A selected group of Taylor Swift tickets for Toronto show dates with exorbitant price tags already on sale days before the official ticket release.

Just one day ago, the pop icon announced that she will finally be passing through Canada for six shows in November 2024, after initially skipping the country on the second leg of the Eras Tour.

Her concerts are scheduled to take place at the Rogers Centre, which has a capacity of over 50,000 seats, on November 14, 15, and 16, followed by November 21, 22, and 23.

Tickets for the shows, which are still more than a year away, will go on sale on Wednesday, with verified fan registration opening only at that time.

However, on the ticket-selling site StubHub, tickets for all six shows have already been listed - and the prices are extraordinary.

The cheapest available ticket was just below $2,000 for a seat in the 500 level, while tickets in the 100 section were close to $10,000. The highest value ticket for a floor seat was over $13,200.

The question is - how are these tickets being sold before the official release?

A spokesperson for Ticketmaster stated that no tickets are sold before the verified fan sale for the Eras Tour begins.

They pointed to "speculative tickets," when someone lists tickets for sale that they do not actually own.

Ticketmaster's website states, "These speculative listings are not real tickets that the seller actually possesses."

Canadian music commentator Eric Alper said it could be that scalpers are crossing their fingers and hoping that the tickets they promised for a specific section will actually materialize.

Or they could belong to Rogers Centre season ticket holders who have presale access to events at the venue, which Alper said happens 99.9 percent of the time.

He noted that tickets typically show up on StubHub before their official release - but now, only concert-goers are talking about them due to the unprecedented demand for Swift's Eras Tour.