It was only a matter of time.
Disgruntled North Carolina parent Lyn Peraldo, upset over the price she paid for Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus tickets, filed suit against TicketsNow last week alleging the company and others essentially conspired to rig the system.
Peraldo was allegedly shut out when she tried to buy tickets last month for the Nov. 25 Montana show at the Greensboro Coliseum, and went onto TicketsNow.com and bought four tickets for more than $1,000 as part of a birthday gift for her six-year-old daughter. She then filed the lawsuit.
The lawsuit alleges that TicketsNow and others in the “ticket brokering industry” possess “a sophisticated system and the means (internet, telephone, pre-purchase and in person) to purchase at face value a number of the tickets identified herein in such quantities that Plaintiff and many others had no realistic opportunity to purchase said tickets from the ‘Greensboro Coliseum’ for face value, it being the specific business plan, intent and goal of Defendant to acquire and immediately resale as many of said tickets as possible at grossly inflated prices, which in this case it did to Plaintiff.”
“I watched parents with little girls, bursting into tears, walking back down toward me, saying they’d sold out,” she told North Carolina TV station WGHP. The lawsuit is seeking in excess of $10,000 in damages.
According to a copy of the lawsuit, provided by WGHP, Peraldo claims she bought four tickets from TicketsNow.com for $225 a piece, despite the face value of the tickets being $56. She also allegedly paid a service charge of $135 and a shipping fee of $14.95.
Neither Peraldo nor a representative for TicketsNow returned messages at press time seeking comment.
North Carolina remains one of six states that has not legalized unrestricted ticket resales.
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I am sueing my house builder because the cost of my house was 120,000 and I paid 180,000. I cannot believe they made that much money off me. Also, I was force to buy the house because my daugther was going to start crying!! It is not fair that someone is making a profit in America!! We need to sue all of the landowners in America too!! Because 10 yrs ago, I was not smart enough at the time on how to buy land. Plus, I did not want to take the chance of losing money on the land at the time. IT IS NOT FAIR!! THAT SOMEONE WAS SMARTER THEN ME AT THE TIME WHEN LAND WAS CHEAP AND TOOK A CHANGE. IT IS NOT FAIR!! I am calling a lawyer today!!! It is WRONG!!! Have to go now, my daugther is crying!! I am going to sue over that too!! Who made your cry?????
She as No Case!!
Why in the world would she have purchased the tickets, and THEN sued??? LOL, when will this Hannah crap ever end???!!!
It’s against the law, but for her to try and sue for 10K when she really only overspent by $800… She’s trying to make money off Hannah Montana as well…
Maybe the court system needs to sue her for making money off Hannah Montana as well…
She invested 1K and she’s trying to make 10K…
The suit is about TicketsNow possesses a system to snatch up all the tickets. The question is, is there a conspiracy on the part of businesses like this to rig the system? ‘Cause, dang, they took them out of my hands too if that’s the case!
The irony here is that by purchasing tickets at the inflated rate, she helped set the fair market value of the tickets, thus harming other parents who were searching for tickets. Now we can see here true motivation is to recoup ten-fold, and get a free concert.
How does a lawsuit like this even get this far? Amazing.
If people don’t get exactly what they want, it’s a friggin’ conspiracy — the world is out to get them. Hannah Montana isn’t sold out because the arena holds 12,000 people and 50,000 wanted to go and tried to buy tickets. Oh no — it’s sold out because there’s a conspiracy by TicketsNow to buy up all the tickets.
That must be what happened last time I was at the grocery store and they were out of the Gatorade that was onsale. It was a conspiracy. I should sue.
In southern California I recently paid $900K for a house that sold for $300K about ten years ago. I am going to watch this closely. If she wins I could have a case to sue the previous owners for almost $10 MIL! WOOOHOOO!!!
I wish the suit would have included Ticketmaster and maybe even the tour promoters. Not a lawyer, but TM claims to limit an individual to 4 tickets. They don’t take the necessary precautions that allow these brokers to snap up the tickets in record time.
