Exploring the Parents’ Point of View
By Stacey Willets
About a week ago I was sitting in my mother’s kitchen discussing the insanity of Hannah Montana Mania. My eight-year-old sister, who we thought was engrossed in a sixteen episode marathon of the television show, overheard and immediately announced, “Hannah Montana is like my favorite show ever! Will you take me to see her? Pleeeeease?”
This is a moment with which many parents across America are familiar. Little darlings with bright, excited eyes asking for an experience that for them is their whole world. Unfortunately, it is also an experience many parents are unable to deliver, and they’re voicing their frustrations . . .
Several TicketNews readers share their thoughts:
“I [. . .] was guilty of trying to get tickets for my [nieces] for the Hannah Montana show and was shut out like everyone else. I also refuse to pay these crazy prices to a “broker”. What a shame these losers buy up tickets to a kids show when I’m sure most of them don’t even have kids [. . .] and basically screw people who actually are interested in taking their kids.”
“I know how you all are feeling. I did the same thing [as many parents] joining her mileyworld fan club. I also promise[d] my girls that we would go to her concert, thinking I would have a good chan[c]e getting her tickets, ( WHAT WAS I THINKING) I think we should write to DISNEY CHANNEL and let them know how we ALL feel about this situation. Also maybe our local news. Maybe it would air and expose all the scalpers.”
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is one official taking up the parents’ cause. Already opposed to the free market bill and now prompted by the complaints of scores of other people like the above commenters, Blumenthal is building a case to overturn the ticket resale law put into effect just this week.
Another angry parent calls into question practices used by less scrupulous brokers:
“Here in Chicago the Allstate Arena show was sold out in minutes. No one I know purchased tickets. Now we know that scalpers use outfits like RMG Technologies (Steubenville, Ohio) to purchase thousands of tickets with computers. Then they turn around and scalp them. This is all worse than it was 30 years ago when scalpers used homeless people to stand in line for tickets. The worst part is scalping is “legal” in Illinois. Of course a bunch of our state legislators passed laws allowing this. Gee, I wonder why? This is all a scam and scalping should be banned and made illegal again.”
Ticket resale is legal in all but six states right now and present bills being drafted are in favor of the secondary market, not against it. In fact, although just weeks ago a broker was fined for attempting to sell Red Sox tickets above face value, Massachusetts is on the cusp of joining the majority of states in supporting a free market. Proponents of the legislation would argue that there are plenty of reliable ticket agents and only a small minority of brokers uses illegal software to game the system, but for the average consumer shut out of purchasing tickets, brokers of any sort are a problem.
With prices of Hannah Montana tickets currently hovering in the hundreds of dollars, many parents are finding the size of their bank accounts is disproportionately smaller than the breadth of the love for their children. In the case of Hannah Montana, “fair market price” seems to make seats attainable only for the wealthy, which while basic supply and demand is not necessarily “fair.”
“How pitiful [. . .] the rich in this country are the only ones who will see the show,” a TicketNews reader laments. But it’s not just the ticket sellers’ profits that leave folks sour: “It’s a sad day when a person on stage for 90 minutes, pretending to be someone else, makes more than a teacher, firefighter, police officer or 911 dispatcher makes in one year.”
Acquiring Hannah Montana tickets is an ordeal that requires military strategizing and a whole lot of luck, leaving people to miss the simple days when all they had to do to please their children was fight other desperate parents tooth and nail for the last Cabbage Patch Kid. The fortunate parents who obtained tickets are too stressed out by the experience to imagine enjoying the show, while the parents whose best efforts proved fruitless are left feeling angry, defeated, and exploited. Online consumers see thousands of tickets held by people who don’t even want them while many kids, my sister included, will be staying home when Hannah Montana comes to town.
Last Updated on November 12, 2007 by TicketScoop
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My daughter and little sister both saved and did extra chores for months to make extra money so that they could go see Hannah Montana in Bossier City, Louisiana. When the day came to buy the tickets, they were so excited! Well, like so many others found out, the tickets were sold out in 10 minutes. Within minutes after that, they were being listed on Ebay for unbelieveable prices. Do these people not have hearts? These little girls hearts were broken! So, now they don’t get to go see Hannah, but children of the wealthy will be able to. My kids worked for their money to go to this concert and some rich kid who doesn’t appreciate anything will get to go. That is just NOT RIGHT!!!! Something has got to be done!!!
