Scalping Probe Targets 'Hannah Montana'

JenniferJonse28 05:12:47 AM Oct 12 2007

I noticed her him at one big site, it seems that is BillionaireCupid.com. Sorry. I forget the username. I will check if this is true. I will tell you the results soon.

hamrhed65 01:27:29 PM Oct 07 2007

Scalpers are scum

thundersstruck1 05:47:00 AM Oct 07 2007

>>>aerosmith suck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<<<<<

You suck... You probably listen to Britney or boy bands or rap or grunge... all equally sucky. Try listening to "Back in the saddle" or "Train kept a rollin" and then tell me Aerosmith sucks.

thundersstruck1 05:41:00 AM Oct 07 2007

It's pretty sad when someone is so greedy for money that they will destroy a childs dream to see their idol in concert. There would be plenty of tickets to go around if everybody just bought as many as they needed.

Dormie2 05:30:00 AM Oct 07 2007

a) Scalpers provide a service to those of us who want good seats but didn't get them on the day tickets went on sale, and have the money to secure them at some date after tickets initially go on sale.

b) However, individuals who work for themselves or own scalping companies, who use technology to circumvent the Ticketba... I mean Ticketmaster... computerized purchasing arrangements intended for individual consumers, should be thrown in jail and have their nuts cut off. Or is that to lenient?

c) I have no problem with scalpers purchasing tickets from consumers who have them for sale, and then selling them for what the market will bear.

d) Ticketba... I mean Ticketmaster... is a scum company anyway - the service they provide is not friendly to the user who wishes tickets in a particular location. Additionally, if they really cared about scalpers who are circumventing the process, they could create the technology to foil them. But they don't care.

e) TicketBa... I mean Ticketmas

kfra715111 01:16:39 AM Oct 07 2007

Investigation is needed into the whole sorted affair. Promoters, ticket agents, sweetheart deals for sponsors, etc. If stars could set the prices and the distribution methods of tickets, like Garth Brooks has done in KC, it might help.

rgb2333 10:56:14 PM Oct 06 2007

I find the only way you can be assured of buying tickets from someone other than scalpers is to buy them from the arena to be picked up at the will call window. There you have to show proper ID and the credit card you used to order the tickets. We recently went to 3 of Josh Groban concerts and had no problems buying our tickets this way. I also tried to get tickets to see Miley Cyrus by paying for my grand daughter to join her fan club. The minute the tickets went on sale to fan club members, they were sold out. Between my daughter, her husband, my husband and myself, we had 4 phones and 3 computers being used and still couldn't get any tickets. I think the will call window is the only way to go. That is one way to elimiate the scalpers.

Thedivaspeaks03 07:22:37 PM Oct 06 2007

it's going to be VERY hard to get scaplers, but i think it'll be worth it in the end. artist get the money off of the regular ticket sales, but if they clue into the fact that scaplers are making way more money off of them then anyone should, it'll be a way to get them to stop. no artist is going to have someone take their money away from them!

Thedivaspeaks03 07:22:07 PM Oct 06 2007

kansas city's new sprint arena had the same problem when the elton john concert sold out in MINUTES! at first i thought it was b/c he was popular then word got around that the presold tickets were out WAY before the box office tickets and they didn't match up all the sales til after the box office tickets sold out. and when ppl went to get seats at the box office, they were all spread out all over the place. you couldn't sit next to someone you wanted to go to the show with b/c the scaplers bought all the seats up in a big bunch and now are trying to sell those seats at upwards 10x the price! it got even MORE suspcious when the local oldies station had tickets for free ONE day, and then, no more. why? b/c the damn scaplers got everything before the box office seats went on sale. it's going to be VERY hard to get scaplers, but i think it'll be worth it in the end. artist get the money off of the regular ticket sales, but if they clue into the fact that scaplers are making way more money

myrayolite 04:44:42 PM Oct 06 2007

Her concert tickets sold out in 2 minutes for Houston's show. Angers me that scalpers do this. I wanted to take my daughter to see her. There needs to be a better way to sell tickets to deter scalpers. Of course there is none. Just unfair to us who want to truely go. People need to not buy those tickets the scalpers sell as that is really the only way to stop them.

Subterranean 4 03:38:23 PM Oct 06 2007

$2565?

Definitely should have used that money for Led Zep reunion tickets instead. Or better yet your kid's college fund. chrissakes people!

e12des 02:46:46 PM Oct 06 2007

Why would anybody pay two to three thousand dollars for a ticket to anything?
I guess this show how excessively silly some people are when it comes to a concert. Buy the CD if necessary but to pay thousands of dollars to see someone sing live? And in all probablty there is some lip sync going on! If you were asked to pay an extra $10 do kids who had poor parents or maybe they have lousy parents, so these kids could have decent healtcare or a meal, then look at the outrage that would result. But yet you are prepared to pay hundreds of dollars to see someone sing! Selfish and uncaring.

locochix6 01:14:00 PM Oct 06 2007

I am so glad somebody is researching the way the tickets have been hogged up by sites as mentioned to be resold at not 4-5 times the value, but some as high as $ 2800 for $ 66 tickets. I had tried like alot of other parents and had to resort to obtaining 2 tickets from another mom who happened to have 2 extras. for a decent price of $ 175.00..NO one would give it a way to a stranger for face value so I had to put up or shut up. I hope these sites get sanctioned somehow because obviously it is for the money and greed....how do you pay $ 300- 500 for a single ticket ( thats being generous)? cant have the kids sit by themselves..batches of 3 or more it will be at least $ 800- 1200 if not more....commissioner, go get them!!

mizzymac97 12:36:39 PM Oct 06 2007

This shouldn't be about Miley bashing. Kids love her and grown ups are destroying their dreams of seeing her.

do0rnumberthree 12:22:21 PM Oct 06 2007

aerosmith suck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!