Presale tickets for G.E.M. concert in Hong Kong gone in just over an hour
Presale tickets for Hong Kong singer Gloria Tang Tsz-kei were snapped up in just over an hour, with nearly 120,000 Hongkongers at one point vying to see the artist also known as G.E.M and dubbed 'China's Taylor Swift'.
A Post reporter who visited the Klook app at Wednesday, when ticket sales opened, observed that there was a queue of over 24,000 people waiting to buy tickets to the second edition of Tang's 'I AM GLORIA' world tour.
Less than five minutes later, the number of people waiting jumped to over 90,000, and shortly thereafter peaked at around 119,900.
At around 12.40pm, the Post reporter was brought to the page to purchase tickets and given ten minutes to confirm the transaction. While some stand tickets and bundles were listed as available, the reporter was unable to progress to the payment option.
'Some tickets are on hold. If they are not paid for in time, they might become available again,' a notice on the Klook app said when the reporter tried to purchase a ticket.
The reporter was then removed from the purchasing window and placed at the end of the queue.
Shortly after 1pm, Klook said that all tickets for the event were sold out.
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