Since when has the gap between rich and poor ever been “right”?
Let me start off by saying this… I buy and resell tickets on e-bay. This is not my main job, but something that I do on the side for a little extra money. I purchased about 18 or 20 tickets for Hannah Montana (multiple venues) and I did NOT HAVE PROBLEMS GETTING THEM! I have one computer and cable internet, and I do not have any special programs that “steal” tickets. If tickets are going on sale at 10:00, I’m on the ticketmaster website by 9:55 ready to order.
Some of the cities that Hannah Montana is playing have hundreds of thousands of residents. There are only so many tickets available to these shows, so OBVIOUSLY not everyone is going to get a ticket. I wonder how many parents were actually online ready to order when the show went on sale? I bet there are many parents that went online HOURS after the show went on sale to look for tickets, only to find that they were sold out. So who’s fault is that? The “evil” broker that was ready to order when the tickets went on sale? I think not…
I’ll be the first one to say that I do not think that computerized programs that get tickets are fair. I do not use one, and neither does anyone else that I know of. But if I can get tickets, while doing my main job (lighting sales) from home, chasing my one-year-old around and ready to pop with child #2, then I don’t really feel sorry for parents that complain that they couldn’t get anything.
I totally agree with you!!!!! It’s not far for any child wealthy or not to miss out on their event. What if we, parents, bought all sporting event tickets and sold them for…. well you get what I mean. Something should be done. Contacting Disney is a good idea.
MIH
It’s obvious that you “don’t really feel sorry” for anyone. Just because you *can* doesn’t mean you *should*. Clearly if you’re ready to “pop” you are in no position to go to a concert; which means that your sole intent was to scoop up tickets so that other people, who just want to go, can’t (oh and make some money in a less than respectable manner). Every good deed makes this world a better place, and every crappy selfish act…well you get the picture, don’t you? Also, don’t forget about karma.
Well, if you ask me – you’re just as bad as a scalper. Ticket prices are set for a reason! Why should someone pay you more than the face value for a ticket when if you had not purchased so many in the first place there might have been some left for others to purchase at face value. ANYONE who purchases tickets with the intent to resell them for a profit is a scalper – a free market in ticket sales is ridiculous. People will take advantage of it as long as we allow them to do it.
And how did you get around the 4 ticket limit?? Obviously you are being deceitful somehow. Not using a computer program does not make you a Saint. You are still contributing to the problem. Hannah Montana’s fanbase is 99% CHILDREN. Anyone who would cheat children for a profit is a pathetic excuse of a human being.
I want to go to the Super Bowl for face value, I love football. But every time I ask to buy a ticket, they are at least $2,000 each….face is much less
But, noone complains…it’s accepted that the Super Bowl costs extra because everyone wants to go – even kids….why should Hannah Montana concert be any different?
stop crying
Everyone has the same opportunity to purchase tickets. I bought a membership for a presale password, got on Ticketmaster and bought 4 tickets. It’s that easy. The population of the cities is 30x the arenas capacity, so the show sells out fast. Stop trying to blame others for your misfortune. The price of gas is ridiculous and people get gouged everyday. While don’t you go march on the White House?
Every business in America that sells a good or service must purchase said product for a wholesale price and resell it at a retail price in order to stay in business. Perhaps it would be “OK” to go to Best Buy and ask the manager why a 50″ plasma television costs over $3000 when it only cost them $1000 to buy the television from their distributor? I think not. If you cannot afford something, get a better job or get over it!
I am curious to know why you say a free market in ticket sales is ridiculous?
Well said.
Suggestions:
-do not assume that a “rich” kid will not appreciate and enjoy the show as much as a poor kid.
-help your daughter and sister out by contributing money for them to go if they are sooo heart broken.
-move to China or some other communist country where the government will not only dictate the price of goods but will also dictate every aspect of your life.
You are right about one thing: something has to be done! People in America need to stop trying to buy things they cannot afford! People make choices. If one chooses not invest in one’s future, (i.e. college education, entrepreneurial venture, etc.) it is likely life will be fraught with adversity and hardship. Not being able to buy luxury items, like HANNAH MONTANA TICKETS! is a gleaming result of such poor choices.
Why doesn’t Microsoft sell softwares at cost?