Why should TM care? They get their money.
Do the promoters care? They got their money.
The brokers only have to sell, what, 10% of the tickets they bought to make a profit?
So who loses… the general public… the little girls that could have been sitting in the empty seats!
So many kids are spoiled little brats now days because of their parents. Thats where it all starts. Most of these parents are just mad because they want, what they want and they couldn’t get it, now they’re throwing a temper tantrum. No wonder the kids are the way they are. I wish all these parents would put this much energy into lowering gas prices. They’ll ***** in a second if they have to pay too much to see Hannah in concert. But they dont mind that the oil companies are making 500% profit on gas when they’re driving to the concert. Atleast ticket brokers aren’t raping the public like oil companies. People need to pick the “RIGHT” fight. Something that actually effects everyone. Not just spoiled brat parents.
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I am a customer of ticketsnow and i must say that this whole thing is nuts. You people need to listen to what people tell you when you purchase these tickets. Who pays a thousand dollars on tickets and doesnt ask any questions. Everytime i purchase tickets from ticketsnow they tell me that “I AM PAYING HIGHER THAN THE FACE VALUE”
.If you dont listen to what you are being told than you are a moron. Its not their fault that there are no tickets. Ticketmaster actually only sells about 15% of all tickets to the general public. The rest of them are sold to brokers and ticketsnow aquires them through the broker and gets them to you. If you think they are making all this money you are dead wrong. Ticketmaster and the sellers are. they simply pass on the cost and set up a third party deal for the end user. If you dont want to pay that much for a sold out show than dont. No-one there is trying to trick you, they tell you all of this info when you are purchasing the tickets. If you dont listen that is your own damn Fault.
I entirely agree with you, but just to clarify it’s the source of the oil that makes all the profit. Actual gas stations/companies only make around 10-20 cents per gallon.
YEA, this nut has absolutely no case. If you notice the Attorney’s name on the Complaint, it’s the same as her last name. So her husband is probably a lawyer and thinks they can squeeze some money out of Tickets Now by trying to make them “settle” out of court. These two jackasses are the biggest SLEEZEBALLS for doing this…and they think this is good parenting??? hmmm, let’s see….ticket “scalpers” are losers???
This moron is married to a lawyer and is suing for a ridiculous amount, a bit hypocrital don’t you think?
Also, the best part of her Complaint is where is says she had no other choice but to buy tickets for more than face value. I’m not sure, but last time I checked I thought it was a free country where we can make our own choices? I guess Ticket Network had a gun to her head and forced her to buy those 4 tickets!! How dare they!!
These parents need to GET A LIFE and concentrate on their kids instead of filing frivilous lawsuits!
IF YOU DON’T WANT TO PAY MORE THAN FACE VALUE, THEN DON’T BUY ANY TICKETS!!!!!!!!!!!
“Peraldo claims she bought four tickets from TicketsNow.com for $225 a piece, despite the face value of the tickets being $56. She also allegedly paid a service charge of $135 and a shipping fee of $14.95.”
Thank you Peraldo for helping to keep these prices so high! People like Peraldo allow sellers to jack up the prices of their tickets, because the demand is there.
Nobody made Peraldo buy tickets for $225 a piece. It was a personal decision, something she seemed to believe would be worth it.
Nobody is making any of these “disgruntled” parents pay for these tickets. They are choosing to do it, and because of that they are creating the demand that keeps these prices climbing.
What better way for our legislators, judicial system and law enforcement to spend their time — dealing with Hannah Montana backlash?
We live an a country where social security is running out, millions don’t have proper health care, oil prices are out of control, and 20 year old kids feel the need to open fire at a pizza party in WI, killing 6 people. Yet we ask our public servants to stand around the ballpark looking for scalpers, call special city council meetings to hear complaints of overpriced concert tickets, and ask judges to sit through cases and award $10,000 to someone who is mad that they spent $1,000 on a luxury item.
