Tickets for Taylor Swift's Singapore concert sell out in 8 hours; fans frustrated by system glitches

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SINGAPORE — Tickets for the Singapore stop of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour were sold out by around 8.20pm on Friday (July 7), a little over eight hours after they went on sale, but not before leaving fans frustrated by glitches in the ticketing system.

SINGAPORE — Tickets for the Singapore stop of Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour were sold out by around 8.20pm on Friday , a little over eight hours after they went on sale, but not before leaving fans frustrated by glitches in the ticketing system.

At SingPost’s Bedok Central branch, the first person in the queue had to wait for almost an hour to finally get hers. Fans whom TODAY spoke to on Friday said the Ticketmaster website kept crashing, calling this "unacceptable" as theMs Chua said that each SingPost outlet could have been allocated a set number of tickets.

Ms Nila S, a 20-year-old student from Bangalore University, said she had mistakenly believed that queuing up at SingPost would mean higher chances to snag tickets. Other fans who queued physically overnight said that SingPost could have provided queue numbers to prevent people from cutting queues.

 

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