, it is definitely an experience. i agree with you though, spending a crap load of money to attend a show is quite overboard
The consumer used to hold all the power for the price of goods/services - "The Power of the Purse", and then we lost that most awesome power when the well-to-do guy next door said he'd pay any price, even the most ridiculous price, and the seller never regarded the consumer as in control ever again.
Taylor swift is the real scammer. Just to a local show who isn’t a multi billionaire piece of shit.
@@abd-animation-22your morals are lacking heavily. Get help
While scamming is bad, imagine worshipping a person so much that you would spend hundreds or thousands of dollars just to see that said person..
Complete NPCs.
I’d understand hundreds of dollars if the artist was actually good but Taylor swift is pop garbage. Never understand thousands.. and how an artist can even justify thinking they’re worth that much per ticket.
@@basharalbutseggs8056how good someone is hard to objectively say. That’s the issue the arts. One man’s garbage is another man’s treasure.
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I totally agree about Taylor, she’s talentless and sounds garbage even with the autotune.
@@basharalbutseggs8056agree. So overrated.
Scammers are never harmless.
I'm scambaiting someone right now, they're harmless to me. It's a romance scam that I have 0% chance of falling for and I'm not going to send them any money obviously.
Blame the bots and scalpers who use these bots. Ticketmaster and other companies who sell tickets to concerts should up their game against these bots and scalpers.
Ticketmaster has been caught telling their select resellers to use bots. It's all built into the system.
Can’t believe people actually cry over an expensive ticket to just see another human being? Ridiculous!
I had a chance to see Paula Abdul in concert and do a meet and greet before the show. The total package would cost $650.00 per ticket. I said, "Forget it." Nobody on this planet is worth it for me to pay $650.00 to meet them for a few minutes.
Pleasant Green being a Taylor Swift fan is something I should've expected, but did not.
Could have been someone close to him that is a fan?
if it was me. I think I would rather risk the messages happening & tell them I am changing my account payment info & blocking you in X days & what ever happens, happens. The end. I would not want to keep accepting $ knowing it is a scam & having proof & keep getting pushed around. Yet I am glad you could help him.
Thanks for educating us about this scam 💯💯
This needs way more likes and views!
Love his videos.
Zelle is VERY clear on the app and their website that your must NOT use their service to buy and sell with strangers. They practically scream it at you
And they don't have a financial motive for allowing fraud over their platform unlike Venmo.
Western Union also warns about sending money overseas to people you have never met in person, but people still send scammers money.
Maybe not these ticket scams, but if you’re dumb enough to fall for all the other ridiculous scams then you’ll ignore those warnings if the scammer tells you to!
i love how you expose these maggots, keep the good work you help people every day
You’re not even allowed to sell tickets on fb. My listings get auto flagged every time
Your videos are always informative, but I especially liked the format of this one. It left like a mini documentary.
Great video. Thanks for what you do.
These scams are popping up basically every time you mention “tickets” on social media. For any musician really, but with the Taylor Swift tickets mess they have found gold, unfortunately 😢
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I pay for TH-cam premium so I don't see why I should sit through any ads.
Sponsorblock my friend :D
@@thisperson5294 Ads and Sponsors are different
Just a small disclaimer. I don't hate or disagree with Sponsors or ads I just want to give more options to go to the sponsor or Skip pass it
@@thisperson5294 I just use an adblocker. Oh dear that'll get me kicked off. Like I care, YT comments are getting more banal every day.
Scammers suck, but I also don't have a ton of sympathy for people paying thousands for tickets to a pop concert.
Then your morals are broken and you need help
@AnDr3w066 Scalpers and scammers only exist because people pay thousands for tickets. This whole situation would not have occurred if people were more financially responsible.
This is not to excuse low-lifes who scam and scalp, but if we show just a little restraint in our purchasing decisions we can very quickly stop that entire shady industry.
I love the interviews.
They were all good sports
Online tickets can be handy for reselling, but it also opens the door to scams like this. I went to a concert last week where I didn't have the ticket until three days beforehand, and it was only via my phone app. It worked out okay, but it was unnerving to only have the _promise_ of a ticket for several months.
I got scammed with baseball tickets before, the tickets were to a Phillies game, one of the semi finals games before the World Cup. I was 21 when this took place, I bought the tickets online from a guy, I met him to pick up the tickets, I got to the gate to go in & one of the tickets had been canceled, apparently he sold them to me then printed out new copies & used them to get in himself (at the time I didn’t know this was something you could do), I showed all proof to the stadium, they let my mom in free for her birthday as they felt bad, then when we got to our seats the staff had me identify the guy & they kicked both him & his friend out with no re-entry, even if they were to buy other tickets. All in all I appreciated what the stadium did for us but it still put a damper on her birthday. I will NEVER buy tickets for anything from an individual ever again.
Glad the Stadium did the right thing.