Truly unbelievable.
Mothers and fathers don;t like to see their little girls cry. A rock concert is one thing, folks will pay to see “their band” and sporting events the same.
But NOT with Disney…
A few years back you all were caught by Disney doing the exact same thing and had hands slapped for it.
I hope all the parents out there take your sorry butts to court.
American ignorance at its finest… I say hurray for the brokers for capitalizing on the basic foundation of economics supply and demand! Wow what a concept. You dont see anyone making noise about hotels jacking up prices on holidays, or airlines jacking up rates either.. I find it downright hilarious. If you are that stupid to buy tickets at those prices for your kids, then first of all your kids are SPOILED brats, second – you are an idiot because no one held a gun to your head and made you buy or pay the service fee. DUH if the demand is super high, there is going to be an after market. And why is she sueing TicketsNow? They are the same as Stubhub, just a network that allows brokers to sell their tickets. I use them all the time and religiously buy tickets under face value. You just cant get caught in the hype of it all, if no one buys all at once then ticket prices stay low. GOD its not a difficult concept! How come no one gets mad at the Rolling Stones or Van Halen for charging f-in $250 a ticket? Or Ticketmaster charging $50 for a service fee per ticket, then order processing charge, then building and facility charge. How come the brokers dont sue when they sell tickets for under face value when demand diminishes? This is just funny and downright idiotic, she’ll never win
f-in unbelievable is more like it. My friends are all at war in Iraq putting their lives on the line for a nation full of ignorants. My grandmother gets a $10 social security check and I’m supporting her while some bum punk my age has 5 kids and is using his food stamps to buy a 40.. yet idiots are suing for paying for entertainment. I cant wait to sue the NFL. I’ve been a season ticket holder for 12 years, and I’ve never received a ticket for the Super Bowl, yet I dish out $2000 to go each year, you don’t hear me complaining do you?
I happen to know for a FACT, that Ticketmaster wines and dines particular senators to get certain laws passed, allowing them to essentially become a monopoly in certain states. For a fact because I know a relative of the Senator who swears by it. Beware people, the only true way to prevent this monopoly, whom I will refer to as Ticketbastard, is to introduce competition to Ticketmaster. If you want to allow an equal share of tickets to everyone, it should be a lottery system where you put your name down and price you are willing to pay and if you get chosen, then you get tickets. Simple as that. Isn’t it funny that Ticketmaster reserves the first 10 rows for themselves so that they can “auction” them off, AKA make more than face value. Yet no one says a word…
Due to the state laws in NC.Ebay won’t let my bid for Hannah Montana tickets go over $206 for 2 tickets.Well I hope this lady doesn’t get away with this,its like sueing Mc Donalds for spilling your coffee.
You’re right — no one ever complains when they get to see Clay Aiken for $20 bucks a seat instead of the $75 face value. Or take their family to a baseball game for far less than if they bought tickets from the box office. They only remember the time Hannah Montana cost too much and the kids cried. Selective memory, I suppose.
Take their sorry butts to court for what? For completing a sale to a willing buyer who asked to make the purchase? Ridiculous.
Many of the sites that resell tickets don’t own any tickets, and didn’t buy any tickets. They are ticket exchanges where people with tickets meet people who want to buy tickets. There are hundreds of ticket brokers who are holding tickets, and they use sites like TicketsNow and eBay to sell their tickets. TicketsNow will charge a service fee because they provided a service that brought buyer and seller together. $14.95 is what UPS or FedEx charges for shipping. TicketsNow takes a risk by guaranteeing the tickets are legit and should be compensated for that. So, it’s ludicrous to suppose that TicketsNow has some special software bot that let them buy tickets from TicketMaster. That’s not the business they are in.
She is looking for a handout like all the other broke losers. Go take an economics class lady.I hope the judge in this case has a brain and tells this lady to take a hike.