Why doesn’t Oil companies sell gas at the pump at cost?
Why doesn’t Phone companies charge consumers at cost?
Why doesn’t Calvin Kline, GAP, WALMART etc. sell its products at cost?
I resell tickets to help pay the bills that companies like these overcharge me for everyday life. If any of these complaining parents work at a profitable company, you are no different than a scalper overcharging consumers everyday to make a $$$.
I exploited your children’s spoiled needs the same way you exploited third world’s children cheap labor for decades.
Wake up and drink your scalped $2.75 latte, fill up with scalped $2.89/gal fuel, drive to work and scalp $1000 computers, drive home in a scalped $50,000 SUV, watch the news on your $3,000 plasma…everything is marked up. How easily people become hypocrites.
I’m constantly hearing people complain about what people are “selling” Hannah Montana tickets for on Ebay. 90% of these tickets start out with a very low bid. The tickets are not being “sold”. People are paying what they want for the tickets. If you don’t want to pay that much, hit the back button on your browser.
I’m trying to get tickets to the Yankees playoff games, but no one will sell them to me for face value. If anyone has a contact number for City Council or a place that will do something about this outrage, it would be much appreciated. :p
It is nice to know there are other sane people in the world. Well said.
“A free market in ticket sales is ridiculous”.
So I guess a free market other secondary industries is also ridiculous? How about baseball cards; (I have a card I paid $0.30 for that’s worth $100 today). And fine art, too — no one should be allowed to buy a painting and once the artist dies be able to sell it for more than the original price. Antique dealers should be shut down as well. Unbelievable that they charge $200 for a 60 year old clock that probably cost a few bucks.
Bottom line — if you’re going to place restrictions on the resale of items, you cannot do it in only one industry, just because a few people think the process in that industry is not fair. Products are able to be resold and buyers have their choice to purchase them or not. I myself choose not to buy Babe Ruth’s rookie card from a sports memoribilla shop, (card scalper, perhaps?), because I can’t afford it. But I’m not out there complaining about the fairness of the price of that card. I could have bought it years ago, just like the dealer that owns it. Not to mention the fact that even though he’s not going to “use” that card and is only interested in selling it, (potentially to a child – how dare he), he has as much right to it as I do.
The problem here as I see it is that too many people in this country have developed a sense of entitlement. They feel that if they want something, they should have it. And if the price is too high it’s unfair because they can’t afford it. What happened to working hard and earning the things we want?
I’d like a brand new Cadillac, but the sticker price is $80,000. But I only have $30,000. That’s not fair. If my neighbor has a Cadillac, I should be able to have one too. I think they’re too expensive and GM is artificially inflating the market with their advertising. That car can’t cost that much! I’m going to my City Council to complain that Cadillacs cost too much and I should be entitled to one for the $30,000 that I have so I don’t have to make a choice between that purchase and something else. Why? Because I’m entitled to it.
Time for people to look in the mirror and take responsibility for themselves again. I can’t afford everything, and if I wanted to, I suppose I’ll just have to work hard and improve my position. Or sacrifice one thing for another. But I’m not entitled to anything, and neither is anyone else!
Just wanted to clarify something – I said I purchased tickets to multiple venues – I did NOT do anything deceitful to get around the posted ticket limits.
Do you really think that you pay cost for anything that you buy, anywhere? Regardless of where you shop, every single thing you buy means that someone is profiting from you. Doesn’t matter if you shop at Walmart or Neiman Marcus – the prices that you pay for ANYTHING means that someone along the way made some money.
I’ve purchased tickets for myself on ebay or through other sites, and I understand and EXPECT to pay above face value for them. This is all part of supply and demand. I purchase tickets for all kinds of events – sporting, theatre, concerts… Do I feel sorry about anything that I’ve sold? The answer to that is NO. I did not force anyone to look at my auctions or bid on my items.
As many that resell tickets have already said. I use 1 computer and have DSL…I don’t use any special programs and nor do I cheat the ticket limits! If I want more tickets then the stated amount I simply PAY somebody else to pull for me! This is a buisness to me…I pay my bills with this buisness. I do my research and get up every morning the same time everybody else does…The only difference is when your driving to work hating your life I’m buying tickets loving mine! When you decide at 4:30 when your pulling in at home that Hannah Montana, The Police, Van Halen or any other well know artist went on sale and you want to get tickets its not MY fault you where late! Onsales start at a certain time for a reason…THAT WAY YOU KNOW WHEN TO BUY!!! If you don’t or can’t buy at the directed time thats not my problem!
