72K people in queue for Coldplay, tix going for Rs 35K. Twitter has thoughts

Coldplay fans were left disappointed on Thursday after being unable to buy tickets for the Global Citizen Concert in Mumbai on November 19.

It’s been merely two hours since Book My Show (ticketing website) opened the floodgates to Coldplay’s Global Citizen concert in Mumbai scheduled for November 19. However, even in these two hours, all hell has broken loose.

A lot of Coldplay fans are crying on this day.

Remember the furore over the rumours of Coldplay tickets selling for Rs 25,000 a few days ago? Well, that figure seems like a bargain considering the price has now increased to Rs 35,000!

Book My Show initiated the booking process at 12pm on Thursday but as soon as the page went up, it crashed moments later. It took them 15 minutes before the site could be revived and the bookings be commenced again. However, if you were lucky enough to see the page load, you would be slapped with these dialog boxes.

Or even this if you took your own sweet time...

And even if you somehow managed to sit through the queue for ‘more than an hour’, you’d be redirected to the ticketing page and this would greet you on the other side.

When we checked at 2pm, all the Rs 5,000-7,5000 tickets were sold out. Only the Rs 10, 000 ones were left. A few fans told HT that even when they selected the Rs 10,000 ticket, another ‘sold out’ popped up (despite the ticket still being shown as an option). There is only one option left now, buy them at Rs 35,000.

All this trouble hasn’t gone down well with the fans of course. As usual, they took to Twitter to rant about it. Here are a few in deep, deep agony:

There were a few lucky ones too though:

OK, no need to rub it in dude.

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