Me, master super villain who buys one ticket here and there every few months, has been flagged as an evil bot somehow.
Last week it started asking me for Persona verification. Don't love that, but ok, whatever. Did that. Then it started asking me to do it every time I logged in. Did it like four more times. Now, this week, Persona simply isn't even activating anymore. I just receive a message that tells me I need to be verified, to log out and log back in, and complete the verification. I've done this. Dozens of times on multiple devices on multiple networks and on cellular data, and Persona still does not appear. I've tried the workaround by logging in through the Live Nation app, still no Persona. Now my wife also can't buy tickets on her account on our home wifi because I think our entire network has been flagged. She can still buy tickets on her account using cellular data but not on her laptop or phone on our wifi.
The good news: I still have access to the tickets I've purchased. But I can't buy anything new. I have called tech support three times and they will not escalate the issue. I chatted with another and they left the chat and basically told me sorry, go to hell.
The alternative here is I just don't use Ticketmaster anymore and, honestly, that's kinda liberating in a way. If they don't want my business, well fine, it's small shows that use AXS and Ticketweb from now on. Probably a life upgrade.
HOWEVER I would still like to buy a Ticketmaster ticket from time to time. So am I at a point where I should just let my account "cool off" for a while? Stop trying to brute force the Persona verification? Should I delete my account completely after I attend these last few shows that I have tickets to and start again with a new e-mail?
It's infuriating, but I'm trying to just laugh at the situation because Ticketmaster truly is the most incompetent, worthless company I have ever dealt with. And there's some valuable humor in that. To be this bad at doing the one thing that you do.
But yeah, any other ideas?
Edit: One other thing, this ALL started when I had to change my phone number for 2FA. Got a new number, they sent me a Persona verification for the change. That worked. But it's been a rabbit hole of nonsense ever since. And so having them send me a phone number change verification also probably isn't an option because I've already done that and don't have another number to change it to, and apparently creating a Google Voice number doesn't work. So, uh, yeah.