I specialize in PREMIUM Tickets and Sold Out Events….You call me I’m gona be expensive! Sam Walton created Wal-Mart by jacking up prices to products he got at a lower costs. Sears, JC Penny, BP Connect, GM, Ford, any Real Estate office you walk into….the one thing ALL These companies have in common with me is they sell for a higher price then they paid for their product. The difference between me and them…Is YOU as the consumer SET my market price! Tell you right now I have a pair of Hannah Tickets and I’ll sell you the pair for 3 Grand!!!! Why…Because my landlord expects rent…
The REAL crime is that these “$66” tickets have $11.15 in Ticketmaster fees tacked onto them. Why is Disney so greedy so charge so much to see a teenager? Maybe Disney should reduce the price of Hannah records and t-shirts?
I agree-we live in a country BUILT on capatalism-supply and demand. You know what the BEST things you can teach your children? You cant ALWAYS get what you want. Sure you saved money-sure you did extra chores thats all fine and great. You went online and the tickets sold out in minutes-in life your not going to get everything you hoped for. Life is filled with some disappointments and some successes you have to roll with the punches. Todays kids arent learning that because they expect eveything handed to them thats why many live off mommy and daddy’s money and help until there 30 these days. They havent learned life lessons growing up because theyve gotten everything handed to them. Well sorry Hannah dont come cheap-who says if these brokers didnt buy some that you would have gotten any anyway? I like brokers-for a price-I can go to the show when I want. For a price. You can get anything you WANT in this world for a price. I just like having the opportunity to decide that. If not for brokers where would you get tickets to a sporting event-concert-or whatever entertainment needs you had after the fact-2 weeks or 2 days before the event? You wouldnt. Brokers do provide a service in this world-for a price. Stop complaining-either spend the money to take your kids or teach them about life and not getting what you want all the time. Instead of turning this into a negative complaint fest-turn it into a teachable moment but many of you parents today are too short sighted for that.
The ticket limit was put into affect after the presale was over. Did you know that you could get a presale password for free on Hannah’s fan club website? It’s called research. It took me 20 minutes and my niece telling me to find this out, she’s 7.
The real pathetic part is I can find this out the night before, tell all my friends (none have kids), and between us buy 40+ tickets to a show.
I think it is pathetic that parents who “care about their kids so much” ***** about not getting tickets. I pulled 4 tickets to a show 20 minutes into the presale. If a parent really cared about their kids, they’s spend a little time researching the subject. Now all your kids Xmas presents will go to ticket scalpers or the kids wont go to the show at all. In either case, you’re bad parents.
In case it makes any of you parents feel any better, I set aside 4 of my many tickets and will take my niece and two of her friends. I’m a better uncle than most of you are parents!
p.s. If any of you parents want tickets, I’ll sell for face value. 5x face value that is.
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WHY DONT ALL YOU SOCCER MOMS AND DADS JUST PAY THE ASKING PRICE WERE LOSERS???, FOR SELLING TICKETS FOR AN EVENT…. DO YOU CALL YOUR MECHANIC A LOSER WHEN HE CHARGES YOU 2500 TO REPLACE A COMPUTER CHIP???? ITS A FREE MARKET, SUPPLY AND DEMAND!!!!!! GET OVER IT CHEAPSKATES, AND YES WE HAVE CHILDREN, TO THE BOZO THAT MADE THAT COMMENT. A TICKET BROKER AND PROUD OF IT
I love the Philadelphia Eagles, but I am not a season ticket holder. The waiting list is for many years. If it wasnt for the resale of tickets I could never ever go to a game. If only parents got the tickets, would every parent have gotten tickets? Probably most likely not. Then what do you do when the kids ask to go? You would have no where to get a ticket.
Its important to have ticket brokers because tix will sell out with out ticket brokers any way.And theres people out there that want to have the freedom to pay xtra money for tix if they want to buy tix.
Well said my friend !!! Well said !!!!
