Online ticket buyers have troubles getting Elton John tickets for Halifax show

HALIFAX — Elton John fans hoping to buy tickets online for the pop star's two Halifax concerts found themselves hard pressed to do so when they went on sale Friday morning.

Some frustrated fans abandoned their computers and headed for the box office at the Halifax Metro Centre, where John will perform two shows on Sept. 26-27.

The two concerts sold out in about an hour.

One hopeful concert goer waiting outside the box office said a friend had been waiting for more than half an hour at a countdown page to buy her tickets.

Fred MacGillvray, president and CEO of Trade Centre Ltd., insisted the website was working and there were no problems with the Internet ticket-selling system.

He said the thousands of people who tried to buy tickets online created a long queue and had to wait their turn.