Harry Potter Tickets

friend of mine started with 32k ahead of her, she managed to get the tickets. Hold on there. :)

now I have to make trip to London next year and before that I'll be forced to watch the films again by gf:(
 
Apparently the first batch of tickets for upcoming play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child shifted over 175,000 tickets in just eight hours!

As mentioned above the second batch went on sale at 11 am this morning, and there are currently over 28,500 users in the queue, with an estimated waiting time of over 1 hour!

The play is in two parts also, although it should be possible to see both on the same day as matinee and evening shows.

I think I will 'pass' on that one for now though.
 
Nitefly said:
Currently 16,406 people ahead of me in the queue - feeling pumped.

Anyone else get a bigger queue fail?

Colleague got 2,000 and I only told her about it one minute before as she saw it on my desktop pfffft.
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I already bought mine on the 28th. Signed up for the priority access thing and booked them :)

The first half sold out that day, so they have released tickets all the way through to 2017 now which I am sure will also sell out.
 
Moses said:
Sod fighting to get early tickets. There will just be loads of Potter nerd spastics who'll be uncouth/ruin the theatre experience. Imagine if they start snacking on popcorn and cans of fizzy pop... ugh! I'd just wait until you can go to showing a bit down the line when the hysteria has died down.

Not that I'm going to watch that play - I've never read the books or watched any of the films :cool:.
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Probably quite difficult to read as an adult from scratch (unless you've got kids) but it was a great series to grow up with, being more or less the same age as Harry, because of growing dark themes and interests in the laydeez.

The films have killed the imagination of it, somewhat.
 
Nitefly said:
Used my colleagues queue - just dropped £780 on play tickets *aghast*
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6 tickets at £3,000 each on Ebay = £18,000 less selling fees = £2,700.

Net sales = £15,300

Less original purchase cost = £14,520.

Tidy profit for a mornings work. Will buy something much more substantial than a play :)
 
My mum was something similar, having around 14k people in front of her, but managed to get some in the end for her and my Sister.

I enjoyed the films, but I don't think I could cope going to a theatre to see this one as it'll be so overcrowded I can't imagine it being enjoyable to watch.
 
tickets bought :) only logged on at 11.40 and got to 28k in the list, got £70 tickets for April 29th 2017 for both parts. just 547 to go...

B@
 
with this sort of demand I'd assume they'd be extending the run again putting this play on a few more times and/or showing it elsewhere in future too
 
Greebo said:
Tidy profit for a mornings work. Will buy something much more substantial than a play :)
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I do wonder who buys resold tickets at those sorts of prices. Personally I reckon about £100-150 is the max I'd ever pay for a gig. Anything over that price point and I'd immediately think it's not worth it for 2-4hrs of entertainment. Simple as that.

With tickets going on sale like that just hours after they've been released I do wish somebody would just wake up and do something about touting. It does my head in that people do that and cream profits away.. Awful people.
 
There are always wealthy people who can't/won't go through the normal process/hassle of queueing to get tickets and will just pay through the nose for them.

But yeah I agree, there should be a rule that tickets can only be sold at face value plus original booking fee.

Same happens for big one off music concerts. Up to 10x face value.
 
Haggisman said:
There usually is - or more commonly a rule that they can't be re-sold at all, however do you really think the touts are going to pay much attention to that? :p
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Venues could stop this by issuing tickets with buyers name on them and that buyer has to show their id at the venue. One or two tickets to big events I have bought has been like that.


Makes it very difficult to sell on.
 
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