You should make a video about VPN company scams. Like the ones you sometimes use as sponsors.
the TS buns had me in tears. They didn't drop on my guitar though 🎸🎸
I'm not sure rich kids over paying for tickets is a scam
That's just natural selection
cry that you're broke and people can afford more expensive things unlike YOU!
If I killed someone who murdered someone else a few weeks ago, it would still be murder. Why? Who the victim is doesn't make it better.
Same thing happened tona lot of people who are looking for Oogie Boogie Bash tickets at Disney's California Adventure. They joined a few Facebook groups and all the admins on those pages are scammers. They promise tickets, steal your money, and then block you from the page.
Oh wow that is another one that would be nice if @PleasantGreen checked out.
Wouldn't go to taylor swift for free
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You couldn’t pay me to go! Lol
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When i went to concerts, they cost $12-$16!! I'm sorry, but people are crazy to spend so much money on any singer!!
But I'm not a Taylor Swift fan and I really don't get all the hype.
One thing i've realized about a lot of these facebook scammers and hackers, is they never change a certain thing. I'm not going to say what it is just in case they are watching. But, iykyk, and i know that PG knows because he talked about it in a video, but its so small that it's often overlooked.
I love that X refunded the money, he's a good guy 😊
If facebook took responsibility and helped people to quickly reclaim there accounts most of these scams would be short lived
Facebook are a greedy self interested company. If you provide a product take responsibility
True. Their system is real bad. I have reported stolen Facebook accounts of people I have known through Facebook for different companies in my Province, and Facebook does nothing but look at the hacked profile page and say it looks fine, and they see nothing against TOS. It is ridiculous, and Facebook has become a very well known haven for scammers. It takes them a VERY long time to get caught, and by then the scammer can convince a victim to go off of Facebook and talk via mobile app or text or Google Chat. It is all very common. I remember the first Facebook account I reported was pretending to be the USA Government offering government grants during the 2020-2021 years, and the photo and name was taken from the FBI website from the contacts page. Reporting the page did nothing, so as a Canadian I actually found myself having to contact the USA FBI, which was crazy. Facebook just does not seem to care. They just are only interested in how much money they get from ads on their platform. What they say and do are two different things.
Fb isn’t perfect, but your energy should be towards tickmaster WAY more than fb. They’re halfway scamming themselves with legal loopholes
You and your data are the product. The customers are ad buyers...
In my opinion ticket master is still to blame for this. They royaly screwed up the initial sale and all of this could have been prevented with a staggered sale and linking rhe tickets to your identity like big music festivals do which almost entirely removes the 2nd hand market of these ticket touts and scammers
Very true
9:16 Kids without leverage comes up with a master plan: FBI parents, ha ha ha!
I want to know why the Taylor Swift team didn't take advantage of the face value resale option. It seems like they also contributed to this issue because they didn't opt in.
The real crime here is the phenomenon of mass people willing to pay over $1000 for a concert ticket.
Rich kids addicted to dopamine.
If your super rich $1000 is a drop in the bucket
For me, no matter how rich I am, I still feel bad for money that's not well-spent. Spending $1000.00 for a concert ticket is crazy.
I play with these Facebook Scammers all the time. They dont like me.
Great job I do the same thing.
Great Work. Keep it up. Thanks
I almost fell for it myself but when I saw the inconsistency in their cash app and profile. I declined and didn’t send money.
Imagine how disgusting these politicians are worried about Ticketmaster one there is mass corruption running through their entire workplace.
Good morning!! My favorite TH-camr
Respectfully, these fans need to look in the mirror and say: “Why do I care so much about Taylor Swift that it’s worth crying over?”
Every one has people they're fans of. Also if you earn $100 k or $200 k spending a thousand on a ticket is reasonable. Plus you get to meet fellow fans.
Although I will never understand the desperation in getting any tickets for any concerts (nothing against Taylor Swift), Kudos to you for bringing all of this to the awareness of the population
Unfortunately, this is nothing new. While it's human nature to want what's popular, scarce or unavailable, what your friends (or online "friends") got, FOMO, etc., for some odd psychological reason, a subset of people get extremely desperate about such things. They'll go to incredible lengths and do shockingly risky or even immoral things to get them. I'm old enough to remember the Cabbage Patch Kids craze, and later, the Beanie Babies and Elmo crazes. More people than you would ever dare think would trample their own mother to get one of these meaningless things. Frickin' dolls! So, am I surprised when this happens during the Taylor Swift craze? Unfortunately, no. What's really sad is that the ticketing companies could solve (or at least greatly decrease) these problems. But since it doesn't affect their bottom lines - and in many cases, it enhances it - they do nothing other than make useless token gestures.
This was one of the best videos I've seen you do. Great stuff! Thanks.
I’m proud of “X” great job! ❤ it took a lot of courage.
