SINGAPORE – When a university student could not get tickets to K-pop boy band Seventeen’s concert in Singapore last year, she scoured online marketplaces for tickets to the sold-out show. Read more at straitstimes.com.
she scoured online marketplaces for tickets to the sold-out show.
Total losses amounted to at least $111,000 during that period last year, more than 53 times the amount lost in the same period in 2021. She said: “What I learnt was to always check for ticket and purchase proof and remember that if a deal is too good to be true, it probably is.”Another university student, who wanted to be known only as Ms Ong, 20, lost $500 when she tried to buy a pair of tickets from a third-party seller to Japanese composer-conductor Joe Hisaishi’s upcoming concert.She said: “I thought I was smart enough not to get scammed. But the desperation to get a ticket was great, so I wasn’t thinking very clearly.
Its spokesman said: “If buyers or sellers are uncomfortable with the proposed arrangement at any point, we urge them not to proceed with the deal and look for an alternative.”
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