How many child stars does Disney have to make into singers that don’t even feel the songs they sing, before parents smack their kids upside the head. Britney Spears anyone…no different than Hannah Montana. Parents and any kids that listen to this record company brainwashing children garbage should be smacked up side the head. It complete fake garbage, anyone who can’t see it is fake garbage too.
At the end of all this Hannah Montana madness, I think many consumers will be more educated about how the ticket resale business works, but I don’t know that it will ultimately alleviate their frustrations.
The reality is there will always be differences of opinion. People have very strong feelings on either side of the equation, and that’s ok. I believe there is value to looking at an issue from all angles, viewing the landscape of the conflict from multiple perspectives.
I’m not naive enough to believe all the commenters will join hands and start singing Kumbaya together, but at least we’ve created dialogue.
Bossier City is not a ticket selling hot spot by any means. This show was in the 3rd group of HM on sales, with plenty of prior publicity on how hot, hard to obtain, expensive on the secondary market, etc. that these tickets are. Why were you not at the computer, in line at the box office, or on the phone at 10 AM sharp to get tickets for the kids? Because you’re a slacker, that’s why. Now you are blaming everyone else because you blew the chance to get tickets at face, and now the kids can’t go. Sorry, no sympathy for you here (although I do feel for the kids that can’t go because of your laziness). I and plenty of others got tickets for our kids because we had our act together and bought the fan club or at the on sale.
When thousands of parents logged on to get the tickets from ticket master at 10:00 they were all gone. Wierd because when you look at stub hubb and other ticket site’s they have 100s of tickets for sale that supposedly you could only buy 4 of. My hope is that all of you lovely ticket brokers get stuck with all the tickets your trying to make a great profit from and the arena has tons of empty seat’s from the tickets you could not sell. Not all parents are idiot enough to pay your prices. But go ahead get up in the morning and drink your latte and keep buying and selling tickets for a major profit. As they say your luck will run out someday.
May you be blessed with a lot of unsold tickets! Shame on you picking on children. You cheat to get the tickets, leaving the honest and ethical behind. TicketMaster clearly does not have the proper encription in place to protect everyone’s right to buy a ticket. If they did the Hannah Montana Concert Tickets would not have been sold out in 2 to 4 minutes flat! Either that or TicketMaster has sold out the right to handle tickets and their back door has been unlocked for a much larger piece of the pie plus some. How many of you BROKERS/SCALPERS paid TicketMaster to comprise the system, so the regular Joe can’t get tickets. S H A M E – O N – Y O U! Pick on someone your own size.
pleeease.
Are you serious? Do you really think ANY ticket broker is going to get “stuck” with Hannah Montana Tickets? If so, you are extremely unaware of reality. Did you ever think that places like stubhub compile inventory from THOUSANDS of individual people; thus, explaining the hundreds of tickets available shortly after the sale? Suggestion: before you comment on a subject of which you clearly know very little, try doing a little research. Do yourself a favor and stop blaming brokers. Instead, blame America and the capitalism that is its life-blood.
its not luck….its a business. And the prices are set because people will pay those prices, I promise you there will not be many seats open in the arena. If there is an empty seat it is from a parent who just couldn’t make it, not a ticket broker not being able to sell their tickets.
If the promoters wanted to be democratic, they need to adopt the MLB method and create a ticket lottery. How MLB does it is that fans preregister about a week before the ticket is actually offered, and certain fans win a lottery to purchase tickets at face value. Those tickets are then sold to the winners of the lottery, and then the remainders are offered to the wolves once that has been completed. Journeyman ticket brokers like myself would enter, but they would be vastly outnumbered by the number of parents that would be interested.
I resale NCAA tickets and normally I put in $10000 or more in reserve just to enter into each venue’s lottery. My return is decent but my profits were wiped out this year because my FedEx envelope was dropped in the wrong location. I want to see my team in the Tournament but I have no idea what part of the country they will be in, so I am forced to cover my bases and by all (or almost all) venues. Ticket brokering is not for the faint of heart.
Brokers are not the problem here. When you have people trying to buy 50,000 tickets for a concert that holds 20,000, you’re going to have 30,000 people who don’t go to the show. With or without brokers, there are the EXACT same number of people who want to go to a show, that won’t be able to.
If Miley Cyrus played multiple shows in multiple cities, or played larger venues, then there would be enough supply to meet the demand and these issues would dissapear. If the fault lies w/ anyone, it’s for the Miley Cyrus management company and not realizing how big this tour would be and preparing accordingly.
