Yep this. ^ 1000s and 1000s of people are being wildly unsuccessful. Even when they join the queue online on the dot of 9am - when the lines open!)
There's some utter trash being written here by some people, desperately trying to make out that fans aren't being REMOTELY ripped off. 🙄
They are either in cahoots with the organisations doing it, or they are deliriously naïve and blinkered, and have been gaslighted into thinking that all this drama (and these over-inflated ticket prices,) is 'OK' and 'normal.' Bollocks, it's not! Raise your bar FFS!
I used to go to lots of concerts with my DC - and my friends (between 2003 and 2013-ish,) and this NEVER happened. You would ring up and get your tickets, (or order them from the website,) OR trot along to the venue and purchase them there, AT THE NORMAL PRICE - like £29 to £49 at the time. Very few were more than that. Yes really!!! And then you'd rock up to the concert several months later when it was on.
All this getting up at the crack of dawn, and waiting with bated breath for the lines to open, being No. 17,000 in the queue, (and then after 3 hours of waiting you get booted out,) is a load of shit. No-one should be having to do this. Some people on Twitter/X have been saying they waited for 2 hours and then got booted off, and then found themselves blocked from the site. Probably going to have to pay 4 figures for a ticket now.
Absolute fucking racket. Utter con.
Anyone who pays more than a couple of hundred for a ticket is an absolute mug who is playing into the hands of these rip off merchants. Like fuck would I pay it.
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