Interview by Adele's Manager on trying to stop reselling of tickets:
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MBW can confirm that a whopping 57,000 tickets have now been sold to just the 14-date UK and Ireland leg of the tour by independent ticketing operator SongKick.
Ahead of 85,000 more tickets going on sale to the public this Friday (December 4) September Management and their associates are doing everything they can to block and quash touting on a number of levels.
More than 500,000 people across the UK and Europe signed up, Dickins tells MBW. (In a month of pretty amazing stats for Adele, there’s another one.)
“We were carefully monitoring all of the registrations to try and spot anything suspicious,” says Dickins.
Experts managed to catch more than 18,000 ‘known or likely touts’ from the process – around 15,000 of them based in the UK/EU – and kick them out before they even had a chance to buy tickets.
“This is a show for fans who’ve waited years for Adele to perform,” adds Dickins.
So why can’t Adele just play to more people?
A 36-date tour is a big undertaking for any artist, but surely she could have sold out stadiums, rather than arenas?
“You have to remember that the last time Adele toured, it was for 21,” says Dickins.
“In London, for example, we did two nights at Hammersmith and one night at the Albert Hall. That’s 15,000 people in total – about the same as one night at the O2. This is the organic next step.”
As amazing as she is the tickets are extortionate, SSE arena in Belfast is selling tickets that when adding booking fee come to around £109 and that is disgustingly expensive.
As amazing as she is the tickets are extortionate, SSE arena in Belfast is selling tickets that when adding booking fee come to around £109 and that is disgustingly expensive.
They are ridiculous, then again I looked at Rihanna and hers is 100 a ticket in a damn stadium.
I'M GOING TO SEE ADELE. Me and my friends were on queue by 9 AM but we completely forgot about it and went away One hour later we refreshed the page and we instantly got ticket access. With fees included, it was 60 euros (42 pounds or 63 dollars in case anyone wants to know).
We were planning to buy tickets for the blue section but we decided to go to the pink one instead.
As amazing as she is the tickets are extortionate, SSE arena in Belfast is selling tickets that when adding booking fee come to around £109 and that is disgustingly expensive.
Adele doesn't set the prices. The record label sets the prices based on supply and demand. The higher the demand, the higher the prices. It's just the way it works.
I'M GOING TO SEE ADELE. Me and my friends were on queue by 9 AM but we completely forgot about it and went away One hour later we refreshed the page and we instantly got ticket access. With fees included, it was 60 euros (42 pounds or 63 dollars in case anyone wants to know).
We were planning to buy tickets for the blue section but we decided to go to the pink one instead.
I'm in the blue section I'm looking forward to sell it somehow tho
Hello is no where close to being done yet 
One hour later we refreshed the page and we instantly got ticket access. With fees included, it was 60 euros (42 pounds or 63 dollars in case anyone wants to know).
I'm looking forward to sell it somehow tho