Black Market tickets escalate for One Direction.

Black-market ticket prices soar as Watford Coliseum sells out within ten minutes.

Fans of the X-factor group One Direction queued for more than 16 hours to purchase tickets at the release time of 10am on Saturday, however tickets were sold out within 10 minutes and thousands were left disappointed.

Within hours, tickets were being posted online at nearly 15times their face-value with one individual from Lancashire selling two “row B” tickets for a ‘buy it now’ price of £499.

Ms Larkin, sales and marketing manager at the Coliseum said on the black market tickets: ‘We are very unhappy and will cancel tickets we know have been resold and put them back on sale’

54000 calls were received whilst the website became extremely congested due to increased demand for the event.

The event is due to take place on December 18^th.