Hong Kong songstress Sammi Cheng will be holding her ‘Touch Mi World Tour Round 2’ encore concert later this year, with tickets for her shows becoming a hot commodity due to the high demand and reasonable price.
In
order to contain demand for the tickets, Sammi has put in place a
number of restrictions, only allowing each buyer to only purchase four
tickets at a time. However a number of ticket scalpers still managed to
get their hands on additional tickets, causing the 43-year-old to take
to her Weibo in an attempt to persuade her fans to refrain from buying
tickets from the scalpers.
“Don’t
buy from the scalpers. Every single member of the audience should have
the principle of buying tickets at their original price. Let them
struggle to sell the tickets that they had bought in bulk. I’d rather
perform to rows of empty seats, than to see you guys have to succumb to
buying tickets from them [the scalpers],” Sammi wrote.
The singer then went on to reassure her fans that she’ll still “perform to the best of her abilities”, even if she faced empty seats, before ending her post to practice for her upcoming concert tour.
However, the
comments section of Sammi’s post showed that her fans had mixed
reactions to her impassioned post. While some fans had expressed their
gratitude to Sammi for speaking out about the ticket scalpers, some
lamented that they had really wanted to watch Sammi’s concert, but did
not manage to get any tickets, leaving them no choice but to “bow down
to the scalpers”.