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On February 25th and 26th, the news of "there are a lot of concert tickets in seconds" ranked at the top of the hot search list.
Recently, in order to watch an idol's concert, Ms. Chen of Zhanjiang, Guangdong Province, asked dozens of friends to grab tickets for herself, enter personal identity information in advance, select the number of tickets to be purchased and the ** range, and follow the operation guidelines on the ticket page.
A few minutes before 14 o'clock that day, Ms. Chen anxiously held her mobile phone, not daring to leave the ticket page for a second.
As soon as 14 o'clock arrived, she immediately desperately clicked the ticket grabbing button, but obviously the information had been filled in advance, but the page always popped up "the information is wrong", and after repeatedly clicking in and popping up for a few seconds, the page showed that the tickets were "sold out".
The same happened to a number of relatives and friends that Ms. Chen had contacted in advance
Either it says "There is an error in the information", or there is no response when you click on your seat.
Dozens of people grabbed a ticket, but all of them failed within a few seconds of the ticket sale, and none of them succeeded.
What made Ms. Chen even more angry was that she browsed social platforms and found that many "ticketing" had already sold tickets for the concert before the tickets were released, and even said that "if you can't buy them at that time, it won't be at this price".
There are also many "ticketing" who still claim that they have "tickets of all prices, good locations" in their hands after the tickets have been sold out.
The restriction on the official ticketing platform to buy one ticket is completely absent from "Ticketing".
Ms. Chen said: "The original price of 480 yuan has been speculated to 2,200 yuan in the hands of those 'ticketing'. You can even buy seats in the first row, and the original price of 1080 yuan tickets is sold for 5300 yuan. ”
She searched for concert information, and it was basically all "ticketing" in publicity, **all of which were similar, and even "ticketing" bluntly said: "Peers are all at this price, and **much lower than us**".
Ms. Chen found that all the fans of the star she knew had not grabbed tickets, but some people claimed to be "ticketing" and sold tickets for this concert at a premium of several thousand yuan.
She said: "I clicked on the homepage of these so-called 'ticketing' personal accounts and found that some people had already started selling tickets before the concert tickets were officially on sale, and there were still a lot of tickets."
Ms. Chen felt resentful, "What kind of 'ticketing', isn't this premium a 'scalper'?" ”。
Recently, tickets for concerts of many big-name singers have been on sale, and they are basically "seconds".
While many netizens lamented that concert tickets were difficult to grab, a number of self-proclaimed "ticketing" accounts appeared on the Internet, claiming that they "have tickets in their hands and can accept the best to come".
The legal ** reporter found that these so-called "ticketing" are not official ticketing platforms. For some popular concert tickets, the "ticket" price is often several times higher than the original price.
A "ticketing" account posted: "Ticketing is not a scalper, our tickets are provided by the organizers, according to market pricing, although they are not official ticket sales, but the tickets in hand are sponsored or bought by the organizers."
As for why you can't grab a ticket, but the ticket has so many votes? Because only about 30% of the tickets are open on the official website, and most of the other 70% of the tickets are sold to ticket companies."
Unlike the official ticketing channels, "ticketing" can not only sell tickets in advance, but also ignore the purchase quota limit, and can also select seats in advance.
According to these "ticketers", the tickets they get can be divided into three categories: invitations, records and ordinary tickets.
Ordinary tickets are paper tickets reserved in advance by the organizer and not sold on the official ticketing platform.
The invitation letter and the record information are internal tickets, the amount is small, and the amount is expensive.
These two types of tickets are similar in nature, the former is a paper ticket, the latter is an electronic ticket, and the paper ticket also needs to enter information after scanning the code.
The reporter compared the price of some "second" concert tickets and found that there were a large number of remaining tickets in the hands of the "ticketing", and the ticket prices were several times higher than the original price.
For example, Jay Chou's Hangzhou concert, the official price of 2,000 yuan for the infield ticket, one for "Phoenix Music Culture Ticketing" sold for 6,599 yuan.
If you want to designate a location to the first 10 rows in the middle of the infield, ** is more than 10,000 yuan, and the most expensive in the middle of the infield in the first row of 20 seats, the price is more than 20,000 yuan.
On the official ticketing platform, the concert is limited to two tickets per person, but in the "ticketing", not only is there no purchase restriction requirement, but also "consecutive seats are guaranteed".
