Selling Coldplay concert tickets at RM43,000 is outrageous - Fahmi
Astro Awani
May 18, 2023
The act of reselling Coldplay concert tickets at multiples of the original price caught the attention of the Minister of Communications and Digital, Fahmi Fadzil.
KUALA LUMPUR: The act of reselling Coldplay concert tickets at multiples of the original price caught the attention of the Minister of Communications and Digital, Fahmi Fadzil.
He openly criticized the profiteers on his personal Twitter account, today.
"This is outrageous - the issue of tickets under the Ministry of Domestic Trade and Cost Sara "God willing, I will raise with minister Salehuddin Ayub," he said in the message.
He said this in response to allegations that there were parties who bought Coldplay "Cat 1" concert tickets whose original price was RM1,288 and were resold for RM43,200.
There are buyers who resell tickets on Mudah and Carousell online platforms at many times the original value.
The survey found that there are individuals believed to be ' scalpers ' or ghost ticket buyers reselling tickets for Coldplay's Music Of The Spheres World Tour (MOTSWT) concert series at the Bukit Jalil Stadium on November 22.
The concert of the famous music group from the United Kingdom received an incredible response when it opened for sale to the public on Wednesday.
Astro AWANI reported that tickets for the band's concert were sold out on Wednesday, a day after sales opened exclusively for CIMB card users.
One of the concert's promoters, Live Nation announced that ticket sales closed at about 1pm on Wednesday, less than four hours after general sales opened at 10am.
