[UPDATED] About that Exo North America Tour...

[justkyhdding.livejournal.com]

UPDATE 2: REFUNDS

see here.

http://azulity.tumblr.com/post/134736186235/exo-2016-mymusictaste-scam

tl;dr

- There are fake accounts voting for some of the cities that were announced on the tour
- Speculation that they were made by MyMusicTaste

There are also these paid votes called "Taste" which you buy for $10. 1 Taste per user per artist per city. The taste is locked in for 6 months, and if a concert hasn't happened by then you get the taste back to use elsewhere on the site. You don't get the actual money back. Atlanta fans apparently spent $4000USD on tastes.

UPDATE: With ~Insider Info~

http://azulity.tumblr.com/post/134754638910/regarding-exo-2016-mmt-scam

- more claims that the whole thing was rigged

What is even going on





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Comments

[stutterflies.livejournal.com]

OP, please unlock your post. Thanks.

[justkyhdding.livejournal.com]

unlocked~!

[atopworld.livejournal.com]

Thanks OP for making the post!

[justkyhdding.livejournal.com]

[fallendaydreams.livejournal.com]

we coulda told y'all it was a scam before you spent money. I hate how this tour is already messy, but it's absolutely not surprising.

[hipployta.livejournal.com]

Right lol

[justkyhdding.livejournal.com]

a taste is also meant to give you perks like access to presales etc, and I think tastes are given preference in the voting

[seulgibear.livejournal.com]

idk why this is so funny to me, it's so dramatic Our Toronto page was devastated, but even more upsetting was the fact that our ally, Atlanta, whom we’ve been helping, who has been helping us, and supporting #TorOrLanta, did not get a concert. and that staywoke hashtag lol

this has to have been a big marketing ploy to make sure there was buzz around the concerts. i'm as sure as everyone else that they had the stops already planned out before hand

[atopworld.livejournal.com]

I honestly wish none of them used the #StayWoke tag. I feel like it is not appropriate for this at all, lol.

[yw7.livejournal.com]

This was pretty obvious. Why are so many of these promoters so shitty? You get these kids' hopes up and take their money shamelessly. It's sad.

[friedchickeneu.livejournal.com]

What a shitty move.

[parkjsun.livejournal.com]

MMT looked shady af from the start and this "crowdfunded" concert thing is just a way to make the monetary investment on their part equal 0. Why didn't SM just use whoever they use for their SMTown concerts? But looking at their page, they seem to be managing a lot of other Kpop concerts.

[nekobot.livejournal.com]

Asked this on the other article as well but are MMT actually promoting/organising any of these gigs themselves? If anything they just seem like a blown up stat collection site that K-pop companies can use to check interest as a guideline for concert planning and maybe reduce the risk of underselling tickets (which is a big problem with K-pop concerts) and all the actual work that goes into making these concerts happen (booking venues etc.) is offloaded to someone else.

All in all agreed though, this is shady as hell but that's practically expected at this point...

[miuratenshi.livejournal.com]

It wouldn't be a K-Pop concert in America if fans weren't getting scammed. -_-'

[ironicmustache.livejournal.com]

i have a hard time they were just leaving the schedule up to the chance of voting. sounds like your average kpop-in-america cash grab to me.

[nekobot.livejournal.com]

"If these people are such scam artists, why go with them why not go with someone more legit?" Because they don't know a thing about local markets and because they want to save money

"And what can Kpop companies do to make their Western ventures less.... skeezy?"
Book actual promoters that have a good track record of organizing successful events, and not just K-pop fans masquerading as professionals. Afaik Big Bang went with Livenation who also put on tons of other big concerts, but they're not the best group to use as a comparison for most of these events.

It's a global problem though, people are not just getting shafted in the States. Europe is is just as bad if not worse and I've heard about total disasters happening in Australia as well.

[sayuridoll.livejournal.com]

is it really an [Insert Kpop Group] North American Tour unless you are getting scammed

[cuizy.livejournal.com]

I didn't like how it was SO easy to obviously cheat on that site. But whatever, SM can deal with not being able to fill seats in certain cities cuz so much cheating

[daftpunkremix.livejournal.com]

i thought it was obvious from the start that the cities were already chosen beforehand.....

