JBJ in Tokyo

Originally Posted by Emily

Hi all,
Sorry for my bad English. Hope you’ll get the gist at least from my message.
Japan is not that expensive anymore. That is 20 years ago, Japanese Yen was 80 to 1 Us dollar. Menu in HRC Tokyo are similar to HRC in NYC or any other countries. For the price of sandwiches are approx $10. Additionally, consumer tax in Japan is 5 percent, so tax is much less than NYC or UK. Besides, you don't have to pay for tips because we don't have such a tip system in Japan.
Japan is relatively expensive compared with other Asian countries, but compared with UK or US, all most all of things are equal or less price because nowadays Japanese Yen is around120 to 1 Us dollar, which has dropped to around 40 Japanese Yen from 20 years ago.
Here is another example: For HAND Japan tour, a concert ticket for BON JOVI is approx 9,000 Japanese Yen (i.e. $75). It is a bit pricey for average Japanese concert ticket of 6,500 Japanese Yen (i.e. $54.17). BUT, it's STILL cheaper than tickets for the seats in fan club area in US or UK.
This is the fact. Japan is no longer such an extremely rich country like Switzerland.
Backstage posted the thread of "the cost of the event" for explanation why Tokyo HRC FC event was $950.
Japanese Yen is much stronger than US dollar? That's NOT true! You can eat out at restaurant within $9 (you No need to pay tip).
So, we, many Japanese BJ fans emailed Backstage staff to ask why London HRC FC event was $300 and Tokyo HRC FC event was triple of $300 plus $50 despite UK Pound/Euro is much stronger than Japanese Yen or US dollar, because all of the treads regarding Tokyo HRC FC event were deleted for complaining about the fanclub or mentioning this fact.

I just want you to know that there are crazy fans in Japan who loan money beyond their levels of living and ended up to divorce or hold huge debt. Also, if Backstage did not announce the number of people for Tokyo event would be limited to150, they can not sell out.

Many of Japanese fans have supported from the band’s debut. So there are tens of thousands of BJ fans in Japan and crazy fans who don’t know their limits and loan money beyond their levels of living and ended up to divorce or hold huge debt in Japan, but $950 is NO affordable price even for such crazy fans. But, after Backstage announced that they keep 150 people to the Tokyo event, somebody posted “This will be the first and the last event in Japan. The number of people for the event is limited to 150” on a couple of popular Japanese BJ fan sites. Then, the tickets to the event had been sold out when 25 hours or so had passed from the starting time of selling tickets. That is why only 150 tickets had not been quickly sold out.

This is weird. We had asked Backstage about how many people there would be joining the event, but they wouldn’t have answered exact number of people for the event. But, they announced 150 after a couple hours passed from the starting time of selling tickets.
So we thought that Backstage really wanted to sell tickets at least 150.

I just want you to know that we posted their responses on the Japanese BJ fan sites so I and many Japanese BJ fans know this fact and how rude Backstage responded to our emails. Matt is ripping off from true BJ fans….I miss Mrs.B so much….