I BOUGHT MY HOUSE FOR $500,000, AND GUESS WHAT I JUST FOUND OUT!!! THE **** WHO USED TO LIVE HERE, AND WHO I BOUGHT MY HOUSE FROM, BOUGHT IT FOR ONLY $300,000 6 YEARS AGO!!!
IM LOADING UP MY GUN TO GO AFTER THE GUY I BOUGHT MY CAR FROM, U SEE, I HAVE COME TO FIND OUT HE TOO, SOLD ME THE CAR, FOR MORE THAN HE BOUGHT IT FOR!
I’VE HAD IT WITH BEING USED BY PEOPLE!! YOU’D THINK WE ARE LIVING IN A CAPITALISTIC SOCIETY WHERE SUPPLY & DEMAND PRINCIPLES ARE USED 😉
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Next time put some effort into getting tickets for your kids. I had no problem. Friends of mine got tickets for their kids when they went on sale. They used the computer and the phone and got 8 tickets combined for the two families.
Who do I sue so I can finally go to a Superbowl at cost?
With stellar parenting like that, we’re in big trouble. Unfortunately it is the norm that parents can’t say no to their kids. My kid would have to sit in a corner for a month if she even ASKED that I spend a grand for something she can watch on the Disney Channel. But then again that was the problem in the first place…watching this Hannah Banana. Nothing but the History Channel from now on…
It is true that this is a capitalistic society. system. What is also true is that these companies do have sophisticated software that scoop up the best seats. It is not a level playing field. Brokers create passowrdsd and join fanclubs under the guise of being fans when in reality they are purchasing tickets and jacking up the prices. It’s not fair.
You do not see anyone complaining when hotels raise their prices because it is the hotel that is doing it and it is their right as a business to do it. How about if I bought the room under my name but stood on the corner and sold the room to somebody else at an even higher price? Now, that’s different. Essentially this is what brokers do.
What gives them the right to profit off of things they have nothing to do with? Performers are all fortunate to achieve their success. Why should these goofballs get rich off of other people’s names?
I can go ahead and sue every single used car dealer that buys cars at auctions. You see, they go in there pretending to want to buy used cars, only to re-sell them. And they send their workers to various auctions around the country, which give them an UNFAIR advantage…
UM, so i bought tickets for my kids to go see hannah. Afterwards, I realized we are gonna be outta the country on vacation, so I went ahead and re-sold them (for a profit).
Now people wanna sue me? U can lick my arse not once, but twice. What idiotic judge is gonna see it in your favor. Welcome to CAPITALISM, my fat obesed American compatriots.
Stop your whining, and your stupid law suits. Do u realize the amount of money u uneducated morons r gonna be spending on un-succesful lawyers, u could be buying Bradley & Emma those hannah tickets?
These are the same idiotic parents who r probably gonna vote for hillary so Pancho Rodriguez can have 20 kids since mrs. clinton is gonna offer $5000 per baby!
So, was the six year old little girl holding a gun to her head when she purchased these tickets on TicketsNow for $1000? Please people, learn to say no to your kids! When I was young, if something like this happened and I whined about it my parent’s would pull out the old adage, “Life is not fair kid” – you win some, you lose some, but it all comes down to choice. This women made the choice to purchase these tickets, no one forced her to do it and now she is crying foul – unbelievable what this country is becoming – a bunch of spoiled brats!
Well, ok fine. The bottom line is that Im a disgruntkled broker. Im tired of the bs. Im quitting soon. Im getting out of this crap business! 7 years is too long! This is just garbage! I dont get paid enough anyway. $11 plus some bogus quarterly commission! Garbage! Im tired of the customers, Im tired of my screaming boss, and frankly Im tired of my fellow employees. Im so out of this crap business! .
I think that if I asked my parents to buy me and my friends tickets for 225 a piece, they probably would have slapped my face
when your kids cry, buy them whatever they want- and sue the vendor if it’s too expensive
And once Im out I will help people buy tickets. They will never buy from a broker! Former ticket brokers can be dangerous!