[baekpedaling.livejournal.com]

Thanks for making this, OP.
I still feel bad for the people who spent money.

I didn't have no $10 to hopefully get Exo in SF when I know these ticket prices might be high.

[justkyhdding.livejournal.com]

you're welcome home alone henry~



I've been on the site before but I didn't even know about this paid thing until today

[algaee.livejournal.com]

suddenly this is all so ripe for conspiracy. rip to the dollars lost

[xxhna.livejournal.com]

that's terrible. it doesn't seem like a good start for this tour...tbh i don't want it to happen. the boys are going to seriously hurt themselves even more. and why are these companies so shady. at least big bang and sm town were run well.

[kamoku-ayame.livejournal.com]

Well the concerts are in 2 months.. usually these things are planned in advance

[rewindnext.livejournal.com]

From what I read on the MMT site last week people who buy tastes get their money back if the concert in their location doesn't happen.

It does seem like the locations were pre-decided though so it's a bit suspect to encourage fans to campaign and buy $10 tastes when they aren't having any impact on the end results anyway. I know that Vancouver had the most makes out of all cities at the time they announced the tour last week, but were falling behind until just before the end. I'm not surprised to hear that there were probably false makes/tastes added because I was already wondering how that were going to ensure that the cities they had decided on and the cities fans voted for lined up.

[justkyhdding.livejournal.com]

nah they get the taste back which they can reuse but not the actual money. mmt is giving refunds though now

[musicnkisses.livejournal.com]

Can none of these act get Live Nation to promote them? Not even SME? I feel like your hood club promoter would do a better job at this point.

[kayliez.livejournal.com]

Hey OP, don't know how to embed tweets, but MMT tweeted saying they're refunding all purchased tastes.

[justkyhdding.livejournal.com]

I saw the fb post, submitted it. thanks for letting me know

[astronomatic.livejournal.com]

thanks for the post op i didn't even know the $$ tastes were a thing oop
mmt just posted this

pic.twitter.com/VBis0qCBeF (https://t.co/VBis0qCBeF)

— MyMusicTaste (@_mymusictaste) December 8, 2015 (https://twitter.com/_mymusictaste/status/674109834099228673)

[justkyhdding.livejournal.com]

yeah i saw on facebook, submitted it as a new post.

That last bit though

"Since the EXO city announcement, we were dismayed to see so many accusations directed towards our company. While we understand the disappointment that certain cities were not selected, we will not tolerate baseless accusations made toward our company or our employees. We always strive to give you the best and will continue to improve our services to give you the most memorable concert experiences."

bit rich of them to get all uppity when the fact remains that it was still rigged, refunds aren't going to change that fact

[justkyhdding.livejournal.com]

no no you don't get the money back

after six months, if the concert hasn't happened you get back that taste to use again on the site, you don't get the money back.

in that sense, the refund is actually really good for all the people who may have bought tastes in the past and not been successful.

it sucks for the people who were in the winning cities (even though idk what the perks are that are worth $10) but mmt is mainly doing this to be an asshole and maybe even start an infight so that people forget how this thing was rigged from the start

[haixiao.livejournal.com]

it seems like these locations were chosen before this whole ~vote for where you want exo~ to go thing because los angeles and nyc are cities that will always be on the map when multiple-stop tours are involved. i get why people in atlanta are mad but can you imagine the insanity that would ensue if everyone on the west coast had to try and get tickets for the dallas venue while everyone living in dallas was trying to get the same tickets? yeah vancouver is on the west coast but vancouver is also in another country and i highly doubt a lot of these fans have passports or even parents that would let them peace out of the states for a concert

[madielou.livejournal.com]

Idg why they did this if they already confirmed the cities beforehand? If it's about fake votes then it's not just Atlanta, it was every city doing it lol.

I don't think I would care as much about the money issue if it wasn't for the huge possibility that the majority of those who lost all that money were teenagers/young adults. Liike, scamming kids out of their money is such a shitty move. But honestly what did they expect like the entire thing looked suspicious from the start lol.

Kpop companies need to do a better job of organizing overseas concerts. It's like only 1 in 10 acts that come here actually don't end up being god awful. Stop trying to cut corners with money and actually do your research?? Idols have no obligations to perform overseas but if you say you're going to do it then do it right?