Coldplay fans in India were left disheartened following a chaotic experience while trying to book tickets for the band's much-awaited India tour on Sunday. Now, a content creator has posted a video raising questions at ticket booking platform BookMyShow's 'flawed' system. The woman, named Simone Khambatta, posted a video on Instagram, addressing Coldplay and talking about the alleged unfair system of online ticket booking that saw queues stretching out to millions.
(Also read: Coldplay dreams trashed? Here’s where else you can watch the band in 2025 if not Mumbai ) Tickets sold before official sale? In the video, Simone addressed the massive queues for the tickets for Coldplay's upcoming set of Mumbai concerts, which are part of their Music Of The Spheres World Tour. Tickets for the two concerts went live at noon on Sunday and a third show was added hours later. But as fans flocked to BookMyShow, the sole platform offering tickets, many found lakhs of people ahead of them.
However, tickets were selling on third-party sites at the same time. "The strange part is that before the tickets even sold out on BookMyShow, viagogo was selling them at 5x the price. My question is how did they manage to get thousands of tickets to sell at 5x the price," Simone said.
A post shared by Simone (@simone.khambatta) The content creator said that she was sitting in anticipation of the sale 30 minutes before the window opened and that she and her husband had five devices logged in. But she said.