Tickets for the hit West End Harry Potter play are on sale for more than £8,300 on reselling website Viagogo, prompting the producers to denounce the “plague” of online touting. StubHub, owned by eBay, lists a ticket to see both parts of the play on 8 April for £4,999. The play’s producers attacked those trying to make a profit out of fans’ desperation to see the play, which has proved so popular that some Harry Potter fans have been travelling to London from other countries to see it. “The secondary ticket market is an industry-wide plague, and one which we as producers take very seriously,” Friedman and Callender said in a statement. It’s definitely exploitation.”Kat Miller, marketing director at the Harry Potter fan site MuggleNet, said touts were profiteering from fans’ passion for the books.

Source: The Guardian August 13, 2016 23:02 UTC