Several major sites - including those of Ticketmaster and Seetickets - appeared to have sold out all three of the UK Coldplay shows shortly after they went on sale at 9.30am. Coldplay are due to play Glasgow SECC on December 3rd, Manchester's MEN Arena on December 4th and the O2 Arena in London on December 9th - all were sold out this morning in just a few seconds as an estimated 100,000 fans flocked to the Internet to try and get their hands on scarce tickets for the shows. Did you get tickets or were you left disappointed? We want to hear your story at the Coldplay Live forum now [currently requires login/registration]
Shortly after tickets went on sale Coldplayers took to Twitter to express their delight - and disappointment - over the forthcoming shows. 'Well that was stupid! Coldplay sold out in 7 mins, no ticket,' tweeted one fan, JackMartinez, while willfarnell added, 'lots of very unhappy coldplay fans!! 10 minutes to sell out and they clearly weren't sold out via presale as it didn't work!'
Tickets disappointment has even sparked a new HM Government e-petition entitled 'Stop Ticket Touts Profiteering'. It describes the situation as: "Tickets for concerts and sporting events are bought and immediately sold for massive profit. This means the ordinary fan has to pay not only a "booking fee" and a "postage charge" but a huge uplift from profiteers with no interest in the event. Ticketmaster, not content with fleecing people for postage costs on e-tickets (!?!) have set up "getmein.com" which gains a second booking fee from the profiteers! This was outlawed in the 80's with football tickets and this legislation must be widened to cover these chancers."
Others did report ticket success, while there were complaints from other tweeters over the £65 price of the tickets and also a system which only allowed a maximum of two per customer. Fans are now likely to turn to other sources to try and secure tickets for the shows. The shows will see the band playing tracks from their fifth album Xylo Myloto, which is due for release on October 24.
Some of your comments at the Coldplay Live forum following a complete sell out of Coldplay's shows:
I have spent both yesterday and today at my daughters request sat at my computer ready to buy tickets for the O2 arena the second they went on sale. I was on the mark as soon as ticket master opened the screen I attempted to purchase only to see that they were sold out ? How could that be within a second of going on sale. I then went to Ebay to see tickets galore at 4 and 5 times the face value, Also many ticket companies are selling on-line at inflated prices. I want you to know that I am so disappointed for my daughter and her friend, It seems that the only fans going to the concerts will be the mega rich who can afford the inflated prices from the unscrupulous and corrupt ticket sellers. And the fans like my daughter who at 17 cannot afford to pay hundreds for tickets marked at 47.50 shall miss out on her dream of seeing Coldplay preform live. I feel so very sad at this impossible situation. my Daughter just rang me from school and I had to tell her the bad news, Her disappointment is heart breaking. Why does this happen how do companies selling inflated tickets on Ebay get access to them in the first place when fans cant get a look in. [thanks mhynes445]
Just don't even look at ebay right now guys. Firstly because we all need to help each other out on here first, please take my advice and don't buy off of ebay at all. (even if you are very rich indeed, still, it promotes and encourages more people to sell on there, ruining things for us). Secondly, just don't look on there because you will feel a disparity of both anger and sad. It will ruin your fucking day. [thanks Craigie-J]
I tried the pre sale yesterday with no luck and the same again today. What annoyed me was that when I googled Coldplay O2 tickets yesterday they were already available on the exchange sites and e bay at extortionate prices which means either fans are selling on for profit or non fans are signing up to get ticket opportunities. I've signed the petition as this circus which happens every time tickets go on sale must stop. [thanks alanhunt1967]
I tried to get 2 standing at 9:30:05 and absolutely nothing.... went back and tried for the tiered seats and again nothing. I managed to get through to order 2 standing from Seetickets but I took too long filling in the form and when I got to the confirmation page it said they'd sold out - can't believe they don't hold your tickets for you at all. Just a joke. Something just ain't right here surely? It's hard to believe they'd sell out that fast.... but then again this is the first big UK gig in like two years and everyone was talking about it, Radio 1 ended up advertising the gigs because one of the DJ's couldn't keep his mouth shut. They better add another date or I'll be quite fed up with the band tbh. It's not very fair that so many genuine fans have to loose out. Perhaps it's already a planned thing to add another show on the Saturday. It might be that they'd rather stage the two dates sales. Gotta love the o2 Also I have to be honest, the price of tickets this time has left a bad taste in my mouth. On See tickets the standing tickets were nearly £70!! I mean, with the booking fee the cheapest tickets this time were £50. I got level 1 Wembley tickets for less than that! Don't know whether it's more the band to blame or the venues but it's daylight robbery in my opinion. I know the guys are massive and all but there should be some kind of limit on how much these venues should be able to charge and I don't think £70 bloody pounds is reasonable at all... I would have attempted to but I wasn't able to get online yesterday morning, otherwise I would have logged on. The pre-sale is supposedly a very limited amount so some of us would have still missed out. I think a lot of us didn't expect it to be so difficult to get tickets this morning either. I've been lucky enough to see the band live 3 times, last time was at their really small Christmas 09 charity gig they did in Exeter which I feel extremely blessed to have gone to seeing as it's a very rare thing to get the chance to see the band in such an intimate setting now they're so very big. So I shouldn't feel too sorry for myself if they don't add another date. There's always the proper MX tour which is bound to be earlyish next year. [thanks loveintechnicolor]
I managed to get 2 standing tickets yesterday, and I was trying for one ticket for my friend this morning as he was working at 9:30 (i was too but nevermind).
And I was there on the dot and nope, no standing available for feck sake. So i head over to viagogo and the like to see how much, £119 up for standing up to £700 :/ Somebody needs to put a stop to this "legal touting" nonsense. Ebay ok, can deal with that but ban the others! [thanks thehitcher]
I just feel totally gutted atm. I tried yesterday in the presale and was never even offered lower tier tickets, which is what i need, so i came back this morning to try again and still had no luck with Ticketmaster so i tried Seetickets (i had both pages open well before 9.30am and kept refreshing them both) who actually offered me block 109, but when i put in the number of tickets i wanted it said "sorry, no results match your request" and then basically got nowhere since then. Now i'm just hoping and praying that they either add an extra London date or we get a proper full UK tour some time next year. [thanks shesawsparks]
Well no luck again today, my friend bought tcikets for Frankfurt instead for fear we were going to have nothing in our hands, seeing as they're not going to play here in Italy for the forseeable future. This time was even more fucked up than usual, because most of the people from the countries where they are not supposed to play in December, have of course tried to get tickets to London, raising up even more the total number of people trying, and this will be the case also if they're going to add another date in London, I don't really think the situation is going to be better for us fans. [thanks iriden]
I Tried and failed both yesterday and today to acquire tickets for the O2 gig. Birthday present for my daughter. Gutted. And to rub salt in to the wound they are all ready selling on Ebay at over inflated prices. Touts making money at the expense of the fans. I am really sad that my daughter will miss out and I also feel for the hundreds of other folk in the same boat. It is high time that the UK ticketing system was sorted for once and for all. [thanks digimoll]
I was fairly confident they would have added a second London date this morning. I still think they will, but unfortunately it will probably be advertisied in advance, and we will have to go through the same thing again. If they just added them around 10:30 as in the past, fans still trying to get tickets would have been able to purchase them. Now they will just end up in the hands of touts again. [thanks evilelvis]
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Pictures: ACL Festival @ Flickr
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