I had registered for the Advanced Sales window today with WST at 9am today. Was logged on and watched the countdown immediately looked at any ticket for next years final on the Sunday and Monday to find all 4 sessions sold out!
Immediately went to try for the 1st Saturday of the tournament and once again all sold out! This was within 1 minute and I was logged on and had access to the sales pages, so I never missed out because of queues! It seems tickets sell ridiculously quick for Snooker as well as Real Madrid. Clearly ticket agencies have some kind of software that can instantly select and purchase. Just shocking that events like this are effectively being racketeered.
Incidentally a session in the final was circa £140 and on the 1st Saturday around £55, so quite comparable to football in a way.