Great job Mr Ben! I'd also like to point out that 2 step verification on your social media is very important, I have had several attacks on mine, and the 2 step saves me
Sadly I have always felt that Facebook enforcing real names being used is not helping as scammers use fake names and real people are getting their names used along with info from posts they post and last name of close family members to have enough info to put in for a "lost password" and hack accounts easily.
And to think in the 70's (and maybe even through the early 80's), we paid a price of $3.50-$6 for concert tickets. 🤣
Equvelant to 20-33$ in todays money. And that may have just been for normal concerts, not one of the most famous people.
And also less people on the Earth and people had less time to spend on concerts
@@time2132lol yes If there were less people on the planet there would be less people wanting Taylor Swift tickets. 😂 funny observation.. 😅
Honestly, I was paying around £5-£10 through the 90's too. I don't know how anyone can even afford these prices. I paid £80 to see Rush on their last UK tour and I thought that was insane.
@@time2132 Not entirely true nor a valid comparison. Wasn't uncommon before the industrial crash for people in the 70s without college degrees to make 30k+ working in industrial facilities. If you can get a job like that today, it will likely be more specialized and skilled, and likely not pay much more. The middle class has been being destroyed ever since then
I was looking for a job the other day. It wasn't for your series I would have been scammed. Thanks for making this content.
Actually it was kind of funny. Once I realized what it was. It's interesting how a scammer will continue to push you to click a link or sign up with them even after you've told them you have zero interest. They often out themselves when they feel like they're not going to win but it's funny when they try and recover to continue the scam anyway
The amount of people who are putting the attention on the victims here in the comments is embarassing. No one deserves to be scammed, whether it's old people losing their savings or teenage girls spending their own cash to see a concert. Whether you approve or not the way they spend their money is absolutely irrelevant in this situation.
Thanks for your video.. amazing work!
😂😂😂😂😂😂. The way you read that Nigerian pigin got me rolling on the floor.😂😂Lol . I am a Nigerian and in my country Nigeria 🇳🇬, we do not support fraud.
Thanks scammer for doing this. i support you on this. go go go, keep observe with this young generation. we need you help too keep scammer keep growing at same time you can help this channel grow
The amount of puns used in this vid is crazy...
I love all the song shout outs!
I think Taylor Swift missed a real opportunity to protect her fans here by not taking advantage of the programme offered by Ticketmaster that prevented sellers from reselling the tickets higher than face value.
From what I understand the performer gets blocks of tickets for free to give out or sell and many music artists sell to the brokers to get even more $$. They're in on the act. I'm not sure if Swift does it she's so crazy rich to begin with.
You think Taylor Swift cares about her fans?
@@zimfan101 whether she does or not, she’s a businesswoman, it’s good PR 🤷♀️
Do you honestly think that she is concerned about PR?!? All she has to do is post about her new boyfriend or recent breakup and millions of mindless girls, of all ages, with be throwing money at her. What does she care about what Ticketmaster does!
@@zimfan101 Just my humble opinion mister, calm down, jeez 🙄
Ben, I once had a class with you! I am also a local musician. If you ever read this, you might consider looking into some of the scams around small time musicians. I have encountered quite a few anytime I post a song with hashtags on IG, Twitter, Etc. and they get pretty elaborate from fake record labels/executives to random “wealthy” people asking to write a song for their daughters birthday.
As a Swiftie whose a PleasantGreen fan, I love that you're covering the Eras Tour Ticket Scam. The references are great.
Cringe. Get a life
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Your the best Ben!!! As always, thanks!🙏
Ticket master should be responsible for these scams and paying everyone back. they were the once that created this mess.
Two kinds of scammers in this situation the people saying they have resell and don't and then the people who do have resale and are charging stupid prices for them both are equally messed up
10K for a ticket?? Now I don't feel so bad that I have paid $1500 for 4 front row tickets for the Kiss Farewell tour in 2001.
That’s basically the same shit with price/dollar amount being adjusted to current rates
I mean, at least Kiss actually good music lol (Despite you being scammed in thinking it was a farewell tour when they've gone on tour many times after lol)
@@nostalgicumbry3279 hahaha yes you are right. But at least I got to say goodbye to the original members on that tour. The other farewell tours after that are just filled with scabs. 😄
@@cristianm6706 Yes, 1500 dollars in those days was a lot of money for concert tickets. Nowadays, it's just the regular price for 4 good tickets 😆
Kiss have been scamming people for decades. I paid $7.50 to see them in 1977. I was 13 and realized I'd been had.
All the references to her songs are masterful. Loved the vid ❤❤❤
i want to get tickets to taylor but there are SO MANY scams everywhere 😔
time was you queued at a ticket office
just buy from ticket master
shes doing aa WORLD tour its not Pink Floyds last 4 songs ,theres too many tickets to start with
Take a vacation instead
Go get a life instead
send me 2k so we can go together
Please use the money to buy shares in Bank Of Montreal stock. Trust me, you will thank me later.
That escalation in the first conversation is humorously over the top.