A TikToker said she 'accidentally' spent $10,000 on Taylor Swift Eras Tour tickets in Australia: 'My heart literally stopped'

• A TikToker says she accidentally spent $10,000 on Taylor Swift Eras Tour tickets in Australia.
• The Swiftie said she intended buy 2 tickets, only to realize at check out she'd purchased way more.

A Swiftie got more than she bargained for – and for a much steeper price – in the chaos of her attempt to secure tickets for Taylor Swift's Eras Tour in Australia.

In a TikTok shared on Thursday, user @__georose explained the story behind how she "accidentally" spent $10,000 on concert tickets for her and her younger sister, nearly $9,000 more than she said was initially willing to shell out.

At the start of the clip, which has over 500,000 likes as of Saturday, the TikToker said she felt like "a moron" for the mistake. She explained the debacle started while waiting in the virtual Amex presale queue to purchase the "It's Been A Long Time Coming" package for her and her sister on her parent's credit card.

"I was very stressed, literally shaking at this point, full drama queen vibes," she said, explaining that she had four separate windows open in an attempt to increase her chances. To her complete surprise, tickets ended up showing up in all of the windows.

She said she picked one of the windows, exited the others, and clicked check out. While waiting for the payment to go through, she made a frightening discovery.

"As the wheels spinning to process the order I look in the background and it says $10,000," she said. "I froze. My heart literally stopped. Next minute, I'm hyperventilating. Literally sobbing."

In the end, she said that she decided to sell the tickets – and mostly to friends and family members who missed out on getting tickets in the initial sale.

"If I could afford to spend $10,000 on Taylor Swift tickets and go every time, I would," the TikToker concluded.

It's far from the first time that efforts to secure Eras Tour tickets resulted in chaos.

In November 2022, the presale for Swift's US leg of the Eras Tour descended into disaster as those trying for early access tickets as a part of Ticketmaster's Verified Fan program faced site crashes, hours-long queues, and broken access codes. As a result, the presale for Capital One cardholders, scheduled for later that day, was pushed to the following day.

The Capital One presale faced similar issues, prompting Ticketmaster to cancel the general sale. Ticketmaster neglected to address how it ran out of tickets for the general sale.

In the subsequent days, resale prices for tickets reached tens of thousands of dollars.