UK fans furious with Ticketmaster after Packers' London game sells out with many tickets going to secondary sites
Fans across the pond were livid after hitting a major snag trying to get tickets to see the Green Bay Packers and New York Giants play at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London on Oct. 9.
As reported by The Scotsman, Ticketmaster explicitly instructed fans via email not to enter the online queue until 9:30 a.m. (3:30 a.m. CT) when tickets went on sale Tuesday, but those who followed that edict faced a queue of more than 100,000 people once they got there. And by 10 a.m., tickets for the quickly sold-out event were showing up on secondary sites.
Ticketmaster: please don’t log on before 09:30 to buy your tickets or you’ll be timed out
Genuine NFL UK fans: 166,035 before you in the queue at 09:30 #NFL #nfllondon pic.twitter.com/nbyQhUCwxz— SpartanTano ✨ (@JosueBall) July 26, 2022
we took your advice and joined queue for Green Bay packers tickets at time your email said. Only to find there were 125,000 people ahead of us. You’ve given us wrong advice and completely let us down!!!!!
— Miah (@Myamia25) July 26, 2022
Ticketmaster never fails to shock me. Like every time I think it couldn’t get any worse, each event it somehow manages to get worse. NFL tickets out the window thanks to shambles queuing process and misinformation 🙃
— Megan Allsopp (@allsopp_megan) July 26, 2022
@TicketmasterCS How can it be that when you announce that the queue for the NFL London tickets start at 9:30 people got in way before that. This way a lot of people are getting screwed over because of your misinformation. Pls delay the selling of the tickets or fix it.
— Nielsvd99 (@Nielsivd99) July 26, 2022
UK/EU NFL Fans stay up all kinds of hours of the night to loyally follow teams that are hundreds and even thousands of miles away from us.
And this is how the NFL repays us...By letting the Scalps get all the tickets for the London game.
What an absolute joke...#NFLUK— 🇬🇧Billy Blueshirt (@BillyBlueshirt) July 26, 2022
V disappointed with @NFLUK @NFL and @Ticketmaster Yet again the resellers win at the expense of real fans! 90 mins in and still 106018 people ahead of me. literally 😳
— Lizzie Lesnianski (@Lizlesnianski) July 26, 2022
@TicketmasterUK hey the email about the packers tickets said to connect only half an hour earlier and I joined 9:25 and my place is 143,000 WTF?
— José Luis Rodríguez (@jlrodv43) July 26, 2022
London will host three NFL games this year (two at Tottenham, one at Wembley Stadium), but it's the first time the Packers have played a regular-season game outside the country — making them the final NFL team to do so. The Week 5 game will air at 8:30 a.m. locally.
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According to the Daily Star, hospitality and corporate areas of the stadium were already spoken for, and only 50,000 tickets were expected to be on sale for each game at the stadium. The Vikings-Saints game to be played a week before the Packers game also sold out, though not as quickly as the Packers-Giants tilt.
JR Radcliffe can be reached at (262) 361-9141 or jradcliffe@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter at @JRRadcliffe.
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