EUROVISION fans were met with technical errors as they rushed to buy tickets for the big event on Tuesday.
Tickets were finally released for the huge contest at midday on Ticketmaster but many were left frustrated.
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While some lucky music lovers were able to secure tickets, others were met with a “500 Internal Server Error” message.
The popular event takes place in Liverpool this year after winners Ukraine were unable to host due to the ongoing war.
The final is set to take place on Saturday 13 May.
“God damn Ticketmaster,” one user tweeted.
“Every. Single. Time.”
Another added: “Had 4 different errors pages now, wowsa @Ticketmaster you really have a wide range of errors!
“Internal server, bot detected, page unavailable and now Error 503 #Eurovision.
“I see your site hasn’t got any better in the last 10 years…”
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A third remarked: “I can’t believe they chose Ticketmaster for Eurovision honestly.”
Others were far from impressed when their place in the queue timed out and they were told to rejoin.
The wider Ticketmaster website continued to work as normal.
Errors like this are fairly standard for big events but that didn’t make it any less infuriating for eager fans.
At 1.33pm, Ticketmaster tweeted: “Tickets for #Eurovision2023 have now sold out.
“Fans still wanting to purchase tickets should keep an eye on Ticketmaster’s fan-to-fan resale if tickets become available.”
A Ticketmaster spokesperson said: “The Ticketmaster site did not crash today – rather a very small number of fans experienced issues accessing the queue.
“Ticket sales were unaffected, and thousands of fans secured their seats for the Eurovision Song Contest, which is now sold out.”
A BBC spokesperson added: “As expected demand for Eurovision Song Contest tickets was extremely high and tickets for all nine shows sold out in 90 minutes.
“Congratulations to those who secured their seats to Liverpool Arena in May.
“We are now looking forward to putting on a brilliant show for our global TV audience and those watching on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in the UK.”
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