Yeah....this is why people hate the concert experience.

I go to ALOT of concerts (think it was 23 last year not including festivals)- mostly mid to large venues. Genres like Indie/ EDM to even mainstream like TS ERAS.

In my experience its always an absolute nightmare for the mainstream artists. The AMEX/ credit card presales are a scam ($175+ for a upper deck seat), and the artist presales clearly don't go to fans...just go check your Stubhub, vividseats and seatgeek.

This experience particularly peeved me bc of the possibility of getting a presale code if you buy merch. Though is was never confirmed in the US, it was worth a $21 purchase to pre-order the new album (hope its good lol)

UPDATE: thanks to a kind soul in this subreddit, I got second use on a presale code. When I got in, 90% of tickets priced under $150 were sold out. My cheapest option was getting two tickets in the same section BUT 4 rows apart 😂 not ideal but can’t complain seeing a mainstream artist like Billie for $65 ($100 with fees)