Hottest concert tickets: Hannah Montana & Spice Girls

[danoyse]

But were you 9 years old when you got screwed out of Springsteen tickets?

No, but I've been a Springsteen fan for 20 years and I'm very unhappy the only way I can get decent seats is to go through a broker who bought them all up on Ticketmaster when I couldn't get through at all.

The vendor price of Hannah Montana tickets was intended to be a "mere" $65 each, and now they're being sold for hundreds.

When I was a kid, there was no way my parents would have shelled out $65 (or whatever the 1980s equivalent would have been) for a ticket for me to go to a pop music concert. Thus, I didn't see my first rock concert until I was in high school and paying for the ticket myself.

So you don't think that the middle-schoolers going to $65-a-ticket pop concert are the least bit spoiled?
right back atcha.

No. It's nearly as much as a video game, it's less than a Broadway show (those are $120 these days), it's cheaper than a day at Disney World, and it's cheaper than the High School Musical on Ice tour...they're selling top seats for $75.

I have two friends who have Hannah Montana-crazy daughters, who are 6 and 8, respectively. Their mothers would love to take them out for a day to see their favorite singer. It's not a matter of spoiling them...it's just doing something special for them.

They're only being sold for hundreds because brokers know there are parents out there who are desperate enough to do it--just like they were for a PS3 or a Tickle-Me Elmo, or whatever is hard-to-find that people want. It's the demand that's causing the ticket prices to skyrocket, not spoiled kids.

 

[danoyse]

Just on the local news, they going investigate about it, they think some of the scapler were using programs to grab all the tickets as fast as they can with the program

I have a friend at work who knows a ticket broker, he said they can hack through that code system on the ticket sites that's supposed to stop scalpers from running programs that buy up all the tickets.

 

[bullets]

ginger spice was in playboy

 

[Kritish]

Pop music causes more damage than terrorism and illegal drugs combined.

 

[bullets]

" if you wanna be my lover you gotta get with my friends" - spice girls

hey im totally down with that , spice girls arent so bad after all , the fricking ****3s

 

[Jennifer Walters]

I'm actually with Danoyse on the whole Hanna Montana tip. It's not the kids being spoiled little girls.

None of you are obviously parents. (I'm not myself.) When your kids want something, and you love them as a parent, you go out of your way to get your kids what they want.

 

[Kritish]

I'm actually with Danoyse on the whole Hanna Montana tip. It's not the kids being spoiled little girls.

None of you are obviously parents. (I'm not myself.) When your kids want something, and you love them as a parent, you go out of your way to get your kids what they want.

Whenever I wanted something my dad would tell me "Well wish in one hand and **** in the other."

 

[Jennifer Walters]

Whenever I wanted something my dad would tell me "Well wish in one hand and **** in the other."

Eh. Some people just don't have good parents is all. And I'm not saying good parenting comes up to giving your kid whatever he/she wants, but as a parent you like to give your kids what they want, you can't always, sure, but if you love them, you want to.

 

[Poetic Chaos]

Ugh, it's just sad that those are the hottest two ticket sellers, packaged pop-singers that don't write their own songs or play an instrument, might as well go to a karoke bar.

Miley Cyrus can play guitar.

 

[KingOfDreams]

Miley Cyrus can play guitar.

Sure...and so can Avril Lavigne.

 

[The Lizard]

I'm actually with Danoyse on the whole Hanna Montana tip. It's not the kids being spoiled little girls.

None of you are obviously parents. (I'm not myself.) When your kids want something, and you love them as a parent, you go out of your way to get your kids what they want.

OK, that last part is obviously true. A parent gets a good feeling when they do stuff for their kids that makes them happy.

But when did going to expensive rock concerts become something that all elementary and middle-school kids do? Maybe I'm just an old out-of-touch Gen-X fart, but it seems to me like parents of today's pre-teen kids are letting the media and the ad agencies tell them what activities are "normal" for that age group.

 

[The-Dark-Knight]

I saw Prince live in Aug, real music, not to mention he was amazing.

Now i just need some spice girls tickets (Girlfriends chiristmas present, she grew up listning to them)

 

[terry78]

Your kids should only get extravagant things when they do well in school, behave well, etc. Not just because they want it. If they want those Hannah Indiana tix that badly and aren't being bratty about it, then I could see considernig it if you have the money to burn.

