MÖTLEY CRÜE - Jakarta Promoter Vows To Refund Tickets
October 15, 2011, 12 years ago
According to The Jakarta Globe, the promoter of a now-abandoned MÖTLEY CRÜE concert that seems to have never been remotely likely to occur has promised to refund all 1,500 tickets sold.
“On Tuesday, we began paying [fans] back,” said Astri Darmawanti, chief executive of MLive, adding that 100 ticket buyers had already been reimbursed.Astri’s company was the promoter behind the show, announcing to media outlets, that the rock band would play its first-ever show in Indonesia on Oct. 8.
The band issued a statement on its website a day later, saying no agreement for a show “in Jakarta or anywhere else in the country was ever made.”
It also warned fans to be wary of any vendors advertising the nonexistent concert.
But by then, tickets had been on sale for more than a month at Rp 350,000 ($40) each.
Astri said her company would return ticket buyers’ money in stages adding that all would be compensated by the end of October.
Central Jakarta district police chief Lt. Col. Angesta Romano Yoyol said that some angry fans had already reported MLive management to the police for fraud. An investigation is ongoing but no suspects have been named.
