Even Lea Salonga Can’t Get Her Hands On BTS’s Sold Out Merch, Thanks To “Bots”
Singer Lea Salonga, the voice of Disney‘s Mulan, is “swift as the coursing river,” but even she wasn’t fast enough to buy BTS‘s new merchandise!
In 2020, Salonga–who has acted in over a dozen musicals over the course of her 44-year career–fell down the BTS rabbit hole, thanks to “Dynamite.” Now, she is among the fans who can’t get their hands on V‘s sold out merch.
On January 11, Weverse launched the pre-order release for V’s collection at 11 AM KST. Within seconds, V’s items (a MUTE Boston bag and brooch set) sold out. Soon after, Salonga jumped on Twitter to express her “heartbreak” about the merch-buying “bloodbath.”
So excuse me, I’m just going to cry in a corner to get over this heartbreak.
— Lea Salonga (@MsLeaSalonga) January 11, 2022
Like other fans, she is frustrated by the alleged use of bots to poach merch, which makes items “inaccessible to fans.”
I’ve learned my lesson and will limit my merch purchases to items that have been in the shop for a while. Ugh, I’m still super irritated right now. What was the point of bringing the price point down if only for bots to allegedly auto-buy and make the items inaccessible to fans?
— Lea Salonga (@MsLeaSalonga) January 11, 2022
Those sold-out items are now being listed for more than double their original prices on eBay, despite the fact that Weverse has not yet shipped the items.
Looks like the sellers (who may or may not have any regard for BTS besides profit) beat us to it. Yeah, I’ll be salty about this for a while. pic.twitter.com/tje5YlxDlo
— Lea Salonga (@MsLeaSalonga) January 11, 2022
Find out more about these resales here:
Resellers Are Listing BTS’s Sold Out “Artist-Made” Merch For Insane Prices
