Kanye West is having a good time with tickets for his concert at the Metropolitan Stadium, scheduled for July 30. After the start of the general sale today, March 12, several users on networks have detected a sudden and suspicious lowering of prices, which during the pre-sale were considerably higher.
For example, low-tier tickets that initially cost 295 euros have now cost 185 euros, while those in the upper tier, level 2, which cost 225 euros have dropped in price to 150. In some cases the difference exceeds 100 euros, in the case of the same ticket.
Users on networks denounce a possible “massive scam” on fans of the American rapper, caused by the pressure that the press agency in charge of broadcasting the event in Spain, Yelivemadrid, would be generating on networks for the public to urgently buy tickets. Yelivemadrid announced on Instagram that more than 40,000 tickets had been sold in one day, 85% of the seats, but El Confidencial contradicts this statement in a report, pointing out that in reality 28,259 tickets were sold, 46%.
Yelivemadrid has given an explanation to EuropaFM through an Instagram DM, alluding to unlocked tickets: “At some points during the sale, and depending on the availability of areas and the final configuration of the venue and the concert, tickets with worse visibility than the first ones are unlocked,” he explained, indicating that whoever wants to replace their ticket can do so.
One of the companies organizing West’s concert in Madrid, Vibra Music, explains to El Confidencial that it is common for tickets to be reserved for “production needs, guests and for people with reduced mobility”, but the number of tickets reserved for the organization is around 8,000 and does not make a big difference in the supposed sales inflation.
Even so, Vibra Music is “confident” that the concert will be sold out and even opens the possibility of additional tickets being released. Of course, it asks the public to avoid purchasing tickets on unofficial platforms, since several fraudulent pages are selling tickets at suspiciously low prices.
