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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Lyell Tweed

Peter Kay fans struggle to get tickets as websites jam under demand

A ticket website selling official tickets for Peter Kay's upcoming tour appears to be struggling under huge demand. See Tickets is holding customers on a page that says "our website is very busy" with people unable to get through to a queue.

Tickets have reportedly nearly sold out for a number of venues, with hundreds of thousands of people still in the queue on Ticketmaster for a coveted ticket. Many people have taken to social media to say that See Tickets is not working for them at all with people on a holding page refreshing every 20 seconds, as opposed to a page telling you what position you are in a queue.

It says: " Our website is very busy. We are currently processing the maximum possible number of bookings we are able to handle at one time. You are being held on this page (which will refresh automatically in 3 seconds) until a space becomes available."

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One person posted about See Tickets: "Not even a queue? I'm stuck autorefreshing, I bet it's just random if you get in."

Another said: "What a joke - you get on early, ready to go and then literally get sent to the ‘refresh in 20 seconds’ page. Still not been redirected 15 minutes in. So frustrating."

People appear to have had more luck with the Ticketmaster website, but many have been met with a queue of more than 200,000 for individual dates. Some who were lucky enough to get through and purchase a ticket have already taken to trying to sell them for well above their face value.

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