I agree that more upper class families will be represented as they can more afford the inflated, unbelieveable ticket prices. That’s how the system works, whether it’s Nintendo Wii’s on ebay for $800/each, trips to disney world that can cost a family thousands, or Hannah Montana tickets.
Couldn’t have said it any better…very well put!
If the brokers aren’t the reason that the concert is selling out then how do you explain that it is sold out within a matter of minutes???? People towards the front of the line and online were turned away because it sold out that quickly. B.S. if it isn’t brokers. It needs to be stopped and I don’t think the gov’t should step in and do it. I think the event centers, the Cyrus/Montana camp and Ticketmasters need to figure out a way for it not to happen!! I think it is absolutely ridiculous and also think that the Cyrus/Montana camp should be embarassed that people who can’t afford it are buying them anyway.
It can be changed – they make the choice not to worry about it. Sad, sad, sad!
Wow, from reading all of these posts I can tell you this. None of MY friends are ticket brokers. Do you know how I know this? Because none of my friends are ego-maniacs with mouths that don’t quit thinking it is okay to take from other people so they can sit at home on their butts making money the EASIEST way they know how. Of course you all do your research……when you spend all day, everyday on the computer you have plenty of time to do all kinds of research. Me? I enjoy going to work and interacting with people. You talk like because we go to a job and return home we have boring, unhappy lives and don’t really love our children. What a sad reality you must live in….get out much? Are you pasty and are your eyeballs starting to bulge out of your heads yet? Enjoy that latte in your p.j.’s.
1 person sitting at their computer at 10 o’clock when tickets go on sale. They pick their seats, confirm their order and make their purchase. It takes about 2 or 3 minutes.
Now if Ticketmaster only permitted 1 person on their site at a time, it would take a long time for the show to sell out. But since they don’t, hundreds of thousands of people are on at the same time. In that 2 to 3 minute time frame, the entire stock of tickets can be gone.
Do you understand that?
it’s extremley selfish, and outrageous. I am not a parent, but i am the older sibling and have to deal with these acts of ruethless celebrities and the dissapiontment they bring to people who enjoy what they do. both my sister and i want to see the hannah montana concert, and when my parents are willing to pay (especially with the situations we have going on) it becomes almost desperate. we, not as a group, should write to both disney and hannah montana explainig our feelings and almost disgusts.
Is this guy for real? You talk about going out and interacting with people instead of being on the computer? Get real you hypocrite. The time you spent reading all these comments is the same amount of time it took for me to research and buy my HM tickets. And I did it at work during a lunch break, all in about 20 minutes, so I guess were not all losers sitting at home buying tickets. These parents need to get off their high horse and stop crying about ticket prices. Multi-million dollar companies exploit their kids every day when they force you to buy a toy for $30 when it only cost about $4 to make and distribute, yet I hear nothing. Hell, Disney exploits them when they charge an outrageous amount to enter their theme parks or when they sell the ad space during a Hannah Montana episode on cable TV, shoving more overpriced products for you to buy and your kids to enjoy. Go ahead and cry to Disney, all this buzz is doing nothing more than increasing Miley’s popularity, leading you to spend more and more money in the future and making the mouse’s pockets bigger and bigger.
Is this guy for real? You talk about going out and interacting with people instead of being on the computer? Get real you hypocrite. The time you spent reading all these comments is the same amount of time it took for me to research and buy my HM tickets. And I did it at work during a lunch break, all in about 20 minutes, so I guess were not all losers sitting at home buying tickets. These parents need to get off their high horse and stop crying about ticket prices. Multi-million dollar companies exploit their kids every day when they force you to buy a toy for $30 when it only cost about $4 to make and distribute, yet I hear nothing. Hell, Disney exploits them when they charge an outrageous amount to enter their theme parks or when they sell the ad space during a Hannah Montana episode on cable TV, shoving more overpriced products for you to buy and your kids to enjoy. Go ahead and cry to Disney, all this buzz is doing nothing more than increasing Miley’s popularity, leading you to spend more and more money in the future and making the mouse’s pockets bigger and bigger.
