Hamilton - Victoria Palace Theatre

I assume that only a certain amount of the house will be available for each show for priority booking. I don't think the initial booking period has been announced yet.

I think the official Twitter account tweeted someone saying that Summer 2018 would be included in the initial booking period. 

I think it'll be like Cursed Child, where the pre-sale will have the initial 6 months or so of booking, and then when it comes to General Sale they'll extend booking and release another 6 months or so.

I'm surprised e tickets aren't more common, Nimax do it for everything apart from Potter and the Plays at the Garrick season last year as do Nederlander, i would think ATG, Delfont Mackintosh etc should try and implement it

I best start searching through my emails as Im now doubting I ever registered!!  will it be from Hamilton?

Thanks, I've found it, I was sure I'd registered after seeing In The Heights last August but was starting to doubt myself! 

Anyone here run the @hamiltonldnfan account that recently popped up on twitter?

Article here:
www.thestage.co.uk/news/2017/cameron-mackintosh-unveils-scheme-tackle-hamilton-ticket-touts/

They did. I only got a voucher in the morning which I had to exchange for the actual ticket 30min before curtain up (IIRC) - and I had to present my ID card.

Show the voucher to your buyer once you've received it, meet back at the theatre at five past 7, job's a good un.

I do hope there'd be ID-based checks or similar in place for Hamilton, because it does sound incredibly naive to say “you can’t put anything online to sell, if you haven’t got a physical piece of paper to sell" (if you think about it, that's EXACTLY what Delfont Mackintosh are doing, selling tickets online without immediately giving us a physical piece of paper to show for it!). Sadly it can be quite easy to sucker a person into buying less-than-reputable tickets, and I don't think "give me the money now and I'll forward you the confirmation email and you can pick the physical ticket up when you arrive" is a particularly impossible thing to sell. Difficult, sure, you'd hope a lot of people would think it far too risky, but not impossible.

I wouldn't be surprised if they installed machines similar to when you collect train tickets, insert payment card & confirmation number, tickets print out.

I have been giving this some thought. When the news broke I had a similar reaction to Baemax and others here. However, I think the problem with Hamilton on Broadway (and other events much in demand) aren't really the old-style touts who lurk around the theatres and try to shift 2-4 tickets per performance and who could still go about this as described above. But I assume that box office staff would soon start smelling a rat if they see the same person(s) turn up again and again for ticket collection. 

The new touts that blight Hamilton on Broadway are organized criminals, possibly not even living in the US, who use advanced bots to trick the American Ticketmaster system and scoop up 200-300 tickets per performance for Hamilton on Broadway and immediately offer them for resale. They rely on people buying through Ticketmaster's own resale system or other second market places like Viagogo, where the money flows entirely online (probably to some untraceable bank account).  These people just want to rake in money big time from whatever basement flat they are operating out of, they won't bother with meeting buyers at the theatre daily, possibly can't even, depending on where they sit.

 British shows generally don't have the same kind of resale system as Ticketmaster US has, where people open the official ticket website seating plan and only see 300 seats available at $800 each and two at $150 in the broom closet.  So I'm not really worried.