Dota 2
SCALPER interupt in TI9 ticket selling in China (damai.cn)
(please forgive me for my poor grammar and bad English language skill. I'm just a student in China, but really want to express my feeling about the ticket selling.)
Valve authorize damai.cn as the only website allowed to seel ti9 ticket in China. However, there are clearly unfairness behind the scene. The selling process is delayed from 12:00 to 1:00 right before the ticket selling begin. And when its finally 1pm, the tickets is "successfully sold" immediately, within 27 second (according to official WeiBo of Damai.cn).
At the same time, while us dota player suffering from getting a single ticket, there are already ticket sold on {LINK REMOVED}, with the price been fliped twice or even more. Interestingly enough, we do not know and can not choose the seating when we purchase on damai.cn, but there are really clear seating of tickets on {LINK REMOVED}.
According to official WeiBo of Dota2, there should bea total of 26084 set of tickets sold in china. However, there are evidence that most are sold to scalpers. A scalper on {LINK REMOVED} even have more then 7000 tickets. The pricing is also incredibly high. Official price for the last two day is 2100RMB (around 300 USD) ,but on {LINK REMOVED}, it is 12000 RMB (around 1800 USD per day.
This is not the first time that damai.cn do such dirty moves. Similar scenario also happened 2018/10, when damai.cn is also authorized to sell tickets for LOL tournament. Normal players are unable to buy tickets at all, but scalpers are selling tickets even before the official ticket selling begins, with clear picture for seating and price for each.
Personally as a DOTA player, I'v always been dreaming to go to a TI tournament live. For the past years the tournament is held in America, and its the first time that it is held in China. If i didn't get a ticket because my internet is slow or because they are all properly sold before i purchase, i can happily accept that. But if the tickets are all sold to scalpers even before i have a chance to buy any, its just unfair for me, and all other poor players who sacrifice their time trying to get a tickets. I hope people, valve if possible, can get aware of this issue.
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Deleted URL is supposed to say TaoBao, a online store simular to Amazon.
BMW 1250 GSA May 24, 2019 @ 1:33am 
this is outrageous!!
76561198027206974 May 24, 2019 @ 1:59am 
It is really a shame. and the 1 hour early code was just a joke.
Last edited by 76561198027206974; May 24, 2019 @ 2:22am
such a shame. Valve gave us an one hour early code, but you don;t even get a chance of getting the tickets.
Ais Wallenstein May 24, 2019 @ 3:34am 
26084 - 7000 = 19084.

See? 19084 tickets remaining bro. And you can't even get 1 ticket? Seriously?
Last edited by Ais Wallenstein; May 24, 2019 @ 3:34am
Noble.Dragon May 24, 2019 @ 3:43am 
Its happening
there's one single scalper selling around 7000, and i dont know, maybe 10 more?
If you just search on TaoBao for TI9 tickets, there's a whole page of scalpers selling them.
I just check on TaoBao again, surprisingly enough all the related items are gone, and you are not allowed to search about TI9 tickets. Maybe some regulation already done by perfect world.
I failed to get the ticket. I really hope the ticket can go to biometric system and cannot be use by others
驴德维希 May 24, 2019 @ 4:21am 
i care i can't logon dota2 perfectworld for a whole day
76561198027206974 May 24, 2019 @ 5:33am 
建议把帖子内容直接给客服开个票,在这论坛里valve也不会看。
Pooman May 24, 2019 @ 6:09am 
I GOT MY TICKETS! :)
Zagryzaec May 24, 2019 @ 7:06pm 
Well you can just not buy tickets from resellers.
Ayasuka May 26, 2019 @ 8:12am 
This is really China dude
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Date Posted: May 24, 2019 @ 12:51am
Posts: 14