Many BTS fans are heartbroken this morning (Picture: Wire Image/ Jeff Kravitz)
The ARMY knew it was going to be a major struggle to get tickets to BTS’s London dates when they went on sale this morning.
But in addition to the UK ARMYs weeping over missing out on their chance to see RM, Suga, J-Hope, Jin, Jungkook, V and Jimin in the flesh, there’s a whole of anger too thanks to resale tickets popping up almost immediately for ridiculous prices.
Tickets for BTS’s London dates on 9 and 10 October at the O2 Arena, went on sale this morning at 9am – and it seemed like most of Europe was on Ticketmaster attempting to buy them.
When attempting to buy tickets, fans were confronted with a message reading: ‘Wow! Loads of people have turned up today. As so many people are trying to book tickets, we’ve started a queue. Don’t refresh this page as you may lose your place in the queue.’
After the tickets sold out, Ticketmaster directed fans to their resale site (Picture: GetMeIn)
Even without the queue, tickets for the two dates – which cost between £62.50 and £160 plus frees for general tickets and £220 for VIP – evaporated in under ten minutes.
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But just minutes after the tickets were sold out, they began to pop up on Ticketmaster’s official resale marketplace GetMeIn! for drastically elevated prices.
Currently on GetMeIn!, standing tickets for the 9 October date are being sold for £1,170 per ticket.
While a single upper tier ticket was being sold for £136, others in the same blocks are being flogged for £1,039 and £1,169.
And less than an hour after the tickets went on sale on Ticketmaster, four lower tier seats with VIP passes are being sold for £1,950.
Tickets are already being sold for upwards of £1,00 (Picture: GetMeIn)
Unsurprisingly, ARMYs are seriously frustrated with tickets being flogged for crazy prices after selling out so quickly – not least because the BTS priority ticket sale was cancelled earlier this week.
BTS super-fan Angela Lee (@AngelaLeePR) told us: ‘The tickets went on sale at 8.59am, if I wasn’t already online then I wouldn’t have even realised, and what makes it worse is that by the time it was 9.01am all the tickets were apparently sold out with tout sites marking these up to £1,000+.
‘What makes the situation even worse is that I’ve been with O2 for over 10 years but then they decided to take off the priority sale at the eleventh hour.’
And fellow BTS devotee Jenny Carroll (@The.Jenny.Diaries) added: ‘Being a BTS fan of course I sat at my desk at 8:00am, waiting for tickets to go on sale at 9:00am. To my surprise, but luckily I caught it, the queue opened up one minute early. While waiting in this queue, I noticed at 9:00am tickets were already on re-sale for £1,000 in a back row sitting area.
‘Two minutes later Ticketmaster let me know something went wrong with the queue and I had to start over. When I tried to re-enter, the website let me know that tickets were no longer available… AXS is still giving me hope because I am still in the queue… I hope my boss understands that I need to just go home and listen but also ask my parents to Hold Me Tight.’
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Judging by social media, it seems that some ARMYs did get their hands on precious tickets to see the Fake Love stars perform – but we’re holding out for a third date.
Metro.co.uk has approached Ticketmaster for comment.
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Tickets on sale today! (Picture: Splash News
The wait is finally over for the BTS Army as tickets for their two London shows go on sale on Friday morning.
It has been a long stretch between the announcement of their two concerts at The O2 and the tickets actually being released, but that is about to be at an end.
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The K-Pop sensations are bringing their Love Yourself tour to London on 9 and 10 October 2018 in, what is sure to be, a memorable show.
Here is everything you need to know about when and where to get your hands on tickets…
Good luck! (Picture: WireImage)
When are BTS tickets on sale?
Tickets go on sale on Friday, 1 June at 9am at livenation.co.uk and AXS.com.
How much will BTS tickets cost?
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Live Nation UK confirmed via Twitter that tickets will cost a range of prices – VIP £220, £160, £125, £90, £62.5 + fees.
The fees have not been confirmed yet.
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Fans of BTS were devastated after attempting to buy tickets for their London shows.
The seven-piece group, from South Korea, recently announced they would be coming to the UK for the first time ever with two dates in London.
Yet fans, known as The ARMY, were distraught after tickets for The O2 shows sold out within a few minutes.
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However, many tickets quickly cropped up on resale sites, including Ticketmaster's official resale marketplace GetMeIn!, for massively elevated prices.
Tickets, which were sold for between £62.50 and £160 plus fees, are currently listed on the site for almost £2,000 – and more than £3,000 for VIP.
Fans of the group, consisting of members V, Jimin, RM, Suga, Jin, J-Hope and Jungkook, begged Ticketmaster and the O2 to stop people buying large quantities of tickets and selling them on for profit.
@TicketmasterUK you can't seriously allow the resale of tickets at over £1110 each can you?? you do know that BTS's main audience are teenagers still in school right?? also fix your glitching website that lost me my tickets :))) — alexander 👽 (@asilluart) June 1, 2018
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How is it fair that BTS tickets are being resold for 3x the price on your official resale site? A least re release them to the public if they’re so many available? — 𝓷 (@vante3x) June 1, 2018
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Rant alert! Shocking how ticket touts use the system to resale tickets for concerts aimed at children. Attempted to purchase @bts_bighit tickets today after O2 cancelled priority tickets. sold out in 10 mins but somehow within mins they are available elsewhere for &£1000’s pic.twitter.com/tJ0BWyrmny — Lucy (@changemanager2) June 1, 2018
So wrong that Ticketmaster allows the resale of tickets for ridiculous amounts of money on their website.
BTS tickets went on sale this morning and so many of their young fans missed out. Now they would need to fork out £600-£1500 to get one ticket.
Such a shame. #btslondon — Linda Blacker (@lindablacker) June 1, 2018
BTS recently became the first ever K-Pop group to Hit No. 1 on the Billboard Artist 100 Chart with their record Love Yourself: Tear.
Jason Derulo recently hinted he was working alongside the K-Pop band, telling Metro he was a huge fan of them.
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He added: "I first got introduced to K-Pop about nine/10 years ago when my career first started when I went over to Korea and I got to experience it first hand. And ever since in terms of fashion, in terms of performance, it was super next level.
"It's not nearly the lazy mentality that most artists have. And I'm so glad it has a world stage now. That's so dope."
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