Mellen Events Victorious OverScalpers

Wed 14th May, 2008 in Local News

After Armin van Buuren’s Perth show sold out on the first day, fans were outraged to find that many of the tickets were being sold by scalpers on ebay at vastly inflated prices.

Since then Mellen Events’ ticketing team, in conjunction with Ticketmaster, has worked tirelessly against the scalpers, and having tracked them down have canceled their tickets.

What all this means is… This Friday 16 May, a limited number of tickets will go back on sale to the general public, for the original price of $80. To minimise the damaging impact of scalpers on the final release of tickets the following rules will apply to Friday’s ticket sales:

1.Two tickets per person
2. Must have a WA postal address (ID required)
3. Sales only from Ticketmaster and WA stores

Having sold out shows around Australia in record time there’s no disputing that in 2008 Armin is the DJ amongst DJs, also reflected in his taking out the top spot for the first time in the DJ Mag Top 100 poll last year. His Australian dates will mark the first time he has been here since taking out the prestigious top spot, which he won from Tiesto and John Digweed (ranked two and three respectively). On the back of last year’s sold out ‘White Party’ at Metro City, his Armin-only Perth show was also voted the ‘Best International Performance’ locally at the 2007 Perth Dance Music Awards (PDMAs), while nationally he was awarded ‘Best International DJ’ in the 2007 inthemix National Poll .

Limited final release tickets on sale 9am (AWST) this Friday 16 May $80 plus booking and transaction fees from ticketmaster.com.au