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www.telegraph.co.uk: A second batch of tickets has been put on sale for forthcoming Potter play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, after thousands of customers were left disappointed and frustrated with technical problems that caused havoc with ticketsales.
I have a friend who was talking about this a week ago. She's a huge Harry Potter and theatre fan and she was a part of the same dilemma. Having the technical aspects of the shows messing up is one thing, but having the whole online ticketing system online the crash and burn is a whole different story. People gave their personal information to buy these tickets and because of this issue may audience members lost their ticket to see the show, including my friend from back home. This reminds me of a time when I was going to see a production of cirque when I was little and all the sudden our tickets never existed, however our payment did. I'm so glad my mother kept the receipts or idk if we would ever get those tickets in the end. I hope all the recipients that payed go their money back.
This does not surprise me at all. Harry Potter has such a massive following that of course everyone and their second cousin is going to be online trying to get tickets. However, I am disappointed that they're system glitched out and crashed. Did they not know that the literal population of earth would try and snag tickets to this show? I mean, they can try and chalk the glitches up to the sheer amount of people trying to access the website but what did they expect? It's interesting that the official twitter account put out a tweet about not using resale websites to get tickets for the show- will people actually listen? This Harry Potter show is certainly a big deal in terms of the Harry Potter fandom. I highly doubt that people aren't going to do anything and everything they can to see this show. They might as well make this darn show into a movie so that everyone can see it, which probably will happen once we let the bootleggers loose in the theater.
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I have a friend who was talking about this a week ago. She's a huge Harry Potter and theatre fan and she was a part of the same dilemma. Having the technical aspects of the shows messing up is one thing, but having the whole online ticketing system online the crash and burn is a whole different story. People gave their personal information to buy these tickets and because of this issue may audience members lost their ticket to see the show, including my friend from back home. This reminds me of a time when I was going to see a production of cirque when I was little and all the sudden our tickets never existed, however our payment did. I'm so glad my mother kept the receipts or idk if we would ever get those tickets in the end. I hope all the recipients that payed go their money back.
This does not surprise me at all. Harry Potter has such a massive following that of course everyone and their second cousin is going to be online trying to get tickets. However, I am disappointed that they're system glitched out and crashed. Did they not know that the literal population of earth would try and snag tickets to this show? I mean, they can try and chalk the glitches up to the sheer amount of people trying to access the website but what did they expect? It's interesting that the official twitter account put out a tweet about not using resale websites to get tickets for the show- will people actually listen? This Harry Potter show is certainly a big deal in terms of the Harry Potter fandom. I highly doubt that people aren't going to do anything and everything they can to see this show. They might as well make this darn show into a movie so that everyone can see it, which probably will happen once we let the bootleggers loose in the theater.
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