The “Territory Theater Day”, which kicks off the government’s “Happy Hong Kong” campaign, will be held tomorrow, and yesterday has become a “Snapshot Day”! Some citizens are willing to spend hours online or waiting in theaters to buy “30 Mosquito Movie Tickets”. Some theater websites even show that there are more than 20,000 people waiting in line, and the waiting time is as high as 4,600 minutes. Being ejected from the net”, I was angry before I was happy! Tickets were hard to come by, and the “scalpers” were also mobilized. Someone put up a price of 240 yuan and put on sale two copies of the boy’s pawn bottle (Japanese IMAX version), hoping to make a fortune.
“Hong Kong Cinema Day” movie tickets are sold at 30 yuan regardless of the format of the screening. Checking online information, the movie “A Man in a Bottle” (Japanese IMAX version) is priced at 100 to 130 yuan today, “Killing God John Wick” 4″ (IMAX version) ranges from 120 to 200 yuan. “Super Mario Bros. The Movie” (2D MX4D Cantonese version) also costs 95 to 155 yuan. In other words, the lucky ones who bought the relevant dramas saved about one hundred dollars per ticket, and a family of four could even save three or four hundred dollars. Under the general environment of “Save a Mosquito, Get a Mosquito”, a large number of citizens lined up outside the theater before the sale opened at 11:00 a.m., among them, there were about a hundred people queuing up before 11:00 a.m. at the APM theater in Kwun Tong. Mr. Hu, a citizen, pointed out that he queued up 3 hours before the sale and bought 4 Xifei. A citizen who went to the theater at Langham Place in Mong Kok to buy a flight pointed out that he arrived at 9:15 in the morning and waited in line for about 2 hours to buy 4 tickets to spend family day with his children. Some citizens also pointed out, “I’m not willing to watch it on weekdays, and I haven’t entered the venue for several years.” They took advantage of this discount and lined up to buy a plane to enter the venue.
Online queuing shows 4,600 minutes to wait
Many citizens bought tickets online, causing the online ticketing systems of many theaters to be overloaded due to traffic overload and failed to log in. Some theater websites showed that there were more than 20,000 people in line, and the waiting time was nearly 4,600 minutes; some citizens When paying, words such as “Unable to connect to this page”, “Service Unavailable”, and “504 Gateway Time-out” appear. Some netizens shared their feelings and said frankly, “shouldn’t be greedy for these petty gains.” Some citizens laughed and said, “I don’t care about the time and the show, as long as you buy it”; some netizens said, “Scramble for the flight with several friends at the same time. I think it’s good to buy either one. I know that I’m with another (friend) ) at the same time and bought 8 cards at the same time, the extra 8 cards will be counted.”
The price of scalpers flying is 3 times higher
Some popular dramas were “speculated”. Someone put a price of 240 yuan on the auction website and sold two copies of “The First Slam Dunk (The Man Is in the Bottle)” Japanese IMAX version of the drama. The “speculated price” was similar to the original price, and It is 3 times higher than the preferential price of “30 Mosquitoes”. In addition, tickets for the popular “The Pope’s Exorcist” and “The Dead Dead at Forty-Four” have been speculated. However, there are also people who sell it online at the original price of 30 or 40 yuan (including the online handling fee). Some people explain that they “bought too much”. Speculation is flying” and the price is reduced for sale. Some people speculated, some expropriated, and some netizens planned to “buy two copies” of “John Wick 4” (Telford MX4D) for 220 yuan. The Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce of Cinemas responded very enthusiastically to the public, and they enthusiastically bought tickets to support the theaters, which greatly encouraged the industry; as there were queues of people in all theaters and network congestion, the Chamber of Commerce emphasized that all theaters have tried their best to deal with the rounds of ticket purchases. Due to the weather conditions and the flow of crowds, some of the time it is impossible to access the webpage and mobile application. The Chamber of Commerce apologizes for the inconvenience caused to the citizens waiting to buy tickets.
Frying is illegal
The Places of Public Entertainment Ordinance provides that if a ticket is to authorize entry to a place of public entertainment licensed under the Ordinance, such as a cinema, any person who pays more than the proprietor or manager of the place or the organizer of an event held in the place Selling or offering to sell such tickets (commonly known as “scalper tickets”), or exposing or possessing such tickets for sale, or persuading others to buy such tickets, at a price fixed for the event commits an offense upon conviction A fine of $2,000 may be imposed.
