Taylor Swift followers within the UK crashed the Ticketmaster web site yesterday in a frenzy to purchase tickets for the star’s upcoming Eras Tour.
Pre-sale tickets for 2 reveals at London’s Wembley Stadium and three reveals in Edinburgh’s Murrayfield Stadium have been obtainable from 11am.
Fans of the pop star, known as Swifties, have been hoping to bag a ticket on a first-come-first-serve foundation.
But technical glitches on Ticketmaster, attributable to the overwhelming mass of Swifties flocking to the location, meant many have been left feeling hard-done-by and ticketless.
Thousands of followers have been additionally kicked out of the queue of greater than 20,000 folks.
Ticketmaster and ticketing firm AXS launched tickets for 2 reveals at a time in three waves attributable to issues that top demand would crash their websites. These fears got here true with one fan tweeting forward of the gross sales:
“Five devices, multiple accounts, floor plans, codes, passwords, multiple cards and I’m still scared it won’t be enough.”
Another fan wrote: “That was great Ticketmaster, got in to buy tickets for my daughter – a massive, massive fan – and just as I got in you kicked me out with an error.”
Seated tickets at Ms Swift’s Wembley present price as much as £194.75, standing tickets are £172.25 and VIP packages ranged from £196 to £662.40.
Other followers claimed they got the chance to buy tickets however thought the method was a sham as a result of the one obtainable seats price greater than £600 every.
Only those that signed up and obtained a novel entry code may get their tickets for the 5 reveals on sale.
They have been restricted to buying 4 tickets per transaction and will solely purchase for the town they obtained the entry code for.
The queue for the primary batch of Edinburgh and London tickets was greater than two hours lengthy and lots of followers have been turned away – hoping to attempt on the subsequent wave at 1pm.
General sale tickets shall be obtainable to buy subsequent week.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
