Visitors to home show angered by entry fee
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VISITORS on the final day of the inaugural Design Shanghai event were outraged yesterday after being asked to pay a 100 yuan (US$16.27) entrance fee.
Entry to the home design event, which began on Thursday at the Shanghai Exhibition Center, was free on all other days.
“We got here at 7am and have been standing for two hours, but no one told us we would have to pay to get in,” a visitor said.
At 9am the organizers appeared holding paper signs saying there would be a charge. The tickets went on sale at 10:30am.
“Professional visitors who registered for the exhibition online and those who had VIP tickets can enter for free, but everyone else has to buy a ticket,” an official announced to the crowd.
Another visitor said: “The organizers said the event was free to enter. But now they’ve just changed their minds and want to charge us.”
Lee Newton, one of the event’s organizers, said the company had stated on its official website that weekend visitors would have to pay to get in, but that it did not apply the charge on Saturday.
“Yesterday we tried to allow as many people as possible to come in, but there were just too many and it became dangerous,” Newton told Shanghai Television yesterday.
“But if you go to our website it says you have to pay today,” he said.
Design Shanghai 2014 attracted more than 60,000 people, the organizers said.
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