First things first. There are apparently scalpers selling Harry Potter & The Cursed Child tickets for as much as £6,200 (which is, we stress, AU$10,000). That is a fact. The play is sold out through to December 2017, so if you’re a Harry Potter megafan, forking out massive wads of cash is possibly the only way to land a ticket before you die of old age, which is a frightening thought.
But producers of the show are warning that it doesn’t matter if you paid £1 or £1,000,000 for your scalped ticket – you ain’t getting in. They’ve already turned away 60 patrons who acquired their tickets this way. Nup. That’s it. They’re void.
They issued a statement on this very issue:
From the outset accessible pricing has been of paramount importance to us. We have already been able to identify and refuse entry to a significant number of people who purchased tickets through resale sites and will continue to track down touts and refuse entry to anyone who has knowingly bought a ticket from a tout through the secondary market. Staff at the Palace Theatre refuse entry for tickets that they are able to identify as re-sold.
There is currently an online lottery which gives access to 40 tickets for the following week’s show which takes place every Friday. That might be your best way to go about it unless you’re willing to see your thousand pound ticket refused entry after you’ve put so much effort into your foul-smelling Hagrid costume.
Source: Reuters.
Photo: Harry Potter & The Cursed Child.
