Everyone you know must have tried a thousand times to buy Adele tickets.
Passes for the singer's North American tour, which includes about 50 shows in the U.S., were released all at once on Ticketmaster Thursday. But it was a frustrating experience for millions of fans, who suffered through crashing sites and long waits -- only to ultimately be told that tickets were sold out in their city.
And that wasn't just because of stiff competition from other devoted fans. Scalpers were out in full force, attempting to scoop up the tickets in order to resell them at exorbitant prices.
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In addition, there were thousands of tickets available -- but in New York City alone, where Adele announced six shows, at least four million people were in the virtual queue to buy tickets, according to Billboard. All six sold out in less than an hour.
Reports claim that Ticketmaster's servers and back end collapsed "under the strain of demand" since all the tickets went up at once, Fast Company says.
But despite angry fans, a representative for Ticketmaster says the site "did not crash and performed very well, in spite of truly unprecedented demand."
Either way, nothing stopped users from tweeting about their miserable experience.
So @ticketmaster has asked me to prove that I'm not a robot so many times that I'm starting to question it myself. #adeletickets— Christina Stephens (@CEStephens) December 17, 2015
That time when @Ticketmaster was absolutely the worst and wouldn't let me get past their robot security to buy @Adele tickets #adeletickets— Samantha Kubek (@SamanthaKubek) December 17, 2015
When your wait time on @TicketMaster goes from 16 minutes to 45 minutes #adeletickets pic.twitter.com/7bge6qCOu4— Louisa Orford (@LouisaOrford) December 17, 2015
how the world feels recalling their attempts to buy #adeletickets this morning pic.twitter.com/hd21rHSmS2— Erin Auci (@erina58) December 17, 2015
To the people who only bought #AdeleTickets to resell them them for a profit: you are the scum of the earth. #ticketmasteristheworst— Mahsa Payesteh (@mo0nbeam) December 17, 2015
Raise your hand if you have ever been personally victimized by Ticketmaster while trying to get Adele tickets. — Paige Lavender (@paigelav) December 17, 2015
Didn't get Adele tickets because @Ticketmaster crashed once I was on the payment page. Looks like I'll be saying hello from the other side..— Tyler Iacona (@tyleriacona) December 17, 2015
Adele shows in the UK were reportedly much more successful at stopping scalpers. There, the 25 singer teamed up with ticket sales site Songkick, which said it successfully blocked 53,000 sales to "known or likely scalpers" who tried to buy tickets via Adele.com, according to the New York Times. That ultimately saved fans more than $6.3 million in markup prices from potential resellers.
However, Songkick says it only handled about 8% of the available seats in the U.S.