A "ticketing" told reporters:
We also need money to get tickets, and according to the market situation, the popular show must be much higher than the original price. As long as you can afford it, we can take you backstage to the concert and get in touch with the stars."
The reporter's investigation found that the so-called "ticketing" active on social platforms is mainly divided into two categories:
The first is to call itself "Ticketing", claiming that it is a serious company or studio, but according to the name it provides, you cannot find the relevant registration information.
The reporter got in touch with a personal account for "entertainment ticketing" on the social platform, and after adding his private chat account, he was pulled into a "ticket grabbing group", in which there were more than 300 people, scrolling from time to time to swipe the screen to grab tickets for concerts.
On February 2, tickets for the concerts of Jay Chou, Jacky Cheung, Lin Junjie, Li Zongsheng and many other stars went on sale on the same day. The "ticket grabbing group" was lively for a while.
"Entertainment Ticketing" sends orders from time to time as the group owner - the consumer's personal name, ID number and ticket purchase needs, and asks everyone in the group to help them grab it, and then chat privately with them for confirmation after grabbing it.
If someone in the group grabs a ticket, they may give a "bonus" ranging from 80 yuan to 200 yuan, but the "ticketing" is more than a little higher than the takeaway ticket**.
The second type of "ticketing" has its own official social media account, and even the "ticketing" identity authentication of the platform, but its business scope has nothing to do with entertainment performance ticketing, or the business scope is complicated.
1. Identity authentication is the "small ticketing" of the ticketing company, and its business scope includes: outdoor goods sales, gift and flower sales, cosmetics retail, shoes and hats retail, ticketing services, air international cargo transportation, passenger ticketing, etc.
After contacting this kind of "ticketing", the reporter found that these "ticketing" not only sell business tickets such as concerts, but also recruit ticketing**.
The account of "March Ticketing" said: "To become a ticket**, you can choose to pay a certain **fee, get *** directly or do not need to pay, use my ** to advertise on social platforms, and automatically upgrade to ** after receiving two orders, get ***."
After consultation, the ** fee demanded by different "ticketing" ranged from 200 yuan to 600 yuan.
Judging from the investigation, the so-called "ticketing" is usually a private transfer transaction with consumers, and it is difficult to communicate with the other party if you need to refund the ticket and protect your rights.
He once placed an order for Jay Chou's concert tickets on a "ticketing" mini program for the "Ferris wheel", and the original price of 700 yuan was increased by more than 2,000 yuan.
Later, the ticket needed to be refunded for some reason, but 20% of the handling fee was deducted by the platform, "the deduction fee is about to catch up with the original price of a ticket".
The reporter recently browsed a number of official ticketing platforms and found that the number of tickets sold was not indicated on the ticket sales page of many concerts.
For example, Lin Junjie will hold concerts in Chengdu, Hangzhou, Fuzhou, Tianjin and other places in the near future, and the official ticketing platforms are Damai, Maoyan, etc.
However, among the 8 concerts in 4 places, only Chengdu announced the total number of tickets available on the official ticketing platform, and the two platforms combined totaled more than 40,000, but it is unknown how many tickets were in total.
This news quickly aroused great attention, doubts and heated discussions among young people from all over the world
I have been in contact with a lot of 'ticketing', but I am reluctant to go to the platform, place an order on my own mini program, charge handling fees, service fees, and deduct a lot of handling fees if you want to refund;
Ticketing** is a big hole;
After the source of the 'ticketing' got the ticket, the recruitment of **layer by layer**, to buy a vote will definitely choose the **low seniority of the old 'ticket';
The crackdown on 'scalpers' is to maintain the stability of the ticketing market, these people call themselves 'ticketing', but ** selling tickets and disrupting the market, is it legal to say that they are not 'scalpers'? Shouldn't this kind of behavior be combated?
Why is this still the case, wasn't it a real-name system last year?
It must be the ghost of the organizer and the scalpers together;
Now the ticket grabbing premium has grabbed the opera;
Let 12306 sell tickets, and the turnstile to enter the concert is the same as the turnstile at the high-speed rail station, and that's it;
It can only be understood that the performance company will package the tickets to the intermediary, so that the drought and flood will be guaranteed;
It's just that the organizer is famous, and there are too many people watching it, and one is willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer!
