We have been here before and we are back again as anger over ticket sales for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child boils over.
You would have thought the brains behind the most magical performance in the world would have solved the simplest of problems, ticket sales. Ticket sales have gone on sale for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and within a matter of hours, they were sold out.
And fans were not happy about this.
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Tickets were for the show in Melbourne, Australia which debuts in 2019. And like it was when Harry Potter and the Cursed Child first opened in the West End and then Broadway, there was the option to sign up for priority access and reserve your ticket.
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However, there was little to no point as hopeful ticket proprietors logged in several minutes before priority ticket booking opened to find not just thousands, but tens of thousands, of people ahead of them.
The Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Melbourne presale is fucking stupid. Wait in a waiting room for an hour to be given a random number to buy tickets, only to have 32000 people waiting in front of you. What was the point of signing up early? Might as well wait for general.
— Bohdi ✨🏳️🌈 (@bohdib_) July 30, 2018
30,944 in line for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child priority tickets when I logged in 3 minutes before tickets even went on sale?? What the hell ticketmaster?!
— kd kells (@KDKells) July 30, 2018
So naturally, the tickets where gone within hours and fans without tickets where all left wondering, what was the point? What was the point in priority access?
And the worst thing is Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has been through this before. They know how popular and in demand the play is. Why did they not learn from their experiences from the past and do something about it.
It’s a magical mystery to me and the only thing I can say is, welcome to the world of Cursed Child Australia.
Where you one of the fans waiting in the line for a ticket? If you managed to get one, where you signed up the day before? Share your thoughts and experience below.