Chapter 252 (1/2)
Maru opened an internet browser. When he did, someone else turned on the TV connected to the computer. This class usually visited comedy and humor sites during lesson breaks. Sometimes, they had people stand guard at the door and look for sites with lewd pictures. Other times, it was mostly used for battle games.
“Maru, playing a game?”
“No.”
“Then porn?”
“Keep dreaming.”
People started gathering. Maru clicked on the ticketing page. He was planning to buy the tickets for his sister early on. If she actually entered the top 5 in her class, he would give them to her right away, and if she didn’t, he would eventually give them to her after some hassle. Since she was smart, it would be likely that she would enter the top 5. TTO tickets were on the line, so she would probably try harder as well.
“A concert to TTO?”
“Why are you trying to get them?”
The others were curious about his actions and asked.
“I have a use for them.”
“A use for TTO? Those guys aren’t even that good at singing or dancing.”
“Those same guys that aren’t good at singing and dancing are earning much more than you. Did you know that?”
“Dammit,” this guy then just started sleeping on his desk.
Maru clicked around to buy tickets for TTO’s concert in June. He made an account and then clicked on the reserve button. However, he was given a notification window stating that all the tickets were sold out.
“The concert is in June, and it’s already sold out?”
Maru laughed. There were still about 3 weeks until the concert, and the tickets had already been sold out. Perhaps idol concerts were all like this. He looked for other websites just in case to look for remaining tickets, but the other websites did not sell the tickets at all. This meant that the first website had an exclusive contract.
“You want concert tickets?” Another classmate of his, who was eating ice cream, spoke. Maru nodded.
“Then you should have tried on the day the ticketing began. It’s almost impossible to get them after a week. You’ll have a hard time getting any unless you buy them off resellers or scalpers.”
This guy seemed very knowledgeable. Maru asked if there was a way.
“Wait a minute,” saying that, he took over the keyboard and went to one website.
“If there are any in stock, they should appear on this website.”
“My sister is a hardcore fan. She had me refresh the website so many times the night before the ticketing began. She’s a total maniac who goes to PC bang because the internet is faster there,” saying that, he shook his head several times. It seemed that he didn’t even want to think about it.
“But you’ll have a really hard time getting tickets for TTO, you know? There aren’t just one or two people like my sister so even the resale tickets might be bought out the moment they’re out.”
Maru said ‘hmm’ before clicking the refresh button several times. It took around ten seconds for him to find something pop up on the webpage.
“It’s selling. That wasn’t that hard.”
Maru clicked on the post, thinking that this might go easier than he had expected.
“....”
It hadn’t even been five seconds since it was posted, yet there were five comments saying that they wanted to buy the tickets.
“It’s not that hard? I’ve tried doing that several times, and I can tell you, it is REALLY hard,” the classmate replied with a strange smile. Maru, for some reason, felt geared up instead. He refreshed the page several times. After seeing a new article, he clicked on it as fast as possible, but there were comments on it already. Things that can’t be bought with money are called ‘invaluable’, and it seemed that by that logic, TTO concert tickets could be considered invaluable as well.
“Don’t you care about the cost?”
“The cost?”
Maru looked up the price of the tickets on the ticketing site. The tickets to the concert that was held in the Olympic gymnastics stadium was 80,000 won.
“It’s 80 thousand won. What about it?” Maru didn’t think that it was that expensive. However, the others in his class thought that he was crazy.
“Is your house a gold mine? It’s 80 thousand won!”
“How many hours of PC bang is that?”
“With that much money, you can play a round of billiards, go to PC bang for a few hours and even stay the night out at a sauna. Han Maru, are you rich? No wait, why are you buying tickets to a male idol group in the first place?” His friends were very curious. Indeed, 80,000 won was a lot for a student.
“And TTO’s tickets are expensive because they’re doing well. Other idols only take around 40 to 50,” this classmate was very knowledgeable thanks to his older sister.
“Rather than that,” saying those words, his classmate pulled up website again. Another article regarding TTO had just popped up. He clicked on that post.
“Look at this. Resell tickets like these are almost twice the original price. It’s twice the price right now but you might see it go for 3 times the original price later.”
150 thousand. It was almost twice the original price, and yet there were comments begging the seller to sell the ticket to them.
‘...Should I quit acting and start this business?’ Maru felt as though he just saw a golden egg-laying goose. He felt empty seeing that marketing logic was being applied here as well.
“Double the original price, huh.”
150 thousand was not a small amount of money for Maru. Moreover, he couldn’t send his sister alone to the concert, so he was originally planning to buy some tickets for Bada’s friends as well. He was planning to buy 7 just in case, and if he bought resell tickets, then it would be over 1 million won.
The ownership rights of having bought the tickets just a few seconds earlier was getting people almost double the investment. Were the companies aware of this? If they did, then they would be able to make some immense profits off this. They could use magic to stamp 80 thousand on the receipt and actually earn 160 thousand in cash. Of course, there was no way they would do that kind of thing to earn that small amount of money. However, it was very profitable on an individual level. After all, just a few clicks was worth a few dozen thousand won.
“I also earned some pocket money with this in the past, but I gave up since it was so hard to get the tickets. The server goes down on the slightest whim, and if I click on the seat the reserve it, it says it’s already reserved. What’s funny is that they never do offline ticketing. I swear there are scalpers that are profiting off this.”
Maru smiled at that remark. They say the sparrow near a school sings the primer. It seemed that this fellow had a deep insight regarding this matter thanks to his sister.
“I don’t want to buy them at this price. If these are individual sellers, the seats must be far apart, right?”
“Right.”
“Isn’t there a way to get five to six continuous seats?”