Justin Bieber Believe Tour: Star Accused Of Scalping His Own Tickets
Team Bieber boasted that tickets for Justin Bieber's Madison Square Garden concert sold out in just 30 seconds, while his entire American "Believe" tour sold out in just an hour. However, ticketing documents obtained by News Channel 5 Investigates reveal shocking new details.
“Bieber's fans were not told that there were really not that many seats left by the time tickets went on sale to the general public,” reports News Channel 5, in Nashville. “Ticket instructions obtained from Bieber's Nashville concert show that out of almost 14,000 available seats the number actually set aside for that public on sale: just 1,001 … In Bieber's case, the biggest chunk of tickets -- almost 6,000 -- went to American Express customers through an AmEx presale. Another 3,000 went to paying members of Bieber's fan club.”
In the investigation, News Channel 5 says that it found 14 tickets on TicketsNow (a resale site with a huge markup) in row G, listed for $246 each. Ticketing documents show that this entire row consisted of house seats that were not made available to the general public.
“A lot of artists do this,” one concert insider tells me. “Their perspective is they would rather make the money than give it to scalpers. It's not unusual to hold back the best seats and sell them at marked-up prices calling them 'VIP' tickets.”
News Channel 5 claims that three years ago, less than 1,600 seats out of 15,000 seats at Taylor Swift's tour went on sale for the general public, adding that Ticketmaster has no say in what tickets artists make available for sale.
Bieber’s publicist did not return our calls for comment.
Source I mean..be a little LESS obvious about your attempt to drum up publicity. Come on.
Because I really need to go to bed but if shit is about to hit the fan, I will gladly stay up.
But I'll post them anyway, for sh*t and giggles.
Posting the other only as a link cause it's NSFW.
http://www.celebjihad.com/celeb-jihad/i
too bad their fakes though that post would have been epic :(
(Is ONTD ridiculously slow to anyone else right now?!? I'm getting nervouse knots in anticipation, here!)
lol exactly. Looking at you, initially announced Throne shows.
I'd love to see Radiohead but again, I'm not the biggest fan + money issues. WHAT DO I DO. I try to do something nice and then shit happens
/first world problems
or if you dont wanna go and just wanna make as much money back... scalp the tickets for a much as possible to try and recover the plane ticket cost.
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I might just sell the ticket. It was $130 and would probably sell for $200 at the most. And I might let my parents take the trip. That'd work right?
lol hes probably just upset he cant go and feels bad that your nice present has to go to waste.
Although it's kind of a loss I'd take a trip somewhere later on. :)
makes me think twice about this bs god and to think we were going to fly to different cities to see them but nope those tickets were vacuumed up too
Yep. Madonna is just the only one that's up front about what she's doing with the jacked up prices.
Dont be mad if hes from the streets
I could go on.
We just bought tickets to the Black Keys last minute last week and had to pay to print them out.... I'm so bitter about that shit years later still.
this is why i rarely go to concerts.
my friend and I saw Lady Antebellum in May and we ended up in literally the last row in the venue.
and as the article says this is standard practice, EW just has a stick up their ass wrt justin. this post is a fail