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INTEREST: Front Row Love Live Concert Tickets Auction for US$2,627




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Kaioshin_Sama



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PostPosted: Tue Jan 20, 2015 5:37 pm Reply with quote
Stories of Love Live fans just destroying themselves financially over u's related stuff will never cease to amuse me.
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Hameyadea



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PostPosted: Tue Jan 20, 2015 5:56 pm Reply with quote
That is some nice ~2,886% profit(eering) Shocked
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Spotlesseden



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PostPosted: Tue Jan 20, 2015 9:07 pm Reply with quote
Kaioshin_Sama wrote:
Stories of Love Live fans just destroying themselves financially over u's related stuff will never cease to amuse me.


This is nothing. people are willing to pay 10k for middle row Super Bowl tickets.
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SquadmemberRitsu



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PostPosted: Tue Jan 20, 2015 10:07 pm Reply with quote
Well I'm willing to sell my left nut for the same. I'd like to think it's worth more than that.
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Hoppy800



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PostPosted: Tue Jan 20, 2015 10:27 pm Reply with quote
Muse just makes people sell the farm doesn't it. This is near AKB tier outrageous. You don't see this with the Idolm@ster fanbase (except with the mobile games).
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Mr. Oshawott



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PostPosted: Tue Jan 20, 2015 11:30 pm Reply with quote
Why do I have a feeling that these Love Live tickets may be coming from scalpers? Is it really normal for tickets to be sold at auctions?
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Hoppy800



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PostPosted: Tue Jan 20, 2015 11:52 pm Reply with quote
Mr. Oshawott wrote:
Why do I have a feeling that these Love Live tickets may be coming from scalpers? Is it really normal for tickets to be sold at auctions?


They are scalpers and it's normal for tickets to be sold at auctions and sometimes cost super high due to the insane demand for them.
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LUNI_TUNZ



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 21, 2015 2:39 am Reply with quote
Mr. Oshawott wrote:
Why do I have a feeling that these Love Live tickets may be coming from scalpers? Is it really normal for tickets to be sold at auctions?


They are scalpers. Usually when tickets for a thing go on sale, there's a contingent of people who buy as many tickets as possible, and sell them at insane prices.

Tickets to the Home Opening of the Cavs game here were up on Secondary market for $20,000, from some overly ambitious brokers. This of course isn't any indication of if anybody's buying tickets at those prices.
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Cutiebunny



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 22, 2015 3:22 am Reply with quote
Found an auction for another one on YJ -

http://smjsearch.com/cgi-bin/b.cgi?n139593365

As of this post, the ticket, which originally sold for 10,800 yen, has a high bid of 121,000 yen.

As someone who spends quite a bit on artwork, I can't really call these people crazy. Yeah, spending 121,000+ yen on a ticket seems silly to me, but I've spent some stupid amounts on shikishi artwork too.
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