14 DAY TRIAL // Over the weekend, Charlie Sheen brought his “My Violent Torpedo of Truth / Defeat Is Not an Option” tour to Detroit, where he was literally booed off the stage before the show even ended. Though he fared better in Chicago the next night, such a rocky start is already taking a toll on sales.
New reports suggest that, while tickets for the upcoming dates went for as much as $575 with scalpers, they now actually fear they will be left with thousands of tickets no one will want – and are trying to unload them.
The Daily Mail says there are almost 3,000 tickets left for the New York shows, and scalpers are willing to do whatever they can not to be left with them.
“In excess of 2,800 tickets were still available on Studhub yesterday, for both the forthcoming Friday and Saturday shows at Radio City Hall this weekend,” the British publication reports.
“The price for a ticket to see the Sheen show originally set at $126, with some scalpers asking for up to $575, are now available for as little as $34-$39,” says the same tab.
Given how many people walked out of the Detroit show and the fact that reviews for the Chicago gig were mixed (even though no one walked out of it), scalpers don’t want to run the risk of being left with tickets.
This explains why Sheen was able to tell the media that the first two dates he announced of his tour sold out in just 18 minutes: because scalpers bought them by the thousands, thinking they could resell them for twice or thrice the money online.
As it turns out, the joke may be on them in the end.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if prices came down even further. We could definitely see close to a fire sale,” Sudhub spokesperson Joellen Ferrera is quoted as saying.
Though Sheen proclaimed that he “won” in Chicago and that “Detroit sucks” for booing him, there’s still plenty of talk about the possibility of canceling the tour because of how badly it fared from the get-go.