British set Coldplay is acceptable to execute successful India for the archetypal clip successful January 2025. To conscionable the precocious demand, the set precocious announced an further performance astatine Ahmedabad’s Narendra Modi Stadium connected January 25, 2025, tickets for which went unrecorded astatine noon connected Saturday. Fans complained astir having to hold successful agelong queues online, lone to beryllium disappointed aft the tickets were sold out. The queues connected BookMyShow ran into lakhs arsenic soon arsenic the tickets went unrecorded connected the platform.
Many fans took to their X accounts and expressed their disappointment astir losing retired successful their 3rd attempt, aft having been disappointed antecedently erstwhile tickets for the Mumbai shows went live. A fan, whose queue fig astatine that clip was astir 3.5 lakh, shared a screenshot and tweeted, “Why is @bookmyshow forcing maine excessively look astatine my JEE main fertile again and again?”
In fact, wrong a fewer minutes, the tickets appeared connected reselling platforms specified arsenic Viagogo, listing astatine 5 to six times the archetypal price. A speedy hunt connected the app shows 1 summons for the South Premium conception priced astatine ₹2 lakh. Even the cheapest summons starts astatine ₹25,000. Nearly 200 tickets for the January 25 performance are disposable connected Viagogo close now.
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Another fan, Shailesh Kumar, shared his acquisition of trying to publication the tickets. He said that helium was utilizing 3 devices – a laptop, tablet, and desktop. He opened respective tabs, hoping to person a higher probability of bagging the tickets. However, helium was inactive successful enactment down 64,500 users successful the virtual queue.
Here is the tweet:
Doesn’t look similar I americium going to marque it #Coldplayindia pic.twitter.com/E5QOW9l0om
— Shailesh Kumar (@SDETguy) November 16, 2024
Bookings for Coldplay’s 3 concerts successful Mumbai went unrecorded past month, but a batch of fans couldn’t get tickets owed to agelong online queues that went up to 8 lakh connected BookMyShow. The announcement of a 4th amusement successful Ahmedabad came aft contention astir achromatic selling of tickets, aft they were sold retired successful a fewer minutes.
“In summation to the FIR (First Information Report) filed by BookMyShow connected the achromatic selling and scalping of tickets for caller high-demand unrecorded amusement experiences, we person besides provided each requisite accusation and details to instrumentality enforcement agencies successful their investigations and volition proceed to proactively combat against scalping and achromatic selling of tickets – practices that are condemned and punishable by instrumentality successful India,” said a BookMyShow spokesperson successful a statement, aft they were asked to instrumentality enactment to debar black-marketing of tickets by Maharashtra police’s cyber wing.