 

[Jennifer Walters]

Who says all the kids are bratty about getting the tickets?

 

[danoyse]

But when did going to expensive rock concerts become something that all elementary and middle-school kids do? Maybe I'm just an old out-of-touch Gen-X fart, but it seems to me like parents of today's pre-teen kids are letting the media and the ad agencies tell them what activities are "normal" for that age group.

It's not really new. My grandfather took my mom and my aunt to see The Beatles when they were kids. If my parents were able to afford the tickets, they took my sister to New Kids on the Block or me to Billy Joel or Bon Jovi.

If your kids are passionate enough about the event, as a parent you'll try to get them there because you know how much you're going to enjoy watching them flip out when they get there.

 

[kane9321]

i cant believe the prices of hannah montana tickets...thats so crazy

 

[HCpride]

Parents go to extremes for Hannah Montana tickets

10/17/2007 8:59 PM, Reuters
Ray Waddell

Some U.S. parents, desperate after Disney star Hannah Montana's concert tour sold out in minutes, are going to extremes with some paying $3,000 a ticket and fathers donning high heels in a race to get in for free.
The demand to see Hannah Montana, the TV alter ego of 14-year-old singer Miley Cyrus, has made the show the hottest ticket of the year, with seats reselling at an average of $240 -- topping the Police, Bruce Springsteen or Van Halen.
With the 54-date "Best of Both Worlds Tour" kicking off in St. Louis, Missouri, on Thursday, local radio station Y98 offered dads the chance to be their daughter's hero by putting on heels and racing 50 yards to win four tickets.
"We got a couple of hundred phone calls from people asking questions about where to get high heeled shoes big enough for husbands and about 150 men turned up in high heels," Mark Edwards, director of programming at Y98, told Reuters.
He said the field for the "high heel derby" was narrowed down to 50 runners and won on Wednesday by Matt Austin, who was competing on behalf of his boss who has a young daughter.
Edwards said everyone had been taken by surprise by the demand for tickets to see Cyrus, daughter of country singer Billy Ray Cyrus, who plays a teen-ager living a double life as a young rock star on the hit Disney Channel show.
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"We knew the show would be big but not this big. There's been an outcry as it's been impossible for regular people to get tickets with scalpers using software to get them first," Edwards added.
The Walt Disney Co may have hit upon one way to quell the uproar. Disney's movie studio division said it will film the early "Hannah Montana" concerts using new digital technology.
Then, for one week starting on February 1, 2008, it will screen the film in movie theaters using new three-dimensional technology.
"This is going to be an exciting 3D motion picture event experience for everyone who loves 'Hannah Montana,"' Dick Cook, chairman of The Walt Disney Studios, said in a statement.
Cook said the plan was conceived last winter, well before the controversy over ticket sales erupted.
There have been reports of scalpers seeking between $2,500 and $3,000 apiece for tickets that, in some cases, have a face value between $26 and $66. A U.S. judge barred an automated software that makes it easy to buy tickets quickly after they go on sale and the uproar over the fast sale of the tickets has led to investigations in at least three states -- Missouri, Arkansas and Pennsylvania.

 

[deathshead2]

I so wish I had a little sister who would have tickets. Then I would sell em. HAHAHA

 

[Spider-Man Luvr28]

I think this thread was already done somewhere in the celeb section.

 

[deathshead2]

I think this thread was already done somewhere in the celeb section.

that was when the tickets were just $1500.

 

[HCpride]

my bad

 

[Morg]

I think this thread was already done somewhere in the celeb section.

Nope, right here

 

[Spider-Man Luvr28]

Pish posh.. Moving on..

 

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[danoyse]

Some U.S. parents, desperate after Disney star Hannah Montana's concert tour sold out in minutes, are going to extremes with some paying $3,000 a ticket and fathers donning high heels in a race to get in for free.
The demand to see Hannah Montana, the TV alter ego of 14-year-old singer Miley Cyrus, has made the show the hottest ticket of the year, with seats reselling at an average of $240 -- topping the Police, Bruce Springsteen or Van Halen.

I know the Hannah ticket prices are outrageous...but I saw Bruce Springsteen at Madison Square Garden last night (most freakin' incredible night of my life), and the cheapest tickets I saw online were going for over $400...and those were for nosebleed seats. General admission on the floor were going for over $4000.

And I saw people buying them. Me? I paid $102 for floor seats. My friend knows someone who works for the band.