For one thing, this is nuts. It is a concert…I saw on Ticket Liquidator the cost of a HM ticket as over 8,000.00! Give me a break. I am not WHINING over the cost of a ticket and if someone can afford that for a child, far be it for me to stop the insanity of spoiling a child and giving them more status points at the elementary school….and we wonder why kids are spoiled brats who whine in stores for a “useless piece of plastic”… I teach high school…don’t mess with me. What happens later when Mommy and Daddy don’t have the 10 grand for the next big “show” that the Disneyacs decide to throw….
My daughter will get the CD for 18.99 (with my teacher discount at Borders) and be happy to bounce along to the tunes in the car. We will watch the show together and enjoy HM in our home. It’s too bad, though because I think that Miley Cyrus has good values and is a great role model for young girls…
It does make me feel bad for the parent that may have been able to afford the 66 dollar tix even with the fee. Those kids never had a chance if you have parents that actually work for a living during the day and can’t pick up that phone at 10 a.m.
Okay, I was up on time and in line at CenturyTel and had multiple people on line for me and still was not able to get tickets. Centurytel DID do the lottery system and 75% of the people in line DID NOT GET TICKETS. Again it was sold out in MINUTES. So, regardless of what you say…something not quite right is going on here. The people that are actually at the boxoffice willing to stand in line should get the 1st shot at tickets. I am all for free market and making a buck, but it is totally insane to price something so much higher than face value. That is scalping whether your standing on the street and doing it or doing it online. You bought the tickets for 50 bucks sell them for 75 make a profit and stop trying to rape the public. Because eventually the American public is gonna get wise and stop paying the exorbitant prices your asking and what will you do then? NOT PAY THE RENT. Here’s to parents banding together and refusing to pay these
“ticket brokers” (con-artists) what they are asking, here’s to you losing money by not being able to sell what you took out of the hands of thousands of children across the U.S. If you are so proud of what you do why post as anonymous?
I have been watching your sites for weeks now. It’s not seeming so crazy anymore is it? Check for yourself many,many sites still have tickets available for a concert that starts in 20 minutes. I LOVE IT!!!!! Get a clue, drop the prices to a reasonable range or waste
your 50 dollars a ticket you originally paid.
The truth is there $50 was never wasted, if even 1 parent buys a pair for $1500 the have regained there cost of 30 tickets. So if they bought 30 tickets and only sold 2 pairs for $1500 they doubled there money. The through in the rest that are easy to sell at 400-500. I know-I’m ashamed to say I am a parent bidding 300-350 maybe even 400. It makes me sick thinking of so many profiting off of parents that love there kids. But that is reality… And our fear of breaking our promises and seeing our little girls tears water up is what has created.
Wrong. All the HM tickets I have seen on Ebay have a minimum bid of at least $200.00 (for Louisiana concerts). I do agree with free market and everyone making a buck, however, at 10 a.m. this morning I put in for 2 tickets on the Ticketmaster website and at 10:02 was informed there were no available tickets. While I was waiting on ticketmaster to search for tickets, I searched ebay and google and found tickets already for sale for the concerts that just went on sale 2 minutes earlier. I don’t pretend to know how to correct this problem, and can only use this as a way to teach my daughter that we don’t get everything we want and the value of a dollar!
It really stinks when you have to break a kids heart. I feeeeeeel for you.
Whatever you do dont prove ignorant play the democrat “blame game” at least in front of your kids. Dont teach them to be negative, to hate or to be jealous.
I understand what you are saying that their (ticket brokers) may be likened to vultures
but it only happens because some people will pay those extreme prices. BUT guess what, it is not the rich. They are rich because they DO work hard but also because they DONT spend $ frivously on overpriced things. I would bet dollars to doughnuts that the majority of the people that bought those overpriced tickets are parent who can’t, don’t or won’t say no to their kids & will put themselves in a hole to do it by spending on such overpriced things. The only way to get those prices down is if good parents like yourself stop fueling their greed. Thats not just brokers but all of Hollywood as well. They pipe it in through the TV & kids are hooked on everything sold to their innocent eyes. I stopped the glamorization of actors & the like as soon as it started with my kids. The bottom lone is that you lil sis & daughter now have extra money. Thats a good thing. In 2-3 years they will say Miley-who & she did what?
umm i think they should lower prices…
Hey, does anyone know if I bought tickets for my daughter I can just show up show my credit card get them in and leave, right? I do not need to stay? Right?