Seventeen's '17 is Right Here' album are allegedly being thrown away in bulk on the streets of Japan.
The Pledis Entertainment group broke records with their latest album '17 is Right Here', but they're now facing controversy after boxes of the album were seen dumped in Japan. One Japanese fan wrote, "To all Japanese CARATS, sorry for this all of a sudden. I'm writing this hastily late at night because I have something I want to say. Just now, a post came in on TikTok saying a large amount of Seventeen albums were being thrown away on the streets of Shibuya."
One sign read, "Feel free to take any you want," next to boxes of the albums. Netizens are speculating people bought the album in bulk for the photo cards and codes for resale.
Netizens commented, "So much trash because of these commercial tactics. This is going to affect future generations," "They need to limit how many one person can buy. It's time just to sell photo cards and not whole albums," "Sellers buy in bulk for the code, leave the albums they don't need, throw out the outer box part they don't need, and that's what the photos show," "It's not the time to be proud of album sales."
Japanese resellers make a LOT of money buying Korean albums at local prices and then selling the components (photocards, etc) onto Western fans at higher prices. If you check websites like eBay or Mercari, you can see how many items ship from Japan. It's terrible for the environment, and I wish fans would cool it a bit on needing complete collections for every release.
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Japanese resellers make a LOT of money buying Korean albums at local prices and then selling the components (photocards, etc) onto Western fans at higher prices. If you check websites like eBay or Mercari, you can see how many items ship from Japan. It's terrible for the environment, and I wish fans would cool it a bit on needing complete collections for every release.
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