A thoughtful boyfriend who tried to buy concert tickets for his Justin Bieber-mad girlfriend says he was 'scammed' out of more than £100 from a seller on Facebook.
Alex Manners, 18, wanted to cheer up his sweetheart Paige Jackson by getting her tickets to the star's Sheffield gig.
But after paying out £135 for the two tickets, he says he was devastated to discover the seller had disappeared from Facebook - with no sign of the tickets ever appearing.
He said: "I found the seller through Facebook and she sounded like she had a genuine reason for wanting to sell the tickets - she had family problems - and so I believed her.
"After I'd transferred the money, her account just disappeared and there was no trace.
"It was frustrating because I'd trusted someone with my money and I don't think there's any way of me getting it back.
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"I just wanted to do something nice for Paige to cheer her up - I'd have had to sit through the Justin Bieber concert but it would have made Paige happy and that's the main thing."
The couple, who live in Bilborough, have been told by Alex's bank that it's unlikely they will get their money back.
Paige, also 18, is - by her own words - a "massive fan" of Bieber and this is the first of his UK tours that she's missed.
She said: "I didn't think I'd be able to go to this tour because I've recently had to start using a wheelchair because of back problems.
"Alex wanted to surprise me and he thought he'd sorted it all out with the girl to change one of the tickets to a wheelchair one at the box office.
"When I found out what had happened I was absolutely devastated. I cried for ages.
"I really wanted to go and it would have got me out of the house - I'm pretty much housebound at the moment."
The teenager, who works at a children's play centre, said she wanted to warn other people to be careful when buying tickets online.
She said: "Know who you're buying the off. This looked very genuine and looked like a proper site, but clearly it wasn't. Make sure you are extra careful."
The incident has been reported to Action Fraud.
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A spokesman for Nottingham Trading Standards said: "Do not buy tickets from selling sites. You have to go through the authorised people to make sure you're getting the real thing.
"Anybody can set up a page on Facebook.
"However desperate you are to see Justin Bieber - or anybody else - don't be tempted to go through an unofficial selling site."
The case follows a similar incident of a 17-year-old in Leeds who paid out £200 to see the superstar in Sheffield - but never received her tickets.
West Yorkshire Police are investigating a series of alleged online ticket scams. A number of people are understood to have filed complaints after tickets which they bought online for various events failed to arrive.
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