Booking for Harry Potter play extended due to high demand
by Press Association from Technology | The Guardian on (#RXDB)
Fans queued online for tickets but technical difficulties with system meant three-hour wait and transaction failure
The booking period for the play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, has been extended to January 2017 due to phenomenal demand. Fans scrambled for tickets when priority booking for performances from 7 June to 18 September 2016 opened at 11am but seats sold out quickly.
Demand for tickets led to technical difficulties with the online system, including the site freezing and locking customers out of their purchases, which meant many fans who had waited up to three hours in the queue could not complete their transactions.
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