SZA announced new tour dates including a Toronto stop and fans are already fed up with Ticketmaster

On Wednesday, SZA announced dozens of new dates for her popular SOS Europe and North America tour — including one show in Toronto. And while tickets don’t officially go on sale until Friday, fans trying to get their hands on a presale ticket are already voicing their frustrations.

By Thursday morning, “Ticketmaster” was trending on Twitter as users lambasted the ticketing giant for what many said were technical issues that kicked them out of the queue to secure their spot.

While the presale for Toronto didn’t begin until 10 a.m. Thursday, countless fans in Europe around 5 a.m. ET were already struggling to snag a ticket.

By 10:01 a.m., one person tweeted that tickets for the Toronto event were “taking forever to load.” Someone replied a minute later that more than 2,000 people appeared to be in the queue.

Another user trying to get a ticket to the London, England show tweeted a screenshot of the website, reading “Sorry, something went wrong. Please try again,” above a button to rejoin the queue.

“I’m not crying over boys,” the tweet began. “I’m crying over the fact that Ticketmaster made me rejoin the queue TWICE when I was next and told me there’s no tickets when I get in the third time.”

That same feeling was echoed by a different user around the same time.

“I’ve been in the queue TWICE and each time I’m at the front they give me an error and make me rejoin ALL THE WAY TO THE BACK,” the tweet reads.

Another person uploaded a screenshot that showed there were more than 2,000 people in line in front of her.

“I been waiting for 30 mins just to get kicked out of the queue,” the user wrote with crying emojis.

Another user showed a screen recording of what appeared to be an inability to even join the line. With each attempt to join the queue, the same page appears to reload.

One user who tweeted that they had gone through a similar experience summed up several commenters’ criticisms.

“Why is ticketmaster dead — kicking everyone whos (sic) trying to get sza tickets out as soon as its (sic) their turn to buy them,” they wrote.

When another user finally got to the front of the line, she said the purchasing options had been loading for 10 minutes.

A different user who got through to the front of the line said all that was left were “platinum” tickets for about £224 each.

“If this is just presale. tomorrow is gonna be a literal war for SZA tickets,” another person noted. “Ticketmaster fix up.”

Using comedy to cope with the disappointment, that same user tweeted “SZA made a song about ticketmaster,” with a screenshot of the track “I Hate U.”

“Ticketmaster you will hear from my therapist,” one person wrote.

Ticketmaster did not respond to the Star’s request for comment in time for publication.

SZA will be performing at the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto on Wednesday, Oct. 4.

Flack for Ticketmaster

In the last year, fans and artists have turned the heat up, pressing Ticketmaster over a number of high-profile incidents.

Taylor Swift fans experienced similar problems last November, which prompted the singer to post a story on Instagram expressing her anger over the hours spent by fans trying to buy tickets for her world tour.

But it’s not just the time spent on buying tickets that have fans have taken issue with — it’s also the exorbitant prices.

In December, some Swift fans filed a lawsuit against Ticketmaster, alleging its parent company Live Nation Entertainment Inc. engaged in fraud, price-fixing and antitrust-law violations, plus “intentionally and purposefully mislead(ing) ticket purchasers by allowing scalpers and bots access to TaylorSwiftTix presale.”

This March, a Montreal law firm filed a class-action lawsuit against Ticketmaster in relation to Drake tickets, saying the company “intentionally misleads consumers for their own financial gain.”

That same month, the giant ceded a win to The Cure’s frontman and their fans, issuing partial refunds after charging “unduly high” service fees where the band had aimed to keep ticket prices low.

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