Tickets for the Harry Potter West End show were already being resold for more than £1,200 on StubHub yesterday (Thursday) while thousands of fans were still waiting in the online queue for newly-released tickets.
After the two-part play’s run was extended, some 250,000 tickets went on sale through official vendors Nimax and ATG. Primary tickets were available from £15 and 300 seats for every performance priced at £20 or less for each of the two plays.
However, while online queues stretched into the hundreds of thousands for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, touts had already bought tickets and placed them for sale on secondary sites such as StubHub and eBay.
A spokesman for the show said: “Please note that we reserve the right to refuse admission to customers with tickets purchased on resale websites.
“Tickets purchased through either of our official ticketing platforms must not be sold or advertised for sale on the internet, in newspapers or elsewhere.
“Any ticket advertised for sale in this way will be automatically void.”
The secondary ticket prices were at odds with Harry Potter author JK Rowling’s hopes that the play would encourage more people to visit the theatre.
She told reporters: “What we would really like most of all is to bring people in who have never been to the theatre before.
“I would be so proud to think that kids from my kind of background, who didn’t come from particularly theatre-going families, learn what theatre is about through this show. That would be an incredible thing.”
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