Tickets for the May 25 Vase Gala at Puskás Square went on sale at 10:10 a.m. Tuesday, but many people were able to use the ticket purchasing system, with the Broadway tickets page showing at 1 p.m. that 12,858 customers were waiting.
On the event’s Facebook page, many people commented disappointed that they were afraid to sell out tickets when they got their turn. But there was also a complaint that someone managed to wait their turn and bought a ticket, but did not receive a confirmation email.
The ticket system didn’t freeze, it just slowed down
Telex reached out to Broadway Ticket to see if they were experiencing an outage in their ticket system. They wrote that in their response
“Compared to average ticket sales, there is a significant slowdown, as it is not unusual for more than fifty thousand people to want to buy tickets at the same time. That is why there is a queuing system. We were prepared for the additional load, and the ticket system did not freeze, it just slowed down.” “.
We also asked what someone who bought their ticket on the platform, but didn’t receive it via email, could do. As it is written,
“We ask for a little patience from these customers, as everyone who completed the payment transaction will receive the confirmation. If you do not receive an email confirmation even after 24 hours, write to [email protected] and your colleagues will fix the problem.”
The Al-Azhar director hopes that everyone will get tickets
The director of the Azhar, Gerjo Toth, told Telex that these problems have also reached them, and they are constantly coordinating with the ticket office, so far it seems that the great interest has caused the problems to appear in a smaller amount. He does not consider this to be out of the question after tickets for the Al-Azhar concert on September 2 in Budapest Park sold out within 40 minutes.
Broadway Ticket had previously told them they were prepared for the pressure, which they said was to be expected, as was the event On his Facebook page 72,000 people have registered to attend the concert in 10 days, while the capacity of the Puskás Arena is approximately 50,000 people.
According to Gerjo Toth, it is estimated that nearly 13,000 people are trying to change tickets now, but only half of them, because when the problems occurred, many people were queuing up on multiple devices and platforms at the same time. But they hope everyone who joins the waiting list will get a ticket.
But who is Al-Azhariya?
The most famous Hungarian pop star of the 2020s is Azharia, i.e. Attila Bawkko, who is only 21 years old. Most people still know him as Paul Street on YouTube, where he has become one of the most popular vloggers in just a few years, with over half a million subscribers to his videos. At the same time, he began to build his music career, a real success story for Generation Z: his first concert in 2021 was immediately attended by 1,500 people in the newly opened Monioland, and in March this year he already gave a sold-out concert at the Papp László Arena. . But many people recognized him because of last summer’s scandal, which received much press coverage. Azharia was a guest on the After Podcast in May.
