Tegan And Sara Fight 'Unethical' Resellers With Pay-What-You-Want Seats
By Katrina Nattress
October 2, 2019
Tegan and Sara are currently on tour supporting their new album Hey, I'm Just Like You, and after catching wind of ticket resale sites snatching up tickets to their San Francisco show, the sisters decided to fight by letting fans pay what they want for last-minute empty seats. And if that's not cool enough on its own, the band is giving those donations to The Tegan and Sara Foundation. They announced the plan in a lengthy message via Instagram.
"It has come to our attention that significant numbers of tickets to our show tonight in San Francisco were unethically gobbled up by secondary ticketing platforms during our tour onsale in July," they wrote. "While the show tonight is technically sold out, many of these tickets are now being flooded back into the market for re-sale. Because there is little time to sell and we never ask our fans to go to secondary sites, this will likely result in empty seats tonight in the Sydney Goldstein Theater."
"Our goal is to ensure that our real fans are in each and every seat, and to prevent secondary platforms from hurting our show," they continued.. "As an experiment, tonight in San Francisco we will be offering rush seating for all open seats, at approximately 8:15pm. This means that we will allow any empty seats to be available on a 'first come first serve' basis in return for a 'pay what you can' cash donation at the door to The Tegan and Sara Foundation, which works to support LGBTQ+ girls and women."
"We will be continuing to work on this frustrating problem this week and will keep everyone posted on rush seating and ticket availability to upcoming shows," they concluded their message.
Check out Tegan and Sara's post below.
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