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Because it looks like it may have been a hoax after all.
ANOTHER UPDATE: THE DENOUEMENT IS COMING From Smart Shanghai comes the PR company's side of the story. The PR company, which got scammed too, has released surveillance photographs of the concert organizers on the web!
ANOTHER UPDATE: THE POT IS STIRRED From the new Facebook page, Daft fucked, one commenter writes:
A friend of mine got the following information from the red-hair guy at the ticket office (Julien?). The company name was "red-wall events" , as we all know now. 50% of the tickets were supposed to be held by a hong-kong company. His boss was supposedly French.
UPDATE: THE PLOT THICKENS
Adam Shokora of 56minus1 has delved deeper into the whole matter. Apparently, a Chinese web developer was hired by a "British guy French guy" to make dafthidden.com. But now the mysterious "British guy French guy" isn't answering his phone. Oh those cheeky Brits crazy French!
From Pitchfork:
According to a mysterious Facebook page, the mysterious French house duo Daft Punk will spend the weekend after they won two Grammys playing a secret show for a few lucky folks in Shanghai. But Daft Punk's PR has assured us that the announcement isn't real and that Daft Punk will not be playing Shanghai on Friday night. Or any shows anywhere for the time being. So if you paid actual money for a Daft Punk ticket, it's time to start looking for someone to whoop.
The Facebook page had previously said all "2000" tickets had been "sold out." Hopefully, it's just joking and nobody actually got cheated out of their money. Sorry ticket holders. Chances of this not being a scam now are close to nil.
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Wow, if that's true, then wow.
I'm still not convinced it isn't a double hoax though- curse those tricky frenchmen!
'We're all human....after all". This scam will NOT enhance the china-french relationship for sure.....
well if its a scam (and yes, I have a ticket) then its french people scamming french people. I was in line yesterday and in a 60+ person line I was one of 2 Chinese people.
More info here:
http://tinyurl.com/df5u7e
AjS
Come on, stop with that french bashing ! Yeah, Daft Punk is french, that does not mean the scamers that pulled this off are french !!
I heard they are actually brits, whatever, any country has their scamers, and especially China !
I am french, I bought two tickets, and I have to admit this scam was beautifully done...
"Shaft Punk"- It's the story of the month, that's for sure.
Not British! French! Update the country-wide slurs!
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=67315501376
I'm ginger, innocent, and worried. How many fanta pants are in Shanghai?
@cankles - that guy, Alex?, from the adventure shanghai show in the back of taxis, or whatever it's called will probably get the beat down.
That's not so bad.
Never mind jay walking and all the usual stereotypes, some people have been in China so long they have started to think that human flesh search engine activities are normal.
Yeah, 'Shaft Punk' is the story of the month if it pans out.
Morgan's article is interesting but how do we know that the PR company aren't just pushing it on some made up people.
Anyway, tracking someone down in person to revenge for getting conned out of one ticket. What is everyone? Goodfellas? Are youse all going to meet up with some baseball bats and go after them together?
An advertised 'secret gig' with official ticketing? That's not very secret is it? Good scam if that's what it was. The choice of Daft Punk was very clever.
How stupid does one have to be to pre-pay for ANYTHING in China let alone concert tickets?!?! I have never heard of any box office not selling tickets for a show in town, sold-out or not.
Sorry folks, unless you have been here for a week or less, you get no sympathy from thedonald. Suckas.
Hey,
The updates in the above article are a little misleading, as maybe i was misleading in the post on SmartShanghai. It wasn't the "Pr Company" that got scammed. From what I've heard there was to levels: the two guys behind the whole thing and about five local hires that picked up the job as early as a week ago to do sales/pr for this one event.
From what I understand the people who just got the job were always skeptical but were constantly being reassured blahblahblah... The post that originally appeared in French on Facebook was from one of those local hires who got left in the dust when the two guys behind it all bolted...
So basically Shanghaiist helped the crooks to find their clients by diffusing the false information and instead or apologizing you say "but we wrote it maybe a hoax!" - well done.
Lucas
www.pictobank.com
So, if these guys sold 2000 tickets that means before expenses their net was $146,200. Holey moley! I'm in the wrong business. I wonder how long before somebody makes a movie with this plot. It has some great potential...