Imagine this:
You’ve just gotten tickets to your favourite concert. Elated, you fervently wait for the day to arrive, and arrive it did. As you walk closer and closer to the entrance, you can hear it: that unmistakable noise of crowd cheering and whistling. Slowly, your hand ascend to your chest; something is pounding really hard.
“Finally,” you say softly. “Finally.”
And as you gingerly approach that lanky male staff member, who has just finished verifying this skimpily-clothed teen’s ticket and is now openly checking her out, you can’t help but think:
“I’m so glad I bought that ticket online.”
“I’m sorry, you can’t go through.”
You stare at him, utterly nonplussed. “Sorry?” you whisper.
“I said, you can’t go through.”
You look at him blankly. You’ve got the ticket, so why can’t you go through? “But I’ve got the ticket!” you exclaim. “Here, see?”
“It’s a fake, missy.”
“What’re you talking about? I bought this ticket online-”
“That’s precisely why, Missy. Now if you’ll excuse me…” He waved you away.
You stare at the staff member for a little longer, before looking down at your ticket. It’s now damp with moisture. As your world came crashing down, you can’t help but remember that Goody Feed video you watched months and months ago.
“Andy Lau Mua Mua,” you whisper sadly. “I finally understand how you feel.”
Fake tickets
Now just to clarify; the above scenario is actually true. Granted, I exaggerated it a little bit, and I’m pretty sure the victim hasn’t actually watched our videos before, but the gist is there:
She got scammed.
As it is, the girl in question, who looked to be of primary school age, actually burst into tears upon being told by staff that she couldn’t enter the venue.
Which was nothing short of lamentable, considering how just moments earlier, she had reportedly been beaming with anticipation as she clutched her ticket for the South Korean boyband’s concert.
Yet while the girl’s plight was understandably dreadful, there’s something even worse here:
She’s not the only one.
Indeed, just five minutes after the little girl was turned away at the doors, a woman in the same queue faced the same fate when she was told that her ticket had actually been scanned for entry half an hour earlier.
According to TNP, the woman was overheard explaining to a counter staff member that her friend had bought the ticket online for her.
Which, rather unfortunately, might have turned out to be a duplicate.
The Singapore Sports Hub, which accommodated BTS’ performance over here, has since spoken out.
“The Singapore Sports Hub takes cases of ticket scamming seriously, and we work closely with promoters and government authorities to identify scalpers and unauthorised reselling,” a spokesman said.
“Any unauthorised resale tickets identified will be voided and denied entry to our venue.”
Incidentally, days before the BTS concert, the Sports Hub actually issued a media advisory, cautioning the public that tickets would have their barcodes scanned at access points, and that each validated ticket can only be scanned once.
“By purchasing tickets through resellers other than the authorised ticket agent, buyers take the risk that the validity of the tickets cannot be guaranteed as it could lead to seizure or cancellation of those tickets without refund or other compensation.”
More victims
As you might’ve kinda expected, those weren’t the only victims here.
And apparently, victims aren’t just confined to local regions as well.
As it is, a BTS fan from the US, who requested to be known only as Ms Paulina, was turned away despite having a ‘valid’ ticket in hand. Ms Paulina, who works for a San Francisco-based law firm, tweeted about her experience and told TNP that she had purchased the ticket at $437.35 from StubHub (not to be confused with Starhub, the local telecom), an online ticket exchange company in the US.
“I found out I was scammed when I attempted to pass the security gates at the show.
“I was told that my ticket had already been scanned.
“I was directed to the concierge service line, but since I purchased my ticket from a third party, they could not help me.”
Thereafter, she contacted StubHub through its live chat feature on its website and was e-mailed a replacement ticket.
Incidentally, online marketplace Carousell has notified TNP that it received scam reports from other BTS concertgoers, and has suspended a user account that failed to deliver on its promise. Investigations are currently ongoing.
“If any account is found to have engaged in fraudulent activity, we will not hesitate to suspend and ban the user,” said the spokesman for Carousell.
And so that leads to our most popular segment of the century…
The Moral Of The Story Show.
Now, it might sound tough, but the fact remains that authorised sellers are called ‘authorised sellers’ for a reason.
So, as this article so aptly pointed out, your best bet might be to turn to those instead of ‘questionable’ resellers. Because sure, while some resellers might deliver on their promise…
There’ll be some looking to make an illegal quick buck too.
Well as a wise old man once said:
“Life’s a bitch, so suck it all up.”
(Editor: You sure that’s not your Aunt Matilda?)
Nope, pretty sure it’s the old man.
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