I’m suing all Lawyers in the United States and all the people that they handle for the punitive damages you’re giving me. I’ll bring all my shoes and glasses so I have them. Sue everybody.
Saul Rosenberg
Although I’m not an expert, nor do I play one on TV, if I’m not mistaken, the disgruntled parent (plaintiff in the lawsuit) in this instance is the one who actually broke the law, not the ticket re-seller, as NC prohibits residents from purchasing tickets for more than face value. Whether the re-seller did anything wrong, I believe, depends on where the re-seller lives (the “re-seller,” not the web site that facilitated the sale). It is somewhat ironic that the disgruntled parent not only volunatarily shelled out a grand, but also admits that she violated NC law — hopefully the Guilford/Forsyth County DA will give her a pass on this one. I know that this is beating a dead horse, but if people would simply NOT buy the tickets from re-sellers in the first place, this “problem” would not exist. Show some self-restraint — that grand would have looked a whole lot better in her kid’s 529 plan with 12 years growth than any Hannah Montana show will ever look.
I TOTALLY agree with EVERYONE’S replies on here. I for one am COMPLETLEY furious that I can’t get tickets for this concert because of the brokers that got first dibbs on them and are now selling them for more than my monthly car payment for nosebleed seats. Sure I told my daughter I will get them as soon as they went on sale and sure I told her we were going to go but guess what!!???! WE’RE NOT!! Do you think I’m going to be THAT STUPID to spend that much money on tickets!?!? I can but the question is WILL I!? HELL TO THE NO!!! AND THE BEST PART is my daughter is cool with it, of course she’s disappointed but she doesn’t hate me for not being “cheap”. That’s the problem with these parents who are shelling out the big bucks to see HM. More power to you. And I understand you want to give your child everything but on the other hand no concert is worth spending that much unless it was a BENEFIT concert!!!!!! Teaching them morals and how you can’t get everything is the best thing you can give your child, not no concert ticket that you maxed your card out for. Like I said, if you can afford it – more power to you but I’ll be damned if I’m making a dent in my card. Its just the principle of the fact. I will NEVER spend that much on ANY CONCERT unless of course like I said it was for a benefit concert, other than that my daughter will be satisfied with watching her on TV every night!!! That’s because I’m not raising a spoiled BRAT!!!! So I hope this Peraldo woman or whatever her name is loses big because she’s the stupid one to buy them in the first place, talking about how she was FORCED to get them. Is she retarded or what? Gotta go, Hannah Montana is about to come on!!!!
To me this is the parents fault…..you knew what you are doing and like the other post did your child hold a gun to your head to make you pay that much….I think this is a case of PARENTS GONE STUPID, KIDS IN CONTROL….
You are correct about the money being better in a 529 plan. I believe that the NC law prohibits the sale of the tickets over face value, not the purchase. It might go both ways, but I believe the law is against the seller. What we have here though is a parent who was going to get her perfect little princess anything she wanted as she always does and then got mad when she had to pay more than she wanted. I mean, after all, when you have to shell out a grand for some tickets, that’s money you can’t use to spoil her with elsewhere. Heaven forbid the kid do without anything.
You Mr or Mrs Anonymous are perhaps the most intellegent life on this planet. What’s with the public anyway I can no longer decide if parents intelect are actually matured past there kids? As if Ticket brokers paying taxes, Credit Card companies taking percentages werent part of the profiting plan~and here comes Mr. Moronic DA who’s gonna save the day.
the lady that bought the tickets, you’re a retard, do you not read or listen to the terms and conditions! you’re just one of those that is looking for a way to screw someone over! you got what you paided for!
look..you all are right. if you want to keep blasting this chick, go right ahead. however, do you not see it as at least somewhat suspect that ticketmaster has now stepped over into the world of scalping??? i for one do.
