How much money have you spent on your faves so far ?

I’m just curious how much money fans on average spend on their favorite Groups or Artists here on AKP.

This includes albums, concerts tickets, merch, fan meetings, events, donations etc etc.

So I set down and realized i already spent around 3k euros on Kpop alone in the last 2 years… that’s roughly 3.3k in Dollars.

Quote from Semirhage

Between $600 and $1000 on concert tickets, flights to concert and albums for Gidle.

Probably around $250 on BTS albums. No opportunity yet to go to a concert, hoping they tour in Australia next time.

Yes, concerts and flights milk your wallet the most.

More Groups come to Germany now, so here we go lol

But i also like to collect albums so a lot of it went there too.

xx-jenn-xx I need to know yours.

Quote from xx-jenn-xx

Well i spent $700 on 2 mirror cd's dont ask

Umm probably $1000 + on jpop my japan mercari proxy is alot

Yeah I spent a lot i dont even wanna know about my hong kong and korean Proxys... Hong Kong is a pricy bitch

That's usd...

Also $250 on ateez concert ticket $100 on Trendz...

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Damn… I kinda knew it. Kpop would be broke without you xD

I totally forgot that many stan Japanese and Chinese Groups too. That’s a costly hobby.

But what is a Mirror CD ?

Quote from fdblink

Prob more than 6k

I have about 25 albums? At say 40.00 each with tax and shipping? That's about 1000

I've seen Twice 6 times and I always get premium seats so about 500-700 a ticket that's 3000-4000? 4 of those times I had to fly out of state, don't remember hotel and flight if you count that.

I've seen Blackpink 4 times, also premium seats, 2000? I think one of those set of twos I had to fly out.

Seen Dreamcatcher 2 times, about 300?

Seen Itzy once, don't remember cost, prob 200. Also had to fly out.

Seen Everglow once 100?

I don't know merch maybe 300? A light stick and a few shirts.

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I want your life

I think you won this one xD

But you also reselling albums ?

Quote from xx-jenn-xx

Kpop is not my passion anymore aside from a handful of groups..

jpop stole me

What is mirror you ask? This is mirror

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A canto pop boy group from Hong kong

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I swear Jenn…. I thought it’s an album with an actual mirror built in….

But of course this is much better. These sets look so high quality, no surprise or cost $700

Never looked into HongKong Groups or Chinese groups in general… the closest I got was WayV

Quote from fdblink

Honestly, albums are probably my biggest regret buy lol if I could resell I would but I don't think they're one of those things that resells easily but they are all unopened.

I was once actually able to sell two Monsta X albums and it worked pretty well. It will take a bit longer, but especially younger new fans might buy them.

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Its like no longer made so to find it is hard as hell it should not have cost that much lol their name irks me you can't find shit on them lol

Here's an mv if u wanna check em out each member has solo music out too...on youtube

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You can make up a number on how much I've spent lol

The shelf with the cat tree is ALL infinite group and solo work

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THIS is ALLLL the rampage and some ØMI mixed in

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Girl I need to break into your home, that collection is a museum xD

Thx for the video, gonna check them out. But yeah, could have chose a different name, or spell Mirror differently. I had the same issues with Winner lol

Quote from YamaChwan

If this includes the cost of travel and room and board, then I've spent well over 6,000. I've flown to Korea and Japan two separate times for Mamamoo alone.

But you do live in Asia or ?

That’s dedication. I only had to fly once to see a Group and that was years ago with GD solo Tour xD

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Oooh I was actually thinking about this not long ago, I may not have the biggest collection but I only allow myself to buy something after I hit a personal / savings goal or something like that. I must like every song on the album as well or buy second hand to reduce my waste, it's been a separate goal of mine these last two years.

Regarding my 2nd Choice (A.C.E fandom name), I sold off the rest of the kit to another choice and made money back on it. I only wanted the membership card before Vlive shut down. I can't remember what I paid but it wasn't a lot, maybe something around $20.

My SVT albums, $60+ CAD, the one time I have used etsy this Carat was selling really good quality rings similar to what Minghao is known to wear and my other ring isn't as great but its a copy of the Seventeen member rings that they wore for a while.

My Mito Album was way to far but it was around the time that Scott tweeted on twitter that the second round can be pre ordered.

According to my Ebay history:

My Signed B.A.P BlueMoon Album. $25 - $27 (if you include shipping or not).

Pentagon Cermoney Signed Album $25, + INVITE U Korean Only MD Ring and PhotoCards $20 ish.

Not on Ebay:

BE'O sold special albums that he only announced through his Instagram Stories, I wanna say I grabbed it off of MakeStar. It's signed.

My Signed EPEX Album was from Global Bunjang, bought it off a Zenith (fandom name) for like $25.

My Signed one of a kind 2Z individual and full band poloroids taken on set / after filming for their album, it was to fundraise an album using KickStarter around like 2020 ish. I think it was like $15.

A mask created by Zelo and Jongup of B.A.P and some actor (can't remember his name 😅) during 2020 with limited photocards.

I also bought a really hard to get (at least outside Korea) mini Monsta X Fan light from an ex male Monbebe, he was super sweet, the original price is a decent amount but I only paid $10.

--- Concerts.

My OnlyOneOf VIPP Tickets (Included fan sign, personal Solo/ photo with Rie, Fan chat) Something like $400.

(I still remember after Junji and I high fived, he saw he was on the back of the Seoul Collection album signed it and handed it over to Nine and it makes the album unique because the signatures got split (on different pages lol)!).

My Colde VIP Tickets, Meet N Greet (I'm so excited for this, I am in the fourth row centre from the main stage 😎 , September can't come soon enough lol). $411.60.

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That was pretty detailed thx.

I think a good way to keep the collection growing is to resell some stuff you don’t need or want anymore. With that money you can buy more albums and merch.

You can earn quite a good amount with limited editions or albums you can’t buy anymore.

Quote from superyeah

I don't even want to think about it, but hey, it could be way worse.

I like collecting merch and albums, but I don't feel the need to complete a collection, whether it's a photocard collection or anything it may be. I just buy what I want and appreciate what I get. It's nice to have a keepsake from different eras, so I'd say it's worth it.

My main priority is concerts. I'm too afraid to do the math. But again, it's also worth it.

I never kept track on my spendings and just randomly decided to do so yesterday… I was shocked xD and that’s was only for the last 2 years I was able to track