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After signing for pre-sales and lining up at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre at midnight, Wagenfeller secured tickets to all seven Australian dates.
He says fellow Swift fans have been critical of his success.
“People have called me greedy and selfish and have said people missed out because of me. I don’t see it like that,” he says.
“I am an empath, so I feel for people who missed out altogether, but if someone else had the same chance, they would do the same thing.”
Monica Isaacs: ‘It’s not my fault she’s so big now’
As was the case with many others, Monica Isaacs has spent far too long at the mercy of Ticketek’s virtual waiting room.
“It was a team effort between my friends and me; we all had multiple devices open, we all got four tickets when someone got through, we shared them,” says the Melbourne-based Swiftie.
Monica Isaacs spent hours in a virtual waiting room and was rewarded with tickets to all seven Taylor Swift shows.
The persistence paid off, and while others failed to secure tickets, Isaacs was able to get to all seven shows.
“It’s not my fault she’s so big now, so why should I change what I want to do? It isn’t fair to direct your anger to the real fans who are going to every show,” she says.
“They should direct their anger toward Ticketek for favouring people or people who aren’t fans but are going just to see the spectacle.”
Bianca Zuccolo: ‘This is just part of us being extreme fans’
You’d be hard-pushed to find a bigger Taylor Swift fan than Bianca Zuccolo. The long-time Swiftie has seen the singer more than 30 times and will be attending every Australian date of the Eras tour.
“There is so much going on at each show, and you miss things; she switches up the surprise songs every night,” she says.
“So, as a Swiftie, you really need to be at every show, it’s just part of being an extreme fan.”
Bianca Zuccolo is one of the Swifties who is following Taylor Swift around Australia for her Eras tour.
Zuccolo’s fandom dates back to Swift’s Speak Now tour in 2012, and she continues to go above and beyond to see her favourite singer.
“Two nights in a row, I lined up in person at a newsagency in Mornington at four o’clock in the morning to get my tickets,” she says.
As a self-described “original Swiftie,” Zuccolo, 30, argues that attending every show is part of the fan culture.
“The OG fans that have been around for like 13 years at this point, and [are going to every show] ... it’s what we always do and will continue to do,” she says.
Jake Wagenfeller and Monica Isaacs will be going to all seven Taylor Swift concerts in Melbourne and Sydney.Credit: Wayne Taylor
“I saw a few fans at the MCG who were on their phones and didn’t know the songs, so maybe those who don’t care that much should give up their seats.”
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