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Originally Posted by ayu_fan929
Well people already paid money for those tickets already...they're just selling it back with no intention of going in the first place.
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Right, Avex doesn't care how many tickets end up on the resale market because they already got paid for them - that is why they would still add more dates. What this could effect is future sales - people will be less likely to buy so many tickets because the resale shops will be less inclined to pay premium prices for tickets that they don't know will sell well or not.
For those that want to check for themselves (also a great resource if you are planning to go to her tour this year), go here:
http://www.yokohamaticket.co.jp/ticket/ticket-music.cgi
The drop down list has every artist that is currently on tour and what tickets are available in 3 of the 4 major Tokyo resale stores. Ayumi is now up to 530 actually. The artist with the second greatest number of tickets available from what I can see is Dreams Come True with 212 - but still there is a huge gap between 212 and 530, also their tickets are so far still going for 10,000+ yen, Ayu on the other hand has some of her tickets dipping to 4,500 now and you can get A-Block tickets(front) for waaay cheaper than they have ever been. Usually by this point you would be lucky to find a handful of tickets for the 4/11 show, not literally 100+. Very strange thing for Ayu's tickets right now that I can't remember ever seeing before. The AT08 tickets were getting easier to find last year, but still not to this level.
I don't know if this is strictly an economy thing either because none of the other artists that are comparable to Ayu seem to be having this problem. Namie for example has a grand total of 37 tickets available for 5 dates at Yoyogi. (When I went to Best Fiction in Feb. I was only able to find a small amount of tickets then as well) Even Hello Project tickets, which are usually the king's of the resale market, are doing way better. So, yeah, something is up with Ayu's concert sales this time around.
The good news is at least people on this forum that are planning to go, don't need to worry about buying tickets online for insane prices.
njanjayrp: I'm not meaning here to just point out Ayu is losing popularity, just stating the facts of what I surprisingly found out when I went looking for tickets myself. This is such an odd occurrence that I don't see how it can be passed up for discussion.