It was Groundhog Day for Crowded House fans when the third concert of their run at the Sydney Opera House in November went on sale at midday on Wednesday. And it's likely the fourth show on sale two hours later will go the same way.

After the November 25 and 26 shows sold out in a few minutes on Monday, the 5000 tickets offered for the newly announced November 24 show went just as quickly. Potential buyers on the Ticketmaster site were being told within two or three minutes that there were no more available for the new show. A fourth show, on Sunday November 27, was announced soon after, going on sale at 2pm.

To rub salt into those fan wounds, the Ticketmaster site was also immediately directing people who had missed out to its resale offshoot where tickets for the November 24 show were already being offered for sale. Though not at anything like the face value of the tickets.

Once again tickets bought for $127 were available for in excess of $300 at the officially hosted resale page. On the bright side, this compares favourably with Monday's sale when within minutes of the "sold out" sign being hoisted there were demands for more than $900 for a ticket.