High-tech touts
The Great Monty Python Swindle: Tickets for their reunion sold out in 43 seconds. But then, as we reveal, it’s almost impossible for ordinary fans to beat today’s high-tech touts.
Monty Python fans across the country sat down at their computers on Monday morning, credit cards poised, and awaited the chance to buy tickets to the comedy team’s hotly anticipated reunion performance.
At ten o’clock, all 20,000 tickets for next year’s show were released for sale on the websites of the concert venue O2 and the accredited ticket distribution company Ticketmaster.