The unspoken rules of the industry are to work together to harvest fans;
The organizer doesn't care who bought the ticket, just sell it, and it is the fans who are damaged;
Scalpers are essentially agents of internal interests;
Platforms and ticketing are in cahoots;
The organizer is raising cattle, so there is no need to go and see it;
It's not what fans are used to, the organizer is the biggest scalper;
It is strongly recommended that the real-name system will be used in the future, just like train tickets, to crack down on scalpers;
The truth is that the organizer is the biggest scalper, and hopes that the relevant departments will supervise and supervise;
It's good to buy tickets with real names, the organizer is just unwilling;
There are many good ways, but they don't use it;
The reason why ticketing is ticketing is also massive;
I suggest that everyone don't buy it, let the ticket lose and cry."
In recent years, with the rapid development of the entertainment industry, the concert market has become increasingly prosperous.
However, the problem of difficulty in grabbing concert tickets has always plagued the majority of fans.
Tickets for many popular concerts are often sold out at the moment they go on sale, leaving many fans excited.
There is some chaos in the ticketing market, which makes the trust of Chinese people in ticketing gradually decrease.
"Ticketing" refers to the act of purchasing, transferring, and other bills through various means, such as concerts and sports event tickets.
However, at present, "ticketing" has gradually evolved into a new form - online scalpers.
Online scalpers refer to people who resell various bills in a higher than normal way through the Internet platform.
They usually use technology to grab a large number of tickets before the official ticketing channels for concerts, sporting events and other events open, and then **change hands**.
Due to the existence of online scalpers, the tickets for some popular concerts and sports competitions** have been hyped up higher and higher, and even sky-high ticket prices have appeared.
In this case, many Chinese people have doubts about "ticketing".
They believe that "ticketing" plays a role in ticket speculation, making the originally most reasonable bills expensive.
So, why does the whole network recognize that "ticketing" is equivalent to online scalping?
Although "ticketing" provides ticket services to a certain extent, many "ticketing" plays the role of online scalpers in the performance market, and more and more Chinese people recognize the essence of "ticketing" - it is a false proposition, which has been criticized by fans across the country.
Lin Dashi believes that this incident enlightens us: we need to re-examine the value of the "ticketing" industry, and the problems of ticket speculation and regulatory loopholes cannot be ignored, cannot be delayed, and need to be solved urgently.
We urgently need to strengthen the regulation and supervision of the ticketing market, improve the vigilance of fans, safeguard the consumer rights and interests of fans across the country, and let the performance market develop in a healthy and orderly manner.
The existence of "ticketing" does not create real value for society.
"Ticketing" provides a convenient ticketing service, so that fans can buy tickets conveniently.
However, "ticketing" makes huge profits by hoarding tickets for speculation, which is based on depriving fans of their interests, seriously harming the interests of consumers and disrupting the order of the performance market.
The quality of service of "ticketing" has been questioned.
Many fans reported that when buying concert tickets, they often encountered the problem of not being able to grab tickets, which brought great inconvenience to their ticketing experience.
The after-sales service of "ticketing" is also unsatisfactory, and many fans encounter problems such as arbitrary price increase and deduction of some "ticketing" when refunding tickets, which cannot be effectively solved.
The "ticketing" industry is not highly transparent and lacks an effective regulatory mechanism.
Some "ticketing" take advantage of regulatory loopholes to carry out false propaganda and inflating.
This has led to the chaos of the performance market, damaged the interests of fans, seriously affected the fair competition in the performance market, and is not conducive to its healthy development.
The ethical bottom line of the "ticketing" industry has been questioned.
In order to pursue the maximization of interests, some "ticketing" do not hesitate to use means such as coaxing, which seriously damages the reputation and image of the industry.
According to Master Lin, this incident has given us three lessons:
Revelation 1: The phenomenon of ticket speculation is widespread.
Ticket speculation is an indisputable fact. Some ticketing companies take advantage of their own channels to hoard a large number of popular concert tickets, and then resell them to consumers to make huge profits.
Revelation 2: Ticketing companies lack standardized supervision.
At present, there are still large loopholes in the regulation and supervision of ticketing.
Revelation 3: The majority of fans need to be vigilant.
When buying concert tickets, fans should choose a formal, qualified and reputable ticketing platform, understand the relevant laws and regulations, and avoid losses.
In view of this, the whole network certainly recognizes that "ticketing" is equivalent to online scalpers.
Ladies and gentlemen, what do you think, please leave a message to discuss.
The picture is from the Shangguan title map, the Yellow River Ticketing Network, the Dahe Ticketing Network, the comics are from Li Xiaojun, **from the Martian perspective).