Ridiculously inexpensive tickets released and quickly snapped up for Taylor Swift’s Vancouver concerts | Canada Voices

Never in their wildest dreams did Taylor Swift fans expect to have access to tickets with a $16.50 face value for the superstar’s three upcoming concerts this week at Vancouver’s BC Place stadium. The catch? The available seats, released by Ticketmaster on Monday, were behind the giant stage and designated as “no stage view” tickets, as per a fan’s screenshot on social media taken from Ticketmaster’s website.

Despite the severely compromised vantage point, the concert tickets for Dec. 6, 7 and 8 were snapped up. As of Tuesday afternoon, the Ticketmaster website shows no Swift seats available.

Seats behind the stage do appear on resale website StubHub, where tickets marked “limited or obstructed view” were priced at $1,582 and more. During the concerts, a mammoth screen facing the audience displays live shots and prepared images. It is possible that smaller satellite screens facing the rear-view seats will be utilized for the Vancouver dates.

Vancouver is now experiencing the Swift-based mania previously experienced in Toronto, where the Shake it Off singer performed six sold-out shows over two weeks at the city’s Rogers Centre baseball stadium. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and family members attended the Swift concert on Nov. 22, the Eras Tour’s penultimate night in Toronto.

Tourism body Destination Vancouver says Swift will create an estimated $157-million economic impact for the city next week with the three final concert dates of the record-breaking tour that began in 2023.

The economic impact to ticket resellers – “scalpers,” as they used to be known – is just as staggering. The resale-ticket aggregator and data provider TicketIQ found that the average listing price for Swift’s dates in Toronto and Vancouver was US$6,351, and that the typical minimum price was $1,690.