Chaos at Ticnet as GT tour tickets go on sale
Written by tevensso on March 12, 2004 to Gyllene Tider.
STOCKHOLM (UPDATED) - 
This morning at 9 a.m., Gyllene Tider’s summer tour tickets went on sale. And on sale they went! Reports from several Daily Roxette readers able to access the Ticnet site, indicate that the premier concert in Halmstad sold out within an hour. Both Ticnet’s telephone lines and the Internet booking system have been jammed during most of the day.
EMA Telstar, the tour promoter, says that 100,000 tickets were sold in less than three hours. The concerts in Halmstad, Helsingborg and Gothenburg are sold out and ticket scalpers such as Biljettnu.se are already offering tickets at an inflated price.
Update: The Daily Roxette has learned that additional tour dates are under consideration, including the addition of a second concert in Halmstad.
Lissie and Daniel Alvedahl contributed to this story.
- Aftonbladet’s article (In Swedish)
Other articles with the same topic
- Gyllene Tider and Per Gessle released in the USA (October 10, 2007)
- Gyllene Tider and Per on Halmstad compilation (April 25, 2007)
- "New" Gyllene Tider releases out (April 14, 2007)
- Record collections donated to Rotary for auctioning off (March 6, 2007)
- Gyllene Tider declines Halmstad 700 (July 10, 2006)
82 comments
harriej said on March 12, 2004 15:10:
GRRR!!
Can only order via phone, not via internet they say!!
And the phone is not accessible!!
Stupid @#%$ Ticnet!!!!
dubacik said on March 12, 2004 15:18:
My friend living in Stockholm bought the tickets for Gothenburg for me and my friend about lunch time but she had also big problems to get them. But I am sooooooo happy to know I can book my flight ticket!
daniel_alv said on March 12, 2004 15:32:
the name thingis not so good... If someone gets sick no one else can use his ticket...
Lars-Erik_Olson (moderator) said on March 12, 2004 15:32:
EDITOR’S NOTE: Several “comments” relating to the availablity of tickets via Biljett.nu, a ticket scalper, were deleted as the original post didn’t make that clear, and we’ve added that piece of information to our news article. Remaining is a post by Ally77 as she had an additional point to make.
Also, we have not reported that the Ticnet system “crashed”... only that the demand was overwhelming and their capacity to handle multiple requests at the same time extremely limited.
tevensso (moderator) said on March 12, 2004 15:47:
About 7 days before the tickets go back.
Roxette-atic said on March 12, 2004 15:53:
It took me 1 hour 15 minutes by phone to get my tickets to stadion.
Eliza said on March 12, 2004 17:14:
I did not manage to book tickets for Halmstad, even though I was trying for few hours in the morning via both Internet and phone...
I just wonder why not organize an additional concert in Halmstad (and in Stockholm), since everybody knows how huge demand it is. I’m sure GT would fill another stadion!
Mari said on March 12, 2004 17:16:
tevensso, you mean 7 days if you have order by Internet? I ordered by phone and they told me that Monday, 15th, is the last day to pay tickets.
tevensso (moderator) said on March 12, 2004 17:24:
Maybe the date is different when ordering on the Net. :)
pelu said on March 12, 2004 17:38:
Wednesday is the last day to pay for them ih you ordered on internet. So on tuesday and thursday more tickets will be avialable
felicity-brown said on March 12, 2004 18:48:
@ Eliza: Stockholm is still available ...or atleast http://www.ticnet.se still says so. If so, and you live outside of Sweden, you can still phone and order them...
ally77 said on March 12, 2004 19:55:
Yeah ticnet says tickets still avail for Stockholm, Gothenburg and Halmstad? ermmm HELLO! anyone know what is going on?
colinvdbel (moderator) said on March 12, 2004 20:31:
I’m desperately searching for two or three tickets for the Halmstad show. If you can help me, please email me; I’m sure we can work out a price (I also have several items to swap which are VERY interesting...) PLEASE HELP ME!!!
ally77 said on March 12, 2004 20:43:
Well in that case bad marks to ticnet for not updating there website by now! makes people even more confused!
pelu said on March 12, 2004 20:43:
the “few” (fåtal) tickets that´s left are the children-tickets. :(
Vixzter said on March 12, 2004 21:15:
So....hows the Malmo tickets selling? can’t afford any just yet so just wanted to know if that was selling fast too.
ally77 said on March 12, 2004 21:25:
Seems to be plenty left! according to ticnet...
harriej said on March 12, 2004 21:40:
If so, and you live outside of Sweden, you can still phone and order them...
Good luck!! Today it was impossible to reach them by phone.
@#$% !!
ATLTK said on March 12, 2004 21:40:
just checking ticnet. it dosent say that any show are sold out... weird not even “only a few tickets left ” sign
ally77 said on March 12, 2004 21:49:
I ain’t saying another word I am all GT out today! ;)
patolucas said on March 12, 2004 22:19:
great!
good for gyllene!!for the fans who hasn’t tickets yet,it’s a pity!!!
Judith (moderator) said on March 12, 2004 22:26:
oh well, there are many other concerts to go to :)
(I mean GT)
roxtexanet said on March 13, 2004 01:55:
Wow... this is insane. While I sincerely hope every fan who wants to go gets a ticket, I think it’s awesome for Per that he’s going to be just as popular in 2004 as he was in 2003. Think the Swedish public will be sick of him by the time the next Roxette album comes out? (-:
joey said on March 13, 2004 08:33:
next time we demand an online ticket for only the people of outside sweden, or what??!!??!?! Gr..’#######
sleepingSingle said on March 13, 2004 11:25:
Got my tix 2!!!!
It was funny they had Gyllene Tider music while I was waiting...
See u this summer.
ktoto said on March 13, 2004 12:17:
I still cannot understand how is it that there are no tickets left for Halmstad, Göteborg and Helsinborg, but on the website it still says there are few.
OK, some of you said those tickets are for children, but, what’s the point of a nine-year-old boy going alone to a gig because no adult can buy a ticket?
It’s nonsense!! Ticnet must be going crazy!!
By the way, how do you know that there are no more tickets? the only way is the phone? or if I registered and went farther on the web-payment I would be told?
taxford said on March 13, 2004 12:53:
Ticnet has no influence and can not say “lets transfer the kid-tickets to adult ones”.
I think EMA Telstar has to do it.
Baby-C said on March 13, 2004 13:04:
@taxford: Yhey said previously that when the kidtickets was sold out, they would also have to have adult tix... but now we obviously have a situation where there are no adult tix left... so now they cannot sell the kid tix either... wierd...
ally77 said on March 12, 2004 15:03:
Yeah, these kind of people who buy tickets and flog on at top whack prices... annoying.. simple answer: takes names of people tickets are for.. so they cannot be re-sold... provide proof at gates... problem solved.
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