Last Updated on 2023-05-05 , 10:38 am
If there’s one thing from the pre-COVID era that most people have been missing, it’s being able to see celebrities and singers from all over the world perform in Singapore.
Thankfully, with the relaxation of COVID-19 restrictions, many celebrities across the globe have begun planning or announcing concerts in Singapore over the past few months.
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Most recently, Hong Kong singer Jacky Cheung announced his “Jacky Cheung 60+ Concert Tour”, including six concerts at the Singapore Indoor Stadium over two weekends in July this year.
And even if you’re a (self-proclaimed or otherwise) Gen Z, you probably know Cheung, who is part of the Four Heavenly Kings of Cantopop in Hong Kong.
To no one’s surprise, the tickets for all six shows, which were made available on Ticketmaster’s website at 10 am today (26 April), were all sold out within a few hours.
Unusual Entertainment, the concert’s promoter, also uploaded an announcement at 2.07 pm to indicate that the tickets to all six of Cheung’s concerts had all been sold out.
In the comments section of the post, multiple Facebook users expressed their disappointment at not being able to secure tickets.
Some added that they were in the online queue on Ticketmaster for four hours but were still unable to purchase any tickets.
Scalpers Selling Tickets Online for Up to $2,000 per Ticket
Yes, there are scalpers out there selling their tickets online, even for a concert you young people might assume only boomers would attend.
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After the tickets were sold out, listings on Carousell from sellers looking to sell their Jacky Cheung tickets started popping up on the platform.
And before you think that buying from these sellers would be an incredibly convenient way to obtain tickets since you’d have skipped the need to queue online, the hefty price tag on these tickets might stop you in your tracks.
Currently, a quick scroll through Carousell would show that a ticket to watch Cheung sing would cost you anywhere upwards of around $650.
And that’s not even for the “best” category, i.e. Cat 1.
For now, it seems like the most expensive ticket on Carousell is a Cat 1 one that is going for $2,000.
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According to the description in the listing, the ticket is for a seat in the 12th row for the concert on Saturday, 22 July.
For reference, the tickets on the Ticketmaster website were priced from $168 to $388, meaning that some of these sellers are looking to earn up to over four tickets’ worth in profit.
Aside from Carousell, some netizens have posted on Facebook that they are looking to sell their tickets.
Most of them commented under a post by Singapore Atrium Sale asking interested buyers to message them on Facebook, but the page warned individuals against doing so and said that comments trying to sell tickets would be deleted.
Other Users Trying to Search for Tickets, Someone Willing to Pay Up to $2,700
Apart from that, some Singaporeans who were unable to secure their tickets through Ticketmaster have also taken to Carousell to try and look for tickets through listings with “LF” (looking for) in the listing title or caption.
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Some of them also include the specific category, ticket quantity and date that they are looking for.
One Carousell user even indicated in their listing’s caption that they would be willing to pay $2,400 for a Cat 2 ticket and $2,700 for a Cat 1 ticket.
Yup, I’m sure that just called most of us poor in every single language.
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More About Cheung’s Concert Tour
As part of Cheung’s newest “Jacky Cheung 60+ Concert Tour”, the 61-year-old Cantopop giant will first start his concert tour in Macau.
Afterwards, he will be performing in Singapore, the tour’s second stop.
As for whether there are any plans to increase the number of shows or seats available to accommodate the high demand for tickets, Unusual Entertainment wrote in its announcement that it would provide any further ticket updates through its social media channels.
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