Peter Kay tour tickets selling for £1k after £35 seats sell out in minutes
PETER Kay fans have been left stunned after tickets begin to appear online to his upcoming comedy tour for as much as £1,000.
The comedy legend announced the end of his hiatus with a brand new tour announcement and pre-sale tickets have been flying off the shelves.
Customers of O2 priority were able to purchase tickets early but many reported glitches and website crashes in their attempts to bag a pair.
According to Birmingham Live, some tickets are now being sold for as much as £1,000 on resale sites such as Viagogo.
Fans were left furious at seeing the tickets on the sites following O2 crashing with one saying: "Yes it's a joke tho mate on the resale sites there up for a grand so someone is dodgy or something is going on."
Another added: "I know, I'm a virgin media customer was on the app fine then 9am it crashed. Think I will say the same when my bill due."
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Whilst a third fumed: "Tried 8 times just crashes every time code entered. fuming."
A representative for Virgin Media O2 said of the fiasco: "We've seen unprecedented levels of visitors to our Priority platform for Peter Kay tickets. As a result, some customers are experiencing difficulties trying to use the app and website despite us putting additional resources in place to help cope with such demand. We apologise and we're doing everything we can to get it back up and running as soon as possible."
O2 also shared a message direct to Twitter, writing: "We’re seeing unprecedented demand for Peter Kay tickets & we know a lot of you can’t access Priority. Sorry, we’re working on it. Please be patient; this is by far the highest demand we’ve ever seen for Priority Tickets in 15 years. The presale lasts for 48h so keep checking."
Peter announced his comeback to the stage in a TV advert broadcast on Sunday evening.
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The savvy comic has revealed he and his mate Matt filmed it from his car on a phone, and he had another hidden in his pants as a microphone.
Peter said of the ad, in which he delivers a roll of carpet to his mum: “He filmed it on his iPhone. It was my car and it was my mum’s house.
"I put an iPhone down my shorts and put it on Voice Memo so I recorded my sound.
“Tesco spent £12million on their Christmas advert, but I’ve done it in ten minutes on two iPhones.
"It were hilarious. We were back home in 20 minutes."