OMFG! This is HUGH! CNN's lead story: "Brokers snatch joy from Hannah Montana fans"...I'm SERIES!

[Amerigo Vespucci]

http://www.cnn.com/

updated 8:41 p.m. EDT, Fri October 12, 2007



Brokers snatch joy from Hannah Montana fans
Kids' sensation Hannah Montana is a heroine to millions of young fans and when Disney announced a U.S tour, tickets sold out in minutes. But not to the child fans. Ticket brokers swooped up thousands of tickets -- and desperate fans found they would have to pay up to $2,000 for a $63 ticket. full story

* CNNMoney: Ticket charges: A concert killer

[Scooter24]

1. One of my friends tried to take her son to see her

and found out just a few hours after tickets went on sale that the concert was sold out. She was able to find tickets at a broker- $400 for the upper section in the back of the stadium.

[illinoisprogressive]

2. I read that brokers are swiping all the tickets before the kids can get them.

[prole_for_peace]

3. why is that not scalping?

if i bought a $63 ticket and tried to sell it for $2000 i could go to jail.

[dflprincess]

5. Scalping is not illegal everywhere

It just became legal in Minnesota this past summer and MN is not the first state to legalize it.

This is a golden opportunity for parents to sit their little darlings down and explain to them that they can't always get what they want (or perhaps put on a Stones' album and let Mick sing it to the child). Hopefully, there we'll be a lot of scalpers on the street corners the nights of the concerts selling their tickets for face value or less.

[madrchsod]

4. my grand daughter got a ticket

i`m not sure what her parents paid...she emailed and wondered if i knew who hanna was...yes i know who she is.yes kids and their parents are getting ripped off big time

[Mutineer]

6. Who the hell pays $2,000 for their kid to see a show?

that's outrageous right there.

[TankLV]

7. As opposed to a "non-issue" like AL GORES NOBEL PEACE PRIZE!