I feel part of went I went through to get 2 Seahawks -vs- Packers tickets for October 12th, 2008 was part of Ticket Now/ Ticket Master scheme. When I purchased my tickets during the beginning seconds of tickets going on sale, I had selected the Ticket Master link on the Seattle Seahawks site which did a re-direct to Tickets Now. I want to say I purchased the Tickets on like August 5th or 6th. Well the face value on these Tickets were approx $65.00 a piece. I ended up paying slightly over $400.00 for the pair of tickets.
To make matters worse I called several times after the purchase of the tickets to establish some kind of a time frame of when I might get them. They told me their practice is to deliver with in a 1-2 weeks of the game. So with that being said I waited and eventually called back with a couple weeks to go and got fed the line that they guaranteed the tickets to be there the day before the game, but promised 3 days before. I mean c’mon what if someone wanted to go out of town early and maybe stay closer to the Venue. Well in the end I got my tickets on October 11th approx 2pm and the game was October 12th 1pm. What upset me was that on the 9th of October they guaranteed the 10th and on the 10th (when they still had not shown up) I asked if I could just pick up the tickets from ‘will call’ they told me that was impossible because the tickets were in Oklahoma City sitting on someones desk.
After I received the package on the 11th of October I tracked the shipping on the package back to Seattle. In other words their own workers knowingly lied to me, because the tickets never left Oklahoma City because they were never there. What a bunch of BS liars. They (Tickets Now) basically made $250.00 profit off of these tickets but the catch was that they admitted they were an umbrella company of Ticket Master.
Believe me when I say I tried buying tickets literally with in seconds of them going on sale, I was attempting every 2 seconds until the time hit 10am or 11am that day. It is a HUGE scam and the fact that Ticket Master did a “re-direct” on their URL to buy tickets from their other admitted site (Tickets Now)points out the fact I was forced to another site to buy the tickets and was never given the chance to buy the tickets at regular face value.
So I guess now that I look at it the way I do, it seems that Ticket Master “launders” their own tickets via their scam setup Tickets Now or whatever it might be called somewhere else. I can understand if the tickets were truly not available but there was NO chance to find that out because they did that URL redirect at the very beginning.
For those that wonder what a URL re-direct is, well when you go to a website and it immediately points you to another web-site. That generally requires the IT Admin person requesting a re-direct via their DNS records and such. Basically what I am saying is that both Ticket Master and Tickets Now are controlled by the same IT It is shameful and in my opinion wrong that they would do that. Tickets Now is nothing more than a licensed “Ticket Scalper”.
I hope through out all of this honesty can prevail and the dirty tactics used for greed can be stopped. There is a difference between capitalization and greed.
When there is one middle person to get what you need that is one thing. When there is 2 or more people than that is another thing. I guess that is the difference between selling wholesale and retail. If we get rid of all the whole sale groups then you only have the retail side. In order to make it all work the whole sale groups buy in bulk to allow a retailer a fair price to resell to a customer. When you buy the product in the end you are seeing a quoted Retail price. The Ticket scam is simply a scam. When you buy the tickets you are basically advertised what the original intended cost is on the face of the ticket but you are now paying for the other group that has their hands in the cookie jar. So the fact you paid 180K for a house that was built and put on property is completely different than buying tickets honestly and getting a 3rd hand in the middle. So I guess what I am saying is that you are comparing apples to oranges. Nice try though.
Please if anyone feels they have been frauded by Ticketmaster by being re-directed to TicketsNow as soon as tickets go on sale for a Venue please contact with your story and any information you have to help:
Jerome Noll, Esq.
Meiselman, Denlea, Packman,
Carton & Eberz P.C.
1311 Mamaroneck Avenue
White Plains, New York 10605
t: (914) 517-5000
f: (914) 517-5055
[email protected]
Read about a personal experience on the TicketMaster/TicketNow scam here: http://ticketmasterscam.blogspot.com/
First off, it’s not that person’s fault that they were smarter than you. I’m not saying it’s right what they did but it is also you’re responsibility to know what you’re purchasing and it’s worth. Second of all, you were forced to buy the house because your daughter was going to cry? Boohoo. You have to be joking!
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